Practicing Insight on your own
A Handbook for Vipassanā-kammatthāna
by Acharn Thawee Baladhammo
| INTRODUCTION | |
| CHAPTER 1 | |
| The Practice | |
| Standing - Walking Meditation | |
| The Second Step | |
| CHAPTER 2 | |
| Identifying Sabhava (Specific Phenomena) - And The Method For Dealing With Them | |
| CHAPTER 3 | |
| Obstacles To The Meditation Practice | |
| I. The obstacles of the inexperienced meditator | |
| II. The second stage of obstacles | |
| III. Obstacles of the third stage. | |
| CHAPTER 4 | |
| The Method Of Adjusting The 5 Indriya Evenly | |
| CHAPTER 5 | |
| The Mode Of Action To Stand Above Kilesa And Kamma | |
| Tracing the Eightfold Path in the Four Satipatthāna | |
| Practising for the Extinction of Kilesa-tanhā | |
| CHAPTER 6 | |
| Gauging The Results Of The Practice - According to the 7 Purities (visuddhi) and 16 Knowledge (ñāna) | |
| 6 Qualities of Sankhārupekkhā-ñāna | |
| The Direction-Seeing Crow (Disā Kāka) | |
| Forgetting and Losing Oneself - (Cessation) Is of 5 Kinds | |
| The Characteristics of Forgetting - (Cessation) Due to Magga-phala | |
| The benefits of Vipassanā |