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May the Buddha Dhamma Reach Far and Wide. May the Buddha Sasana Be Prolonged May the Buddha Dhamma reach far and wide. May the Buddha Sasana be prolonged. May there still be Noble ones. May the Noble Truths be known and seen. ____________________________________________________ www.what‐Buddha‐taught.net ©(First Edition) W.K.Ng (Private), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 1999: Free Distribution (First Reprint) WAVE Publications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 1999: Free Distribution (Second Reprint) Penang Buddhist Association, Penang, Malaysia: 2000: Free Distribution ©(Revised Edition) K.F. Choong (Private), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2003: Free Distribution Knowing and Seeing The material in this book may be reproduced without the author’s per- mission. It is strongly recommended, however, that unauthorized (Revised Edition) changes and other misrepresentation of the Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw’s teachings be avoided. Talks and Questions-and-Answers at a Meditation Retreat in Taiwan by The Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw A G IFT – N OT F OR S ALE A G IFT – N OT F OR S ALE Contents page Contents in Detail ....................................................................................................................v Index of Questions from Yogis ...........................................................................................................xi2 Bibliographical Abbreviations.............................................................................................. xvii3H List of Charts..................................................................................................................... xviii4H Editorial Note...............(Revised Edition)...........................................................................xix5H Foreword .....................(First Edition) ............................................................................. xxiii6H Editorial Note...............(First Edition) ...............................................................................xxv7H Introduction .............(Revised Edition) ..................................................................................... 18H9H 1: How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption............................3710H Questions and Answers 1..................................................................................5911H 2: How You Develop Absorption on Other Subjects ...............................................6712H Questions and Answers 2..................................................................................8513H 3: How You Develop the Sublime Abidings and Protective meditations ............9714H Questions and Answers 3................................................................................11515H 4: How You Discern Materiality ................................................................................13116H Questions and Answers 4................................................................................17517H 5: How You Discern Mentality...................................................................................19918H Questions and Answers 5................................................................................21519H 6: How You See the Links of Dependent-Origination...........................................22720H Questions and Answers 6................................................................................23721H 7: How You Develop the Insight-Knowledges to See Nibbāna...........................25522H Questions and Answers 7................................................................................27923H 8: The Buddha’s Wishes for His Disciples and His Teachings............................29724H 9: The Most Superior Type of Offering ....................................................................31725H Appendix 1: Glossary of Untranslated Pāëi Terms ...................................................................34126H Appendix 2: Contact Addresses.............................................................................................34527H Knowing and Seeing 1 Contents Questions and Answers 11F ............................................... 5964H (in Detail) 65H page 2: How You Develop Absorption on Other Subjects ............................................... 67 How You Develop the Thirty-Two Parts of the Body .................................... 6766H 67H Index of Questions from Yogis ...........................................................................................................xi28H29H The Three Entrances to Nibbāna .......................................................... 69 How You Develop Skeleton Meditation ......................................................... 7068H 30H Meditation (Practical) ........................................xi —"— the Ten Kasinas ............................................................... 7369H 31H Meditation (Doctrinal) ......................................xii The Colour Kasinas.......................................................................................... 7370H 1 Doctrine (Bodhisatta0F Path etc.) .....................xiii32H How You Develop the White Kasina ................................................... 7371H 72H Sundry ..............................................................xiii33H —"— Remaining Colour Kasinas............................. 76 73H How You Develop the Earth Kasina .................................................... 77 —"— Water Kasina .................................................... 7774H Introduction................................................................................................................................ 134H —"— Fire Kasina ....................................................... 7875H The Buddha’s Dispensation............................................................................... 135H —"— Wind Kasina..................................................... 7876H What Needs to be Fully Realized ...................................................................... 236H —"— Light Kasina..................................................... 7877H The First and Second Noble Truth................................................................. 437H —"— Space Kasina .................................................... 7978H Knowing and Seeing the First Noble Truth..................................................... 1138H The Four Immaterial Jhānas ............................................................................ 7979H How You Know and See the First and Second Noble Truth....................... 1439H How You Develop the Base of Boundless Space ....................................... 7980H You Develop Concentration......................................................... 1440H —"— Base of Boundless Consciousness ......................... 8181H " Develop the Light of Wisdom .............................................. 1541H —"— Base of Nothingness............................................... 8182H " Protect Your Concentration.................................................. 1642H —"— Base of Neither-perception-nor-non-perception.... 8283H 84H85H 1 " Penetrate to Ultimate Reality................................................ 1743H Questions and Answers 286H ............................................... 8587H Penetrating to Ultimate Materiality...................................... 1744H —"— Ultimate Mentality........................................ 1945H 3: How You Develop the Sublime Abidings and Protective meditations............9788H The Three Purifications................................................................................ 2446H Introduction...................................................................................................... 9789H Knowing and Seeing the Second and Third Noble Truth ............................... 2547H How You Develop Lovingkindness................................................................. 9790H How You Know and See the Third Noble Truth......................................... 2648H Introduction .................................................................................................. 9791H You Know and See Dependent Origination................................. 2949H How You Develop Lovingkindness Person by Person................................ 9992H " Practise Vipassanā ................................................................ 3150H —"— Break Down the Barriers.......................................................... 10293H " Know and See the Unformed ............................................... 3351H The Twenty-Two Categories...................................................................... 10394H " Fully Realize the Four Noble Truths.................................... 3452H How You Develop the Unspecified and Specified .................................... 10495H —"— Ten Directional Categories.................................. 10596H 1: How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption........................3753H How You Develop Compassion .................................................................... 10697H —"— Appreciative Joy............................................................ 10798H Introduction...................................................................................................... 3754H —"— Equanimity..................................................................... 10799H Why Meditate?...................................................................................... 3755H —"— The Four Protective Meditations................................... 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