The Wisdom Book - The Mind Book, Part 2:
Updated to include more Q&As on Dhamma Service
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The Wisdom Book - Mind Book Part-2
The Wisdom Book completes The Mind Book project, as the concluding sequel.
The updated Wisdom Book includes more questions and answers on Vipassana practice and Dhamma Service.
The Wisdom Book became a reality with Dhamma forces and protector guardians of the Second Sasana. It was finished in one-fourth of the expected months for this one-of-a-kind Vipassana project.
In record time, the first edition of the Wisdom Book was published in Project Gutenberg's World Public Library (World Library Book ID: WPLBN0100750274), the world's largest aggregator of publications. The World Library Foundation takes weeks to approve or reject manuscripts. It accepted the Wisdom Book for publication in four hours.
The World Library Foundation in Honolulu (Hawaii, USA) kindly emailed the same night after receiving the manuscript: "Your publication is now being distributed throughout the Cloud Library Network...As part of the Author's Community, your publications (The Wisdom Book and The Mind Book) become simultaneously listed in our thousands of affiliated local public libraries and college libraries around the world."
The work of Dhamma. "The Time-Clock of Vipassana has struck" - Sayagyi U Ba Khin.
The death cries of one-and-a-half-year-old Alphie Phillips have been haunting me while meditating in the Himalayas. His drug-addicted mother beat him to death. The police in Kent, England, found 70 injuries in the toddler’s body. For Alphie, and for violently abused children like him, this eBook came into being.
The Wisdom Book encourages Vipassana practice – the proven ancient way out of addictions, anger, violence, depression - the way out of suffering. If tormented adults can free themselves from their inner demons, the world becomes safer for children.
The Wisdom Book completes the ‘Mind Book – Dhamma Giri to the Himalayas, A Vipassana Journey’, with the way the Principal Teacher of Vipassana S.N. Goenka ended his public talks: questions and answers (Q&A) session.
During Goenkaji’s lifetime, I compiled the original Q&A section (Storehouse of Answers) in the Vipassana website from Dhamma Giri. This was while serving with him for a decade from 1996. The Wisdom Book has widened the sources for Goenkaji's answers – his compassionate insights on living a beneficial life through Vipassana practice.
This compendium with Acharya Goenka’s penetrating answers covers a wide range of questions on life: addiction, relationships, craving, equanimity, anger, depression, meditation, mind, true love, individual and social change, real happiness, religion. The Wisdom Book includes questions on the impact of Vipassana, Dhamma Service, what happens at death and more.
Vipassana is the path of reality, of practical wisdom from experience – wisdom beyond doubt, wisdom that transforms life – of individuals and countries.
As Goenkaji reminded us, the real answers are within. This book serves as a calling to Vipassana practice that leads you to experience the subtlest answers.
May answers from your Vipassana practice lead to your final destination of real happiness: the indescribable experience beyond impermanence, beyond all suffering.
Contents:
*Addiction…pg 8 *Anger…14 *Daily Life… 17 *Depression…25 *Corporate
World (Vipassana for business people)…27 *Governments…33 *Prisons and Crime…pg 39
*Relationships…pg 45 *Religion…47 *Death, Rebirth…50 *Rites and Rituals… 52 *Society… 54 *Anapana Revolution in
Schools…pg 55
*Sharing Vipassana…pg 61 *Sex… 63 *Supernatural Powers…65 *Vibrations…69 *Mantras… 70 *Atma/Soul…70 *Vipassana and Yoga… 73 *Danā…pg 76
*Vipassana (Why Meditate?)…pg 78 *Attachment… 92 *Happiness… 98 *Insomnia…103 *Cause and Effect…104 *Mind…107 *Buddha… pg 112
*Craving… pg 123 *True
Renunciation… 127 *Dhamma…128 *Ego…135 *Enlightenment…138 *Equanimity…140 *Food… pg 143
*Global Vipassana Pagoda…pg 147 *God… 150 *Sīla (ethics, morality)…
152 *Noble Truths…159 *Other Meditation Practices…163 *Hypnotism… pg 166
Mettā …pg 179
*Development of Dhamma Giri …Pages 23, 24, 44, 90, 95,152
*The Lady who saved the Sasana...Pg 35
*The Missile Scientist and the
CIA Spy…Pg
38
*The Story of a Photograph…68
*Ganges of Dhamma Flows Again… 82
*Was the Buddha a Pessimist?...117
*Emperor Asoka and Vipassana
in Bairath, Rajasthan…133
*Mr ‘A’ Experiences Nibbāna…215
*What Happens at Death? … 222
*The Passing of the Day…Pg 225
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Prequel: Mind Book, The Mind Age Version
The book destined to serve the world for centuries through Vipassana:
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Himalaya Putra has made available for free the eBook format of the Mind Book - The Mind Age Version *.
Read here the re-written, corrected, more detailed version of The Mind Book:
Mind Book - The Mind Age Version
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To read the traditional book format: paperback via Amazon (and other online sellers) in India, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Singapore and Japan. (Sales proceeds donated to the Global Vipassana Foundation, Mumbai, India).
100% of writer's royalty from the paperback is directly remitted from White Falcon Publishing (Mind Book-The Mind Age Version publisher) to the Axis Bank account of the Global Vipassana Foundation. In effect, you donate to the Global Vipassana Pagoda that exists to share Vipassana for centuries.
