Knowing and Seeing

Abstract

Foreword ; Editorial Note ; Preface to the Second Edition ; Talk 1 How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption ; Introduction ; Why Meditate? ; What Is Meditation? ; The Noble Eightfold Path ; How You Develop Concentration ; How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing ; How You Balance the Five Controlling Faculties ; How You Balance the Seven Factors of Enlightenment ; How You Attain Jhàna ; Questions & Answers 1 ; Talk 2 How You Develop Absorption on Other Subjects ; The Thirty-Two Parts of the Body ; The Three Entrances to Nibbàna ; The Skeleton ; The Five Jhàna Factors ; The Ten Kasiõas ; The Colour Kasiõa ; The White Kasiõa ; The Earth Kasiõa ; The Water Kasiõa ; The Fire Kasiõa ; The Wind Kasiõa ; The Light Kasiõa ; The Space Kasiõa ; The Four Immaterial Jhànas ; The Base of Boundless-Space ; The Base of Boundless-Consciousness ; The Base of Nothingness ; The Base of Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception ; Questions & Answers 2 ; Talk 3 How You Develop the Sublime Abidings and Protective Meditations ; Introduction ; How You Develop the Four Sublime Abidings ; Lovingkindness (Mettà) ; Lovingkindness Towards A Person You Like & Respect ; Breaking Down the Barriers (Sãmàsambheda) ; The Twenty-Two Categories ; The Unspecified and Specified Categories ; The Ten Directional Categories 85 Compassion (Karuõà) ; Appreciative-Joy (Mudità) ; Equanimity (Upekkhà) ; How You Develop the Four Protective meditations ; Recollection-of-the-Buddha (Buddhànussati) ; Repulsiveness Meditation (Asubha) ; Recollection-of-Death (Maraõànussati) ; Summary ; Questions & Answers 3 ; Talk 4 How You Discern Materiality ; Introduction ; How You Develop Four-Elements Meditation ; How You Analyse Råpa Kalàpas ; How You Analyse Transparent-Elements Materiality ; The Fifty-Four Types of Materiality in the Eye ; How You See Materiality Produced by Consciousness ; How You See Materiality Produced by Temperature ; How You See Materiality Produced by Nutriment ; Summary ; Questions & Answers 4 ; Talk 5 How You Discern Mentality ; Introduction ; How You Discern Jhàna Thought-Processes ; How You Discern Sensual Plane Thought-Processes ; Wise and Unwise Attention ; How You Discern Mind-Door Thought-Processes ; How You Discern Five-Door Thought-Processes ; How You Discern External Mentality ; Questions & Answers 5 ; Talk 6 How You See the Links of Dependent-Origination ; Introduction ; The Three Rounds of Dependent-Origination ; How You Discern the Past ; Examples ; How You Discern the Future 195; Questions & Answers 6 ; Talk 7 How You Develop the Insight-Knowledges to See Nibbàna ; Introduction ; The Knowledge of Comprehension (Sammasana-¥àõa) ; The Forty Perceptions (Cattàrãsàkàraanupassanà) ; The Seven Ways for Materiality (Råpa-Sattaka) ; The Seven Ways for Mentality (Aråpa-Sattaka) ; The Knowledge of Arising & Passing-Away (Udayabbaya-¥àõa) ; Brief Method ; Detailed Method ; The Observation of the Nature of Arising (Samudayadhammànupassã) ; The Observation of the Nature of Passing-Away (Vayadhammànupassã) ; The Observation of the Nature of Arising & Passing-Away (Samudayavayadhammànupassã) ; The Ten Imperfections of Insight (Dasa-Upakkilesa) ; The Knowledge of Dissolution (Bhaïga-¥àõa) ; The Remaining Knowledges ; Questions & Answers 7 ; Talk 8 The Buddha’s Wishes for His Disciples and His Teachings (Talk given on Vesàkha Day) ; Talk 9 The Most Superior Type of Offering (Traditional End-of-Retreat Talk to Donors, Organizers and Helpers) ; Offerings to the Saïgha (Saïghika-Dàna) ; Appendix 1 Glossary of Untranslated Pàëi Terms ; Appendix 2 For Information Regarding Centres Teaching the Pa-Auk System;