Know Where You're Going provides a full course of instruction in Buddhist meditation and reflection, and contains a wealth of exercises and advice to help the reader grow. As we put these teachings into practice over time, we learn to see things as they really are and discover transcendence right here in our everyday lives. Ayya Khema shows us how to live a wholehearted spiritual life, even amid our day to day concerns and responsibilities. Her teachings unfold simply, free of jargon, and are ideal for the contemporary world. Grounding the practice of more advanced meditations in a deeply cultivated sense of mindfulness, love, and altruism, Khema shows us, step by step, how to access to liberation and freedom. Previously published as When the Eagle Flies.
Know Where You're Going: A Complete Buddhist Guide to Meditation, Faith, and Everyday Transcendence, Ayya Khema, Wisdom, Paperback, 224 pages, 2014, $16.95
Born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents, Ayya Khema was educated in Scotland and China and later emigrated to the United States. The author of twenty-five books, she was ordained as a nun in Sri Lanka in 1979 and established several Buddhist centers, including Wat Buddha Dhamma in Australia, Parapuddua Nuns Island in Sri Lanka, and Buddha Haus in Germany. In 1987 she coordinated the first-ever International Conference of Buddhist Nuns. She passed away in 1997.
Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Why and How of Meditation 2. The Heart Essence 3. Guided Contemplations and Loving-Kindness Meditations 4. Dependent Arising: Cause and Effect 5. Transcendental Dependent Arising: Unsatisfactoriness 6. Faith and Confidence 7. Mindfulness of Feelings and Sensations: A Technique of Meditation 8. Joy 9. Concentration: The Meditative Absorptions 10. A Technique of Meditation 11. Further Steps 12. Nonmaterial Meditative Absorptions 13. Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Really Are 14. Disenchantment 15. Dispassion and Freedom 16. Day by Day Notes Glossary Index About the Author
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