Dharma Mind, Worldly Mind – A Buddhist Handbook on Complete Meditation is written by David Smith and published by Aloka Publications. It guides the reader through general concepts of Buddhism such as: The Eight fold path, the meaning of concepts as The Bodhisattva, Sila, Samadhi and Prajna along with practices and meditations for the layman. The book also explains theories of karma and rebirth from a Buddhist perspective. From the book:
It is a fact that we cannot stay in a state of self-awareness, which is necessary for insight to arise, for more than a few seconds. That state of self-awareness means, for example, that when drinking a cup of tea you know you are drinking that tea, staying with that experience in its totality without mentally wandering off. This wandering off is, of course, what will happen, only for you to discover when you come back that you have drunk the tea and have little recollection of the experience. This same loss of awareness applies when you walk down the road and realize you are now at the end, and you have little recollection of taking the walk or any engagement with the environment that must have taken place. The same is true of all the endless flow of engagements with life: there is in truth very little consistent self-awareness.
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