TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brasington,Leigh
TI  - Right concentration: a practical guide to the jhanas 
SN  - 9781611802696 (paperback : alk. paper)
AV  - BQ7280 .B73 2015
U1  - 294.34435 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Shambhala
KW  - Meditation
KW  - Theravāda Buddhism
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / Theravada
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index
N2  - "The Buddhist jhanas--successive states of deep focus or meditative absorbtion--demystified. A very practical guidebook for meditators for navigating their way through these states of bliss and concentration. One of the elements of the Eightfold Path the Buddha taught is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and so forth, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. The Jhanas are the method the Buddha himself taught for achieving Right Concentration. They are a series of eight successive states, beginning with bliss and moving on toward radically nonconceptual states. The fact that they can usually be achieved only  during prolonged meditation retreat tends to keep them shrouded in mystery. Leigh Brasington is here to unshroud them. He takes away the mystique and gives instructions for them in plain, accessible language, noting the various pitfalls to avoid along the way, and then providing a wealth of material on the theory of jhana practice--all geared toward the practitioner rather than the scholar"--
ER  -