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The HEART of Buddhist MEDITATION
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation was the first serious, didac-
tic Dharma book I read. It was the early nineteen-eighties. My
teacher, Jack Kornfield, suggested it as the beginning of formal
training to become a Mindfulness teacher. I have that original
copy, and I am touched by how many underlined passages, how
many exclamation points in margins, and how many addenda
of my own written in tiny scrawl appear in its fading pages. I
had been a serious practitioner for more than five years by that
time, a participant at many retreats, and an ardent, inspired
listener to Dharma talks. My own discoveries about suffering
and the end of suffering as I experienced them had kept me
committed. When, as a way of providing formal, authoritative,
academic background for me as teacher, I began to read the
works of the Venerable Nyanaponika Thera, I not only felt that
I understood the whole process of what was happening to me
in a fuller way, I felt as though I were adopting the Venerable
Nyanaponika as my spiritual grandfather. I still feel that way.
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