Jhana Training Manual
Step-by-Step Journey from Mindfulness to Cessation
$27.75
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2025
Summary
Advancing from Mindfulness to Deep Meditation
This manual provides comprehensive practical guidance for developing the jhanas (profoundly serene and blissful states of meditative concentration), potentially all the way to the cessation of perception and feeling (nirodha samapatti) - the highest meditative attainment possible according to the early Buddhist scriptures.
The manual is designed for mind training in meditation retreat
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9788011066604 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 8011066609 |
| Author: | Tomas Piskacek |
| Publisher: | Tomas Piskaček - Jhana Training Insights |
| Imprint: | Tomas Piskaček - Jhana Training Insights |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“A rare and masterful contribution to the landscape of contemporary meditation literature. Refreshingly practical and accessible.”
David R. Vago, PhD (President, International Society for Contemplative Research)
“The book contains complete instructions for one way of entry into nirvana - I can recommend it with the greatest confidence.”
Terje Sparby, PhD (Professor of Philosophy and Meditation Researcher, Norway)
“This is the book I wish I had when I began my journey 30 years ago.”
Venerable Ariyadhammika Mahathera (Leader of the Sangha of SBS Monk Training Centre, Malaysia)
Tomas Piskacek
I became interested in Buddhism at 16 and started meditating at 18. In 2018, I went to Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary in Malaysia to train as a Theravada monk. I was able to reach the jhanas (profoundly serene and blissful states of meditative concentration) and the formless attainments relatively quickly. In 2022, I broke through into the cessation of perception and feeling (nirodha samapatti) - the highest meditative attainment described in the early Buddhist scriptures - which I then developed for over two years.
I have also practiced in monasteries in Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Singapore, and read the Buddha’s discourses in full - the four main Nikayas, along with the principal texts of the fifth. Before ordaining, I studied economics and worked at McKinsey and Company.
I have left formal monasticism and now live in the Czech Republic, where I continue my practice and share what I’ve learned with others.
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