Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah

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A collection of Ajahn Chah's most powerful teachings, including those on mediation, liberation from suffering,calming the mind, enlightenment and the living dhamma.
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A collection of Ajahn Chah's most powerful teachings, including those on mediation, liberation from suffering,calming the mind, enlightenment and the living dhamma.

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The Buddhism practiced and preached at the monastery at Wat Pah Pong in northeast Thailand has grown in popularity in part because of its gifted leader and speaker, the late Ajahn Chah. This compilation of talks given by Ajahn (acharya or teacher in Sanskrit) Chah extols the virtues of practice over pedantry, and makes judicious use of the technical vocabulary of Buddhism, which can be daunting to casual readers. But even without the full glossary of terms and explanatory notes, Ajahn Chah' s humorous, analogy-laden narration of his tradition' s Buddhist practice a practice that is basic and almost reductionistic, similar to modern Zen makes these teachings accessible to beginners and appealing to serious practitioners. More troubling is the lack of context for Ajahn Chah' s talks: no dates or details are given. For instance, readers who encounter the injunction to renounce familial ties alongside a consideration of how spousal sexual relations may conform to the Four Noble Truths may be perplexed if they do not know that Ajahn Chah tailored his talks to the needs of both monastics and lay practitioners on quite separate occasions and in varying contexts. Also, there is very little introductory material about what distinguishes the Thai Forest tradition, other than a definition of tudong (forest pilgrimage and meditation) and the fact that it belongs to Theravada, the minority of the two great doctrinal divisions within Buddhism. However, this is a valuable collection of the Thai Buddhist master' s thoughts. (Sept.) Forecast: In a market saturated with new Buddhist releases, this solid exposition of basic Buddhist practice is a welcome addition, particularly since some of the Thai leader' s teachings are available here in English for the first time. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780861713233
  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
  • Publication date: 7/10/2005
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 386,761
  • Product dimensions: 5.96 (w) x 9.12 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 7
Introduction 9
1 About This Mind 41
2 Fragments of a Teaching 43
Part 1 Conduct--Virtue and the World of the Senses
3 Living in the World with Dhamma 53
4 Making the Heart Good 61
5 Sense Contact--the Fount of Wisdom 69
6 Understanding Vinaya 81
7 Maintaining the Standard 93
8 Why Are We Here? 101
9 The Flood of Sensuality 111
10 The Two Faces of Reality 119
Part 2 Meditation
11 A Gift of Dhamma 135
12 Inner Balance 141
13 The Path in Harmony 147
14 The Training of the Heart 153
15 Reading the Natural Mind 163
16 The Key to Liberation 179
17 Meditation (Samadhi Bhavana) 219
18 Dhamma Fighting 227
19 Just Do It! 231
20 Right Practice--Steady Practice 239
21 Samma Samadhi--Detachment Within Activity 249
22 In the Dead of Night 257
Part 3 Wisdom
23 What Is Contemplation? 275
24 Dhamma Nature 279
25 Living with the Cobra 287
26 The Middle Way Within 291
27 The Peace Beyond 297
28 Convention and Liberation 307
29 No Abiding 313
30 Right View--the Place of Coolness 319
31 Our Real Home 323
32 The Four Noble Truths 333
33 "Tuccho Pothila"--Venerable Empty Scripture 341
34 "Not Sure!"--the Standard of the Noble Ones 351
35 Still, Flowing Water 363
36 Transcendence 373
37 Toward the Unconditioned 383
38 Epilogue 395
Glossary 397
Notes 403
Sources of the Text 409
Index 415
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 15, 2007

    It's okay...

    This book is okay because in someplaces it can be inspirational for your meditation practice and at other places it will make you feel like a failure in meditation. This author was a Thai monk, and I don't really think he could relate to ordinary people living in the world today.

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