Insight meditation: the practice of freedom

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What is the path? The dharma --
Fear of enlightenment --
Intelligence and progress --
One taste --
Four noble truths --
Signposts --
Grace, or help along the way --
The role of a teacher --
Roads to fulfillment. How to practice. Purpose, effort, and surrender --
Training the heart --
Meditation instructions --
Nintendo dharma --
Acceptance --
Not seeing dukkha is dukkha --
Understanding pain --
Feeling good, feeling bad : progress in meditation --
Spontaneity and practice --
Coming home --
Energy --
Insight. Freeing the mind. Hindrances : a dirty cloth --
Relating to thoughts --
Views and opinions --
Judgment --
Conceit and the comparing mind --
Liberating emotions --
Emotional bondage, emotional freedom --
Use your umbrella --
Fear itself --
Thank you, boredom --
Unworthiness --
Guilt --
Jealousy --
Desire. Psychology and dharma. Ego and self --
Personality and transformation --
Psychotherapy and meditation --
Yogi mind. Selflessness. Big Dipper --
Birth of the ego --
No parachute, no ground --
Coming to zero --
Ecstasy and emptiness. Karma. The light of the world --
Obvious karma --
Subtleties of karma --
Ignorance, the root of harming --
Mindfulness, the root of happiness --
Karma and no-self --
Animals. Practice in the world. Staying present --
Wisdom and love --
Lovingkindness --
Compassion --
The art of communication --
Sharing the dharma --
Relationship with parents --
Right livelihood --
On reading texts --
Humor --
Training for death --
Vipassana and death --
Metta and death --
To benefit all beings.

The fruit of some twenty years' experience leading Buddhist meditation retreats, this book touches on a wide range of topics raised repeatedly by meditators and includes favorite stories, key Buddhist teachings, and answers to most-asked questions.