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The Buddha's Step-by-Step Guide for Awakening
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"Final knowledge is achieved by gradual training, by gradual practice, by gradual progress." MN 70  
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Dedication 
Abbreviations and Notes 
Preface 
Introduction 
The Discourse on the Fruits of the Spiritual Life [abridged & storyfied] 
Going Forth 
Keeping the Precepts  The First Three 
Keeping the Precepts  Right Speech 
Keeping the Precepts  Additional Precepts 
Restraint of the Sense Faculties 
Mindfulness And Clear Comprehension 
Contentment with Little 
The Five Hindrances 
Access Concentration and the Jhana Summary 
The Jhanas 
Insight Practice 
The Psychic Powers 
Ending the Āsavas 
Additional Gradual Training Factors 
The Gradual Training and The Eightfold Path 
Afterword 
Appendix 1: Questions & Answers 
Appendix 2: Gradual Training Factors As Found in Various Suttas 
Appendix 3: The Similes in the Gradual Training 
Appendix 4: The 4 Stages of Awakening (various opinions) 
Appendix 5: DN 2.45 
Appendix 6: The Gradual Training and The Maṅgala Sutta 
Acknowledgements 
Bibliography 
Licenses and Credits 
Glossary 
Index 
About the Author 
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