Meditation : why and how -- Meditation affects our lives -- Calm and insight -- Four friends. Loving kindness ; Compassion ; Sympathetic joy ; Equanimity -- Loving-kindness meditation -- Five hindrances. Sensual desire ; Ill-will ; Sloth and torpor ; Restlessness and worry ; Sceptical doubt -- Kamma and rebirth -- The discourse on loving-kindness -- Four kinds of happiness -- The five aggregates -- Ten virtues -- The four noble truths and the noble eightfold path -- A new beginning