Insight meditation: the practice of freedom
- Boston & London Shambhala Publications, Inc. 1994
- xv,179 p. 22 cm ; Pbk
$22.95
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.