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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Introduction
  • A Heart Released
    • § 1. Practice is what keeps the true Dhamma pure.
    • § 2. To follow the Buddha, we must train ourselves well before training others.
    • § 3. The root inheritance, the starting capital for self-training.
    • § 4. The root foundation for the practice.
    • § 5. The root cause of everything in the universe.
    • § 6. The root instigator of the cycle of death and rebirth.
    • § 7. The supreme position: the foundation for the paths, fruitions, and nibbāna.
    • § 8. The stronghold that forms the practice area for training oneself.
    • § 9. The strategies of clear insight, techniques for uprooting defilement.
    • § 10. The primal mind is radiant and clear by nature, but is darkened because of corruptions.
    • § 11. One’s self-training as a meditator has to be in keeping with one’s temperament.
    • § 12. The Mūlatika Discourse.
    • § 13. Only a visuddhi deva is an individual truly at peace.
    • § 14. Activityless-ness is the end point of the world, beyond supposing and formulation.
    • § 15. The nine abodes of living beings.
    • § 16. The significance of the first sermon, the middle sermon, and the final sermon.
    • § 17. Arahants of every sort attain both release through concentration and release through discernment, having developed the threefold training to completion.
  • The Ever-present Truth
    • § 1. The root meditation themes
    • § 2. Virtue.
    • § 3. Potential
    • § 4. Contemplating the body
    • § 5. Purifying the mind
    • § 6. The method of practice for those who have studied a great deal
    • § 7. The principles of the practice are ever-present
    • § 8. Listening to the Dhamma at all times
  • The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas
  • 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.

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Valley Center, CA 92082-1409

U.S.A.

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