This book is a compilation of Ajaan Dune’s short teachings—pure truths at the highest level, lessons and admonishments he gave his students, answers to questions, and passages from the Buddha’s words in the Canon that he always liked to quote. Also included are the events, locations, and people who were involved, to help make the passages easier to understand and more inviting to read. Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Table of Contents Titlepage 2 Copyright 3 A Biographical Sketch 4 Introduction 5 1. A Dhamma welcome 7 2. No resistance 8 3. On the four noble truths 9 4. Above & beyond words 10 5. A warning for heedless monks 11 6. Real, but not for real 12 7. Letting go of visions 13 8. External things 14 9. Stopping to know 15 10. Advancement or destruction 16 11. On the ultimate level there’s no desire 17 12. Teaching him a lesson? 18 13. Why do they suffer? 19 14. Inspired words 20 15. More inspired words 21 16. Still more inspired words 22 17. What buddho is like 23 18. For those who want something good 24 19. He does, but he doesn’t 25 20. Aware in time 26 21. Cutting no slack 27 22. Frugal with his words 28 23. Simple, but hard to do 29 24. Throw it away 30 25. A truth in line with the truth 31 26. That wasn’t his aim 32 27. Worlds apart 33 28. One thing only 34 29. What to study and what not to study 35 30. Want to watch 36 31. Problems & responsibilities 37 32. The poorer, the happier 38 33. The less, the better 39 34. Didn’t think of thar 40 35. Don’t aim in the wrong direction 41 36. In the Buddha’s words 42 37. Those with no fault by way of speech 43 38. The perfection of endurance 44 39. No trouble through his words 45 40. Monks who victimize his words 46 41. Nice, but… 47 42. Meditators who are uncertain 48 43. When dwelling, dwell above 49 44. Looking for new teachers 50 45. Holding on vs. putting aside 51 46. When the mind resists growing still 52 47. The genuine basis of the Dhamma 53 48. A warning not to be heedless 54 49. Sometimes he came down hard 55 50. Not sidetracked 56 51. Simply a motion 57 52. Seize the opportunity 58 53. The limits of science 59 54. How to extinguish suffering 60 55. The truth is always the same 61 56. Refined 62 57. Empty 63 58. Not all that clear 64 59. Knowledge from study vs. knowledge from practice 65 60. A strategy for loosening attachment 66 61. On eating 67 62. More on eating 68 63. Still more on eating 69 64. Business practices & Dhamma practice 70 65. Buried memories 71 66. In his own style 72 67. “I want to do well in my studies…” 73 68. The purpose of wandering 74 69. To stop you have to know how 75 70. Similar results, but not the same 76 71. There’s only one place 77 72. The world vs. the Dhamma 78 73. Should you ask? 79 74. The purpose of the practice 80 75. Hoping for far-off results 81 76. Nothing more than that 82 77. It’s easy if you’re not attached 83 78. Sometimes what I heard amazed me 84 79. Even this sort of question 85 80. A scolding 86 81. Letting go of one thing to get stuck on another 87 82. A comparison 88 83. Another comparison 89 84. Things outside and in 90 85. Not even the five precepts 91 86. Never perturbed 92 87. How the Dhamma protects 93 88. Only practice can resolve doubt 94 89. Is that all they want? 95 90. No fables 96 91. Strange 97 92. Stranger still 98 93. The truth as he saw it 99 94. Answering questions with questions 100 95. Luang Pu’s habits 101 96. Heavy pain, but not heavy with pain 102 97. A safe shortcut 103 98. Everything comes from action 104 99. Making no show 105 100. The end of rebirth 106 101. A comparison 107 102. The safest way to dwell 108 103. Continued 109 104. The end of stress 110 105. His last illness 111 106. Approaching death 112 107. One last recollection of the Dhamma 113 108. Final words 114 109. A moment of wilderness in the city 115 110. Even the timing was apt 116 111. No bad karma with regard to the body 117 Glossary 118
