Contents

• Cover
• Titlepage
• Contents
• Copyright
• Introduction
• More than Ordinary Heedfulness
• Worry vs. Heedfulness
• For Goodness’ Sake
• Seeing Danger in Birth
• Becoming Capable of Happiness
• On Idle Chatter
• Understanding Goodwill & Equanimity
• The Brahmaviharas Are Not a Complete Practice
• Happy for People You Don’t Like
• Equanimity as a Skill
• The Gatekeeper Doesn’t Just Note
• Anupassana
• All Three Functions of Mindfulness
• Death Without Drama
• A Concentration Diet
• The Current News
• A Rite of Passage
• Comfortable as an Outsider
• Filling in the Buddha’s Outline
• No One Size Fits All
• Appreciating Your Practice
• Be Precise
• The Prison Break
• See Your Thoughts as Strange
• A Conglomeration of Germs
• A Snare of Death Laid Out
• Don’t Just Fatten Your Mind
• You Can’t Relax Your Way to Awakening
• Wise about Pain
• Let Pleasure & Pain Fall Off the Plow
• The Dead Snake Around Your Neck
• Worries & Regrets
• Unchanged by Loss
• Angry
• Dispassion Isn’t Depression
• The Thinking Heart
• The Safety of Dualities
• The Buddha’s Questions
• Training Your Desires
• The Desire to Be Free from Desire
• Choices Now & at Death
• Locate Your Craving
• See Yourself as Active Verbs
• What Am I Becoming?
• Willing to Learn
• Insight Is a Judgment Call
• The Meaning of Insight
• Anybody Home?
• Unfabricated Happiness
• Keep Your Options Open
• Glossary