Impermanence in Plain English
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
The bestselling author of Mindfulness in Plain English guides the reader toward a direct and personal realization of one of the foundational tenets of Buddhism: all things that arise must pass away.
In Impermanence in Plain English, the beloved author and teacher Bhante Gunaratana, alongside Julia Harris, clearly and masterfully explains the key Buddhist insight of impermanence and invites the reader to personally investigate its truth.
Once-youthful bodies grow old and weary. New thoughts, feelings, and sensations arise and fade every second. Impermanence is not some abstract, metaphysical idea. This is the Dhamma, and you can see it for yourself.
Drawing from Pali scriptures and writing with fresh, direct language, Bhante Gunaratana and Julia Harris highlight the Buddha’s exhortation that we must directly realize for ourselves the liberating insights that free us from suffering and cyclic existence, without relying only on the word of religious authorities or academic or philosophical musings.
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"Change is all-pervading and unrelenting... reality has always been this way," according to this lucid exploration of the Buddhist notion of impermanence. Monk Gunaratana (Loving-Kindness in Plain English) and Harris invite readers to "turn attention inward" to "our own mind and hearts" and observe how "thoughts, phrases, sentences, discussions, sounds" continually arise and slip away. Once one stops fearing impermanence, one can begin to cherish it as "the truth" and a "pleasure." And because "something or another is happening in us," practitioners have the opportunity to recognize impermanence in every waking moment. While the lack of concrete meditation techniques and liberal quotation of the Buddha's Pali discourses might turn away some casual readers, Gunaratana and Harris are compassionate and articulate teachers who streamline thorny Buddhist concepts with ease ("In this ephemeral body and mind, you cannot find a single fixed point.... What you thought to be true in the same instance becomes untrue"). It's a worthy resource.
