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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................................... 108100H