In This Very Life : The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha

Front Cover CONTENTS Foreword by Joseph Goldstein Acknowledgments To the Reader Technical Note 1. BASIC MORALITY & MEDITATION INSTRUCTIONS A Basic Sense of Humanity Meditation Instructions Walking Meditation The Interview 2. CUTTING THROUGH TO ULTIMATE REALITY One: Attention to Impermanence Two: Care and Respect Three: Unbroken Continuity Four: Supportive Conditions Five: Reapplying Helpful Conditions from the Past Six: Cultivating the Factors That Lead to Enlightenment Seven: Courageous Effort Eight: Patience and Perseverance Nine: Unwavering Commitment. 3. THE TEN ARMIES OF MĀRAFirst Army: Sense Pleasure Second Army: Dissatisfaction Third Army: Hunger and Thirst Fourth Army: Craving Fifth Army: Sloth and Torpor Sixth Army: Fear Seventh Army: Doubt Eighth Army: Conceit and Ingratitude Ninth Army: Gain, Praise, Honor, Undeserved Fame Tenth Army: Self-Exaltation and Disparaging Others 4. THE SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT Becoming a Noble One Mindfulness: The First Factor Investigation: The Second Factor Courageous Effort: The Third Factor Rapture: The Fourth Factor Tranquility: The Fifth Factor Concentration: The Sixth Factor. Equanimity: The Seventh FactorThe Factors of Enlightenment Developed: Healing into the Deathless 5. THE VIPASSANĀ JHĀNAS Softening the Rigid Mind Blowing Out Suffering Hindrances and Antidotes Comprehending the Nature of This World Reaching the Higher Vipassanā Jhānas On Nibbāna 6. CHARIOT TO NIBBĀNA Appendices Seven Factors of Enlightenment Hindrances & Antidotes The Progress of Insight Numerical Lists Glossary Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W. Front Cover CONTENTS Foreword by Joseph Goldstein Acknowledgments To the Reader Technical Note 1. BASIC MORALITY & MEDITATION INSTRUCTIONS A Basic Sense of Humanity Meditation Instructions Walking Meditation The Interview 2. CUTTING THROUGH TO ULTIMATE REALITY One: Attention to Impermanence Two: Care and Respect Three: Unbroken Continuity Four: Supportive Conditions Five: Reapplying Helpful Conditions from the Past Six: Cultivating the Factors That Lead to Enlightenment Seven: Courageous Effort Eight: Patience and Perseverance Nine: Unwavering Commitment. 3. THE TEN ARMIES OF MĀRAFirst Army: Sense Pleasure Second Army: Dissatisfaction Third Army: Hunger and Thirst Fourth Army: Craving Fifth Army: Sloth and Torpor Sixth Army: Fear Seventh Army: Doubt Eighth Army: Conceit and Ingratitude Ninth Army: Gain, Praise, Honor, Undeserved Fame Tenth Army: Self-Exaltation and Disparaging Others 4. THE SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT Becoming a Noble One Mindfulness: The First Factor Investigation: The Second Factor Courageous Effort: The Third Factor Rapture: The Fourth Factor Tranquility: The Fifth Factor Concentration: The Sixth Factor. Equanimity: The Seventh FactorThe Factors of Enlightenment Developed: Healing into the Deathless 5. THE VIPASSANĀ JHĀNAS Softening the Rigid Mind Blowing Out Suffering Hindrances and Antidotes Comprehending the Nature of This World Reaching the Higher Vipassanā Jhānas On Nibbāna 6. CHARIOT TO NIBBĀNA Appendices Seven Factors of Enlightenment Hindrances & Antidotes The Progress of Insight Numerical Lists Glossary Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W.

Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation as described by the Buddha.