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The Heart of Buddhist Meditation
In print for more than fifty years and translated into some ten languages, Nyanaponika Thera’s The Heart of Buddhist Meditation has attained the stature of a modern spiritual classic. Combining deep personal insight with the power of clear exposition, the author guides the reader into the essential principles making up the Buddha’s Way of Mindfulness. Besides offering a lucid account of the basic practices of insight meditation, the book contains a complete translation of the Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha’s own instructions on the practice. “A work of unique importance ... written with great depth, extraordinary knowledge, deep humanity... I do not know of any book which could be compared to this work as a guide to meditation.” Erich Fromm
Abhidhamma Studies
The Abhidhamma, the third great division of the early Buddhist teaching, maps out with remarkable rigor & precision the inner landscape of the mind to be crossed through the practical work of Buddhist meditation. In this groundbreaking book, Venerable Nyanaponika Thera penetrates Abhidhamma's formidable face to make its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today.
The Power of Mindfulness
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate and explain the efficacy of the method of mindfulness (satipatthana), that is, to show the actual power of mindfulness. Those who do not yet know the Buddha's teaching well enough to accept it as a reliable guide, may hesitate to take up, without good reasons, a practice that just on account of its radical simplicity may appear strange to them. In this essay a number of such “good reasons” are therefore proffered for the reader's scrutiny. They are also meant as an introduction to the general spirit of mindfulness and as pointers to its wide and significant perspectives. Those who have already taken up the practice of mindfulness will recognize in this essay features of their own practice, and be encouraged to cultivate them deliberately.
The Vision of Dhamma
This volume brings between two covers the author’s original writings from the BPS’s Wheel and Bodhi Leaves series. These writings offer one of the most mature, comprehensive, and authoritative expressions of Buddhism by a contemporary Western monk. Contents The Way to Freedom from Suffering The Worn-Out Skin The Power of Mindfulness The Roots of Good and Evil The Five Mental Hindrances The Four Nutriments of Life The Threefold Refuge The Four Sublime States Anattā and Nibbāna Seeing Things As They Are Buddhism and the God-Idea Devotion in Buddhism Courageous Faith Why End Suffering? Kamma and Its Fruit Contemplation of Feelings Protection Through Right Mindfulness Glossary A Bibliography of Nyanaponika Thera’s Publications in English
Great Disciples of the Buddha
This book is a compilation of twenty-four life stories of the closest and most eminent of the Buddha's personal disciples.
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha
The present work offers a complete translation of the Aguttara Nikya, the fourth major collection in the Sutta Piṭaka, or Basket of Discourses, belonging to the Pali Canon
Collected Wheel Publications Volume VI
This book contains fourteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 76: The Threefold Refuge by Nyanaponika Thera; 77–8: Essays and Poems by Dr. Paul Dahlke; 79: The Kandaraka and Potaliya Suttas by Narada Thera & Mahinda Bhikkhu; 80–1: Dialogues on the Dhamma by Francis Story; 82: The Discourse Collection by John D. Ireland; 83–4: With Robes and Bowl by Bhikkhu Khantipalo; 85–6: Buddhism in Thailand by Karuna Kusalasaya; 87: The Greater Discourse on Voidness by Nyanamoli Thera; 88–9: Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology by Douglas M. Burns.
Vision of Dhamma, The
Written by a Westerner whose life experience was as a Buddhist monastic, this collection of essays conveys a friendly spirit, in the manner of a wise and practical teacher.
The Roots of Good and Evil
Translations of Sutta passages on the unwholesome and wholesome roots, with the author's insightful comments.
The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon and the Commentaries
Compiled and translated by Nyanaponika Thera Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanaponika/wheel026.html
