Bücher von Dhiravamsa

Healing through Pure Mindfulness guides us through the transformations of consciousness that lead to the realization of nirvana. This process begins at our human personality or ego-state level. On this level, we are all dominated ruthlessly by our ruling passions, the compulsive conditioning of our fixations, our harmful, instinctual energy patterns. These include the chief features or fixations of the various personality types. Foremost among all of these harmful patterns are greed, hate, and delusion, the principal mental infections spreading psychological torment that is harmful to our health and well being. This healing leads from three-dimensional consciousness that roams about in the realm of samsaräthe cycle of contamination, action, and consequence (kilesa, karma, and vipaka)¿represented by Shakespeare¿s Hamlet, to four-dimensional consciousness, a realm outside normal human experience. Here ends the samsaric journey and begins immediately the entrance into the ever-lasting flow of nirvana.

Nirvana Upside Down offers analyses of the Theravada Buddhist teachings on the relationship between nirvana and samsara, focusing on Buddhist theory of mind, the nature and operations of karma, and Buddhist theoretical philosophy and psychology (abhidharma). This text offers an in-depth presentation that goes beyond an introduction of principles of mindfulness meditation to an appreciation of the full theoretical understanding and morality that are the foundation of Buddhist psychological practice.