Knowing & Seeing (4th Edition) presents a series of talks and question & answer sessions at a meditation retreat by the Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw, abbot of the Pa-Auk Forest Monastery in Myanmar (Burma). These sessions present the Buddha's teachings on the traditional Theravadan concentration meditation known as jhana practice. Based on the original Pali suttas, the Visuddhimagga, and later commentaries, the Sayadaw teaches yogis, step by step, how to attain the stages of mental purification and vipassana knowledge. You can find the book freely available on the Web as a PDF. Students of Pa Auk are making it available here for those who wish to have a copy on paper. All royalties paid by Amazon (a small amount per book, beyond what they charge for printing and distributing) are donated to a not-for-profit doing charitable work in Burma and around the world. Pa-Auk Forest Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the Theravada tradition, with emphasis on the teaching and practice of both samatha (tranquillity) and vipassana (insight) meditation.
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The Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw is the current abbot and principal teacher at Pa-Auk Forest Monastery in Myanmar (Burma). More information can be found at http://www.paauk.org.
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The other review states that this book is available for free download and should not be sold. Many of us, primarily in the West, have downloaded and spent well in excess of the price here having the free download bound. This edition is being sold at cost by people who want to have the book available in a bound form. The small amount of money in excess of the printing costs is donated to a nonprofit feeding the hungry. I appreciate the book being available to those within Amazon's reach. Thank you for making this bound version so easily available!
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This volume will tell you everything you need to know about Samatha-Vipassana meditation as it is presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw. It is a powerful method that stays very close to the Buddha's meditation instructions in the Pali suttas as elucidated by the Visuddhimagga. And, although you can certainly find and download a PDF version of the book, I have found that having a well-produced, bound copy at a reasonable cost (with any proceeds offered as dana) is quite helpful to the serious student who wishes to spend time with the text. This publication entirely honors the request of the Sayadaw that this gift of the dhamma not be subject to profit-making. Many thanks to those who undertook to make this available! And be sure to see 'Practicing the Jhanas' by Stephen Snyder and Tina Rasmussen (Shambhala)for some terrific practical insight into how the method is implemented.
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