Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

• Title Page
• Credits
• Dedication
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Table of Contents
  • Foreword and Warning
  • Part I: The Fundamentals
    • 1. Introduction to Part I
    • 2. Morality, The First and Last Training
    • 3. Concentration, The Second Training
    • 4. Wisdom, The Third Training
    • 5. The Three Characteristics
    • 6. The Five Spiritual Faculties
    • 7. The Seven Factors of Awakening
    • 8. The Three Trainings Revisited
    • 9. The Four Noble Truths
    • 10. Objects for Insight Practice
    • 11. On Teachers
    • 12. Daily Life and Retreats
    • 13. A Few Odds and Ends About Retreats
    • 14. Post-Retreat Advice
    • 15. Postures
    • 16. Resolve
  • Part II: Light and Shadows
    • 17. Introduction to Parts Two through Five
    • 18. Buddhism versus The Buddha
    • 19. Content and Ultimate Reality
    • 20. What Went Wrong
    • 21. A Clear Goal
    • 22. Harnessing the Energy of the Defilements
    • 23. Right Thought and the Augean Stables
    • 24. From Content to Insight
  • Part III: The Samatha Jhanas
    • 25. Introduction to Part Three
    • 26. The Wide World of Jhana
    • 27. The Concentration States (Shamatha Jhanas)
    • 28. The Formless Realms
    • 29. Kasina Practice
  • Part IV: Insight
    • 30. The Progress of Insight
      • 1. Mind and Body
      • 2. Cause and Effect
      • 3. The Three Characteristics
      • 4. The Arising and Passing Away
      • 5. Dissolution, Entrance to the Dark Night
      • 6. Fear
      • 7. Misery
      • 8. Disgust
      • 9. Desire for Deliverance
      • 10. Re-observation
      • 11. Equanimity
      • 12. Conformity
      • 13. Change of Lineage
      • 14. Path
      • 15. Fruition
    • 31. The Three Doors
    • 32. “What Was That?”
    • 33. Review
    • 34. The Vipassana Jhanas
    • 35. How the Maps Help
    • 36. Beyond First Path (“What Next?”)
  • Part V: Awakening
    • 37. Models of the Stages of Awakening
      • General Problems with Current Models
      • Models that are Mostly Unhelpful
      • The Non-Duality Models
      • The Sudden Schools of Awakening
      • The Direct Perception Models
      • Time and Space Models
      • The Fundamental Perception Models
      • The Specific Perception Models
      • The Emotional Models
      • The Theravada Four Path Model
      • A Revised Four Path Model
      • The Bodhisattva Bhumi Model
      • The Mahayana Five Path Model
      • The Vajrayana Models
      • The Concentration Models
      • The Cessation of Perception and Feeling (Nirodha Samapatti)
      • Back to the Vajrayana Story
      • The Simple Model
      • The Action Models
      • The Perfect Speech Models
      • The Perfect Internet Behavior Models
      • The Powers Models
      • The Sleep Models
      • The Specific Knowledge Models
      • The Psychological Models
      • The No-Thought Models
      • The God Models
      • The Unity Models
      • The True Self Models
      • The Physical Models
      • The Biological Models
      • The Radiance Models
      • The Karma Models
      • The Perpetual Bliss Models
      • The Three Kayas
      • The Immortality Models
      • The Extinction Models
      • The Transcendence Models
      • The Love Models
      • The Equanimity Models
      • The No-Preference Models
      • The Special Models
      • The Social Models
      • The Ultimate Reality versus Unreality Models
      • The Meaning Models
      • The Three Yanas
      • Ditching our “Stuff” versus Ditching the Split
      • The “Nothing To Do” and “You Are Already There” Schools
      • Depths of Realization and Integration
      • Archetypes, Roles, Inspiration, and Becoming
      • Dependent Origination
      • Final Points
      • Towards Contemporary Models
    • 38. Integration
    • 39. It Is Possible!
    • 40. More on the “Mushroom Factor”
    • 41. So, Who the Heck is Daniel M. Ingram?
  • Part VI: My Spiritual Quest
    • 42. Backstory
    • 43. The Early Years
    • 44. Bodysurfing
    • 45. College and Pre-Buddhist Exploration
    • 46. The Middle Years
    • 47. Thank U, India
    • 48. The First Bodh Gaya Retreat
    • 49. The First MBMC Retreat
    • 50. The Dark Night Gets Ugly
    • 51. The Second Bodh Gaya Retreat
    • 52. The Great Stream Enterer
    • 53. Dharma Power, Dharma Poison
    • 54. The Middle Paths
      • Slam-Shifting Ñanas and Jhanas
      • Luminosity
      • Nirodha Samapatti
    • 55. Map Failure
    • 56. Wandering
    • 57. Kasinas, Powers, and Retreats
    • 58. Introduction to the Powers
    • 59. Are the Powers Real?
    • 60. Paradigm Fluency
    • 61. Crazy?
    • 62. Those Damn Fairies …
    • 63. Definitions of the Powers
    • 64. Ethics and the Powers
    • 65. How to Cultivate the Powers
    • 66. Made Pliant and Malleable
    • 67. Benefits of the Powers
    • 68. Magick and the Brahma Viharas
      • Formal Definitions
      • The Brahma Viharas
      • Bodhicitta as Magick
      • Vipassana as Magick
    • 69. Bhavana Society 2001 Retreat
      • Fire Kasina Practice
      • Morality and Magick
    • 70. Around the World and Finding Home
      • The Second MBMC Retreat
      • Untangling
      • Agencylessness
      • Wobble and Fall
      • Vimuttimagga, The Path of Freedom
    • 71. More Practical Tidbits
      • Describing Your Practice
      • Dependent Origination Revisited
    • Final Wishes
    • Last Words of Wisdom

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