• Cover

• Title

• Preface

• Abbreviations

• Avoiding the Second Arrow

• The Importance of Koṇḍañña’s Insight

• Refocusing on the Defilements

• One Breath at a Time

• Brightening the Mind

• The Benefits and Drawbacks of Change

• Snow on a Forest Trail

• The Dhamma of the Buddha Is Everywhere

• The Kamma of Listening

• Supporting Defilements or Supporting Dhamma

• So What Am I, Chopped Liver?

• Letting Go and Picking Up

• Enjoying That Enough-ness

• The Mood Is Not Who You Are

• Putting the Four Noble Truths Into Action

• Doing What’s Difficult to Do

• Responding to Wholesome Crowds

• Being Willing to Make Mistakes

• A Foundation of Love and Acceptance

• Comfortable in Any Circumstance

• The Role of Observance Days

• Blown Into Cosmic Dust

• When Generosity Motivates Our Practice

• Applying a Wholesome Attitude

• Not Taking Refuge in the Weather

• Krueng Yoo: The Tool That Sustains Us

• When Help Is Needed

• Christmas Day: A Bodhisatta of Compassion

• Death and the Nature of Waves

• Joy: Rising Up and Going Forth

• Mindfulness With Clarity and Discernment

• Eye of the Hurricane

• Practicing What Works

• Two Kinds of Fools

• A Day Worthy of Veneration

• Stepping Into the Rain

• Reframing an Opportunity to Give

• Your Last Day Alive

• Desire Creeps In

• The Whole of the Holy Life

• Leave No Trace

• Why Am I Talking?

• The Lesser Discourse on the Hole in the Ceiling

• Slowing Down the Busy Mind

• Small Choices Lead to Big Decisions

• I’m a Lot Freer Than You Are

• Mindfulness and Concentration

• Contented With Little

• The Best Potato Salad I’ve Ever Made

• Having Faith in the Training

• Choosing the Pāramīs

• Contemplation of the Body

• This Buddha Isn’t the Same as the Old Buddha

• The Gift of Space

• Pesky Woodpeckers

• Paying Attention to Details

• Beautiful Work, Beautiful Mind

• Opening or Collapsing to Experience

• Respecting Others’ Boundaries

• Where Did It All Go?

• Nourishing the Spiritual Faculties

• The Real World

• Developing Respect and Humility

• Making the Embers Bright Red

• This Pūjā May Be My Last

• Approaching Gorillas

• Can’t We Always Be on Retreat?

• Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened to Me

• Taints to Be Abandoned by Using

• A Sense of Self

• The Importance of Informal Meditation

• Like a Snake Shedding Its Skin

• Spacious Practice

• Waiting Patiently Like a Tick

• Working to Let Go

• Centering on a Clear, Still Place

• Beginning With Good Habits

• Challenging Our Perceptions of Work

• The Power of Speech

• Choosing Contention or Contentment

• The Paradox of Urgency

• Tuning Into Your Conscience

• Putting Our Moods in Their Place

• Deconstructing Personas

• The Triple Gem Is the Middle Way

• Using the Breath to Balance the Mind

• Noticing When Heat Arises

• The Mango Picking Pole Is Too Long

• I Can Hardly Wait

• Making Uncertainty Clear

• A Lifetime of Maintenance

• An Internal Articulation of Dhamma

• The Importance of Worldly Discretion

• Renunciation: Not a Simple Matter

• Challenging Our Perceptions of Work

• Seeing Clearly Into the Chain of Causation

• Loving-Kindness and Living in Harmony

• Perceiving the Unbeautiful

• What Do We Take With Us?

• Carrying It Around

• Putting Aside What I Want to Do

• Mindfulness Develops Right Speech

• How Do I Accord With Truth?

• Self-Effacement

• Remembering to Loosen Up

• One Who Sees the Danger in Saṃsāra

• Happy to Stay at Home

• The Spider in Its Web

• Unplugged Realities

• Priming the Mind

• The Reason We’re Here

• Knowing Wholesome and Unwholesome States

• Uncertainty: The Spillway for the Mind

• Glossary