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Developing a Life Practice:
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Book Description

Developing a Life Practice: The Path That Leads to Enlightenment (Volume 1)


Journey through The Words of The Buddha from the beginning of his first Teaching until his "last words" prior to death.

The book, "Developing a Life Practice: The Path That Leads to Enlightenment" is an essential guide on The Path to Enlightenment to help you learn and progress in your understanding and practice of Gotama Buddha's Teachings. Developed to provide you a framework to understand and practice The Buddha's Teachings to progress towards the attainment of Enlightenment - a peaceful, calm, serene, and content mind with joy that is permanent.

Gotama Buddha's teachings are not based in belief. His teachings need to be learned and practiced with guidance so that you can independently observe the truth in his teachings to acquire wisdom. It is this new found wisdom that the mind starts to gradually function in the world differently to attain a peaceful, calm, serene, and content mind with joy....the Enlightened mind.

Since everything we do is experienced through the mind if the mind is peaceful, calm, serene, and content with joy, one will experience a life that is also peaceful, calm, serene, and content with joy.

Attaining Enlightenment is a mind that has attained peace, calm, serenity, and contentedness with joy that is permanent. The mind can be trained to completely eliminate such discontent feelings as sadness, anger, frustration, irritation, annoyance, guilt, shame, fears, loneliness, boredom, shyness, jealousy, and all other negative feelings that cause the mind to be discontent and experience suffering.

Developing a Life Practice: The Path That Leads to Enlightenment provides the reader in-depth teachings and guidance to walk The Path to Enlightenment. Resources are provided, at no cost, that sync up with this book to allow the reader the opportunity to more fully explore these teachings through Youtube Videos, Podcasts, Online Courses, In-Person Courses/Retreats, and an Online Community where you can seek guidance in learning and practicing these teachings directly from the author of this book.

This book is well suited for beginning through to advanced practitioners to learn and practice the teachings of "The Buddha" to include developing a meditation practice as taught by Gotama Buddha. It is a book that you will read and re-read countless times as a guide on The Path to Enlightenment and you will have the ability to seek clarification of the teachings directly from the author at no cost.

Author

David Roylance
is a dedicated Practitioner and Teacher of Gotama Buddha’s Teachings who has been part of the Thai community since 2001. He visited Thailand for the first time in 2002 and brought the Traditional Thai Healing Arts back to the United States of America to share with people in the Western World.

His Traditional Thai Healing Arts centers, located in the Washington DC area, provided traditional Thai healing arts to clients and educational opportunities to Students to explore the Thai healing arts, Thai culture, and The Teachings of Gotama Buddha. David is a published author with books on the topics of Traditional Thai Healing Arts and The Path That Leads to Enlightenment.

David has taught Gotama Buddha’s Teachings since 2005 in the United States of America. In 2015, he closed his businesses and relocated to Chiang Mai, Thailand to be closer to the Thai culture and the Thai Community of Buddhist Practitioners.

David shares Gotama Buddha’s Teachings with Household Practitioners and Ordained Practitioners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and around the world through courses, retreats, and special events providing guidance to help people attain Enlightenment - a peaceful, calm, serene, and content mind with joy.

Table of Contents


(Chapter 1 - Universal Teachings: Love, No Harm, Good Morals

(Chapter 2 - Why Study Gotama Buddha’s Teachers?)

(Chapter 3 - Enlightenment: What is “Enlightenment”?)

(Chapter 4 - The Four Noble Truths: Establishing Right View)

(Chapter 5: The Eight Fold Path: The Path for All Humans to Enlightenment)

(Chapter 6 - The Middle Way: Walking The Middle Way)

(Chapter 7 - The Five Precepts: A Householder's Guide to Daily Practice)

(Chapter 8 - Transforming the Three Poisons: Craving, Anger, and Ignorance)

(Chapter 9 - What is Kamma and How Does It Affect Me?)

(Chapter 10 - What is Merit?)

(Chapter 11 - Meditation: Developing Your Practice)

(Chapter 12 - Craving is The Problem: What is the Solution?)

(Chapter 13 - Identifying Cravings: Cultivating Non-Craving and Analysis of The Mind)

(Chapter 14 - Cultivating Healthy Mental States: Loving-kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity)

(Chapter 15 - True Love: Love Without Attachment)

(Chapter 16 - Dissolving the Ego: Ego Serves No Purpose)

(Chapter 17 - Eliminating Fears: Are You Really Scared)

(Chapter 18 - God’s Creative Action: You Have Free Will)

(Chapter 19 - The Difficult Human Existence: Sickness, Aging, and Death)

(Chapter 20 - Animal to Human: The Evolution of Our Consciousness)

(Chapter 21 - Do No Harm: What is The Future of The Planet?)

(Chapter 22 - Mental Health: A Modern Day Delusion)

(Chapter 23 - Symbolism of Teachings: Reminders Through Imagery)

(Chapter 24 - Misunderstandings of Gotama Buddha’s Teachings

(Frequently Asked Questions)

(Additional Content - How To Determine If You Have Attained Nibbana)