Contents

• Titlepage
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• Copyright
• Introduction
• A Heart Released
  • § 1. Practice is what keeps the true Dhamma pure.
  • § 2. To follow the Buddha, we must train ourselves well before training others.
  • § 3. The root inheritance, the starting capital for self-training.
  • § 4. The root foundation for the practice.
  • § 5. The root cause of everything in the universe.
  • § 6. The root instigator of the cycle of death and rebirth.
  • § 7. The supreme position: the foundation for the paths, fruitions, and nibbāna.
  • § 8. The stronghold that forms the practice area for training oneself.
  • § 9. The strategies of clear insight, techniques for uprooting defilement.
  • § 10. The primal mind is radiant and clear by nature, but is darkened because of corruptions.
  • § 11. One’s self-training as a meditator has to be in keeping with one’s temperament.
  • § 12. The Mūlatika Discourse.
  • § 13. Only a visuddhi deva is an individual truly at peace.
  • § 14. Activityless-ness is the end point of the world, beyond supposing and formulation.
  • § 15. The nine abodes of living beings.
  • § 16. The significance of the first sermon, the middle sermon, and the final sermon.
  • § 17. Arahants of every sort attain both release through concentration and release through discernment, having developed the threefold training to completion.
• The Ever-present Truth
  • § 1. The root meditation themes
  • § 2. Virtue.
  • § 3. Potential
  • § 4. Contemplating the body
  • § 5. Purifying the mind
  • § 6. The method of practice for those who have studied a great deal
  • § 7. The principles of the practice are ever-present
  • § 8. Listening to the Dhamma at all times
• The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas
• Glossary