Contents

• Titlepage
• Contents
• Cover
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Wisdom for Dummies
• Adult Dhamma
• Precept Meditation
• Meditation Prep
• Establishing Priorities
• How to Feed Mindfulness
• Permission to Play
• Levels of the Breath
• The Four Jhanas
• Knowing the Body from Within
• Right Concentration
• Jhana: Responsible Happiness
• The Uses of Concentration
• Working at Home
• The Practice of Right View
• Abusing Pleasure & Pain
• The Fourth Frame of Reference
• Taking the Buddha at his Word
• Questioning & Conviction
• What’s Not on the Map
• Always Willing to Learn
• Joy in Effort
• Generating Desire
• When Things Aren’t Going Well
• Endurance Made Easier
• Thinking Your Way to Stillness
• Acceptance
• Perfections as Priorities
• An Anthropologist from Mars
• A Well-Thatched Roof
• Dealing with Limitations
• Attachment vs. Affection
• The Reality of Emotions
• Moving Between Thought Worlds
• Shame & Acceptance
• Lust
• Fear & Anger
• The Uses of Fear
• Medicine – Timely & Timeless
• Preparing to Die Well
• Equanimity Isn’t Nibbana
• You Can’t Eat the Buddha
• Glossary