By Johannes Bronkhorst
This booklet elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and ideology relating meditaions and its position within the strategy to liberation. In a few instances, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they settle for in different places. whilst those practices-sometimes rejected, occasionally accepted-correspond to what's identified approximately non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they're non-Buddhist practices that have by some means came upon their approach into the Buddhist texts. an analogous method permits one to choose from conflicting ideals.
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