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I appreciate the background information concerning the brahmanic interpretation of the fire simile, yet I feel that the Buddha's view is not really clear in this essay.

Satipatthana is most likely a part of samatha practice, and not a dry-insight practice as most modern Vipassana practitioners insist.

Savor it, one chapter a day.

In the reading club we read this book as companion to Santideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva.

A book to savor slowly, with many exercises. Shaila explains the difference between piti and sukha very well, way more elaborate then when I asked my meditation teacher and got as answer "piti is mental factor, while sukha is feeling."

So far this book sounds like Freudian new style. Your games were formed in your remote childhood? The wife plays the victim role "If it weren't for you"? Domineering husband is actually protecting his wife? I picked this book because some coach spoke highly of it, and so far I've not figured out what's good about it.

This is the book that I should have brought with me to the three-months meditation retreat in Myanmar.

I enjoy the lyrics as well as the notes. An I search the internet for the most extraordinary plants being described, too.