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Ajahn Brahm is by far my favorite Buddhist teacher. I have read all the others that are staples of your spiritual bookstore shelf--Chodron, Kornfield, Salzberg, Hanh, Surya Das, etc.. They are all useful teachers, but they lack Brahm's sense of humor, simplicity, and, quite frankly, what I take to be his empowerment. Brahm, a former British physicist and a plain spoken fellow, is, I believe, a genuine spiritual adept and an advahoot--to use the Hindi term for one who has given up everything for enlightenment. This means he has the spiritual power (the shakti, to again use a term from Hindi tradition) to accelerate your meditative progress simply by his presence and that presence adheres in his words, teachings, and techniques. If you practice his meditation teachings, you will quickly find yourself having blissful and unusual experiences--experiences that were absent or hard to come by when I practiced the meditation techniques given by other Buddhist teachers in the West. Because of this, he appears to be somewhat controversial in the Western Buddhist community. He is not nearly as warmly embraced by the folks I mentioned above as one might expect given the efficacy of his techniques. Yes, Kornfield writes an introduction to this book, but he offers some doubts or hesitancy concerning Brahm's teachings regarding Jhanas. I am not an advanced student so I am not qualified to enter into this debate, but I only know that Brahm's techniques work for me and Kornfield's tend to leave me cold. So if you're looking for Buddhist techniques that feel warm and juicy, instead of distant and intellectual, check out Master Brahm. He'll clear your head and warm your heart!


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Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond A Meditator Handbook Ajahn Brahm Jack Kornfield Books Reviews

The clearest roadmap to enlightenment I've encountered. Through following its instructions seriously for a time, I was able to achieve the first jhana. I haven't progressed beyond that stage due to my own lack of focus in the last few years, not because of this book's instruction. I have no personal experience to back up its claims about the remaining jhanas. But my intuition tells me that this book is correct. One feels, in reading it and following its very practical advice, like an arrow speeding toward the target.
Over the years as a practicing Buddhist I have read my share of books and manuals on meditation, especially those dealing with or touching upon Ānāpānasati and Jhāna. Initially I read these many books to learn from experienced meditators what to do and then, after I had accumulated quite a store of them, I re-read them to reconcile their different and sometimes conflicting messages.

Is Jhāna attainable these days, in this noisy, me-me-me world of ours? Some books hold that this is no longer possible (maybe one in a million, if that, can truly attain these deep absorptions, they say); other books skirt the issue altogether; while Ajahn Brahm courageously holds that “Yes, it is possible.” And not only possible, but attainable by anyone, given the right intention, a virtuous life, and perseverance.

This book is a meditation manual, and now, looking over my book shelf of its many siblings and cousins, I clearly see that if I could only bring one of them with me to that clichéd desert island, this would be the one.

Ajahn Brahm is an intelligent man, and he reasons very clearly. His analysis of the applicable Pali Canon references and his reconciliation of apparently conflicting passages deserve applause.

His approach to Samādhi and Jhāna is logical and practical, and—above all—both understandable and doable. Setting out from the basics of meditation, navigating through the handling of hindrances, then treating mindfulness and the beautiful breath with both clarity and contagious enthusiasm, he leads you all the way from your initial sitting down and letting go of past and future, to—down the path a ways—enlightenment and Nibbāna.

This is a book (a manual, a friend) that invites and encourages practice, and as such (despite Jack Kornfield’s somewhat guarded introduction and recommendation) is what, in my view, the world desperately needs today.

In two words Highly Recommended.
For those who are interested in easy to understand instructions about meditation, this is the book. The author is a famous Buddhist monk who has been meditating for over 40 years. He gets into very deep meditative states and explains how anyone who wants to reach those same states of immense calm can do the same. For those who like the book, there are over 1000 YouTube videos with talks given by Ajahn Brahm on many different life topics. He adds humor to most of his talks and is an excellent speaker able to explain things very clearly.
I've been studying Ajahn Brahm's YouTube videos on meditation for about a month. They've brought me peace of mind and bliss in my day-to-day life. So I decided to grab a copy of this handbook. It contains everything from his video taped meditation retreats laid out in an organized and in-depth way. The handbook goes beyond the videos. The methods are the same and they don't conflict with each other.

Let me first step back and say that Ajahn Brahm's teachings on meditation are the only ones that have ever worked for me. I learned meditation at a Zen center in Atlanta in 2002 and have practiced that style of Zen meditation on and off. I'd lose my practice whenever I'd find no joy in it. I felt more frustrated and the "concentration" I developed made me more on edge. It wasn't until I recently started learning from Ajahn Brahm that I realized I was doing it all wrong.

Of course Buddhists over the past 1000+ years can't seem to agree on anything, and Thich Naht Hanh's teachings on meditation conflict with Ajahn Brahms, for example, but I can tell you that I have experienced deep joy from Ajahn Brahm's interpretation of the Buddha's meditation methods. Therefore I'm sticking with it.

Thanks to Ajahn Brahm's methods, I'm meditating throughout the day whenever I can find spare time simply because I now love to meditate. Meditation never feels like a chore. I do it now because I want to.
Ajahn Brahm is by far my favorite Buddhist teacher. I have read all the others that are staples of your spiritual bookstore shelf--Chodron, Kornfield, Salzberg, Hanh, Surya Das, etc.. They are all useful teachers, but they lack Brahm's sense of humor, simplicity, and, quite frankly, what I take to be his empowerment. Brahm, a former British physicist and a plain spoken fellow, is, I believe, a genuine spiritual adept and an advahoot--to use the Hindi term for one who has given up everything for enlightenment. This means he has the spiritual power (the shakti, to again use a term from Hindi tradition) to accelerate your meditative progress simply by his presence and that presence adheres in his words, teachings, and techniques. If you practice his meditation teachings, you will quickly find yourself having blissful and unusual experiences--experiences that were absent or hard to come by when I practiced the meditation techniques given by other Buddhist teachers in the West. Because of this, he appears to be somewhat controversial in the Western Buddhist community. He is not nearly as warmly embraced by the folks I mentioned above as one might expect given the efficacy of his techniques. Yes, Kornfield writes an introduction to this book, but he offers some doubts or hesitancy concerning Brahm's teachings regarding Jhanas. I am not an advanced student so I am not qualified to enter into this debate, but I only know that Brahm's techniques work for me and Kornfield's tend to leave me cold. So if you're looking for Buddhist techniques that feel warm and juicy, instead of distant and intellectual, check out Master Brahm. He'll clear your head and warm your heart!