- What, Why, How
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Editor’s Preface
- 1. On Meditation
- How Much Effort?
- Metta and Meditation
- Best Meditation Object
- Layperson’s Daily Meditation
- Meditation and Relaxation
- Pain and Discomfort
- Beginning Buddhism
- Ultimate Aim of Meditation
- Samatha and Vipassana
- Good and Bad Meditation
- The Lotus Posture
- Reaction to Pain
- Other Meditation Postures
- Meditating Outdoors
- Misunderstanding Meditation
- Meditation Progress
- Hearing the Heart
- Pain while Meditating
- Meditation Focus
- Training the Mind
- Breath as an Agent
- Light Show
- Sensations during Meditation
- Handling Joy and Bliss
- Striving Too Hard
- Counting Breaths
- The Doubting Meditator
- Meditation and Mantras
- Peace in Solitude
- “Solo” Practice
- 2. Morality and Discipline
- 3. Buddhist Principles and Practices
- The Buddha’s Teachings
- The Triple Gem
- The Illusion of “Self”
- The Importance of Volition
- A Creator God
- Buddha Nature
- Luminous Mind
- Tricky Business
- Dominant Thoughts
- Life’s Purpose
- Dispassion Explained
- An Intellectual Understanding
- Spiritual Friends
- Hindrances and Fetters
- Uprooting Hindrances
- Appreciative Joy
- The Meaning of Mara
- Which Suttas?
- Core Suttas
- Where Is the “I”?
- Ignorance and Craving
- The Characteristics of Existence
- Right Effort
- Faith in Buddhism
- Spiritual Friendship
- Defining the Soul
- Gender and Attachment
- The Meaning of Chanda
- Books and Buddhism
- Secret Teachings
- Improving the Teachings
- 4. Buddhism and the Body
- 5. Rebirth
- 6. Dealing with Daily Life
- Meditation in Busy Life
- Meditation and Sleep
- Antidepressants and Meditation
- Respecting Others
- Hate and Violence in the World
- Overturned Bowls
- Buddhism and Western Psychology
- The Middle Way
- Stay Cool
- Impermanence and Sadness
- Letting Go
- Look to Yourself
- Spiritual Practice in Lay Life
- Wholesome Directions
- Clinging and Relationships
- A Pregnant Blessing
- Teachings on the Family
- Meditation and Trauma
- Crime and Compassion
- Little White Lies
- Fitting in Meditation
- Strong Emotional States
- Breezy Insight
- Vegetarianism
- Assisted Suicide
- Animal Experimentation
- Buddhism and Politics
- 7. Enlightenment
- 8. Working with Thoughts and Speech
- 9. Negative Emotions
- 10. Cultivating Metta or Loving-Friendliness
- Selfless Service
- Metta and Meditation
- Motherly Metta
- Sharing Merit
- Metta Toward All
- Dealing with Bullies
- The Seed of Metta
- Arising Out of Meditation
- Ill Will and Metta
- Metta for Oneself
- Metta and Concentration
- A World of Hatred
- Dealing with Anger
- Self-Forgiveness and Metta
- Equal in the Face of Metta
- Tonglen and Metta
- Avoid Being Abused
- Resistance to Metta
- Feeling Loving-Friendliness
- The Politics of Metta
- From Mindfulness to Metta
- 11. Concentration and the Jhanas
- 12. Mindfulness
- 13. Understanding Impermanence
- 14. Considering Kamma
- 15. A Monk’s Life
- Becoming a Monastic
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- From Theory to Practice
- A Monk’s Practice
- Coming to America
- “Bhante G” Explained
- Ordaining Women
- Who Will Support You?
- One Finger and Three Chairs
- Life Minus Hair
- West vs. East
- Comparing Practices
- Forgiving Each Other
- A “Successful” Buddhist
- Meditation Recitation
- Looking Back
- A Skeletal Gift
- Personal Meditation Experience
- Monk Selfies
- 16. Difficulties and Challenges
- The Difficulty of Meditation
- Attached to Meditation
- The Weight of Anger
- Just Practice
- Present-Moment Awareness
- Who Should Not Meditate?
- Forgiveness and Meditation
- Learning from the Breath
- Handling Anger
- Self-Inquiry
- Measuring Improvement
- Handling Hatred
- Handling Hatred, Part 2
- The Supreme Blessing
- Unskillful Means
- A Thief’s Donation
- Laziness and Meditation
- 17. Benefits of Practice
- 18. Generosity and Dana
- 19. On Death and Loss
- 20. The Buddha as the Teacher
- A Treatment for Suffering
- “Right” and “Wrong”
- Finding a Teacher
- Seeing the Dhamma
- The Focus of the Teachings
- Smiling Buddha
- Rituals and Enlightenment
- No Other Refuge
- Love, Oneself, and the Universe
- Masculine and Feminine
- The Two Darts
- Spiritual Friends
- Being a Buddhist
- Sticking with the Path
- The Concept of Simplicity
- American Buddhism
- The Buddha’s Guarantee
- Core Insights
- Quote the Buddha
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
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