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Meditation in the Theravada Abhidhamma

A Wisdom Academy Online Course with Bhikkhu Bodhi

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Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi guides us through meditation as it is discussed in the Pāli Nikāyas.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Samatha and Vipassanā in the Pāli Nikāyas

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Serenity and Insight in the Nikāyas
Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Homage to the Buddha
Loving-Kindness Meditation

Lesson 2: The Forty Meditation Subjects

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Meditation Subjects in the Nikāyas

Lesson 3: Suitability, Temperaments, and the Three Stages of Concentration

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abdhidhamma"
Suitability and Stages of Concentration

Lesson 4: The Jhānas

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Analysis of the Terrain: The Signs
Guarding the Sign & Skill in Absorption
The Four Jhānas: Sutta Descriptions and Abhidhamma Analysis
Recollection of the Buddha

Lesson 5: Insight Meditation and the Purifications of Virtue, Mind, and View

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Discourse on the Relay of Chariots
Purification of View
Stages of Insight Knowledge

Lesson 6: Purification by Overcoming Doubt

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Purification by Overcoming Doubt
Insight Knowledge that Discerns Conditionality: Purification by Overcoming Doubt

Lesson 7: Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Path and Not-Path and the Nine Insight Knowledges

Lesson 7 Video 1
Lesson 7 Video 2
Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Purification by Knowledge and Vision
Insight Knowledge
Meditation on the Thirty Two Parts of the Body

Lesson 8: Emergence, Change of Lineage, and Stream Entry

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Change of Lineage
Realization of Stream-Entry, etc., in the Nikāyas
Knowledge that Leads to Emergence

Lesson 9: The Four Noble Persons

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
The Four Functions in a Single Moment, The Abandonment of Defilements, and The Two Kinds of Arahants
Reviewing Knowledge
Meditation on Death

Lesson 10: Analysis of Attainments

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Selections from "A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma"
Fruition and Cessation
Attainment of Fruition

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