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Index
Contents
Introduction
Why Meditate?
The Buddha’s Teaching
The Building Blocks of Meditation
Paths of Meditation
How to Use This Book
Establishing the Foundation for Meditation
What Does a Healthy Meditation Practice Look Like?
Experimental Attitude
Beginning Instructions
When the Mind Wanders
Alternative Meditation Practices
As Concentration Begins to Grow
Foreground and Background
Broadening and Narrowing the Lens of Awareness
Shifting Attention
More Subtle Awareness
Building Mindfulness
Balance
Working with Difficulties
Turning into the Skid
Noticing the Changing Nature
Knowing Your Limits
Pleasant and Unpleasant
Opening to All Experiences
Mindfulness with Breathing
Right Concentration
Two Kinds of Concentration
Concentration Supports Insight
A Potential Pitfall of Concentration
Right Concentration
Deepening Concentration
Ways of Unfolding
Steering Toward Inclusive Concentration
Deepening of Letting Go
Strong Energies and Challenging Experiences
Working with the Pleasure
Balancing Energy
Entering Unfamiliar Territory
Two Main Approaches
Jhana: The Culmination of Concentration
What Is Jhana?
The Experience of Jhana
How to Attain Jhana
Progressing Through the Jhanas
After Jhana
Insight
How Insight Leads to Liberation
The Ways Insight Arises
Equanimity
Ending Destructive Impulses
Becoming Disentangled
Factors Supporting Equanimity
Finding the Teacher Within
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