The Path

Buddhism

Pure Dhamma, Ledi Sayadaw, Zen and the architecture of awakening. Open the shelf →

Written by Rajesh Ranjan Mahapatra

• From Thought to NibbānaThought, attention and release
• Pure DhammaThe World the Mind Makes and the Way Out
• The Architecture of AwakeningThe Buddha’s Science of Mind, Meditation and Liberation, Mastered from First Principles

Study editions of other teachers

• Classical Chan Records and Kōan Collections
• Critique, History, and the Future
• Dōgen and Japanese Zen
• Foundational Sūtras and Early Chan
• Foundations and the Chinese Transformation
• Philosophical Analysis and the Kyoto School
• Practice and Study Companion
• Seon, Japanese Zen and Practice Texts
• The Atlas and Reference
• The Practice Manual
• The Psychology of Zen
• The Tang and the Song
• The Wider Tradition

Essays

6 essays, newest first where the site knows the date.

• Communities of Practice as an Intelligence Network | Rajesh MahapatraResearch essaysA governed practice network for turning situated AI work into reviewable signals, transferable patterns, formal system change and timely ret
• Attention as a Trainable SystemSpiritualityPranayama and shamatha can be specified operationally as training protocols for an attentional subsystem, with some of their effects open to
• Attention as the First TechnologySpiritualityLong before we engineered machines, the contemplative traditions engineered attention: with protocols, failure modes, and measurable outcome
• Samskara and Habit CircuitsSpiritualityClassical Indian psychology's model of samskara and vasana maps with surprising precision onto modern habit circuitry, though the two tradit
• The Saṃskāra StackSpiritualitySaṃskāra is the mind's persistence layer: every experience writes back to storage and biases the next read. How Yoga, Vedānta and Abhidhamma
• The Vijnana Bhairava as an Engineers Catalogue of AttentionSpiritualityThe Vijnana Bhairava's 112 dharanas read less like devotional instructions than like a systematic inventory of interventions on attention, e

Research papers

4 papers from the research programmes.

• Abhidhamma I: moments and cognitive processA first-principles account of the Theravāda citta-vīthi as an ordered, gated event grammar, with an executable temporal-process lab and expl
• Abhidhamma II: mental factors and co-arising structureA construct-valid method for using Theravāda Abhidhamma mental factors to generate machine-interpretability hypotheses without projecting Bu
• Early Buddhism: aggregates, dependent arising and no-selfA first-principles account of how early Buddhism explains continuity, agency and responsibility without positing a permanent owner behind ex
• Zen and Mahāmudrā: what resists methodA first-principles investigation of why Zen kōan work and Mahāmudrā direct instruction sometimes proceed by changing how representations are

Insight Editions

28 study editions with covers, PDFs and EPUBs. All editions →

• Mindfulness with BreathingBuddhadāsa Bhikkhu · Translated by Santikaro
• With Each & Every BreathṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• The Wings to AwakeningṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• UndauntedṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• The Truth of RebirthṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Skill in QuestionsṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Four Noble TruthsṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Karma Q&AṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• The Mind like Fire UnboundṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Noble WarriorṬhānissaro Bhikkhu & Khematto Bhikkhu
• On the PathṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Ten PerfectionsṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• DiscernmentṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• A Burden Off the MindṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• The Buddha SmilesṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Non-violenceṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Not-self Q&AṬhānissaro Bhikkhu
• Fifty Eastern ThinkersDiané Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson
• The Inner CitadelPierre Hadot · Translated by Michael Chase
• Practical ZenJulian Daizan Skinner · With Shinzan Miyamae
• Common Ground Between Islam and BuddhismReza Shah-Kazemi · With an essay by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
• The Four Pillars of Spiritual TransformationIbn 'Arabi · Translated by Stephen Hirtenstein
• Ibn 'Ajiba: Wakening Aspiration, the Divine Names and Ya SinAhmad ibn 'Ajiba · Translated by Aisha Bewley, Abdul Aziz Suraqah, and Abdullah bin Hamid Ali
• Journey to the Lord of PowerIbn 'Arabi · Translated by Rabia Terri Harris, with notes from the commentary of 'Abdul-Karim Jili
• Patterns of ContemplationPablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein
• The Seven Days of the HeartIbn 'Arabi · Translated by Pablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein
• Sufism: A Beginner's GuideWilliam C. Chittick
• Temple and ContemplationHenry Corbin · Translated by Philip Sherrard and Liadain Sherrard; editorial note translated by James W. Morris