{"product_id":"6602","title":"A Guide to the Perplexed by Donald K. Swearer (MP3 audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is an audiobook of Wheel Publications No. 194 \u003ci\u003eA Guide to the Perplexed: The Satipa  h na Sutta\u003c\/i\u003e by Donald K. Swearer, narrated by Jim Swift. This Wheel is included in the BPS \u003ca href=\"Collected-Wheels-BW13-Vol-XIII_p_4547.html\"\u003eCollected Wheels Volume XIII\u003c\/a\u003e as well as a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh194\" target=\"_blank\"\u003efree eBook download\u003c\/a\u003e on the BPS website.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInsight meditation has been summed up by the phrase,  Be mindful!  or  Be mindful of your own mind.  Two crucial assumptions are made in this definition: that genuine awareness or mindfulness will lead to  enlightenment  or an understanding of things as they really are; and that one s ontic condition or state of being depends upon the mind.  Mind harbors all: the world of suffering and its origin, and also it s final cessation and the path to it.  Buddhist meditation, then, offers the hope of insight not only in the sense of new knowledge but of new being. The promise is the oft heard phrase,  Know the truth and the truth will make you free.  Knowledge and freedom presuppose each other, indeed, are necessary to each other, for the very reason that  enlightenment  and  new being  are two sides of the same coin.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e The heart of Buddhist meditation  is the development of mindfulness or awareness. The program of training in mindfulness is not arbitrary, but is based on one of the most popular texts in the Theravada or Pali canon known as the Satipa  h na Sutta, or the text on the foundation, arousing or setting up of mindfulness. Because of the significance of this text for all forms of Buddhist meditation, this essay is an attempt to interpret some of its more salient aspects. 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