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I. The Human Condition
1. Old Age, Illness, and Death
(1) Aging and Death (SN 3.3)
(2) The Simile of the Mountain (SN 3.25)
(3) The Divine Messengers (from AN 3.35)
2. The Tribulations of Unreflective Living
(1) The Dart of Painful Feeling (SN 36.6)
(2) The Vicissitudes of Life (AN 8.6)
(3) Anxiety Due to Change (SN 22.7)
3. A World in Turmoil
(1) The Origin of Conflict (AN2. iv, 6, abridged) [AN 2.37]
(2) Why Do Beings Live in Hate? (from DN 21)
(3) The Dark Chain of Causation (from DN 15)
(4) The Roots of Violence and Oppression (from AN 3.69)
4. Without Discoverable Beginning
(1) Grass and Sticks (SN 15.1)
(2) Balls of Clay (SN 15.2)
(3) The Mountain (SN 15.5)
(4) The River Ganges (SN 15.8)
(5) Dog on a Leash (SN 22.99)
II. The Bringer of Light
1. One Person (AN 1. xiii, 1, 5, 6) [AN1.170-186]
2. The Buddha’s Conception and Birth (MN 123, abridged)
3. The Quest for Enlightenment
(1) Seeking the Supreme State of Sublime Peace (from MN 26)
(2) The Realization of the Three True Knowledges (from MN 36)
(3) The Ancient City (SN 12.65)
4. The Decision to Teach (from MN 26)
5. The First Discourse (SN 56.11)
III. Approaching the Dhamma
1. Not a Secret Doctrine (AN 3.129)
2. No Dogmas or Blind Belief (AN 3.65)
3. The Visible Origin and Passing Away of Suffering (SN 42.11)
4. Investigate the Teacher Himself (MN 47)
5. Steps toward the Realization of Truth (from MN 95)
IV. The Happiness Visible in This Present Life
1. Upholding the Dhamma in Society
2. The Family
(1) Parents and Children
(2) Husbands and Wives
3. Present Welfare, Future Welfare (AN 8.54)
4. Right Livelihood
(1) Avoiding Wrong Livelihood (AN 5.177)
(2) The Proper Use of Wealth (AN 4.61)
(3) A Family Man’s Happiness (AN 4.62)
5. The Woman of the Home (AN 8.49)
6. The Community
(1) Six Roots of Dispute (from MN 104)
(2) Six Principles of Cordiality (from MN 104)
(3) Purification Is for All Four Castes (MN 93, abridged)
(4) Seven Principles of Social Stability (from DN 16)
(5) The Wheel-Turning Monarch (from DN 26)
(6) Bringing Tranquillity to the Land (from DN 5)
V. The Way to a Fortunate Rebirth
1. The Law of Kamma
(1) Four Kinds of Kamma (AN 4.232)
(2) Why Beings Fare as They Do after Death (MN 41)
(3) Kamma and Its Fruits (MN 135)
2. Merit. The Key to Good Fortune
(1) Meritorious Deeds (It 22)
(2) Three Bases of Merit (AN 8.36)
(3) The Best Kinds of Confidence (AN 4.34)
3. Giving
(1) If People Knew the Result of Giving (It 26)
(2) Reasons for Giving (AN 8.33)
(3) The Gift of Food (AN 4.57)
(4) A Superior Person’s Gifts (AN 5.148)
(5) Mutual Support (It 107)
(6) Rebirth on Account of Giving (AN 8.35)
4.Moral Discipline
5. Meditation
(1) The Development of Loving-Kindness (It 27)
(2) The Four Divine Abodes (from MN 99)
(3) Insight Surpasses All (AN 9.20, abridged)
VI. Deepening One’s Perspective on the World
1. Four Wonderful Things (AN 4.128)
2. Gratification, Danger, and Escape
(1) Before My Enlightenment (AN 3.101 §§1–2) [3.103]
(2) I Set Out Seeking (AN 3.101 §3) [3.104]
(3) If There Were No Gratification (AN 3.105)
3. Properly Appraising Objects of Attachment (MN 13)
4. The Pitfalls in Sensual Pleasures
(1) Cutting Off All Affairs (from MN 54)
(2) The Fever of Sensual Pleasures (from MN 75)
5. Life Is Short and Fleeting (AN 7.70) [AN 7.74]
6. Four Summaries of the Dhamma (from MN 82)
7.The Danger in Views
(1) A Miscellany on Wrong View (AN 1. xvii, 1, 3, 7, 9) [AN1.306-308]
(2) The Blind Men and the Elephant (Ud 6.4)
(3) Held by Two Kinds of Views (It 49)
8. From the Divine Realms to the Infernal (AN 4.125)
9. The Perils of Saṃsāra
(1) The Stream of Tears (SN 15.3)
(2) The Stream of Blood (SN 15.13)
VII. The Path to Liberation
1. Why Does One Enter the Path?
(1) The Arrow of Birth, Aging, and Death (MN 63)
(2) The Heartwood of the Spiritual Life (MN 29)
(3) The Fading Away of Lust (SN 45.41–48, combined Part 1 Part 2 Part3)
2. Analysis of the Eightfold Path (SN 45.8)
3. Good Friendship (SN 45.2)
4. The Graduated Training (MN 27)
5. The Higher Stages of Training with Similes (from MN 39)
VIII. Mastering the Mind
1. The Mind Is the Key (AN 1. iii, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10) [AN1.21-30]
2. Developing a Pair of Skills
(1) Serenity and Insight (AN2. iii, 10) [AN2.31]
(2) Four Ways to Arahantship (AN 4.170)
(3) Four Kinds of Persons (AN 4.94)
3. The Hindrances to Mental Development (SN 46.55, abridged)
4. The Refinement of the Mind (AN 3.100 §§1–10) [AN 3.101]
5. The Removal of Distracting Thoughts (MN 20)
6. The Mind of Loving-Kindness (from MN 21)
7. The Six Recollections (AN 6.10) [Related: AN11.12 ]
8. The Four Establishments of Mindfulness (MN 10)
9. Mindfulness of Breathing (SN 54.13)
10. The Achievement of Mastery (SN 28.1–9,combined)
IX. Shining the Light of Wisdom
1.Images of Wisdom
(1) Wisdom as a Light (AN 4.143)
(2) Wisdom as a Knife (from MN 146)
2. The Conditions for Wisdom (AN 8.2, abridged)
3. A Discourse on Right View (MN 9)
4. The Domain of Wisdom
(1) By Way of the Five Aggregates
(a) Phases of the Aggregates (SN 22.56)
(b) A Catechism on the Aggregates (SN 22.82 = MN 109, abridged)
(c) The Characteristic of Nonself (SN 22.59)
(d) Impermanent, Suffering, Nonself (SN 22.45)
(e) A Lump of Foam (SN 22.95)
(2) By Way of the Six Sense Bases
(a) Full Understanding (SN 35.26)
(b) Burning (SN 35.28)
(c) Suitable for Attaining Nibbāna (SN 35.147, SN 35.148, SN 35.149, combined)
(d) Empty Is the World (SN 35.85)
(e) Conscious Too Is Nonself (SN 35.234)
(3) By Way of the Elements
(a) The Eighteen Elements (SN 14.1)
(b) The Four Elements (SN 14.37, SN 14.38, SN 14.39, combined)
(c) The Six Elements (from MN 140)
(4) By Way of Dependent Origination
(a) What Is Dependent Origination? (SN 12.1)
(b) The Stableness of the Dhamma (SN 12.20)
(c) Forty-Four Cases of Knowledge (SN 12.33)
(d) A Teaching by the Middle (SN 12.15)
(e) The Continuance of Consciousness (SN 12.38)
(f) The Origin and Passing of the World (SN 12.44)
(5) By Way of the Four Noble Truths
(a) The Truths of All Buddhas (SN 56.24)
(b) These Four Truths Are Actual (SN 56.20)
(c) A Handful of Leaves (SN 56.31)
(d) Because of Not Understanding (SN 56.21)
(e) The Precipice (SN 56.42)
(f) Making the Breakthrough (SN 56.32)
(g) The Destruction of the Taints (SN 56.25)
5. The Goal of Wisdom
(a) What is Nibbāna? (SN 38.1)
(b) Thirty-Three Synonyms for Nibbāna (SN 43.1– 44, combined)
(c) There Is That Base (Ud 8.1)
(d) The Unborn (Ud 8.3)
(e) The Two Nibbāna Elements (It 44)
(f) The Fire and the Ocean (from MN 72)
X. The Planes of Realization
1. The Field of Merit for the World
(1) Eight Persons Worthy of Gifts (AN 8.59)
(2) Differentiation by Faculties (SN 48.18) [Related: SN 48.10 ]
(3) In the Dhamma Well Expounded (from MN 22)
(4) The Completeness of the Teaching (from MN 73)
(5) Seven Kinds of Noble Persons (from MN 70)
2. Stream-Entry
(1) The Four Factors Leading to Stream-Entry (SN 55.5)
(2) Entering the Fixed Course of Rightness (SN 25.1)
(3) The Breakthrough to the Dhamma (SN 13.1)
(4) The Four Factors of a Stream-Enterer (SN 55.2) [Related: (SN 55.1) ]
(5) Better than Sovereignty over the Earth (SN 55.1)
3. Nonreturning
(1) Abandoning the Five Lower Fetters (from MN 64)
(2) Four Kinds of Persons (AN 4.169)
(3) Six Things that Partake of True Knowledge (SN 55.3)
(4) Five Kinds of Nonreturners (SN 46.3)
4. The Arahant
(1) Removing the Residual Conceit “I Am” (SN 22.89)
(2) The Trainee and the Arahant (SN 48.53)
(3) A Monk Whose Crossbar Has Been Lifted (from MN 22)
(4) Nine Things an Arahant Cannot Do (from AN 9.7)
(5) A Mind Unshaken (from AN 9.26)
(6) The Ten Powers of an Arahant Monk (AN 10.90)
(7) The Sage at Peace (from MN 140)
(8) Happy Indeed Are the Arahants (from SN 22.76)
5. The Tathāgata
(1) The Buddha and the Arahant (SN 22.58)
(2) For the Welfare of Many (It 84)
(3) Sāriputta’s Lofty Utterance (SN 47.12)
(4) The Powers and Grounds of Self-Confidence (from MN 12)
(5) The Manifestation of Great Light (SN 56.38)
(6) The Man Desiring Our Good (from MN 19)
(7) The Lion (SN 22.78)
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