AN UNENTANGLED KNOWING  

LESSONS IN TRAINING THE MIND  

Upasika  Kee Nanayon, who wrote under the pen name Acharn Kor Khao-suan-luang, was one of the foremost woman teachers of Dhamma in modern Thailand. Known for the simplicity of her way of life, and for the direct, uncompromising style of her teachings, she had a way with words evident not only in her talks, which attracted listeners from all over Thailand, but also in her poetry, which was widely published.    

The teachings in this book, drawn from her talks and poetry, deal with a wide range of issues in the training of the mind. In addition to covering techniques of meditation, such as mindfulness of breathing and the contemplation of the body, they go beyond technique to deal with habits of the meditator's heart: the earnest determination and penetrating honesty that are the only things capable of seeing through inner deception to true knowledge and freedom. 

Contents  

INTRODUCTION 1 

PROLOGUE 5 

PART  ONE: LOOKING INWARD 9 
The Practice in Brief 9 
An Hour's Meditation 11 
A Basic Order in Life 14 
Continuous Practice 17 
Every In-and-Out Breath 19 
Taking a Stance 20 
The Details of Pain 21 
Aware Right at Awareness, 27 
The Pure Present 37 
The Deceits of Knowing 40 
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta 45 
Going Out Cold 46 
Reading the Heart 49 

  
PART TWO: BREATH MEDITATION CONDENSED 51 

PART THREE: GOING AGAINST THE FLOW 63 
Mindfulness like the Pilings of a Dam 63 
The Battle Within 72  
All Things Are Unworthy of Attachment 84 
Simply Stop Right Here 101 

PART FOUR: A GOOD DOSE OF DHAMMA 

FOR MEDITATORS WHEN THEY ARE ILL 117

PART FIVE: READING THE MIND 137 
Discernment vs.  Self-deception 137 
A Difference in the Knowing 142 
The Balanced Way 145 
The Uses of Equanimity 146 
A Glob of Tar 148 
When Conventional Truths Collapse 151 
The Intricacies of Ignorance 156 
Emptiness vs. the Void 158 
Opening the Way in the Heart 160