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01-04-2014 | BOOK REVIEW
B. Alan Wallace: The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart, 3rd edition. Snow Lion, Ithaca, NY, 2010, 192 pp
Auteur:
Fung Kei Cheng
Gepubliceerd in:
Mindfulness
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Uitgave 2/2014
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Excerpt
The book The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart, by B. Alan Wallace, introduces the essential knowledge of meditation and the four immeasurables (cattāri appamaññā in Pāli) pertaining to loving-kindness (mettā in Pāli), compassion (karuṇā in Pāli), empathetic joy (mudita in Pāli), and equanimity (upekkhā in Pāli). It is based on a series of dharma talks from a 1-week retreat, in which Wallace elaborated on meditation practices based on The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga in Pāli), a comprehensive meditation manual written in the fifth century A.D., but interpreted it from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism. The book’s first three and the last chapters delineate the practice of meditation, and the middle four chapters discuss the four immeasurables. …