Author: Dhamma Paññā

DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT TITLE OF WORK: Mindfulness in Plain English FILENAME: MPE.ZIP AUTHOR: Venerable H. Gunaratana Mahathera PUBLISHER’S ADDRESS: H. Gunaratana

  Chapter 16 What’s In It For You You can expect certain benefits from your meditation. The initial ones are

Chapter 15 Meditation In Everyday Life Every musician plays scales. When you begin to study the piano, that’s the first

Chapter 14 Mindfulness Versus Concentration Vipassana meditation is something of a mental balancing act. You are going to be cultivating

Chapter 13 Mindfulness (Sati) Mindfulness is the English translation of the Pali word Sati. Sati is an activity. What exactly is that? There

Chapter 12 Dealing with Distractions – II So there you are meditating beautifully. Your body is totally immobile, and you

Chapter 11 Dealing with Distractions – I At some time, every meditator encounters distractions during practice, and methods are needed

Chapter 10 Dealing With Problems You are going to run into problems in your meditation. Everybody does. Problems come in

  Chapter 9 Set Up Exercises In Theravada Buddhist countries, it is traditional to begin each meditation session with the

  Chapter 8 Structuring Your Meditation Everything up to this point has been theory. Now let’s dive into the actual

  Chapter 7 What To Do With Your Mind The meditation we teach is called Insight Meditation. As we have already

  Chapter 5 The Practice   Although there are many subjects of meditation, we strongly recommend you start with focusing

  About the Author   Venerable Henepola Gunaratana was ordained at the age of 12 as a Buddhist monk at