• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• The Importance of Koṇḍañña’s Insight
• Refocusing on the Defilements
• The Benefits and Drawbacks of Change
• The Dhamma of the Buddha Is Everywhere
• Supporting Defilements or Supporting Dhamma
• So What Am I, Chopped Liver?
• 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
• When Generosity Motivates Our Practice
• Applying a Wholesome Attitude
• Not Taking Refuge in the Weather
• Krueng Yoo: The Tool That Sustains Us
• Christmas Day: A Bodhisatta of Compassion
• Death and the Nature of Waves
• Joy: Rising Up and Going Forth
• Mindfulness With Clarity and Discernment
• Reframing an Opportunity to Give
• The Lesser Discourse on the Hole in the Ceiling
• Small Choices Lead to Big Decisions
• I’m a Lot Freer Than You Are
• Mindfulness and Concentration
• The Best Potato Salad I’ve Ever Made
• Having Faith in the Training
• This Buddha Isn’t the Same as the Old Buddha
• Beautiful Work, Beautiful Mind
• Opening or Collapsing to Experience
• Respecting Others’ Boundaries
• Nourishing the Spiritual Faculties
• Developing Respect and Humility
• Making the Embers Bright Red
• Can’t We Always Be on Retreat?
• Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened to Me
• Taints to Be Abandoned by Using
• The Importance of Informal Meditation
• Like a Snake Shedding Its Skin
• Waiting Patiently Like a Tick
• Centering on a Clear, Still Place
• Challenging Our Perceptions of Work
• Choosing Contention or Contentment
• Putting Our Moods in Their Place
• The Triple Gem Is the Middle Way
• Using the Breath to Balance the Mind
• The Mango Picking Pole Is Too Long
• 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
• Putting Aside What I Want to Do
• Mindfulness Develops Right Speech
• One Who Sees the Danger in Saṃsāra
• Knowing Wholesome and Unwholesome States
• Uncertainty: The Spillway for the Mind
• Glossary