Lessons In Practical Buddhism - Sirimangalo.Org

Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................ii
Celebrating A Buddhist Holiday.............................................1
Dangers...............................................................................12
A Comprehensive Practice...................................................25
Introduction.....................................................................25
Seeing.............................................................................28
Guarding.........................................................................34
Using...............................................................................37
Bearing............................................................................44
Avoiding..........................................................................48
Abandoning.....................................................................51
Developing......................................................................56
Conclusion.......................................................................63
Mindfulness Explained.........................................................64
According to the Abhidhamma:.......................................78
Ten Perceptions...................................................................80
Introduction.....................................................................80
aniccasaññā....................................................................82
anattasaññā....................................................................83
asubhasaññā...................................................................84
ādīnavasaññā..................................................................87
pahānasaññā...................................................................89
virāgasaññā & nirodhasaññā...........................................90
sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā.............................................91
sabbasaṅkhāresu anicchāsaññā......................................94
ānāpānasati.....................................................................94
Conclusion.......................................................................95
Experience of Reality...........................................................96
Practical Dependent Origination........................................108
Introduction...................................................................108
Part One: Life-To-Life Overview.....................................112
Part Two: Objective Experience.....................................113
Part Three: Subjective Experience.................................117
Part Four: Suffering.......................................................119
Summary.......................................................................120
The Nature of Reality.........................................................123
Simple Truth......................................................................125
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