Starting Out Small

- suttas - - evening talks - short morning talks - lectures - guided meditations - talk collections - other themes - chants - - - - à¹à¸à¸¢ - Franā§ais - Espaā±ol - - Portuguāªs - РÑÑÑкий - - - УкÑаÑнÑÑка Submit Search - Home - Books - Starting Out Small ## Starting Out Small A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators Phra Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo Published October 27, 1999 ⢠Revised September 5, 2016 Enlarge In this collection of talks Ajaan Lee covers the sorts of questions that occur to people new to meditation—Why meditate? How should I meditate? And why in that particular way?—and in his own style he provided not only straightforward answers to these questions but also vivid analogies, to help his listeners relate their meditation to familiar activities so that they would feel less intimidated by the uncharted areas of the minds they were trying to tame. Read online ## Download Options - epub (690.4 kB) - azw3 (490.0 kB) - pdf (1.4 MB) - kobo (713.3 kB) - Help: "Which format do I need?" - The EPUB format is suitable for most e-readers, except Kobos and Kindles. This includes most e-reader applications on mobile phones and tablets (e.g. Apple's iBooks, various apps for Android), and on desktops (e.g. Calibre). - Kindle owners will generally want the AZW3 format. Unfortunately, AZW3s cannot be sent with Amazon's Send to Kindle service and need to be sideloaded via USB. Some have tried using Send to Kindle to send EPUBs, but with mixed success. - Kobo owners will want kobo's "KEPUB" format, which is a version of the EPUB format optimized for Kobo e-readers. ## Table of Contents - Cover - Titlepage - Copyright - Introduction - Part I Toggle subsection - Brightness Within - The Light of Discernment - Clinging - Letting Go - Three Principles - Three Strands of a Rope - At the Gate of a Cattle-pen - Starting Out Small - Housework & Fieldwork - Strength for the Journey - Into Position - Two Guardian Meditations - Playing Host - An Image of the Buddha - Binoculars - The Electric Heart - Restraint of the Senses - Snakes, Fires, & Thieves - Enduring Principles - Part II Toggle subsection - Merit - On Target - The Art of Letting Go - At the Tip of Your Nose - Part III Toggle subsection - Fragments - Understanding the World & the Dhamma - Inner Eyes - Noble & True - Recollection of Virtue - Treating the Mind - Dedication ## Cover image - --> - - - -