Paravahera Vajiranana Mahathera - Buddhist Meditation in Theory and Practice: A General Exposition According to the Pali Canon of the Theravada School

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The book begins with a introduction to meditation (talking about right mind attitude, psychic powers, challenges etc.), and then goes to the doctrine according to Pitakas, mental concentration, meditation techniques, obscure terms (samadhi, ceto vimutti, ceto-samatha etc.), meditation as moral attitudes, self observation, attention; a suitable place for meditation, magical and karmic results and much more.

Including very rich information like the eight liberations. It´s a rare and important book to study old traditional forms of meditation in Theravada.