The
Gradual Training
   

The Buddha's Step-by-Step Guide
for Awakening

 

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"Final knowledge is achieved by gradual training, by gradual practice, by gradual progress." MN 70
 
  Dedication
Abbreviations and Notes
Preface
Introduction
The Discourse on the Fruits of the Spiritual Life [abridged & storyfied]
Going Forth
Keeping the Precepts – The First Three
Keeping the Precepts – Right Speech
Keeping the Precepts – Additional Precepts
Restraint of the Sense Faculties
Mindfulness And Clear Comprehension
Contentment with Little
The Five Hindrances
Access Concentration and the Jhana Summary
The Jhanas
Insight Practice
The Psychic Powers
Ending the Āsavas
Additional Gradual Training Factors
The Gradual Training and The Eightfold Path
Afterword
Appendix 1: Questions & Answers
Appendix 2: Gradual Training Factors As Found in Various Suttas
Appendix 3: The Similes in the Gradual Training
Appendix 4: The 4 Stages of Awakening (various opinions)
Appendix 5: DN 2.45
Appendix 6: The Gradual Training and The Maṅgala Sutta
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Licenses and Credits
Glossary
Index
About the Author


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