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CONTENTS

PREFACE

A NOTE (Biography)

Acknowledgement

1.The Three Essence

Wealth and Dana

Physical Body and Sila

Life and Vipassna

Insight Meditation

2. Seven Constant Propagating Kusala

(Nibaddha Kusala)

Refuge in the Three Gems

Observation of Five Precepts

Drawing Lots

Fortnightly Alms-food Offering

Waso-robe Offering

Donating Cisterns for Drinking Water

Building Monasteries

3. The Four Conditions which are Difficult to Attain

Difficult to be a human being

Difficult to be alive.

Difficult to listen to the noble Dhamma

Difficult to be in the presence of the Buddha's Sasana

Four Foundations of Mindfulness

4. The Unobstructive Four Conditions

Decay

Sickness

Death

Ill-effect of Misdeeds

5. The Four Constituents for, Sotapan and Twenty-four Types of Sotapan

To take refuge in noble persons

To listen to the noble Dhamma

To develop proper attitude

To practise what is adaptive to magga and phala

Three ways of vipassana meditation

The twenty-four types of sotapan

Number of existence to undergo

Predominating factors

Ways of Practice

6. The Four Constituents for Sotapan and the Six Benefits of Sotapan

To take refuge in noble teachers

To listen to the noble Dhamma

To develop proper attitude

To practise what is adaptive to magga and phala

Six benefits

7. The Five Supporting Factors (Anuggahita)

Sila

4 types of sila

Knowledge

Dhamma discussion

Samatha meditation

Four ways of protection

Vipassana Meditation

8. The Five Conductive Conditions

(Five Sappaya Dhamma)

Accommodation

Climate

Food

Sixty monks and Matikamata

Company

Audition of Dhamma

The Five Benefits

Story of Kala

9. The Four Supreme Exertions

(Four Padhana Dhamma)

To prevent the demerits

To discard the demerits

To develop the merits

To propagate the merits

10. Happiness and Pleasant Feeling

(Sukha Somanassa Sutta)

Delight in dhamma

Delight in meditation

Delight in discarding immoral dhamma

Delight in solitude

Delight in emancipation of sufferings

Delight in freedom from the dhamma propagating the cycle of existence

11. Three Factors for the Attainment of Nibbana (Uddesa Vibhanga Sutta)

- On seeing

- Monk Cittagutta

- On hearing

- On smelling

- On eating

- On touching

- On thinking

- The Five monks

- Prisoner and a cup of oil

- internal arrest

- Five vipassana piti

- On Attachment

12. The Three Vedana

- Dukkha Vedana

- Three ways of contemplation

- Sukha Vedana

- Upekkha Vedana

- Four types of yogi

13. The Factors of Enlightenment

(Bojjhanga Sutta)

- Sati sambojjhan

- Dhamma vicaya sambojjhan

- Piti sambojjhan

- Five kinds of Piti

- Samadhi sambojjhan

- Upekkha sambojjhan

14. Types of Cetiya

- Tazaungmone month and light festival

- Culamani Cetiya

- Dussa Cetiya

- Three types of Cetiya

- Five types of Cetiya

- Three Events

- Cetiya and Vipassana

15. Progress of Insight with Emphasis on Sankharupekkha Nana

- Way of Kamma

- Way of Jhana

- Way of Wisdom

- Sankharupekkha Nana

- Differences or Significance

16. The Sublime Happiness

(Sitibhava Sutta)

- To control the over-excited mind

- To encourage the mind when it is oppressed

- let the mind be joyful when it is necessary

- To be indifferent when necessary

- To develop inclination towards the noble magga and phala

-To delight in the sublime happiness of Nibbana