文档介绍：MindfulnessMindfulness ofof BreathingBreathing
&& FourFour ElementsElements MeditationMeditation
Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw
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Mindfulness of Breathing
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Four Elements Meditation
Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw
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Preface to the Revised Edition
This book contains the instructions for mindfulness-of-breathing
meditation, four-elements meditation, and the subsequent de-
tailed discernment of materiality. The last section of this book
covers some of the relevant theory.
This revised edition has clarified the language of the first
edition and has translated most of the Pàëi terms previously left
untranslated. Several pages have been added by the Sayadaw
covering the balancing of the five controlling faculties and seven
factors of enlightenment.
There is also the addition of his explanation of the differ-
ence between the experience of Nibbàna and the experience of
life-continuum (bhavaïga).
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Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition ............................................... iv
Part 1
How to Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing ..................................... 1
Balancing the Five Controlling Faculties ...................................... 9
Balancing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment .......................... 13
Attaining Jhàna .............................