Practicing Insight on your own
A Handbook for Vipassanā-kammatthāna
by Acharn Thawee Baladhammo
INTRODUCTION | |
CHAPTER 1 | |
The Practice | |
Standing - Walking Meditation | |
The Second Step | |
CHAPTER 2 | |
Identifying Sabhava (Specific Phenomena) - And The Method For Dealing With Them | |
CHAPTER 3 | |
Obstacles To The Meditation Practice | |
I. The obstacles of the inexperienced meditator | |
II. The second stage of obstacles | |
III. Obstacles of the third stage. | |
CHAPTER 4 | |
The Method Of Adjusting The 5 Indriya Evenly | |
CHAPTER 5 | |
The Mode Of Action To Stand Above Kilesa And Kamma | |
Tracing the Eightfold Path in the Four Satipatthāna | |
Practising for the Extinction of Kilesa-tanhā | |
CHAPTER 6 | |
Gauging The Results Of The Practice - According to the 7 Purities (visuddhi) and 16 Knowledge (ñāna) | |
6 Qualities of Sankhārupekkhā-ñāna | |
The Direction-Seeing Crow (Disā Kāka) | |
Forgetting and Losing Oneself - (Cessation) Is of 5 Kinds | |
The Characteristics of Forgetting - (Cessation) Due to Magga-phala | |
The benefits of Vipassanā |