The Practical Guide To Buddhist Training - (Trilogy) - 1. Fundamental Wisdom (Paperback)

Paperback. The Practical Guide To Buddhist Training - Trilogy: Fundamental Wisdom StageA clear, easy-to-follow, structured path to a quieter, wiser mind. This trilogy uses the acronym READINESS to structure and describe Buddhist training practices. The same framework is also used in a later secular work, The READINESS Method, published by Readiness Press.This first book in the READINESS series begins your journey with the Fundamental Wisdom Stage-revealing how passion, compulsion, and ego quietly shape your experience, and how to begin releasing their hold. Through grounded Buddhist psychology and practical exercises, you'll begin to shift your habits, your mind, and your life.The full method unfolds over four stages: - Book 1 - Fundamental Wisdom Stage: See the roots of suffering and the path to escape- Book 2 - Ethics Stage: Renounce striving and return to clarity- Book 2 - Shamatha Stage: Build calm, awareness, and presence- Book 3 - Samadhi Stage: A structured approach to Right Concentration (Samadhi) using READINESSA step-by-step way to meet pain with clarity-by Recognising it, Enduring it, Accepting it, seeing its Danger, Investigating it, knowing it as Not-Self, seeing it as Empty and just a Suggestion, Subject to change, and a path to Suffering if followed (READINESS).Begin where you are. Build READINESS-not for perfection, but for peace. A clear, easy-to-follow, structured path to a quieter, wiser mind. This trilogy uses the acronym READINESS to structure and describe Buddhist training practices - also used in a later secular work, The READINESS Method. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…