Pseudo-Enlightenment 20
Teachers and Techniques 20
Mastering the Mind 22
Practice in Everyday Life 23
Natural Compassion 23
Helping Others 24
The Other Shore 24
The Only Refuge 25
Chapter Two: The Practice-Path 26
What is Mindfulness? 26
Form Objects and Practice 27
Isolating the Pure Object of Mindfulness 28
Mindfulness and Contact 29
Watching the Sense-Doors 30
The Senses in Insight Meditation 32
Seeing 32
Hearing 33
Smelling 33
Tasting 34
Touching 34
Thinking 34
Should We Label Objects When Meditating? 34
Past and Future Suffering 35
The Significance of the Bodily Postures 36
Contemplation of the Body in the Body 38
Correcting Mistakes in Practice 39
Chapter Three: Questions and Answers 41
Establishing the Practice 41
Meditation and Daily Life 44
Training 46
Mindfulness 52
The Dhamma 64
Karma 70
Teachers, Centers and Methods 73
Chapter Four: Interviews With Meditators 78
Chapter Five: Cultivating the Spiritual Faculties 91
Introduction 91
Confidence Faculty 92
Effort Faculty 92