num_pages: 152
description: Use the unique Buddhist practice of meditation on perception as taught by the best-selling author of Mindfulness in Plain English to learn how shifting your perspective can transform mental and physical health.Perception -- one of the basic constituents of the body and mind -- can be both a source of suffering and pain as well as a source of happiness and health. The Buddhist tradition teaches that perception can be trained and ultimately purified through the practice of meditation. When we understand how perception impacts our lives we can use it just as we do any other object of meditation to overcome harmful ways of thinking and acting and to develop healthy states of mind instead. In Meditation on Perception Bhante G brings us for the first time in English an illuminating introduction to the unique Buddhist practice of meditation on perception as taught in the popular Girimananda Sutta. The ten healing practices that comprise meditation on perception make up a comprehensive system of meditation combining aspects of both tranquility and insight meditation. Tranquility meditation is used to calm and center the mind and insight meditation is used to understand more clearly how we ordinarily perceive ourselves and the world around us. Alternating between these two practices meditators cultivate purified perception as explained by the Buddha. As a result of these efforts we progress on the path that leads to freedom once and for all from illness confusion and other forms of physical and mental suffering. Meditation on Perception gives us the keys to move beyond ordinary superficial perception into an enlightened perspective freed from confusion and unhappiness.
language: English
title: Meditation on Perception: Ten Healing Practices to Cultivate Mindfulness
publisher: Wisdom Publications