Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator’s Handbook

This book offers a detailed and practical guide to Buddhist meditation, structured as a gradual path from basic mindfulness to the deepest states of concentration and insight. Ajahn Brahm emphasizes that progress arises through skillful effort, patient preparation, and the progressive relinquishment of bodily, emotional, and conceptual burdens. Drawing upon the Pāli Nikāyas, the Theravāda commentarial tradition, and his own experience as a monk and meditation teacher, he provides precise instructions for overcoming obstacles, stabilizing attention, entering jhāna, and using concentrated awareness as the basis for insight into impermanence, suffering, non-self, and nibbāna.