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New release!

Meditation 3: A Stillness Guide – inspiring meditations, recollections and inner peace by Piya Tan (2014). [ISBN 978-981-09-3438-5]

Contents & imprint page.

Preface.

Introduction.

For price, mode of payment and order, please refer to Meditation 2 below.

Meditation 2: a skills guide.

Meditation 2: A Skills Guide, by Piya Tan (2014)

ISBN: 978-981-09-0617-7, size A4, 176 pp.
A recommended handbook for meditators.

• Introduction. 

• (1) The 5 mental hindrances. The 5 barriers to mental focus and habits that weaken wisdom; how to break through them.

• (2) Negative desire. How the senses work and how they can work for us.

• (3) Lust and how to overcome it.

• (4) Ill will and negative emotions hinder personal progress: how to overcome them.

• (5) Karaniya Metta Sutta (Khp 9 = Sn 1.8). How to cultivate unconditional love. 

• (6) Sloth and torpor. Mustering effort and energy in our minds.

• (7) (Thina,middha) Tissa Sutta (S 22.84). Drowsiness can be overcome by insight. 

• (8) Restlessness and remorse: Not letting our past control us; keeping the future where it is.

• (9) Doubt: Why we lack confidence and how to build it up. 

• (10) Nivana Pahana Vagga (A 1.2.1-10). The 5 mental hindrances: their causes and ending.

• (11) Vitakka Santhana Sutta (M 20). How to overcome distractions during meditation.

Price: 

In Singapore: S$20.00 (self-collection); $25.00 (by post).

Outside Singapore (incl Malaysia & Brunei): $43.00 (by airmail).

Outside Singapore (except Malaysia & Brunei): S$28.00 (by surface mail).

How to order:

1. By cheque. Please issue cheques in the favour of “The Minding Centre” and send to: Pali House, Blk 248, #08-50, Jurong East St 24, Singapore 600248; or

2. By ibanking. Please transfer the amount to “The Minding Centre” OCBC current account. Account No. 533-727-814001; or

3. By PayPal. Please click here, and donate for the book; or

4. By  cash. Please drop in at “The Minding Centre“ on Wednesday evenings. For other date/time, please email: themindingcentre@gmail.com or call +65 8211 0879 (speak to Ratna).

Meditation 1: a safety guide.

Meditation 1: A Safety Guide, by Piya Tan (2013)

ISBN: 978-981-07-8585-7, size A4, 220 pp.
A recommended handbook for meditators and seekers.

• Introduction. Why meditate? Who should not meditate? Downside of meditation.

• 1  What is meditation? Personal development and mental cultivation.

• 2  The 4 kinds of samadhi. Mental concentration, stillness and dhyana.

• 3  The stages to spiritual liberation. The nature of spiritual solitude.

• 4  The nature of mental stillness. What is samadhi and how it arises.

• 5  Nimitta: The mental sign in cognition and meditation. Joy in meditation.

• 6  The 3 kinds of meditation signs. When is our mind really peaceful?

• 7  Dhyana (jhana): The mind when it is fully free from the body.

• 8  The layman and dhyana: How to awaken without dhyana.

• 9  The Buddha discovered dhyana: Some misconceptions and clarifications. What does dhyana really mean? Was there dhyana before the Buddha? Does thinking occur in dhyana? How does the mind and the object become “one”?

• 10 Bibliography

Price

In Singapore: S$20.00 (self-collection); $25.00 (by post).

Outside Singapore (incl Malaysia & Brunei): $43.00 (by airmail).

Outside Singapore (except Malaysia & Brunei): S$28.00 (by surface mail).

How to order:

1. By cheque. Please issue cheques in the favour of “The Minding Centre” and send to: Pali House, Blk 248, #08-50, Jurong East St 24, Singapore 600248; or

2. By ibanking. Please transfer the amount to “The Minding Centre” OCBC current account. Account No. 533-727-814001; or

3. By PayPal. Please click here, and donate for the book, or

4. By cash. Please drop in at “The Minding Centre“ on Wednesday evenings. For other date/time, please email: themindingcentre@gmail.com or call 82110879 (speak to Ratna).

The Minding Centre

Shenton House
3 Shenton Way #03-06 B
Singapore 068805
hp (65) 8211 0879 (Contact Ratna)
Email: themindingcentre@gmail.com

MAP

(1) Simple Joys by Piya Tan, 2009, 2nd rev 2011.

[download: Simple Joys by Piya Tan 2nd rev 2011 (ebook, low resolution, size 783 KB)]

[download: Simple Joys by Piya Tan 2nd rev 2011 (high resolution, size 1553 KB)

(2) Revisioning Buddhism: an inspired re-look at the Buddha’s example and teachings by Piya Tan, 2011.

Download Revisioning Buddhism Piya Tan, 2011

(3) Simple Joys 2: Healing Words by Piya Tan, 2011.

Free copies of Simple Joys 2 is available at The Minding Centre. Please call 8211 0879 (Ratna) or email us at: themindingcentre@gmail.com if you are interested. Download soft copy here.

(4) Simple Joys 3: loving words. By Piya Tan 2013.

Simple Joys 3: loving words

If you wish to have the hard copy, please contact us (email: themindingcentre@gmail.com), hp 8211 0879. (Download soft copy here)

(5) Simple Joys: choice gems 1. By Piya Tan, 2012.

(Download book cover, contents)

Simple Joys - Choice Gems 1.