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  1. Book search result icon Meditations4 Copyright
     … questions about this book may be addressed to Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 U.S.A. additional resources More Dhamma talks, books and translations by Thanissaro Bhikkhu are available to download in digital audio and various ebook formats at dhammatalks.org. printed copy A paperback copy of this book is available free of charge. To request one, write to: Book Request … 
  2. Book search result icon Meditations4 Introduction
    Introduction The daily schedule at Metta Forest Monastery includes a group interview in the late afternoon and a chanting session followed by a group meditation period later in the evening. The Dhamma talks included in this volume were given during the evening meditation sessions, and in many cases covered issues raised at the interviews — either in the questions asked or lurking behind the questions … 
  3. Book search result icon Meditations4
    Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2004-2008.
  4. Book search result icon Meditations4 Glossary
     … are five in all: physical form, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, and consciousness. Sanskrit form: skandha. Luang Pu (Thai): Venerable Grandfather. A term of respect for a very senior and elderly monk. Metta: Goodwill; benevolence. See brahma-vihara. Nibbana: Literally, the “unbinding” of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion, and from the entire round of death and rebirth. As this term also denotes the … 
  5. The Buddha’s Shoulds
     … You might resist his shoulds with the thought, “Who is he to tell me what to do?” Years back I was sitting in on a course on the Metta Sutta. The first line in the Metta Sutta starts: “This is what should be done by one who aims at a state of peace.” As the teacher started out with that line, a hand immediately … 
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