Impermanence in Plain English
By Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Julia Harris
- Publication Year (This Edition): 2023
- Year of First Publication: 2023
- Publication Type: Book
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9781614298915
- Library: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- Call number: BQ4261 .G86 2023
- Dewey (DDC): 294.342
- Publisher: Wisdom Publications
- Original Price: 17.95 USD
- Keywords: Buddhism, doctrines, Theravada buddhism Responding to the Invitation -- Immediately Present Moments -- Not Led Astray -- Pointing to Impermanence -- Root Cause -- Dhamma Talks to Us -- Diminishing Returns -- What Lasts? -- Do Not Look to Somebody Else for the Dhamma in You -- A Practical Exercise for Anywhere -- Infused with Metta -- The Map and the Practice --Skillfulness at the Six Sense Doors -- "Come and See" Is Not "Come and Believe" -- Impermanence in Every Breath -- Afterword: Why Impermanence Meditation? -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Pali Sutta Citations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Authors
"In Impermanence in Plain English, the beloved author and teacher Bhante Gunaratana 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 his student 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"-- Provided by publisher