Mind Development
Ven. Phra Tepvisuddhikavi
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MIND
DEVELOPMENT
CONTENTS
Chapter One:
Introduction
Development is the
aim of every country
One half outrunning
the other half
Meditation and
Insight
Basic facts
concerning development of mind
Aims or advantages
Characteristics of
mind
Mind not equivalent
to brain
Mind as factor
leading to rebirth
Mind as reservoir of
good and evil
Characteristics of
merit and evil
Principles of doing
good
Value of merit
Chapter
Two : Living a Noble Life
To prove how the
goal is attainable
Three steps of
practice
Three Strata of
Pollutions (Kilesa)
Baneful results of
spiritual diseases
Formation of
spiritual Pollutions
Three steps of
practice against three strata of Pollutions
Chapter Three:
Themes for Mind Development
Mind as the cause of
its own suffering
Two kinds of
Kammatthana
Two kinds of
happiness
Tranquility
Meditation (Samatha Kammatthana)
Benefits to be
obtained from mind training
Levels of Meditation
Themes of meditation
for Tranquility
Results of the 40
Themes
Manifestations of
the six tendencies
Themes applicable to
each group
Venerable
Sariputta’s disciples
The five Mental
Hindrances
Nothing venture,
nothing gain
Causes of Mental
Hindrances
Causes of sensual
delight
Determination or
Attachment to anger or hatred
Causes of drowsiness
and torpor
Cause of distraction
and worry
Abolishing Mental
Hindrances
Sappaya (Favourable
conditions)
Story of an Upasika
able to read other’ minds
The three Nimittas (Visions)
Chapter Four:
Preliminaries for the Practice of Meditation
More petty concerns
To purify Precepts
Benefits of Precepts
Self-dedication to
the Buddha and the master
Recollecting the
virtues of the Triple Gem
Extending Loving-kindness
Recollection of
death
Recollecting the
truths of life
Recollecting one’s
own store of merit
Chapter Five:
Development of Mindfulness of Breathing
Postures for
Beginners
Determining the
breaths-Successive steps
Following the
breaths
Establishing a check-point
Counting
Advanced level of
Mindfulness of Breathing
Cultivation of the
first four steps of mindfulness of breathing
Sound : main
obstacle to meditation development
Importance of the
present
Significance of
breaths
The four steps of
Anapanasati
The first step:
Determining long breathss
The second step:
Determining short breaths
The third step:
Determining all the breaths
The fourth step:
Calm down all the breaths
The crudeness and
refinement of breaths
Disappearance of
breaths
Making the breaths
appear
Mind training
comparable of calf training
An aspirant training
his mind
Training a calf
The calf struggling
hard
The calf running
away
The trainer tying
the calf to a pole
The calf submitting
to discipline
Four postures of a
mind trainer
Sitting meditation
Standing meditation
Walking meditation
Reclining meditation
Beneficial results
of walking meditation
Explanation
Jhana (Absorption)
The five
constituents of Jhana
Jhana vs. Nana
Attainment
Resourcefulness (Appanakosala)
Ten factors for
Attainment Resourcefulness (Appanakosala)
Fundamental
preparation
Balancing the five
faculties or forces (Indriya)
Wisdom concerning
Nimitta
To support the mind
when support is needed
To resist when
resistance is needed
To delight the mind
when delight is needed
To remain neutral
when neutrality is needed
To avoid association
with a fickle, restless person
To associate with a
person endowed with determination
To cultivate faith
towards development of meditation
Benefits of
mindfulness of breathing
Chapter Six:
Recollection on (Repulsiveness of) the body
The thirty-two items
How to develop
mindfulness based on the body
The sevenfold
practice
The Wisdom of
Determination (Manasikarakosala)
To determine or
contemplate respectively
Not to determine or
contemplate in haste
Not to determine or
contemplate too slow
To determine or
contemplate as a mean by Which to prevent distraction
To determine or
contemplate without dependence on words
To determine or
contemplate for the sake Of omission
A
hunter catching a monkey in a forest of palmyra trees
Chapter Seven:
Cultivation of Divine Abodes of Mind
Manussa: beings with
‘high’ minds
Virtues for
superiors
Virtues of the
Brahma
Extended sense of
the term ‘Brahma’
The hallmarks of
Buddhists
As a theme of
Meditation
Metta (Loving-Kindness)
Karuna (Compassion)
Mudita (Sympathy)
Upekkha (Equanimity)
