文档介绍：Mindfulness in Plain English
By the VENERABLE HENEPOLA GUNARATANA MAHATHERA
plete text of this popular book is online here. Some people say it's the best
book ever written for beginning meditators. Using down-to-earth, nuts-and-bolts
language, it explains how to practice Vipassana meditation (also called insight
meditation). The result is increased mindfulness (also called bare attention or witness
consciousness).
Contents
Publication History and
Distribution Agreement
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter15
Chapter 16
About the Author
Venerable Henepola Gunaratana was ordained at the age of 12 as a Buddhist monk at
a small temple in Malandeniya Village in Kurunegala District in Sri Lanka. His
preceptor was Venerable Kiribatkumbure Sonuttara Mahathera. At the age of 20 he
was given higher ordination in Kandy in 1947. He received his education from
Vidyalankara College and Buddhist Missionary College in Colombo. Subsequently he
traveled to India for five years of missionary work for the Mahabodhi Society, serving
the Harijana (Untouchable) people in Sanchi, Delhi, and Bombay. Later he spent ten
years as a missionary in Malaysia, serving as religious advisor to the Sasana
Abhivurdhiwardhana Society, Buddhist Missionary Society and the Buddhist Youth
Federation of Malaysia. He has been a teacher in Kishon Dial School and Temple
Road Girls' School and Principal of the Buddhist Institute of Kuala Lumppur.
At the invitation of the Sasana Sevaka Society, Venerable Gunaratana came to the
United States in 1968 to serve as Hon. General Secretary of the Buddhist Vihara
Society of Washington, . In 1980 he was appointed President of the Society.
During his years at the Vihara, he has taught courses in Buddhism, conducted
meditati