by William Hart
includes parables, questions and answers from real students, and a great introduction to Vipassana meditation and overview of the 10-day course
notes & quotes:
“Unless we investigate the world within we can never know reality—we will only know our beliefs about it, or our intellectual conceptions of it.” p. 6
“Being sensitve to the suffering of others does not mean you must become sad yourself.” p. 19
“instinctual assertion” of “I” p. 28
“Each of us is, in fact, a stream of constantly changing subatomic particles, along with which the processes of conciousness, perception, sensation, reaction change even more rapidly than the physical process.” p. 29
the cause of suffering is reaction (ch. 3)
attachment p. 46