CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword and Warning
Part I: The Fundamentals
1.Introduction
2.Morality, The First and Last Training
3.Concentration, The Second Training
4.Wisdom, The Third Training
5.The Three Characteristics
Impermanence
Dissatisfactoriness
No-Self
6.The Five Spiritual Faculties
Faith and Wisdom
Energy and Concentration
Mindfulness
7.The Seven Factors of Awakening
Mindfulness
Investigation
Energy
Rapture
Tranquility
Concentration
Equanimity
8.The Three Trainings Revisited
Happiness
Renunciation
Suffering
Awakening
The Play
9.The Four Noble Truths
Truth Number One: There Is Suffering
Truth Number Two: There Is the Cause of Suffering
Truth Number Three: There Is the End of Suffering
Truth Number Four: The Noble Eightfold Path
10.Objects for Insight Practices
When, Where, and For How Long?
11.On Teachers
12.Daily Life and Retreats
13.A Few Odds and Ends About Retreats
14.Post-Retreat Advice
15.Postures
16.Resolve
Part II: Light and Shadows
17.Introduction to Parts Two through Five
18.Buddhism versus the Buddha
19.Content and Ultimate Reality
20.What Went Wrong?
21.A Clear Goal
22.Harnessing the Energy of the Defilements
23.Right Thought and the Augean Stables
24.From Content to Insight
Part III: The Shamatha Jhanas
25.Introduction to Part Three
26.The Wide World of Jhana
The First Jhana
The Second Jhana
The Third Jhana
The Fourth Jhana
27.The Concentration States (Shamatha Jhanas)
The First Shamatha Jhana
The Second Shamatha Jhana
The Third Shamatha Jhana
The Fourth Shamatha Jhana
28.The Formless Realms
The Fifth Jhana, Boundless Space
The Sixth Jhana, Boundless Consciousness
The Seventh Jhana, Nothingness
The Eighth Jhana, Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception
Limitations of Concentration Practice
29.Kasina Practice
Part IV: Insight
30.The Progress of Insight
1. Mind and Body
2. Cause and Effect
3. The Three Characteristics
4. The Arising and Passing Away
5. Dissolution, Entrance to the Dark Night
6. Fear
7. Misery
8. Disgust
9. Desire for Deliverance
10. Re-observation
11. Equanimity
12. Conformity
13. Change of Lineage
14. Path
15. Fruition
31.The Three Doors
32.“What Was That?”
33.Review
34.The Vipassana Jhanas
Bill Hamilton's Model
Fractals
U Pandita's Model
One More Model
35.How the Maps Help
36.Beyond First Path (“What Next?”)
Part V: Awakening
37.Models of the Stages of Awakening
General Problems with Current Models
Models That are Mostly Unhelpful
The Non-Duality Model
The Sudden Schools of Awakening
The Direct Perception Models
Time and Space Models
The Fundamental Perception Models
The Specific Perception Models
The Emotional Models
The Theravada Four-Path Model
A Revised Four-Path Model
The Bodhisattva Bhumi Model
The Mahayana Five-Path Model
The Vajrayana Models
The Concentration Models
The Cessation of Perception and Feeling (Nirodha Samapatti)
Back to the Vajrayana Story
The Simple Model
The Action Models
The Perfect Speech Models
The Perfect Internet Behavior Models
The Powers Models
The Energetic Models
The Sleep Models
The Specific Knowledge Models
The Psychological Models
The No-Thought Models
The God Models
The Unity Models
The True Self Models
The Physical Models
The Biological Models
The Radiance Models
The Karma Models
The Perpetual Bliss Models
The Three Kayas
The Immortality Models
The Transcendence Models
The Extinction Models
The Love Models
The Equanimity Models
The No-Preferences Models
The Special Models
The Social Models
The Ultimate Reality versus Unreality Models
The Meaning Models
The Three Yanas
Ditching Our “Stuff” versus Ditching the Split
The “Nothing To Do” and “You Are Already There” Schools
Depths of Realization and Integration
Archetypes, Roles, Inspiration, and Becoming
Dependent Origination
Final Points
Towards Contemporary Models
38.Integration
39.It Is Possible!
40.More on the “Mushroom Factor”
41.So, Who the Heck Is Daniel M. Ingram?
Part VI: My Spiritual Quest
42.Backstory
43.The Early Years
The Arising and Passing Away
44.Bodysurfing
45.College and Pre-Buddhist Exploration
46.The Middle Years
47.Thank U, India
48.The First Bodh Gaya Retreat
49.The First MBMC Retreat
50.The Dark Night Gets Ugly
51.The Second Bodh Gaya Retreat
52.The Great Stream Enterer
53.Dharma Power, Dharma Poison
54.The Middle Paths
Slam-Shifting Ñanas and Jhanas
Luminosity
Nirodha Samapatti
55.Map Failure
56.Wandering
57.Kasinas, Powers, and Retreats
58.Introduction to the Powers
59.Are the Powers Real?
60.Paradigm Fluency
61.Crazy?
62.Those Damn Fairies…
63.Definitions of the Powers
64.Ethics and the Powers
65.How to Cultivate the Powers
66.Made Pliant and Malleable
67.Benefits of the Powers
68.Magick and the Brahma Viharas
Formal Definitions
The Brahma Viharas
Bodhicitta as Magick
Vipassana as Magick
69.Bhavana Society 2001 Retreat
Fire Kasina Practice
Morality and Magick
70.Around the World and Finding Home
The Second MBMC Retreat
Untangling
Agencylessness
Wobble and Fall
Vimuttimagga, The Path of Freedom
71.More Practical Tidbits
Describing Your Practice
Dependent Origination Revisited
72.Conclusion and Best Wishes
Index