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Knowing and Seeing
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Knowing and Seeing
Talks and Questions-and-Answers
at a Meditation Retreat in Taiwan
by Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw
© W.K. Ng 2000
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Contents
Knowing and Seeing
Foreword .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................... 11
Preface to the Second Edition ......................................................................................... 13
Talk 1
How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing to Absorption ............................ 14
Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 14
Why Meditate? ............................................................................................................................ 14
What Is Meditation? ............................................................................................................... 15
The Noble Eightfold Path .................................................................................................... 16
How You Develop Concentration ................................................................................ 19
How You Develop Mindfulness-of-Breathing .................................................. 19
How You Balance the Five Controlling Faculties ............................................ 27
How You Balance the Seven Factors of Enlightenment .............................. 31
How You Attain Jhàna ...............................................................