Talks and Questions and Answers at a meditation retreat in Taiwan by Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw. This book details two approaches to insight meditation, namely, "tranquility and insight" and "bare-insight" meditation. These two methods are essentially identical, starting from four-elements meditation and continuing into insight meditation. In this book the reader has an explanation of the classic instructions for both methods. The talks in this book were given by the Sayadaw (teacher), from Pa-Auk, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, while he conducted a two-month meditation retreat at Yi-Tung Temple, Sing Choo City, Taiwan.
目次
Knowing and Seeing Foreword 8 Editorial Note 11 Preface to the Second Edition 13 Talk One How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption 14 Introduction 14 Why Meditate? 14 What Is Meditation? 15 The Noble Eightfold Path 16 How You Develop Concentration 19 How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing 19 How You Balance the Five Controlling Faculties 27 How You Balance the Seven Factors of Enlightenment 31 How You Attain Jhàna 32 Questions & Answers One 37 Talk Two How You Develop Absorption on Other Subjects 44 The Thirty-Two Parts of the Body 44 The Three Entrances to Nibbàna 47 The Skeleton 47 The Five Jhàna Factors 48 The Ten Kasiõas 51 The Colour Kasiõa 51 The White Kasiõa 51 The Earth Kasiõa 56 The Water Kasiõa 56 The Fire Kasiõa 57 The Wind Kasiõa 57 The Light Kasiõa 57 The Space Kasiõa 58 The Four Immaterial Jhànas 58 The Base of Boundless-Space 59 The Base of Boundless-Consciousness 60 The Base of Nothingness 61 The Base of Neither-Perception-Nor-Non-Perception 62 Questions & Answers Two 64 Talk Three How You Develop the Sublime Abidings and Protective Meditations 75 Introduction 75 How You Develop the Four Sublime Abidings 75 Lovingkindness (Mettà) 75 Lovingkindness Towards A Person You Like & Respect 78 Breaking Down the Barriers (Sãmàsambheda) 81 The Twenty-Two Categories 82 The Unspecified and Specified Categories 84 The Ten Directional Categories 85 Compassion (Karuõà) 86 Appreciative-Joy (Mudità) 87 Equanimity (Upekkhà) 88 How You Develop the Four Protective meditations 89 Recollection-of-the-Buddha (Buddhànussati) 90 Repulsiveness Meditation (Asubha) 92 Recollection-of-Death (Maraõànussati) 93 Summary 94 Questions & Answers Three 97 Talk Four How You Discern Materiality 114 Introduction 114 How You Develop Four-Elements Meditation 114 How You Analyse Råpa Kalàpas 125 How You Analyse Transparent-Elements Materiality 130 The Fifty-Four Types of Materiality in the Eye 132 How You See Materiality Produced by Consciousness 133 How You See Materiality Produced by Temperature 134 How You See Materiality Produced by Nutriment 134 Summary 137 Questions & Answer Four 139 Talk Five How You Discern Mentality 163 Introduction 163 How You Discern Jhàna Thought-Processes 165 How You Discern Sensual Plane Thought-Processes 168 Wise and Unwise Attention 168 How You Discern Mind-Door Thought-Processes 168 How You Discern Five-Door Thought-Processes 169 How You Discern External Mentality 172 Questions & Answers Five 175 Talk Six How You See the Links of Dependent-Origination 188 Introduction 188 The Three Rounds of Dependent-Origination 189 How You Discern the Past 190 Examples 193 How You Discern the Future 195 Questions & Answers Six 197 Talk Seven How You Develop the Insight-Knowledges to See Nibbàna 217 Introduction 217 The Knowledge of Comprehension (Sammasana-Nana) 218 The Forty Perceptions (Cattarisàkàraanupassanà) 220 The Seven Ways for Materiality (Rupa-Sattaka) 222 The Seven Ways for Mentality (Arupa-Sattaka) 224 The Knowledge of Arising & Passing-Away (Udayabbaya-Nana) 226 Brief Method 227 Detailed Method 227 The Observation of the Nature of Arising (Samudayadhammànupassi) 228 The Observation of the Nature of Passing-Away (Vayadhammànupassi) 229 The Observation of the Nature of Arising & Passing-Away (Samudayavayadhammànupassi) 230 The Ten Imperfections of Insight (Dasa-Upakkilesa) 233 The Knowledge of Dissolution (Bhanga-Nana) 233 The Remaining Knowledges 234 Questions & Answers Seven 236 Talk Eight The Buddha’s Wishes for His Disciples and His Teachings(Talk given on Vesàkha Day) 257 Talk Nine The Most Superior Type of Offering(Traditional End-of-Retreat Talk to Donors, Organizers and Helpers) 276
