The Buddha didn't only teach ideas, he taught a method through which we may obtain Enlightenment and invited people to come and try his method. The Pali Canon, the literature of Theravada Buddhism which is practiced in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma, contains many exercises that go back to the Buddha himself. This book is an introduction the the teaching of the Buddha and in these early texts of the practise they recommend. In it, exercises that go back to the Buddha himself become accessible to everyone.