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Meditation in Context: From Ancient Buddhist Monastery to Modern Psychologist’s Office

Meditation in Context: From Ancient Buddhist Monastery to Modern Psychologist’s Office. David McMahan. “mindfulness” Pāli : sati सतिः Sanskrit: smṛti स्मृतिः. Wheel of Life. Candamahārosana Tantra. To renounce the sense objects Is to torture oneself by asceticism—don't do it!

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Meditation in Context: From Ancient Buddhist Monastery to Modern Psychologist’s Office

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  1. Meditation in Context:From Ancient Buddhist Monastery to Modern Psychologist’s Office David McMahan

  2. “mindfulness” Pāli: sati सतिः Sanskrit: smṛtiस्मृतिः

  3. Wheel of Life

  4. CandamahārosanaTantra To renounce the sense objects Is to torture oneself by asceticism—don't do it! When you see form, look! Similarly, listen to sounds, Inhale scents, Taste delicious flavors, Feel textures. Use the objects of the five senses - You will quickly attain supreme Buddhahood. Chapter Eight of the Sri-candamaharosana-tantra Translated by Keith Dowman.

  5. LediSayadaw1846-1923

  6. AnagarikaDharmapala1864-1933

  7. “With the spread of scientific knowledge, Christianity with its unscientific doctrines of creator, hell, soul, atonement, will be quite forgotten. With the expansion of knowledge Europeans may come to know more of evolution, of the laws of causation, of the changing nature of all phenomena, of the divisibility of matter, of the progressive nature of the animal and human consciousness, then will Buddhism meet with a sympathetic reception” AnagarikaDharmapala

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