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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • A Biographical Sketch
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Dhamma welcome
  • 2. No resistance
  • 3. On the four noble truths
  • 4. Above & beyond words
  • 5. A warning for heedless monks
  • 6. Real, but not for real
  • 7. Letting go of visions
  • 8. External things
  • 9. Stopping to know
  • 10. Advancement or destruction
  • 11. On the ultimate level there’s no desire
  • 12. Teaching him a lesson?
  • 13. Why do they suffer?
  • 14. Inspired words
  • 15. More inspired words
  • 16. Still more inspired words
  • 17. What buddho is like
  • 18. For those who want something good
  • 19. He does, but he doesn’t
  • 20. Aware in time
  • 21. Cutting no slack
  • 22. Frugal with his words
  • 23. Simple, but hard to do
  • 24. Throw it away
  • 25. A truth in line with the truth
  • 26. That wasn’t his aim
  • 27. Worlds apart
  • 28. One thing only
  • 29. What to study and what not to study
  • 30. What to watch
  • 31. Problems & responsibilities
  • 32. The poorer, the happier
  • 33. The less, the better
  • 34. Didn’t think of that
  • 35. Don’t aim in the wrong direction
  • 36. In the Buddha’s words
  • 37. Those with no fault by way of speech
  • 38. The perfection of endurance
  • 39. No trouble through his words
  • 40. Monks who victimize spirits
  • 41. Nice, but…
  • 42. Meditators who are uncertain
  • 43. When dwelling, dwell above
  • 44. Looking for new teachers
  • 45. Holding on vs. putting aside
  • 46. When the mind resists growing still
  • 47. The genuine basis of the Dhamma
  • 48. A warning not to be heedless
  • 49. Sometimes he came down hard
  • 50. Not sidetracked
  • 51. Simply a motion
  • 52. Seize the opportunity
  • 53. The limits of science
  • 54. How to extinguish suffering
  • 55. The truth is always the same
  • 56. Refined
  • 57. Empty
  • 58. Not all that clear
  • 59. Knowledge from study vs. knowledge from practice
  • 60. A strategy for loosening attachment
  • 61. On eating
  • 62. More on eating
  • 63. Still more on eating
  • 64. Business practices & Dhamma practice
  • 65. Buried memories
  • 66. In his own style
  • 67. “I want to do well in my studies…”
  • 68. The purpose of wandering
  • 69. To stop you have to know how
  • 70. Similar results, but not the same
  • 71. There’s only one place
  • 72. The world vs. the Dhamma
  • 73. Should you ask?
  • 74. The purpose of the practice
  • 75. Hoping for far-off results
  • 76. Nothing more than that
  • 77. It’s easy if you’re not attached
  • 78. Sometimes what I heard amazed me
  • 79. Even this sort of question
  • 80. A scolding
  • 81. Letting go of one thing to get stuck on another
  • 82. A comparison
  • 83. Another comparison
  • 84. Things outside and in
  • 85. Not even the five precepts
  • 86. Never perturbed
  • 87. How the Dhamma protects
  • 88. Only practice can resolve doubt
  • 89. Is that all they want?
  • 90. No fables
  • 91. Strange
  • 92. Stranger still
  • 93. The truth as he saw it
  • 94. Answering questions with questions
  • 95. Luang Pu’s habits
  • 96. Heavy pain, but not heavy with pain
  • 97. A safe shortcut
  • 98. Everything comes from action
  • 99. Making no show
  • 100. The end of rebirth
  • 101. A comparison
  • 102. The safest way to dwell
  • 103. Continued
  • 104. The end of stress
  • 105. His last illness
  • 106. Approaching death
  • 107. One last recollection of the Dhamma
  • 108. Final words
  • 109. A moment of wilderness in the city
  • 110. Even the timing was apt
  • 111. No bad karma with regard to the body
  • Glossary

Copyright

Copyright 2016 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.

Questions about this book may be addressed to

Metta Forest Monastery

Valley Center, CA 92082-1409

U.S.A.

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