Title page 2 Contents 4 Publisher’s Foreword to the Second BPS Edition 5 Vipassanā Dīpanī 6 The Three Hallucinations 7 The Simile of the Wild Deer 8 The Simile of the Magician 9 The Simile of the Man who has lost his Way 10 The Three Fantasies (maññanā) 12 The Two Dogmatic Beliefs (abhinivesa) 15 The Two Stages (bhūmi) 16 The Two Destinations (gati) 17 Nakhasikha Sutta (The Sutta on the Fingernail) 19 Kāṇakacchapa Sutta (The Sutta on the Blind Turtle) 21 Explanation of the Two Destinations 24 The Two Truths (sacca) 25 Material Phenomena 29 Four Great Essentials (mahābhūta) 31 Derived Materiality (upādā-rūpa) 33 The Six Bases (vatthu) 33 The Two Sexes (bhāva) 34 The Vital Force (jīvita-rūpa) 35 Material Nutrition (āhāra-rūpa) 35 The Four Sense Fields (gocara-rūpa) 36 The Element of Space (ākāsa-dhātu) 37 The Two Modes of Communications (viññatti-rūpa) 37 The Three Plasticities (vikāra-rūpa) 38 The Four Salient Features (lakkhaṇa-rūpa) 39 The Four Producers of Material Phenomena 41 Mental Phenomena 43 Consciousness 43 Cetasikas or Mental Properties 46 The Common Properties 49 The Particular Properties 51 The Immoral Properties 52 The Moral Properties 54 Nibbāna 57 Causes I 58 Causes II 60 The Two Abhiññanas or Super-Knowledges 62 The Three Pariññās or Profound Knowledges 64 Ñāta-pariññā or Autological Knowledge 64 Tīraṇa-pariññā: the Triple Knowledge of Impermanence, Ill, and No-soul 65 The Simile of the Dangerous Disease 67 Pahāna-pariññā: Dispelling Knowledge 69 The Growth, Decay, and Death of the Material Aggregates 70 The Growth, Decay, and Death of the Mental Phenomena 73 The Exposition of Tīraṇa-pariññā 74 The Mark of Impermanence in Matter 75 The Mark of Impermanence in Mental Phenomena 78 The Mark of Ill 80 The Eleven Marks of Ill 82 The Mark of No-soul 86 How the Marks of Impermanence and Ill become Marks of No-soul 88 The Three Knowledges pertaining to Insight of the Three Marks 92 The Exposition of Pahāna-pariññā 95 The Five Kinds of Dispelling 95 The Practice of Insight Meditation 99 Conclusion 102 A Life Sketch of the Venerable Ledi Sayādaw 103 Notes 106
