Wake Up To Your Life
Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
by Ken McLeod · first published 2001
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A guide to basic Buddhist philosophy and practice focuses on attention, demonstrating how to incorporate this important principle into daily living.
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…of Zen makes it relatively difficult as field of self-study. All schools of Buddhism necessarily rely on teacher feedback, but the dependence in Zen is particularly acute. The book I learned from is Wake Up To Your Life, by Ken McLeod. Mindfulness in Plain English is also excellent, and available for free online.
on “Ask HN: Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)” ↗I've been working from Wake Up To Your Life[1] for most of the last decade. (Ten years in April.) Mostly-Tibetan practices, stripped of the iron-age cosmology and religiosity. Seconding Mindfulness In Plain English, though. [1]http://books.google.com/books?id=-PrBkjz513YC&printsec=f...
on “Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something” ↗…searcher". Maybe I am, and so far I haven't found anything better or a contradiction in it. So that is my best lead so far, maybe you would find it worthwhile to look into this area too (the book is BTW "Wake Up To Your Life", there is also a web site with lot's of transcribed talks: https://unfetteredmind.org/). (disclaimer: meditation can be also potentially harmfull, as e.g. "terrifying" thoughts could be even more amplified…
on “Our efforts, in part, define us” ↗I started out reading Wake Up To Your Life, built up to doing about an hour a day, went on a retreat[1] run by the author of that book, from which I saw huge benefits, started meditating for really long stretches in order to hammer home the skills…
on “Meditation: Why Bother?” ↗