Living meditation, living insight : the path of mindfulness in daily life

It is a handbook on how to practice meditation (mindfulness) in everyday life in the Theravada Buddhist tradition as taught in Burma. The second section of the book describes the meditative process and the last section deals with mindful creative living. It is written in a dialogue form mostly and has a direct and succinct reading for readers as expressed by most who had read the book. It was self published by the author in 1992 and thereafter it has been reprinted five times. buddhist insight meditation Title Page - Living Meditation, Living Insight 1 Foreword 4 Introduction 5 Preface to the Second Edition 7 Acknowledgements 10 Contents 11 The Path of Sukkhavipassaka 12 Freedom to Begin 13 Living Meditation 15 Living Meditation 16 Staying with the Moment 19 Staying with More Moments 23 Meditation in Action 27 Letting Go and Picking Up 33 Peace-Mind 36 Non-Peace 39 Meditation on Peace-Mind 41 Silent Mind 45 Four Noble Truths in Daily Life 49 Unity of the Noble Eightfold Path 55 Dynamics of Meditation 58 Inner Retreat 61 Reflections on Meditation 64 Concentration and Meditation 65 Mindfulness and Awareness 67 In the Moment 71 Meditation without Meditation 73 Creative Living 78 Creative Living 79 Love and Hate 82 Happiness 85 Love and Compassion 87 Equanimity and Indifference 91 Sense Pleasures 96 Outward Form 99 Ordinary Awareness 101 Elaboration of The Noble Eightfold Path 105 Glossary of Pali Terms 107 buddhism,insight,meditation