The Heart of Buddhist Meditation  
In print for more than thirty years and translated into some ten languages,  Nyanaponika Thera's The Heart of Buddhist meditations has attained the stature of a modern spiritual classic.  Combining deep personal insight with the power of clear exposition, the author guides the reader into the essential principles making up the Buddha•s Way of Mindfulness. Besides offering s lucid account of the basic practices of insight meditation, the book contains a complete translation of the Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddha•s own instructions on the practice. •A work of unique importance. written with great depth, extraordinary knowledge, deep humanity. I do not know of any book which could be compared to this work as a guide to meditation.•  

Nyanaponika  Thera (1901-94) was born in Germany and became a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in 1936, where he lived until his death. Widely regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of  Theravada Buddhism in our time, he is the author of numerous books and translations both in English and in German.      

 
Contents 

THE HEART OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION 

1 The Way of Mindfulness. Significance,MethodsandAims                               
2 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension
3 The Four Objects of Mindfulness
4 Culture of Mind
5 The Burmese Satipattana Method
6 mindfulness of Breathing (Anapana-sati)

THE BASIC TEXT 

FLOWERS OF DELIVERANCE - An Anthology of Texts dealing with Right Mindfulness

Source References

Pali and Sanskrit (Glossary)