Hidden in Plain Sight: The Buddha's Meditation Instructions Lost Translation

Hidden in Plain Sight... Anyone who has gone to the Buddha's own discourses for meditation instruction knows the puzzle: the texts describe meditators constantly and seem to instruct them never. "A monk contemplates the body." Yes - but how? The well-researched claim of this book: the answer was in the Pali original text all along but gets wiped out in translation due to simple but equally profound misunderstanding only apparent to seasoned meditators. Shedding a new light on the earliest layers of Buddhist Meditation This book puts the meditation instructions back: sixty short labels that surface in the oldest insight meditation teachings, contemplative reviews for every week of a life, resolves for hard days, including the tradition's own rules for how to make sense of the words and thoughts in the oldest Buddhist texts that turned them into meditative absorption before (Western) non-practicing translators accidentally dropped the most essential from the vast ocean of pragmatic Buddhist practice.