THE TRAGIC, THE COMIC AND THE PERSONAL 

CONTENTS  

THE LETTERS  

I.  Good action, I 
2.  Metta in meditation and in life, 2 
3.  Addiction, 4 
4.  Love and death, 11 
5.  Positives and negatives, 12 
6.  Towards realization of the Dhamma, 15 
7.  The phenomenological method, 16 
8.  Reflexive and immediate experience, 18 
9.  Fear of death, 19 
10. The Laws of Thought and the problem of existence, 20 
11. Conceptual thought and reflection, 23 
12. Revolt with intelligence, 25 
13. Western thought; impermanence, 26 
14. Three kinds of trainees, 28  
15. The Suttas and outside philosophies, 31 
16. The Law of Identity, 31 
17. Mindfulness; Huxley's  Island, 32 
18. Meditation: a non-mystical practice, 34 
19. Ignorance and reality, 38 
20. Desire to end desire, 40 
21. Sending good wishes, 41 
22. Dhamma and socialism, 42  
23. Interpreting the Canon, 44 
24. Numinous experience, 46 
25. A good life and a good death, 50 
26. The autonomous mood, 52 
27. Ulysses: a glimpse of futility, 55 
28. Humour, 56 
29. Laughter and fear, 66 
30. a. Investigation of laughter, 68 
    b. Existentialist idiom and Sutta idiom, 71 
31. Who judges? And with what as standard?, 77  

Editorial Notes, 83 

Pali-English Glossary, 87