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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • 1. Ven. Sāriputta’s Answer
  • 2. An Affirmation of Power
  • 3. Proactive People with Proactive Minds
  • 4. Intimate Causality
  • 5. Fueled by Intention
  • 6. Ignorance
  • 7. The Causes of Ignorance
  • 8. Craving & Clinging
  • 9. Desire & Passion Engendering Conflict
  • 10. Implications
  • 11. The Place of Dispassion
  • 12. Aspects of Dispassion
  • 13. Possible, Desirable, Objectively True
  • 14. The Names of Unbinding
  • 15. Desires & Determination on the Path
  • 16. Honest & Observant
  • 17. Starting Out Right
  • 18. Virtue in Rules
  • 19. Rules & Determinations
  • 20. Training Rules for All
  • 21. Virtue as Attitudes (1)
  • 22. Virtue as Attitudes (2)
  • 23. Virtue as Attitudes (3)
  • 24. Herding Your Thoughts (1)
  • 25. Herding Your Thoughts (2)
  • 26. Training in Mindfulness
  • 27. Training in Concentration
  • 28. Other Maps of Concentration
  • 29. More than Just Calm
  • 30. Discernment in Concentration
  • 31. Mindfulness, Concentration, & Discernment at the Breath
  • 32. Leaping Up
  • 33. The Skilled Archer
  • 34. Allure & Drawbacks
  • 35. Relinquishing the Path
  • 36. Levels of Awakening
  • 37. To Summarize
  • 38. The Gist
  • Appendix: Ven. Sāriputta’s Answer
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements

copyright 2025 ṭhānissaro bhikkhu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. To see a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. “Commercial” shall mean any sale, whether for commercial or non-profit purposes or entities.

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Metta Forest Monastery

Valley Center, CA 92082-1409

U.S.A.

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