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A Summary of Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook, by Ajahn Brahm.
Summary written by Ray Rawles, member of the Jade Buddha Temple in Houston, Texas

 

This book includes a thorough set of teachings for developing and deepening meditation.

Ajahn Brahm was born Peter Betts in London, 1951, Abbot of monastery in Australia. In this book he describes four initial stages of meditation, plus two more and the seventh stage is called Jhana. These steps will take you to the happiest experience of your life, but must be followed in order.

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If you skip any, you will need to go back.

 

The FIRST stage is ‘Present-Moment Awareness’

During meditation you become someone who has no history. If we abandon all that history, we are equal and free.

We free ourselves of some of the concerns, perception, and thoughts that limit us that stop us from developing the peace born of letting go. Every part of our history is finally release, even the memory of what h