MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA AN UNUSUALLY HARDCORE DHARMA BOOK REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION BY THE ARAHANT DANIEL M INGRAM AEON First published in 2018 by Aeon Books Ltd 12 New College Parade Finchley Road London NW3 5EP Copyright © 2018 by Daniel M Ingram The right of Daniel M Ingram to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-91159-710-0 Typeset by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India Printed in Great Britain www.aeonbooks.co.uk This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Bill Hamilton His relentless dedication to the cultivation and promotion of wisdom, despite all the consequences, made him a truly great teacher CONTENTS Preface to the Second Edition Foreword and Warning Part I: The Fundamentals Introduction Morality, The First and Last Training Concentration, The Second Training Wisdom, The Third Training The Three Characteristics Impermanence Dissatisfactoriness No-Self The Five Spiritual Faculties Faith and Wisdom Energy and Concentration Mindfulness The Seven Factors of Awakening Mindfulness Investigation Energy Rapture Tranquility Concentration Equanimity The Three Trainings Revisited Happiness Renunciation Suffering Awakening The Play The Four Noble Truths Truth Number One: There Is Suffering Truth Number Two: There Is the Cause of Suffering Truth Number Three: There Is the End of Suffering Truth Number Four: The Noble Eightfold Path 10 Objects for Insight Practices When, Where, and For How Long? 11 On Teachers 12 Daily Life and Retreats 13 A Few Odds and Ends About Retreats 14 Post-Retreat Advice 15 Postures 16 Resolve Part II: Light and Shadows 17 Introduction to Parts Two through Five 18 Buddhism versus the Buddha 19 Content and Ultimate Reality 20 What Went Wrong? 21 A Clear Goal 22 Harnessing the Energy of the Defilements 23 Right Thought and the Augean Stables 24 From Content to Insight Part III: The Shamatha Jhanas 25 Introduction to Part Three 26 The Wide World of Jhana The First Jhana The Second Jhana The Third Jhana The Fourth Jhana 27 The Concentration States (Shamatha Jhanas) The First Shamatha Jhana The Second Shamatha Jhana The Third Shamatha Jhana The Fourth Shamatha Jhana 28 The Formless Realms The Fifth Jhana, Boundless Space The Sixth Jhana, Boundless Consciousness The Seventh Jhana, Nothingness The Eighth Jhana, Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception Limitations of Concentration Practice 29 Kasina Practice Part IV: Insight 30 The Progress of Insight Mind and Body Cause and Effect The Three Characteristics The Arising and Passing Away Dissolution, Entrance to the Dark Night Fear Misery Disgust Desire for Deliverance 10 Re-observation 11 Equanimity 12 Conformity 13 Change of Lineage 14 Path 15 Fruition 31 The Three Doors 32 “What Was That?” 33 Review 34 The Vipassana Jhanas Bill Hamilton's Model Fractals U Pandita's Model One More Model 35 How the Maps Help 36 Beyond First Path (“What Next?”) Part V: Awakening 37 Models of the Stages of Awakening General Problems with Current Models Models That are Mostly Unhelpful The Non-Duality Model The Sudden Schools of Awakening The Direct Perception Models Time and Space Models The Fundamental Perception Models The Specific Perception Models The Emotional Models The Theravada Four-Path Model A Revised Four-Path Model The Bodhisattva Bhumi Model The Mahayana Five-Path Model The Vajrayana Models The Concentration Models The Cessation of Perception and Feeling (Nirodha Samapatti) Back to the Vajrayana Story The Simple Model The Action Models The Perfect Speech Models The Perfect Internet Behavior Models The Powers Models The Energetic Models The Sleep Models The Specific Knowledge Models The Psychological Models 38 39 40 41 The No-Thought Models The God Models The Unity Models The True Self Models The Physical Models The Biological Models The Radiance Models The Karma Models The Perpetual Bliss Models The Three Kayas The Immortality Models The Transcendence Models The Extinction Models The Love Models The Equanimity Models The No-Preferences Models The Special Models The Social Models The Ultimate Reality versus Unreality Models The Meaning Models The Three Yanas Ditching Our “Stuff” versus Ditching the Split The “Nothing To Do” and “You Are Already There” Schools Depths of Realization and Integration Archetypes, Roles, Inspiration, and Becoming Dependent Origination Final Points Towards Contemporary Models Integration It Is Possible! More on the “Mushroom Factor” So, Who the Heck Is Daniel M Ingram? Part VI: My Spiritual Quest 42 Backstory 43 The Early Years The Arising and Passing Away 44 Bodysurfing 45 College and Pre-Buddhist Exploration 46 The Middle Years 47 Thank U, India 48 The First Bodh Gaya Retreat 49 The First MBMC Retreat 50 The Dark Night Gets Ugly 51 The Second Bodh Gaya Retreat 52 The Great Stream Enterer 53 Dharma Power, Dharma Poison 54 The Middle Paths Slam-Shifting Ñanas and Jhanas Luminosity Nirodha Samapatti 55 Map Failure 56 Wandering 57 Kasinas, Powers, and Retreats 58 Introduction to the Powers 59 Are the Powers Real? 60 Paradigm Fluency 61 Crazy? 62 Those Damn Fairies… 63 Definitions of the Powers 64 Ethics and the Powers 65 How to Cultivate the Powers 66 Made Pliant and Malleable 67 Benefits of the Powers 68 Magick and the Brahma Viharas Formal Definitions The Brahma Viharas Bodhicitta as Magick Vipassana as Magick 69 Bhavana Society 2001 Retreat Fire Kasina Practice Morality and Magick 70 Around the World and Finding Home The Second MBMC Retreat Untangling Agencylessness Wobble and Fall Vimuttimagga, The Path of Freedom 71 More Practical Tidbits Describing Your Practice Dependent Origination Revisited 72 Conclusion and Best Wishes Index PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION I started writing the small pamphlets and locally printed books that would one day become Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (MCTB1 hereafter) somewhere in early 1997, which seems quite a long time ago at this point A lot has changed since then about my own practice, the world of meditation, my understanding of the world of meditation and mental development, and the world in general The rise of the internet has facilitated unprecedented cross-pollination and collaboration, allowing obscure and isolated practitioners around the world to suddenly come together and share their experiences and ideas about practice The effect on the dharma has already been profound I doubt we have seen anything but the tiny beginning of what is possible I would like to thank the numerous people who gave me feedback on the first edition, as I have tried to incorporate every useful piece of advice they offered In that vein, should you somehow provide feedback on this edition, either good, bad, or otherwise, the more practical and constructive the comments are, the more likely they will have some positive effect on this book The first print edition that was widely available came out in 2008, yet much of it was written during the period of 1997 to 2001, with one major update to the chapter on Models of the Stages of Enlightenment around 2006 to 2007 However, since then many important events have occurred and lots of useful reader and user feedback has been provided that have made me feel that my recently released work was already in need of revision, and so this second edition has come to be Numerous sections have been considerably expanded, particularly the section on concentration, and many things have been rearranged I have also added an autobiographical section at the end that hopefully will help explain the backstory of some of what you will find in this book People kept asking for those sorts of details, as well as getting parts of my history very wrong in the absence of that information Hopefully these points will help clarify things of some practical value On the other hand, some people pleaded with me to remove even the small autobiographical details that were in MCTB1 I have clearly gone in the other direction, with the basic underlying principle being that I think we should talk (and write) openly about these topics, and not doing so in the previous book clearly had a hypocritical element to it and failed to convey some points that I think are useful for practice and life I have also added more map geekery, as that technical information doesn't appear in many other places that I am aware of, so I just basically let it rip Again, these were the details that I wanted when I was coming up in dharma, so I pass these on assuming someone else out there will appreciate them as I did If it is too much for you, then ignore it, as the basic practices work regardless of whether you are a map-freak like I am I would like to thank members of the Dharma Overground and its sister communities (both living and defunct), without which much in my life and practice simply would not be nearly as good, and for them I am very grateful, as they have enhanced my understanding of the wide world of what is possible and useful in countless ways I hope you will find something in this second edition that helps your practice and enhances your life no-self door, 120, 261, 472, 473 note first, ask questions later, 49 Nothingness, 175, 338, 473 nothing to attain, 408 Nothing To Do School, 407 No-Thought models, 318, 366 noting, 44, 197, 200, 253, 464, 467, 471, 569 nuclear physicist, 408 Nyanatiloka, 349, 547 Ogion the Silent, 520 oil lamps, 553 old age, 456 Oliver Burkeman, 30 omniscience, 116 once-returner, 320, 330, 489 One by One as They Occurred, 279, 467 One Fortunate Attachment, 118 one-liner, 314, 383 one taste, 571 one technique freak, 28 one vehicle, 404 online Dharma, 405 only one true track, 312 On the Path to Freedom, 10, 205 on the ride, 211 optimal magick, 545 optionality, 231 ordinary lives, 62 ordinary magick, 536 ordinary mind, 392 ordinary suffering, 60 ordinary world, 57 orgasm, 376 orgasmic second jhana, 164 orifi relaxing of, 412 original face, 261 oscilloscope, 188 Other models, 319 out about attainments, 422 out-of-body, 139, 205, 443, 444, 497, 505, 528, 533, 540 out-of-body travel, 361 out of phase third jhana and, 165 Oxford English Dictionary as portal, 476 P8JP, 179, 267, 339, 350, 526 Pure Abodes and, 347 Pa Auk Sayadaw, 156, 179, 524 Pabongka Rinpoche, 495 package fallacy, 312 Package models, 12, 312 bhumis and, 344 Padmasambhava, 493, 573 pain, 202, 384, 411, 452 meditation on, 32 Pali canon, 490 Paliglots, 171 Panditarama, 90, 451 Panditarama Lumbini, 90, 567 panic, 563 panoramic, 325 fourth jhana, 168 paper tigers, 216 paradox, 389 effort and surrender, 36 of desire, 67 true self and no-self, 371 paramis, 427 paranoia, 296 Paravahera Vajiranana Mahathera, 547 parents, 219 particles, 453 Part Way Up the Mountain School, 357 passive aggression, 56, 329 Pasteur, Louis, 415 past lives, 268, 514, 517, 528 of the Buddha, 427 Path, 256, 323 path of accumulation, 345 path of meditation, 345 path of seeing, 345 Path of Serenity and Insight, 496 path of unification, 345 paths, 300, 570 Path to Deliverance, 349, 547 path-working, 524 peace, 55, 241 peasants, 393 pedestal, xx, 439 Pema Chödrön, 229 Penang, 559 pentacles, 541 pentagrams, 540 drawing in air, 555 Pentecostals, 506 perfect awareness, 326 perfected person, 330 Perfect Internet Behavior model, 359 perfect self-diagnosis fallacy, 312 Perfect Speech models, 358 periphery of attention, 289 permanence fallacy, 312 pernicious convergence, 312 Perpetual Bliss models, 319, 381 perseverance, 421 personality nirmanakaya, 383 personality belief, 331, 489 personality disorders, 77, 395, 508, 510 phala, 256 phase tuning, 188 phenomenology, 260 Phil Hine, 502 philosophy, 196 photographic memory, 326 Physical models, 318, 375 Buddha and, 379 physician card, 218 pillory, xx pitfalls, 10 pixies, 538 plausibility, 543 play, 63 Pleiades, 337 pliant, 528 PMS, 200 point of no return, xv, 208 poppy field jhanas and, 149 Portlandia, 208 positive attitude, 10 post-eighth junction point, 179 postures, 96 jhana and, 160 power teachers and, 79 power plays, 365 powers, 205, 247, 498 benefits, 531 cultivating, 524 insight stages and, 291 listed, 517 three doors and, 260 Powers models, 318, 359 Practical Insight Meditation, 45, 194, 244, 255, 466 practice-enlightenment, 337 Pragmatic Dharma, 3, 77 pragmatism, 463 meaning and, 402 prana, 318, 361 precepts arahants and, 356 pregnancy, 218 pride, 331 skillful use of, 452 private magick, 539, 545 private powers, 520 prognostication, 509, 538 progressive relaxation, 442 progressive schools, 322 progress of insight, 193 projection, 364, 437 props, 108 props, magickal, 541 psychoanalysis, 332 psychological games, 365 psychological issues Dark Night and, 214 Psychological models, 318, 363 psychological work, 365 psychology, 196 psychopaths, 234, 513 psychosis, 507 kundalini and, 361 psychotherapy, 116 psychotic break, 231 psychotic episodes, xxi, 125 PTSD, 445 public consensual magick, 539 public magick, 541, 545 public non-consensual magick, 540 pudendal nerve, 377 Pure Abodes, 347, 350, 360 Pure Land Buddhism, 387 pure presence, 348 pyromancy, 541, 555 qi, 509 quieter, 366 rabbit's foot, 538 rabid oxen, 36 Radiance models, 318, 378 rage, 130 rains retreat, 428 raising arizona, 37, 431 rapture, 50, 55, 204, 295, 355 first jhana and, 161 second jhana, 164 raptures, 51, 197 rating system, 79 rationalizations, 406 raving lunatics, 335 real, 501 Reality School, 357 reality testing, 222 Dark Night and, 237 realms, 331 rebirth, 331, 412 reclining, 96 red dot, 182, 282, 553 first jhana and, 150 red flags, 304 red kasina, 554 reference point, 332 reform, 327 Reginald Ray, 495 reintegration, 94 releases, 207 Removal of Distracting Thoughts, 134 René Descartes, 210 renown, 427 renunciate Dark Night and, 219 renunciation, 59, 275 Re-observation, 226, 427, 465, 472 repetitious minds, 224 repressing emotions, 130 repression, 56 resentment, 10 residency fear of, 559 resolutions, 99, 510 powers and, 521 resolve, 99 restlessness, 31, 47, 328 restlessness and worry, 331, 490 retreat, 552, 559 retreats, 86, 88, 197, 299, 461 post-retreat, 94 Review, 273, 301, 339, 475, 481 Revised Four-Path model, 335, 353 rice farmer, 297 richness, 346 Right Action, 70 Right Concentration, 70, 529 Right Effort, 70 Right Intention, 70 Right Livelihood, 70, 433 Right Mindfulness, 70 Right Speech, 70, 113 perfection of, 358 Right Thought, 134 Right View, 70 Rigpa, 325 third path and, 336 rites and rituals, 109, 489 rituals, 333 Robert Burns, xxii, 493, 555 Robert Harry Hover, 202 robes, 78 robot-like, 199 Rob Preece, 129 role-models, 411 rolling up the mat stage, 230 Root Institute, 469 Root of All Things, 375 rose bushes, 444 Rumi, 119, 261, 390 runes, 528 rupa-lokas, 347 Rupert Sheldrake, 503 Saccavibhanga Sutta fourth jhana and, 155 sadness, 223, 328 Saint, 330 saints, 378, 460 Saints & Psychopaths, 280, 425 sakadagami, 330 sakhras, 412 salvia divinorum, 209 samadhi, 13 samatha, 13 sambhogakaya, 385 samsara, 445, 562 Samsara, 385 Sam Vaknin, 395 sangha, 103 Sariputta, 279, 312, 343, 422 Satan, 540 Satipatthana Sutta, 44 Sayadaw U Jotika, 195 Sayadaw U Pandita, 10, 147, 195, 293, 420, 466, 469, 559, 560, 564 Sayadaw U Pandita Jr., 10, 559, 563, 564 Sayadaw U Rajinda, 45, 464 played a tape, 465 Sayadaw Vivekananda, 568 Scarecrow, 398 schedule, 92 schizophrenia, 505, 508 scientific materialism, xvii, 498, 502 scientific materialists, xvii, 412, 514 scripting, 297 Sean Pritchard, 212 second jhana, 151 Second Noble Truth, 67 second path, 119, 330, 334, 335, 346, 476, 477, 480, 489 bhumi and, 344 of Five Paths, 345 teaching and, 426 second shamatha jhana, 164, 295 second vipassana jhana, 206, 241, 281 Secret Drugs of Buddhism, 127 Secret of the Vajra World, 495 sectarianism, 392 self, 34 ego and, 331 elimination of, 372 self-absorption, 331 self-exaltation, 427 self-hatred, 130 self-hypnosis, 328 self-judgment, 130 self-liberate, 342 self-liberating phenomena, 324 self-loathing meditation on, 31 self-perfection lineage, 413 sensation-perceiving superstar, 326 sense doors five, 531 Sense of Being Stared At, 503 sense of humor, 51, 238 sensual pleasures, 427 Sephirot, 493 service work, 455 settling, 54 setup magickal, 544 Seven Deadly Sins, 31 Seven Factors of Awakening, 43, 146, 201, 568, 569 insight stages and, 294 second jhana and, 165 seventh jhana, 175 sex teachers and, 79 sexual arousal, 376, 384 sexuality, 208 shadow side, 128 modern meditation, 93 of Buddhism, 103 of goal-oriented practice, 125 of imagining teachers are perfect, 363 of map-based practice, 196 of no-self, 372 of repressing emotions, 329 of Vajrayana models, 346 shadow sides, 4, 10, 107, 439 action models and, 356 concentration practices, 16 retreat centers, 88 Shaila Catherine, 195 shaking, 207, 465 shamanic drum beat, 214 shamanism, 515 shamans, 126 shamatha See samatha shamatha jhanas, 145 awakening and, 347 second path and, 335 shamatha master, 411 shamatha practices, 533 Sharda Rogell, xxii, 54, 246, 329, 451, 462, 471, 491 Sharon Salzberg, 9, 69, 135, 549 Sherlock Holmes, 325 Shift into Freedom, 558 Shingon, 392 Shinzen Young, 220 shock, 457 Shorter Discourse on Voidness, 383, 462 Shunryu Suzuki, 54, 120 shunyata, 325, 344 sickness, 411 siddhi hangover, 507 siddhis See powers signposts, 304 Sila, Simple model, 335, 353 fractals and, 285 three yanas and, 403 sine wave, 285 single-mindedness, 544 single-pointedness, 161 siren, 219 sitting, 96 six realms, 331 six sense doors, 37, 118, 338, 563, 570, 571 link of, 412 sixth jhana, 173, 486 skeptical doubt, 331, 489 skepticism, 430 skillful means, 109 skillful vanity, 453 skulls, 186, 465 sky, 189 Skype, 494 slam-shifting, 481, 491 sleep need for, 287 sleep deprivation, 126 Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying, 362 Sleep models, 318, 361 sleep paralysis, 444 sloth, 31, 39, 47 sloth and torpor, 427 slow variant, 206 S N Goenka, 73, 90, 117, 255 sniffing, 465 snow, 383 SNRIs, 219 social commentary, xix Social models, 319, 397 Sogyal Rinpoche, 375 sotapanna, 330 space, 189, 324 space fluxes, 448 space-like meditative equipoise, 325 spasms, 202 Special models, 319, 392 Specific Knowledge models, 318, 362 Buddha and, 379 Specific Perception models, 318, 325 Spectrum of Consciousness, 417 speed of mind, 290 Spinning Swords, 246 spirals, 186 spirit animals, 508 spirit beings, 515 Spirit Rock, 91 spirits, 538, 540 spiritual friend, 397 spiritual materialism, 392 spiritual superstars, 387 spirit world, 531 Spirograph, 186 Spock, 502 Squids, 450 SSRIs, 219 stabilization psychiatric, 508 stages of insight, 145 jhanas and, 279 standard pattern, 241 standing, 96 starchild, 319 Star Trek, 502 Start Where You Are, 229 St Augustine, 225 stealth magick, 539 St John of the Cross, 119, 195, 390 stone, 329 stones, 452 stone wall, 452 stream enterers, 330, 335 grades of, 269 stream entry, 256, 322, 333, 346, 365, 430, 467, 472, 481 dependent origination and, 571 first bhumi and, 344 God and, 370 second of five paths and, 345 street children, 460 Strong Technique Schools, 274 stuff, 219, 235, 417 awakening and, 363 ditching, 406 jhanas and, 16 stupidity, 62 Subhana Barzaghi, 462 subject, 32, 412 fourth jhana and, 154 subjhanas, 284, 286, 492 second path and, 336 subñanas, 492 second path and, 336 substages, 483 substance abuse, 508 substates, 483 suchness, 247, 466 sudden awakening, 117, 320, 322 suffering, 29, 60, 131, 200, 236, 325, 459 as motivation, 50 end of, 69 fixation on, 52 fundamental, 30 Noble Truth, 65 suffering door, 261, 473, 560, 571 Sufism, 322, 369 sun, 383 super-determinism, 449 super-space, 174, 263, 385 superstition, 538 Supreme Net, 375 surrender effort and, 36 sushumna, 361 sutra mahamudra, 558 Sutta Nipatta, Swallowing the River Ganges, 195 swaying, 200 sweating, 204, 465 symbols, 493, 503 symphony, 244 synchronize, 247, 466 synchronizing, 57 synchronous, 546 synchrony, 543 syrup, 206, 465 tabi toe socks, 220 tai chi, 97, 188, 209, 376, 555 talkin’ out yo’ head, 93 tanha, 67 tantra, 120, 352, 494 gods and, 370 tantric beings, 515 tantric deity, 554 tantric visualization, 533 tao, 387 Tarin Greco, xxii tarot, 186, 524 TA Today, 363 teacher, 426 teachers, 76, 438 neuroses and, 363 teaching, 426 Teachings of a Buddhist Monk, 35 technical fourth path, 341 technical meditators, 205 technical practitioner, 411 telemarketers, 330 Ten Bodhisattva Bhumi model, 320 ten corruptions of insight, 204, 293 ten defilements, 331 Ten Fetter Model, 331, 352, 495 ten fetters, 331 Ten Perfections, 344, 427 tension, 51, 97 tensions, 328 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, 362 term wars, 14, 159, 569 territoriality, 430 terror, 222 terrorists, 330 testosterone, 377 Texas, 515 Thai Forest, 327 Thailand, 484 Thai Monastery, 462, 472 The 31 Planes of Existence, 347 The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, 30 The Buddha's Path to Deliverance, 156 The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, 343 The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom, 343 Thelema, 493, 524 The Mind Illuminated, 47 The Myth of Freedom, 343 The Path of Freedom, 145 The Path of Purification, 145 The Path of Serenity and Insight, 156, 195, 524 The Progress of Insight, 194 therapists, 438 Theravada, 120, 332, 392 Theravada Four-Path Model, 330 The Roots of Wisdom, 495 The Science of Enlightenment, 220 The Third Eye, 334 The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, 375 The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, 362 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 241 The Vinegar Tasters, 386 Thich Nhat Hanh, third eye, 189 third jhana, 152, 534 brahma viharas and, 549 third path, 330, 336, 346, 352, 403, 420, 480, 486 advice for attaining, 336 dependent origination and, 571 path of seeing and, 345 third path glass ceiling, 334 third shamatha jhana, 165 third vipassana jhana, 213, 229, 241, 281 Re-observation and, 239 third path and, 338 this is it, 315 thoughts, 62 meditation on, 27 three characteristics, 46, 54, 58, 68, 115, 125, 132, 138, 198, 200, 214, 255, 281, 295, 325, 328, 338, 444, 475, 561, 563 Conformity and, 253 ignorance and, 412 introduction, 21 Misery and, 223 the powers and, 534 three doors, 119, 323, 489, 562 and the powers, 534 Arising and Passing Away and, 210 definition of, 259 dependent origination and, 571 Three Illusions, 115, 198, 262, 419 Nothingness and, 177 three kayas, 382 three trainings, 58 five spiritual faculties and, 41 teachers and, 78 three ultimate dharmas, 374, 386, 399 three yanas, 403 throat tensions, 198 Tibet, 128 Tibetan Book of the Dead, 195 time, 339 Time and Space models, 318, 324 timeless, 387 time pressure, 324, 355 tingles, 205 tiredness, 39, 384 TMJ, 201, 202 Tolstoy, 449 Tom Pepper, 176, 337, 386 Tom Spector, 417 tonglen, 545 toothless dog, 228 toroid, 262 torpor, 31, 39, 47 torticollis, 201 tourist of the powers, 529 Tracing Back the Radiance, 136, 495 traditionalists, 321 Training the Mind, 135, 495 tranquility, 52, 295 transactional analysis, 363 transcendence, 41 and intimacy, 386 Transcendence models, 319, 388 Buddha and, 379 transcendent mystic, 411 Transcending Madness, 132, 331 transference, 364, 438 transience See impermanence trap, 56 traps, 132, 295 trauma, 111 traveling, 139, 205, 505, 517, 533 Tree of Life, 524 tri-ality, 249 tribal identity, 514 tribal loyalty, xvii trolls, 538 true desire, 542 true self, 120, 386 True Self sixth jhana and, 174 True Self models, 371 Tsai Chih Chung, 495 T S Eliot, 449 tummo, 204 TV snow, 25 Twelfth Path, 303, 339, 491 twelve links, 411 two fingers, 26, 204 U Ba Khin, 73 Udana, 320 Ultimate models, 399 Ultimate Reality models, 319 ultimate source, 373 Uncle Sid, xvii unconscious magick, 537 underwater third jhana and, 166 unity, 198 Unity models, 318, 370 true self and, 372 unknowing experiences, 62, 177, 266 unnatural magick, 542 unreal, 400 Unreality models, 319 untangled, 340, 560, 563 untied, 340 Upaka, 378 Upanishads, 120, 460 upekkha, 545 Ursula K Le Guin, 520 Vajrayana, 129, 403, 494 on the powers, 519 three kayas in, 383 Vajrayana models, 345, 352 Vakkali, 384 Vann Joines, 363 Varanasi, 456 vedana, 52, 291, 412, 570, 571 fourth jhana and, 155 Vedanta, 13, 321 thoughts and, 367 true self and, 371 Vedas, 460 vegetarianism, 89 Venerable Mage, 411 vengeance, 522 vertigo, 555 via negativa, 314 vibrations, 139, 206 counting, 24 introduction, 22 Viktor E Frankl, 237 Vimuttimagga, 156, 179, 349, 496, 551 on brahma viharas, 550 on the powers, 524 Vince Horn, xxii, 72 vipassana, 563 shadow sides of, 493 Vipassana hierarchy of, 253 vipassana jhanas, 145, 194, 278, 338 vipassana romances, 208 Virgin Mary, 514, 541 virtual monastery, 218 visions, 51 visualization, 187, 206, 443, 506, 531 first jhana and, 150 fourth jhana and, 169 second jhana and, 164 third jhana and, 166 visualizing, 493, 497 visual purple, 162, 182 Visuddhimagga, 156, 179, 195, 204, 293, 349, 496, 550 list of powers in, 518 on brahma viharas, 547 on the powers, 524 vividness, 323 Void, 177, 373, 387 void-like potential, 263 voidness, 325 volitional formations, 412, 570, 571 vortex, 207 vortices, 186, 207 vows of secrecy, 427 walking, 96 walking meditation, 560 walking wounded, 235 wall beating head against, 54 wallowing, 363 wandering, 48 wands, 493, 541 warning, xxi watcher, 32, 33, 374, 412 jhana and, 348 water, 189 water buffalo, 320 Wazoo Tulku, 422 Well of Creation, 374 Western psychology uses of, 364 wet insight, 149 What is it?, 45 What is this?, 44 When in doubt, note it out!, 49 When Things Fall Apart, 229 whining, 111 white kasina, 169, 497 Who am I?, 336 Whole Person Tour, 222 Wicca, 524 Wiccans cone of power, 450 Wikiyana, 405 William Blake, 127 William Ely Hill, 34 Willoughby Britton, 217, 507 wisdom, 58, 132, 515 as magick, 551 as third training, 17 gold standard, 19 spiritual faculty, 38 wisdom eye, 334, 340 wisely selfish, 461 wise remorse, 10, 223 wise shaman, 411 witch, 540 Arising and Passing Away and, 444 wizard, 540 Wizard of Earthsea, 520 Wizard of Oz, 149, 398 wonder, 51, 241 Wonders of the Natural Mind, 362 Wonder Woman, 343 wooden box, 571 worry, 31, 47 wrong concentration, 529 wrong view, 31 yak farmers, 393 Yodo, 470 yoga, 209, 376 yoga-butt, 319, 376 yogi mind, 93 You Are Already There School, 407 Yvonne Weier, 54, 471 zazen, 120 Zen, 120, 128, 196, 255, 322, 392 and the powers, 519 thoughts and, 367 Zen master, 411, 462 continuous mistake, 432 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, 54, 120 ... Models The Unity Models The True Self Models The Physical Models The Biological Models The Radiance Models The Karma Models The Perpetual Bliss Models The Three Kayas The Immortality Models The. .. Transcendence Models The Extinction Models The Love Models The Equanimity Models The No-Preferences Models The Special Models The Social Models The Ultimate Reality versus Unreality Models The Meaning Models.. .MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA AN UNUSUALLY HARDCORE DHARMA BOOK REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION BY THE ARAHANT DANIEL M INGRAM AEON First published in 2018 by Aeon Books