Contents:
Introduction

Chapter I Cultivating Compassion
1 The Nature of Compassion
2 Compassion and Morality
3 Compassion and the Four Noble Truths
4 Compassion and Teaching
5 Compassion and Seclusion
6 Compassion in Meditation
7 The Objects of Meditative Compassion
8 Summary

Chapter II Contextualizing Compassion
1 Benevolence
2 Kindness in Daily Conduct
3 Facing Aggression
4 Mental Beauty
5 Compassion and Sympathetic Joy
6 Compassion and Equipoise
7 Compassion and the Other Divine Abodes
8 Summary

Chapter III Maturing Compassion
1 The Benefits of Benevolence
2 Compassion and Absorption
3 Compassion and Karma
4 Compassion and Insight
5 Compassion and the Awakening Factors
6 Compassion and Infinite Space
7 Summary

Chapter IV Empty Matter
1 The Nature of Being Empty
2 A Gradual Meditative Entry into Emptiness
3 Earth
4 Infinite Space
5 Infinite Space and Compassion
6 Summary

Chapter V Empty Mind
1 Infinite Consciousness
2 The Nature of Consciousness
3 Dependent Arising
4 The Bahiya Instruction
5 Emptiness in Daily Life
6 Summary

Chapter VI Empty of Self
1 Nothingness
2 Imperturbability
3 Not-self
4 Signlessness
5 Realization of Emptiness
6 The Dynamics of Emptiness
7 Summary

Chapter VII Practical Instructions
1 Laying the Foundation
2 Compassion and the Other Divine Abodes
3 The Radiation Practice
4 Emptiness Meditation
5 Summary

Chapter VIII Translations
1 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Karajakaya-sutta
2 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Cuasuññata-sutta
3 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Mahasuññata-sutta

Abbreviations and References

Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation