{"product_id":"1650","title":"Discourse Summaries, The","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003eGBS_setLanguage('en');GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781938754081');\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book contains summaries of the evening discourses by S.N. Goenka from a ten-day course of Vipassana meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Liberation can be gained only by practice, never by mere discussion', S.N. Goenka has said. A course in Vipassana meditation is an opportunity to take concrete steps towards liberation. For this reason, in a Vipassana course the emphasis is always on actual practice. No philosophical debates are permitted, no theoretical arguments, no questions that are unrelated to one's own experience. As far as possible, meditators are encouraged to find the answers to their questions within themselves. The teacher provides whatever guidance is needed in the practice, but it is up to each person to implement these guidelines: one has to fight one's own battle, work out one's own salvation. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGiven this emphasis, still some explanation is necessary to provide a context for the practice. Therefore every evening of a course Goenkaji gives a 'Dhamma talk', in order to put into perspective the experiences of that day, and to clarify various aspects of the technique. These discourses, he warns, are not intended as intellectual or emotional entertainment. Their purpose is simply to help meditators understand what to do and why, so that they will work in the proper way and will achieve the proper results.   It is these talks that are presented here in condensed form. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe eleven discourses provide a broad overview of the teaching of the Buddha. The approach to this subject, however, is not scholarly or analytical. Instead the teaching is presented in the way that it unfolds to a meditator: as a dynamic, coherent whole. All its different facets are seen to reveal an underlying unity: the experience of meditation. This experience is the inner fire that gives true life and brilliance to the jewel of the Dhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOther Languages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eYou can browse the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003erelated items\u003c\/span\u003e below for this title in other languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eeBook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis title is also available as an eBook bundle (ePub, Mobi, PDF). A f\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eree (non-printable) PDF can be downloaded via the download button above\u003c\/span\u003e. A VRI edition of this title is also available for free, from \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vridhamma.org\/free-books\"\u003ethe VRI website\u003c\/a\u003e. Although the formatting of the VRI edition may be different, the content is the same for both the VRI and the Pariyatti editions.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAudio Recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscourse recordings from the 10-day Vipassana meditation course are also available, on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/10-Day-Discourses-All-Formats-Vipassana\"\u003evarious media, in many languages\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e     ","brand":"Goenka, S.N.","offers":[{"title":"Ebook (ePub\/Mobi\/PDF) - $0.99","offer_id":42108783919198,"sku":"766939","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/E04_-_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1780313174","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/1650","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}