Awakening as a Skill

Awakening as a Skill

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Awakening as a Skill

Essays and dialogues on practice, insight, and the end of suffering.

Selected writings of Stefan. Download as PDF.

Part I. Awakening as a Skill

Awakening as a Skill: A Path of Insight

Part II. MCTB and the Architecture of Practice

MCTB: An Evaluation and Implications for Practice

Part III. Fetters, Paths, and the Three Characteristics

Hints, Tips, and Musings
Fetters, Paths, and Just What the Heck Are We Doing?
The Three Characteristics: Becoming a Hero, Not a Victim

Part IV. Dependent Origination

Getting Familiar with the Middle Links of Dependent Origination
How vs. Why: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Dependent Origination
Intentions and Consciousness

Part V. Anatta

Having Fun With Anatta

Part VI. Working With Difficult Material

Let's Talk About Hate
The Itch

Part VII. Thought Catalogues

Thought Catalogue #1
Thought Catalogue #2

Part VIII. Recommended Reading

Recommended Books for Meditation and Purification

Part IX. Process and Content

Psychology and Spirituality

Part X. The Three Characteristics, Revisited

Seeing the 3Cs Clearly
No-Self and Impermanence as Insights

Part XI. The Mental Prison

Slave to the Grind
Fear of Stream Entry

Part XII. Mindfulness as Intention

You Do Not Lack the Capacity
Mindfulness in Everyday Life
When You Don't Feel Like Meditating
Forty-Five Minutes

Part XIII. Compassion, Empathy, and Craving

Compassion Is Not Empathy
Chanda and Tanha

Part XIV. A Baseline

What Life Looks Like at Third Path
Fourth Path
Anxiety, Depression, and the Path
A Practice Guide for Pre-Stream-Entry

Part XV. Through the Texts

The Analayo and Ingram Dispute
On Following the Dharma
Dependent Origination, Middle Links: A Companion Note

Part XVI. On Groups

Why Ideology Hurts

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Written by Stefan (u/Ok-Witness1141, u/deliciousMixture-4-8). Published with his approval. About.