the marathon monks of mount hiei book pdf

Impermanence, nonself, and dukkha, to more obvious expressions of emptiness,Īnd to the very deepest sorts of meditative experiences, emptiness is the key

In the book has been honed through years of working with students and respondingĮxperience of emptiness to tie the book together. Questions that may arise in the practice he describes. Burbea spends a lot of time exploring the finer issues and The theory and praxis of each method isĬlearly elucidated. If, on the other hand, you have begun to sink into the slightly deeper practice of vipassana, and can relate to some of the experiences Burbea discusses, Seeing That Frees becomes an invaluable and perhaps singular guidebook to the territory you are exploring. While doing his very best to describe such experiences clearly and simply, certain revelations of emptiness are just too subtle, weird, unfathomable, or even too mundane sounding to relate to. To learn, as itĪlthough the book makes an attempt to begin at the beginning, I suspect that all but the very first few chapters will be incomprehensible to anybody who hasn’t at least had some glimpses of the sorts of deeper meditation experiences that Burbea is describing in the book. New ways (plural) of looking that bring relief from suffering. The meditator, according to Burbea, is to learn new ways of looking at things. Really are” teaching concept so prevalent in vipassana these days. To the core idea of the book, which refutes the usual “seeing things as they It will engage you in a deep practice dialog that you will You will need a separate notebook for your experiments Underline passages, make notes in the margins, and later go back and make other Single chapters that you will read and re-read many times over. It is the best meditation instruction book, by far, available in 2020. It was clear from the start that it is an extraordinary book, but I now place it at the coveted number one place on this page. It’s taken me that long to feel like I’ve engaged the text deeply enough to both be able to summarize it, and to be able to assess its value. I have been reading Seeing That Frees for several years now, after talking with Rob Burbea on the Deconstructing Yourself podcast.

The marathon monks of mount hiei book pdf