(Scheduled to be auto-posted on July 25, 2024)
The Wisdom Book completes The Mind Book project, as the concluding sequel.
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 Wisdom Book was first 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
Part -1
*Addiction…pg 8 *Anger…14 *Daily Life… 17 *Depression…25 *Corporate World…27 *Governments…pg 33 *Prisons and Crime…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
Part -2
Clarifications on Vipassana Practice…pg 169, Mettā …pg 179
Part – 3
Q & A on Dhamma Service…pg 181
Specials:
*Development of Dhamma Giri …Pages 23, 24, 44, 90,152
*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…190
*What Happens at Death? …197
*The Passing of the Day….Pg 200
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