CONTENTS (in Detail)
Introduction — 1
The Buddha’s Dispensation — 1
What Needs to be Fully Realized — 2
The First and Second Noble Truth — 3
Knowing and Seeing the First Noble Truth — 9
How You Know and See the First and Second Noble Truth — l2
You Develop Concentration — 12
” Develop the Light of Wisdom — 13
” Protect Your Concentration — 14
” Penetrate to Ultimate Reality — 15
Penetrating to Ultimate Materiality — 15
—”— Ultimate Mentality — 16
The Three Purifications — 20
Knowing and Seeing the Second and Third Noble Truth — 20
How You Know and See the Third Noble Truth — 22
You Know and See Dependent Origination — 24
” Practise Vipassana — 26
” Know and See the Unformed — 27
” Fully Realize the Four Noble Truths — 28
1: How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption — 29
Introduction — 29
Why Meditate? — 29
What is Meditation? — 29
The Noble Eightfold Path — 30
How You Develop Concentration — 32
How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing — 33
The Nimitta — 37
How You Balance the Five Controlling Faculties — 39
—”— Seven Enlightenment-Factors — 42
How You Attain Jhana — 43
Table la: The Jhana-Attainment Process — 44
Questions and Answers l[l] — 49
2: How You Develop Absorption on Other Subjects — 57
How You Develop the Thirty-Two Parts of the Body — 57
The Three Entrances to Nibbana — 58
How You Develop Skeleton Meditation — 59
—”— the Ten Kasinas — 61
The Colour Kasinas — 61
How You Develop the White Kasina — 62
—”— Remaining Colour Kasinas — 64
How You Develop the Earth Kasina — 64
—”— Water Kasina — 65
—”— Fire Kasina — 65
—”— Wind Kasina — 65
—”— Light Kasina — 66
—”— Space Kasinn — 66
The Four Immaterial Jhanas — 66
How You Develop the Base of Boundless Space — 66
—”— Base of Boundless Consciousness — 67
—”— Base of Nothingness — 68
—”— Base of Neither-Perception-nor-Non-Perception — 68
Questions and Answers 2[2] — 71
3: How You Develop the Sublime Abidings and Protective Meditations — 81
Introduction — 81
How You Develop Loving-Kindness — 81
Introduction — 81
How You Develop Loving-Kindness Person by Person — 83
—”— Break Down the Barriers — 85
The Twenty-Two Categories — 85
How You Develop the Unspecified and Specified — 86
—”— Ten Directional Categories — 87
How You Develop Compassion — 88
—”— Sympathetic Joy — 89
—”— Equanimity — 89
—”— The Four Protective Meditations — 90
How You Develop Buddha Recollection — 90
—”— Foulness Meditation — 92
—”— Death Recollection — 92
Summary — 93
Questions and Answers 3[2] — 95
4: How You Discern Materiality — 107
Introduction — 107
Three Types of Rupa-Kalapa — 108
The Materiality of the Three Types of Rupa-Kalapa — 108
The Four Origins of Materiality — 110
Kamma-Born Materiality — 111
Temperature- —”— — 113
Consciousness- —”— — 112
Nutriment- —”— — 114
The Beginning of Vipassana — 115
How You Develop Four-Elements Meditation — 116
How You See the Twelve Characteristics — 117
The Ten Ways to Develop Your Concentration — 120
How You See Ultimate Materiality — 122
Seeing the Body Translucency as One Block — 122
How You See the Rupa-kalapas — 122
(Benefits of Concentration) — 123
Translucent and Untranslucent Rupa-kalapas — 123
How You Analyse the Rupa-kalapas — 124
How You See the Four Elements — 124
—”— Colour — 126
—”— Odour — 126
—”— Flavour — 127
—”— Nutritive Essence — 127
—”— Life Faculty and Sex Materiality — 127
—”— Heart Materiality — 127
How You Analyse Each Sense Organ — 129
How You Analyse the Translucencies — 129
How You Analyse Sex Materiality — 130
The Fifty-Four Types of Materiality of the Eye — 130
How You See Consciousness-Born Materiality — 132
—”— Temperature- —”— — 132
—”— Nutriment- —”— — 133
Summary — 135
Table 2a: The Twenty-Eight Types of Materiality — 137
Table 2b: The Basic Types of Materiality of the Eye — 138
Table 2c: The Basic Types of Materiality of the Body — 139
Table 2d: The Basic Types of Materiality of the Heart — 140
Questions and Answers 4[3] — 141
5: How You Discern Mentality — 159
Introduction — 159
The Four Stages to Discerning Mentality — 160
How You Discern Jhana Mental-Processes — 161
Table lb: The Mind—Door Process — 164
How You Discern Sensual-Sphere Mental Processes — 165
Wise and Unwise Attention — 165
How You Discern Mind—Door Processes — 166
How You Discern Five»Door Processes — 167
Table 1c: The Five-Door Process — 168
How You Discern External Mentality — 170
First You Discern External Materiality — 187
Discerning Mentality Internally/Externally — 187
Questions and Answers 5[4] — 173
6: How You See the Links of Dependent Origination — 183
Introduction — 183
The Fifth Method — 184
The Three Rounds of Dependent Origination — 184
How You Discern Your Past Life — 184
Examples — 187
What a Female Yogi Discerned — 187
Table ld: Death and Rebirth — 188
What a Male Yogi Discerned — 190
How You Discern More Past Lives — 190
How You Discern Your Future — 191
Table 3a: Dependent Origination from Life to Life — 192
The First Method — 193
Questions and Answers 6[4] — 195
7: How You Develop the Vipassana Knowledges to See Nibbana — 209
Introduction — 209
How You Develop the Comprehension Knowledge — 209
—”— Increase Your Vipassana Knowledge — 211
The Forty Perceptions — 211
The Seven Ways for Materiality — 213
The Seven Ways for Mentality — 214
How You Develop the Arise & Perish Knowledge — 216
Introduction — 216
How You Develop the Arise&Perish Knowledge According to the Fifth Method of Dependent Origination — 217
The Contemplation of the Nature of Arising — 217
—”— Perishing — 218
—”— Arising & Perishing — 220
How You Develop the Arise&Perish — Knowledge
According to the First Method of Dependent Origination — 221
How You Overcome the Ten Imperfections of Vipassana — 222
—”— Develop the Dissolution Knowledge — 223
You Know the First Eleven Knowledges — 223
You Know and See Nibbana — 224
You Review Your Knowledge — 226
Questions and Answers 7[4] — 227
8: The Buddha’s Wishes for His Disciples and His Teachings — 241
The Buddha Relinquishes the Will to Live — 241
The Buddha Declares His Wishes — 242
Our Duty as Buddhists — 243
How We May Benefit the World — 243
How We May Show Our Faith — 244
What We Must Learn and Practise — 245
The Basis for Practice — 245
Samatha and Vipassana Meditation — 247
The Buddha’s Exhortations to the Sangha — 251
The Buddha’s Advice to the Bhikkhus — 252
9: The Most Superior Kind of Offering — 255
Introduction — 255
The Disciple’s Debts to His Teacher — 256
Opportunities Not to Be Missed — 258
The Fourteen Types of Personal Offering — 260
” Seven Kinds of Offering to the Sangha — 261
” Four Kinds of Purification of Offering — 262
” Six Qualities of an Immeasurable Offering — 265
Offerings at Retreat — 266
The Giver’s Wishes — 267
The Most Superior of Worldly Offerings All — 268
How You Make a Most Superior Offering — 270
Appendix 1: Glossary of Untranslated Pali — 283
Index 0f Questions from Yogis — 291
Meditation (Practical) — 291
Meditation (Doctrinal) — 292
Doctrine (Bodhisatta[5] Path etc.) — 293
Sundry — 294

[1] See index of questions from yogis, p.29l.
[2] See index of questions from yogis, p.29l.
[3] See index of questions from yogis, p.29l.
[4] See index of questions from yogis, p.29l.
[5] For untranslated Pali, see Appendix 1. p.283