Ayya Khema

En este libro, joya de la literatura budista reciente, se explican los principios básicos para una iniciación al budismo que más han fascinado a Occidente: la meditación, el amor incondicional, la reencarnación, etc. Es un manual de meditación, moderno y actual, escrito por una monja budista después de muchos años de enseñar a occidentales la senda del Buda. Todo lo que debe conocer el lector que quiere introducirse en el budismo: las Cuatro Nobles Verdades, el Noble Óctuple Sendero, la práctica de las diez virtudes y de la visión interior, etc., se exponen de forma clara, didáctica, sencilla y reveladora. Siendo nadie, pérdida del yo, de la vanidad del ego, esencia de la enseñanza del Buda. Yendo a ninguna parte, impermanencia conseguida a través de la meditación.

En esta exquisita guía de una de las enseñanzas más importantes del Buddha, Ayya Khema nos acompaña en el camino hacia una mayor comprensión de la verdadera naturaleza del "yo".Interpretando un famoso sutra con ejemplos extraidos de su larga trayectoria enseñando meditacion, nos guia por la senda de la practica de meditacion budista tal vez mas efectiva para la transformacion personal.En este recorrido, el lector aprendera sobre el lenguaje, las costumbres y la cultura de la epoca en la que el Buddha dio este discurso, a la vez que se sorprendera de la enorme vigencia de su mensaje, tanto a nivel personal como social.

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Experience a complete meditation course with one of the Wests most renowned Buddhist teachers.Know Where Youre Going provides a full course of instruction in Buddhist meditation and reflection, and contains a wealth of exercises and advice to help the reader grow. As we put these teachings into practice over time, we learn to see things as they really are and discover transcendence right here in our everyday lives. Ayya Khema shows us how to live a wholehearted spiritual life, even amid our day to day concerns and responsibilities. Her teachings unfold simply, free of jargon, and are ideal for the contemporary world. Grounding the practice of more advanced meditations in a deeply cultivated sense of mindfulness, love, and altruism, Khema shows us, step by step, how to access to liberation and freedom.Know Where Youre Going was previously published under the title When the Iron Eagle Flies.

Self-transformation is an essential element in all forms of Buddhist meditation--from Tantra to Zen. Ayya Khema, author of the best-selling Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, uses one of the earliest Buddhist suttas to guide us along the path of the oldest Buddhist meditative practice for understanding the nature of "self." By following the Buddhas explanation with clear, insightful examples from her years of teaching meditation, she guides us back and forth between the relative understanding and higher realizations of the Buddhist concept of "self." Her thoughtful contemplation of the Buddhas radical understanding of "self" and her practical advice for achieving insight offer the reader a profound understanding of the "self." Both beginning and advanced practitioners will greatly benefit from Ayya Khemas warm and down-to-earth exposition of the Buddhas meditation on "self."

Antes de su muerte, acaecida hace unos dos mil quinientos años, el Buda pronunció un último sermón, el cual se conoce como el Gran Sermón del Tránsito y se conserva en el canon pali, los libros sagrados del budismo. El Buda habia enseñado a lo largo de su ministerio todo cuanto era necesario para alcanzar la meta de la liberacion, y en la ultima etapa de su vida quiso recalcar a sus discipulos la necesidad de poner en practica esas enseñanzas. Los textos que componen La isla interior se basan en los sermones del Buda y en sus respuestas a las preguntas formuladas por sus discipulos, a los que invita a buscar refugio en el interior de si mismos, en la isla de serenidad que todos llevamos dentro. Dichos textos hacen hincapie en la practica que nos permite alcanzar la isla interior y hallar en ella el mas seguro de los refugios.

Beloved Buddhist nun Ayya Khema expertly guides the reader through ten meditations on generating loving-kindness and cultivating the fifteen wholesome qualities necessary for igniting compassion and boundless love.Having escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, Ayya Khema has singularly profound perspective on creating peace, unconditional love, and compassion. She gently teaches that inner peace is not necessarily natural or innate. Instead, peace should be considered a skill that needs intentional practiceevery day. Peace is the sum of many parts, namely the fifteen wholesome qualities the Buddha himself noted in the Metta Sutta, including usefulness, mildness, humility, contentment, receptivity, and others. Ayya Khema expertly guides us through each individual condition, using her trademark humor and personal narrative, to help each reader shape their own path to self-transformation. The second part of the book includes an eye-opening discussion of metta (loving-kindness) as both a morality and concentration practice, as well as ten meditation practices that use visualizations rather than more traditional mantra repetition. These visualizations include your heart as a "Fountain of Love," reaching those close to you and those far away, and a "Flower Garden," where we tend to the blooms in our hearts through love and compassion and share them with others. Edited by her student and retreat leader, Leigh Brasington, this book is a complete course in practical ways to calm and brighten our minds.

This practical commentary on one of the most important scriptures of the Pali canon will provide essential sustenance for Buddhist practitioners. Ayya Khema is a mountain of strength, encouragement, and tough love as she pours out down-to-earth practical instruction on the journey to enlightenment, following the framework set forth in the Samannaphala-sutta, the Buddhas discourse on the rewards of spiritual life. The suttaincluded here in the translation by Bhikkhu Bodhicontains the Buddhas teachings in response to questions posed by King Ajatasattu. Why, the king asked, should we give up the satisfactions of worldly life and devote ourselves to meditation? What are the tangible benefits to be gained from following the Buddhas way? In answering this question, the Buddha provides a compact synopsis of the entirety of the spiritual path, and Ayya Khema expands on this with her characteristic approachsimple, direct, experiential, and loving. An important aspect of the sutta is an account of the eight meditative absorptions, or jhanasstates of mind that bring joy, serenity, and peace and that open the way to clarity and liberation. Ayya Khema, who was herself adept at the eight absorptions, confidently leads the reader to, through, and beyond the jhanas, following the Buddhas plan. Her words have the effect of inspiring us to roll up our sleeves and get to work so that we may grasp the insights, accomplish the meditative goals, and become enlightened to the highest extent of our talents and efforts.

En esta exquisita guía de una de las enseñanzas más importantes del Buddha, Ayya Khema nos acompaña en el camino hacia una mayor comprensión de la verdadera naturaleza del "yo". Interpretando un famoso sutra con ejemplos extraídos de su larga trayectoria enseñando meditación, nos guía por la senda de la práctica de meditación budista tal vez más efectiva para la transformación personal. En este recorrido, el lector aprenderá sobre el lenguaje, las costumbres y la cultura de la época en la que el Buddha dio este discurso, a la vez que se sorprenderá de la enorme vigencia de su mensaje, tanto a nivel personal como social.