Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana Phil Hopper Just as she is learning

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Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana Phil Hopper Just as she is learningWisdom Wide and Deep is a comprehensive guide to an in depth training that emphasizes the application of concentrated attention (jhana) to profound and liberating insight (vipassana). With calm, tranquility, and composure established through a practical experience of jhana meditators are able to halt the seemingly endless battle against hindrances, eliminate distraction, and facilitate a penetrative insight into the subtle nature of matter and mind.