Content of Divine Light and Dhamma Light

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• Introduction
• Chapter One: General Views on Kanni System
  • Kanni Meditation System
  • The Source
  • Ledi Sayadaw and Letpan Sayadaw
  • Kanni Sayadaw U Sobhitā (1880–1967)
  • Mye-zin Sayadaw U Sobhita (1920–2006)
  • General View on Practice
  • Mye-zin Sayadaw
  • Sayā U Htay Hlaing
  • The Practice
    • 1. Development of Samādhi
    • 2. Development of Insight
  • Samatha–Vipassanā System of Kanni Sayadaw
    • On Samatha (Part One)
    • On Samatha (Part Two)
  • On Vipassanā
    • Three Ways of Contemplation
    • Seeing Aniccas in Five Ways
• Chapter Two: Dhammacakkhu (Eye of Dhamma)
  • Ledi Sayadaw’s Ovāda (Exhortation)
  • How to Cultivate and Use the Paṭibhāga Nimitta?
    • The Way of Sending the Nimitta (Back and Forth)
  • Instructional Dhamma on Practice
    • Preliminary Duties
    • Asking Forgiveness
    • Offering Mind and Body to the Buddhas
  • First Development: Recollection of the Buddha, etc.
  • Breath Meditation (Counting Method)
    • Beginning and Ending the Sitting
  • Exercising the Samādhi Nimitta
    • Sending the Light Sign Within One’s Room
    • Sending the Light Within the Monastery and Outside It
    • From One Mile to Within Seven Miles
    • Visiting Pagodas Inside Burma
    • Visiting Pagodas in India and Sri Lanka (Including the Culāmaṇi Cetiya)
    • Passing Through the Face and Ears
    • Cutting the Whole Body with Light
  • Calming the Mind
    • Insight in Gist
    • Note by Ven. U. Mandala
• Chapter Three: Dassana Pāragū (Seeing Beyond)
  • Instructional Dhamma Talks on Ānāpāna Samādhi
    • Fifteen Qualities of a Practising Yogi
    • Five Qualities for Realisation
    • Good Life and Good Time
    • Offering Which the Buddha Prefers
    • Don’t Pack Things Which Must Be Left Behind
    • Bodhisatta and the Human Hell
    • Noble Beings Fear Heaven
    • Even Though Looking After, Not Safe
    • A Place to Overcome Weariness
    • Five Unsure Things
    • The Story of Yogi U Taw Moung
  • Sabbathaka Kamatthana: The Meditations of Many Benefits
    • On Recollection of the Buddha
      • Things to be Careful of in Buddhānussati
      • Recollection And Mind States
    • Meditation on Good-Will
      • How To Spread Mettā
      • Spreading Mettā to the 10 Directions
      • Spreading Compassion Cures Illness
    • Recollection of Death
      • The Way of Practice Which the Buddha Prefers
  • Ānāpānasati – Mindfulness of Breathing
  • The First Tetrad of Ānāpānasati
    • Part One: “First is Stable Sati”
      • No Need to Give Up Life in Practice
      • The Way of Practice
      • The Kanni Method of Counting
      • The Practical Method of Counting
      • Things to Be Aware of During Counting
      • Guarding the Path Factors
      • Becoming a Good Worldling
      • Talking about the Practice
      • Four Persons
      • Three Kinds of Signs
      • Insights from the Abhidhammattha Sangaha
      • "With Lightness and Agility"
    • Part Two: “Second, Knowing Long and Short Breaths”
      • Things to Know Before the Practice
      • The Way of Sending the Sign (First Lesson)
      • Examples of What to Be Careful Of
      • Five Examples of Balanced Effort
      • Three Kinds of Sitting
      • Final Note from Sayadaw:
      • Three Aspects of the Mind (Ākāra)
      • Developing with Three Ways of Contemplation (bhāvetabba)
      • Criticism on Samatha
      • Contemplation of Sending the Sign Forward
      • Sending the Sign Two Miles Above
      • Don’t Become a Spirit Mediator or Magician
      • Paying Pilgrimage to Cetiyas in Heavens
      • Sending Out the Sign
      • Dhamma-Cakkhu Attainer — Yogi Daw Khin Thein Who Lost Her Vision
      • Except in This Way, We Can't Save Her
      • Invaluable Gem
      • The First Cetiya in the World
      • Except This, No Other Ways to Save Her
      • Confidence Rising Up to the Top
      • For the Suffering Beings
    • Part Three: “All Bright at the Third Stage”
      • Just Know Without Concern
      • “The Beginning, the Middle and the End” In and Out, Up and Down, Front and Back, Left and Right
      • The End of Feet and the End of Head
      • Worry of the Ground to be Collapsed
      • Left and Right; Front and Back
      • Arriving at Super-serpent and Hell Realms (Nāga and Avīci Niraya)
      • Even the Buddha Taught With Evidences
      • We Are Old Now!
      • Exposing of Hell and Heaven
      • Should Extend the Sign or Not Extend
      • Treasures Covering of Universe
      • Passing Through Face and Ear
      • Memory of the Twin Miracles of the Buddha
      • Cutting of the Whole Body
      • The Whole World Is Empty
      • Usage of the Practice (Vohāras)
      • Extra Prize to Daw Mya Mya Win
      • Crying at Practice
      • Can't Run Away From Kammic Debts
      • Diseases Are Saying Good-bye
    • Part Four: "At Fourth, Let It Calm Down"
      • “Let It Be Calmed”
      • Seven Beings With No Breathing
      • Be Careful, Can Fall Down
      • The Four Pabhavana Dhammas
      • Three Appearances of the Body
      • Not Easy to Attain Paṭibhāga-Nimitta
      • Problem of Some Writings
      • The Buddha Praised Ānāpāna
      • Text Knowledge From Young; Now Is Direct Experience
      • The Five Hindrances and Its Similes
      • Representative of In and Out Breaths
      • Access Form, Access Mind
      • Take One’s Own Share
      • Not Knowing Is More Difficult Than Not Having
      • Ledi Sayadaw's Exhortation
      • Ledi Sayadaw and Paṭibhāga Nimitta
      • Ledi Sayadaw and Let-pan Sayadaw
      • Ledi Sayadaw's 35th Vassa (1900)
      • Health Problem
      • On the Way to Monywa
• Chapter Four: Yogis' Experiences
  • Experiences in the Third Retreat (by Sayadaw U Nandavaṃsa)
    • Sixty Days at Rathapāla Dhamma Yeiktha
    • Yogi Daw Yin Yin
    • Rathapāla Dhamma Yeiktha
    • Samatha Meditation
    • Insight Meditation
  • Taste of Dhamma (Dhammarasa) (by Yogi U Kyaw Win)
• Conclusion

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