Vimuttimagga
Front
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A
Prefaces
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A.1
Electronic edition note
A.2
Dedication quote
A.3
Editorial data
A.4
Dedication
A.5
Prefatory Note to Original Draft Translation
A.6
Acknowledgments (Original Draft Translation)
A.7
Preface
B
In Memoriam: Soma Mahā Thera (1898—1960)
C
Introduction
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C.1
Tipiṭaka Sanghapāla Thera of Funan
C.2
The Visuddhimagga
C.3
The Vimuttimagga and the Visuddhimagga
D
Bibliography
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D.1
Abbreviations
The Path of Freedom
Vimuttimagga
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I
Introductory discourse
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1
Salutation
2
Introductory stanza
3
Path of freedom described
4
Merits of acknowledgement of the path
5
Three trainings
6
The meaning of training
7
Removal of impurities
8
The three kinds of good
9
The three kinds of happiness
10
Perfection of the middle way
II
On distinguishing virtue
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1
Virtue defined
2
Salient characteristic of virtue
3
Function, manifestation and near cause of virtue
4
Benefits of virtue
5
Meaning of virtue
6
Virtue and mode of life
7
Thee kinds of virtue
8
What produces virtue
9
Stages in virtue
10
Impediments and causes of virtue
11
Groups of virtue (various)
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11.1
First group of two in virtue
11.2
Second group of two in virtue
11.3
Third group of two in virtue
11.4
Fourth group of two in virtue
11.5
Fifth group of two in virtue
11.6
Sixth group of two in virtue
11.7
Seventh group of two in virtue
11.8
Eighth group of two in virtue
11.9
Ninth group of two in virtue
11.10
Tenth group of two in virtue
11.11
First group of three in virtue
11.12
Second group of three in virtue
11.13
Third group of three in virtue
11.14
Fourth group of three in virtue
11.15
Fifth group of three in virtue
11.16
Sixth group of three in virtue
11.17
Seventh group of three in virtue
11.18
Eighth group of three in virtue
11.19
First group of four in virtue
11.20
Second group of four in virtue
11.21
Third group of four in virtue
11.22
Fourth group of four in virtue
11.23
Fifth group of four in virtue
11.24
Fifth group of four in virtue summarized
12
What purifies virtue
13
Causes through which one dwells in virtue
III
On austerities
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1
The thirteen austerities
2
Brief explanation of the thirteen austerities
3
‘Dirt-rags’
4
‘Three robes’
5
‘Begged food’
6
‘Regular alms-round’
7
‘One-eating’
8
‘Measured food’
9
‘No food after time’
10
‘Dwelling in a peaceful place’
11
‘Dwelling under a tree’
12
‘Dwelling in a dewy place’
13
‘Dwelling among the graves’
14
‘Any chanced upon place’
15
‘Always sitting and not lying down’
16
Expedience in the observance of the austerities
17
Miscellaneous teachings
IV
On distinguishing concentration
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1
Meaning of concentration
2
Salient characteristic etc.
3
Benefits produced by concentration
4
Obstacles to concentration
5
Causes of concentration
6
Requisites of concentration
7
Kinds of concentration (Various)
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7.1
Two kinds of concentration
7.2
Three kinds of concentration
7.3
Four kinds of concentration
7.4
Five kinds of concentration
8
Miscellaneous teachings
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8.1
Why four and five meditations are taught
V
On approaching a good friend
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1
Qualities of a good friend
2
The search for a good friend
3
A beginner’s duties
VI
The distinguishing of behaviour
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1
Kinds of behaviour
2
Fourteen kinds of persons
3
Fourteen kinds reduced to seven
4
Modes of practice
5
Seven reduced to three
6
Causes of behaviour
7
Elements as causes of behaviour
8
The humours as causes of behaviour
9
Seven aspects of behaviour
10
On robbing, begging, sitting, sleeping and resort
11
Miscellaneous teachings
VII
The distinguishing of the subjects of meditation
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1
Thirty-eight subjects of meditation
2
Method of discovering the qualities
3
By way of meditation
4
By way of transcending
5
By way of increasing
6
By way of cause
7
By way of object
8
By way of speciality
9
By way of plane
10
By way of seizing
11
By way of person
VIII
Entrance into the subject of meditation
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1
Section One
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1.1
Earth kasiṇa, its practice, salient characteristic, function and near cause
1.2
Benefits
1.3
Meaning of kasiṇa
1.4
Kinds of earth
1.5
Non-prepared earth
1.6
On making a mandala
1.7
Method of earth kasiṇa meditation
1.8
Tribulations of sense-desires illustrated in twenty similes
1.9
Renunciation and its benefits
1.10
Method of practice of earth kasiṇa
1.11
Three ways of sign-taking
1.12
Grasping sign
1.13
The after-image
1.14
The sign
1.15
Protecting the sign
1.16
Access-meditation
1.17
Fixed meditation, jhāna
1.18
Increasing of the kasiṇa
1.19
Skilfulness in fixed meditation, jhāna
1.20
Ten ways
1.21
Simile of the horse-chariot
1.22
Simile of the inked-string
1.23
The first meditation, jhāna
1.24
Three kinds of separation from lust and demeritorious states
1.25
Two kinds of lust
1.26
Roots of demerit
1.27
Reasons for treating lust and demerit separately
1.28
Separation from demeritorious states
1.29
Difference between lust and demerit
1.30
Initial and sustained application of thought
1.31
Initial application and sustained application of thought discriminated
1.32
Similes of the bell etc.
1.33
Similes of the bird etc.
1.34
Solitude
1.35
Joy and bliss
1.36
Five kinds of joy
1.37
Bliss
1.38
Five kinds of bliss
1.39
Differences between joy and bliss
1.40
First meditation (jhāna)
1.41
Five hindrances
1.42
Five factors
1.43
Similes of chariot and army
1.44
Three kinds of goodness
1.45
Ten characteristics
1.46
Twenty-five benefits
1.47
Simile of the bath-attendant
1.48
Three kinds of rebirth
1.49
Meditation which partakes of deterioration, stability, distinction and penetration
2
Section Two
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2.1
The simile of the young cow
2.2
Entrance into the second meditation, jhāna
2.3
Simile of the pool of water
2.4
The third meditation, jhāna
2.5
Simile of the calf
2.6
Simile of the lotus pond
2.7
The fourth meditation, jhāna
2.8
Simile of the white cloth
2.9
The sphere of the infinity of space
2.10
The concentration of the sphere of infinite consciousness
2.11
The sphere of nothingness
2.12
The sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
2.13
Miscellaneous teachings
2.14
The water kasiṇa
2.15
The fire kasiṇa
2.16
The air kasiṇa
2.17
The blue-green kasiṇa
2.18
The yellow kasiṇa
2.19
The red kasiṇa
2.20
The white kasiṇa
2.21
The light kasiṇa
3
Section Three
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3.1
The (separated) space kasiṇa
3.2
The consciousness kasiṇa
3.3
Miscellaneous teachings
3.4
The ten perceptions of putrescence
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(1) The perception of bloatedness
(2) The perception of discolouration
(3) The perception of festering
(4) The perception of the fissured
(5) The perception of the gnawed
(6) The perception of the dismembered
(7) The perception of the cut and the dismembered
(8) The perception of the blood-stained
(9) The perception of worminess
(10) The perception of the bony
Miscellaneous teachings
The recollection of the Buddha
The recollection of the law
The recollection of the community of bhikkhus
The recollection of virtue
The recollection of liberality
The recollection of deities
4
Section Four
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4.1
Mindfulness of respiration
4.2
Benefits
4.3
Procedure
4.4
Counting, connection, contacting and fixing
4.5
Sixteen ways of training in mindfulness of respiration
4.6
The three trainings
4.7
The four foundations of mindfulness
4.8
The seven enlightenment factors
4.9
Mindfulness of death
4.10
Similes of the foam, plantain trunk and bubble
4.11
Mindfulness of body
4.12
Thirty-two parts of the body
4.13
Mindfulness in thirteen ways
4.14
The worms that rely on the body
4.15
Bones of the body
4.16
Impurity of the body
4.17
Some diseases
4.18
The recollection of peace
4.19
Miscellaneous teachings
5
Section Five
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5.1
The immeasurable thought of loving-kindness
5.2
Disadvantages of anger and resentment
5.3
Simile of the saw
5.4
Twelve means of removing hatred
5.5
Simile of the pond
5.6
Ten perfections
5.7
The four resolves
5.8
The immeasurable thought of compassion
5.9
The immeasurable thought of appreciative joy
5.10
The immeasurable thought of equanimity
5.11
Miscellaneous teachings
5.12
The determining of the four elements
5.13
Twenty ways of grasping the element of earth
5.14
Twelve ways of grasping the element of water
5.15
Four ways of grasping the element of fire
5.16
Six ways of grasping the element of air
5.17
The four elements
5.18
Simile of the puppet
5.19
The loathsomeness of food
5.20
The dwelling of the homeless
IX
The five forms of higher knowledge
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1
Three kinds of supernormal power
2
Seven kinds of supernormal power
3
Procedure of developing supernormal power
4
Supernormal power of resolve
5
Supernormal power of transformation
6
Supernormal power caused by mind
7
Miscellaneous teachings
8
Divine hearing
9
Knowledge of others’ thoughts
10
Recollection of past lives
11
Divine sight
12
Miscellaneous teachings
X
On distinguishing wisdom
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1
Wisdom defined
2
Benefits of wisdom
3
Meaning of wisdom
4
Two kinds of wisdom
5
Groups of wisdom (various)
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5.1
First group of three in wisdom
5.2
Second group of three in wisdom
5.3
Third group of three in wisdom
5.4
First group of four in wisdom
5.5
Second group of four in wisdom
5.6
Third group of four in wisdom
5.7
Fourth group of four in wisdom
5.8
Fifth group of four in wisdom
5.9
Sixth group of four in wisdom
5.10
Seventh group of four in wisdom
5.11
Eighth group of four in wisdom
5.12
Ninth group of four in wisdom
5.13
Tenth group of four in wisdom
5.14
Eleventh group of four in wisdom
XI
The five methods
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1
Section One
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1.1
The aggregate of form
1.2
Four primaries defined
1.3
Derived material qualities
1.4
Sense-organ of eye
1.5
Sense-organ of ear
1.6
Sense-organ of nose
1.7
Sense-organ of tongue
1.8
Sense-organ of body
1.9
Difference between the four primaries and derived matter
1.10
Simile of the three sticks
1.11
Material qualities by way of arising
1.12
Material qualities by way of group
1.13
Material qualities by way of birth
1.14
Material qualities by way of diversity,—groups of two in material qualities
1.15
Groups of three in material qualities
1.16
Four kinds of material qualities
1.17
Material qualities by way of unity
1.18
Aggregate of feeling
1.19
Aggregate of perception
1.20
Aggregate of formations
1.21
Thirty-one similes
1.22
Aggregate of consciousness
1.23
Through sense-organ-object
1.24
Through object
1.25
Through states
1.26
Through word meaning
1.27
Through characteristic
1.28
Through discrimination
1.29
Through comprehension
1.30
Twelve sense-organs and sense-objects
1.31
Through word meaning
1.32
Through limits
1.33
Through condition
1.34
Simile of the thread
1.35
Simile of the mango
1.36
Element method
1.37
Conditioned arising method
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(a) Direct order
(b) Reverse order
1.38
Ignorance
1.39
Formations
1.40
Simile of the seeds
1.41
Simile of the sun
1.42
Simile of the two bundles of reeds
1.43
Simile of the seed, shoot and plant
1.44
What conditions ignorance
1.45
Simile of the colours of a painter
1.46
Conditioned arising to be known in seven ways
1.47
First three links
1.48
Death of the ignorant craving evil-doer
1.49
Action, action-sign, destiny, destiny-sign
1.50
Four group division
1.51
Twenty modes
1.52
Direct and reverse order
1.53
Mundane and supramundane conditioned arising
1.54
Four kinds of conditioned arising
1.55
Through comprehension
2
Section Two
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2.1
The four noble truths
2.2
Truth of ill
2.3
Five groups of clinging
2.4
Two kinds of ill
2.5
Three kinds of ill
2.6
Truth of the origin of ill
2.7
Truth of the cessation of ill
2.8
Truth of the path leading to cessation of ill
2.9
Through word meaning
2.10
Through characteristics
2.11
Through series
2.12
In brief
2.13
Similes of the poisonous tree, the ship, the burden
2.14
Through discrimination
2.15
Through enumeration
2.16
Through sameness
2.17
Through difference
2.18
Through one kind etc.
2.19
Through inclusion
XII
On discerning truth
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1
Section One
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1.1
Aggregates, elements, sense-spheres
1.2
Similes of the three hundred halberds and of the burning head
1.3
Procedure
1.4
Differences between name and form
1.5
Summary of the truth of ill
1.6
Cause and condition of ill
1.7
The purity of transcending uncertainty
1.8
Truth of cessation
1.9
Truth of the path
1.10
One hundred and eighty ways of knowing the five clinging aggregates
1.11
Impermanence, ill, not-self
1.12
The signless, the unhankered, and the void
1.13
The knowledge of the rise and fall
1.14
Defilement-grasp
1.15
Concentration-grasp
1.16
Insight-grasp
1.17
Two ways of grasping of thought-characteristics
1.18
Characteristics of rise and fall in three ways
1.19
Acquiring the highest knowledge
1.20
Simile of the bird surrounded by fire
1.21
Four states
1.22
Non-effort in the arising of the formations
1.23
Reviewing of breaking up
1.24
Breaking up through three ways
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(a) Through assemblage
(b) Through duality
(c) Through understanding
1.25
Similes of drum-sound, town of gods, lightning
2
Section Two
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2.1
Fear knowledge
2.2
Similes of the man with the sword, poisonous snake, and heap of fire
2.3
Knowledge of the desire for release
2.4
Adaptive knowledge
2.5
Knowledge of adoption
2.6
Similes of the boat, lamp, and sun
2.7
Simile of the burning city
2.8
Three fetters
2.9
Once-returner
2.10
Non-returner
2.11
Saintship
2.12
Three kinds of stream-entrant
2.13
Five kinds of non-returner
2.14
Simile of the fiery sparks
2.15
Miscellaneous teachings
2.16
Serenity and insight
2.17
Initial application of thought and bare insight
2.18
Joy
2.19
Feeling
2.20
Plane
2.21
Faculties
2.22
The three emancipations
2.23
Emancipation and the entrance into it
2.24
One hundred and thirty-four defilements
2.25
Three immoral roots
2.26
The three kinds of seeking
2.27
The four corruptions
2.28
The four knots
2.29
The four floods
2.30
The four yokes
2.31
The four clingings
2.32
The four wrong courses of action
2.33
The five kinds of meanness
2.34
The five hindrances
2.35
The six roots of contention
2.36
The seven latencies
2.37
The eight worldly conditions
2.38
The nine conceits
2.39
The ten defilements
2.40
The ten courses of unskilful actions
2.41
The ten fetters
2.42
The ten errors
2.43
The twelve reversals
2.44
The twelve arisings of unskilful thought
2.45
The two enjoyments
2.46
Enjoyment of the fruit
2.47
A second point of view
2.48
A third point of view
2.49
The signless concentration of mind
2.50
The enjoyment of the dissolution of perception and sensation
Appendices
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A
Contemplation in the Dhamma
The Path of Freedom
Vimuttimagga
I
Introductory discourse
1
Salutation
2
Introductory stanza
3
Path of freedom described
4
Merits of acknowledgement of the path
5
Three trainings
6
The meaning of training
7
Removal of impurities
8
The three kinds of good
9
The three kinds of happiness
10
Perfection of the middle way
II
On distinguishing virtue
1
Virtue defined
2
Salient characteristic of virtue
3
Function, manifestation and near cause of virtue
4
Benefits of virtue
5
Meaning of virtue
6
Virtue and mode of life
7
Thee kinds of virtue
8
What produces virtue
9
Stages in virtue
10
Impediments and causes of virtue
11
Groups of virtue (various)
11.1
First group of two in virtue
11.2
Second group of two in virtue
11.3
Third group of two in virtue
11.4
Fourth group of two in virtue
11.5
Fifth group of two in virtue
11.6
Sixth group of two in virtue
11.7
Seventh group of two in virtue
11.8
Eighth group of two in virtue
11.9
Ninth group of two in virtue
11.10
Tenth group of two in virtue
11.11
First group of three in virtue
11.12
Second group of three in virtue
11.13
Third group of three in virtue
11.14
Fourth group of three in virtue
11.15
Fifth group of three in virtue
11.16
Sixth group of three in virtue
11.17
Seventh group of three in virtue
11.18
Eighth group of three in virtue
11.19
First group of four in virtue
11.20
Second group of four in virtue
11.21
Third group of four in virtue
11.22
Fourth group of four in virtue
11.23
Fifth group of four in virtue
11.24
Fifth group of four in virtue summarized
12
What purifies virtue
13
Causes through which one dwells in virtue
III
On austerities
1
The thirteen austerities
2
Brief explanation of the thirteen austerities
3
‘Dirt-rags’
4
‘Three robes’
5
‘Begged food’
6
‘Regular alms-round’
7
‘One-eating’
8
‘Measured food’
9
‘No food after time’
10
‘Dwelling in a peaceful place’
11
‘Dwelling under a tree’
12
‘Dwelling in a dewy place’
13
‘Dwelling among the graves’
14
‘Any chanced upon place’
15
‘Always sitting and not lying down’
16
Expedience in the observance of the austerities
17
Miscellaneous teachings
IV
On distinguishing concentration
1
Meaning of concentration
2
Salient characteristic etc.
3
Benefits produced by concentration
4
Obstacles to concentration
5
Causes of concentration
6
Requisites of concentration
7
Kinds of concentration (Various)
7.1
Two kinds of concentration
7.2
Three kinds of concentration
7.3
Four kinds of concentration
7.4
Five kinds of concentration
8
Miscellaneous teachings
8.1
Why four and five meditations are taught
V
On approaching a good friend
1
Qualities of a good friend
2
The search for a good friend
3
A beginner’s duties
VI
The distinguishing of behaviour
1
Kinds of behaviour
2
Fourteen kinds of persons
3
Fourteen kinds reduced to seven
4
Modes of practice
5
Seven reduced to three
6
Causes of behaviour
7
Elements as causes of behaviour
8
The humours as causes of behaviour
9
Seven aspects of behaviour
10
On robbing, begging, sitting, sleeping and resort
11
Miscellaneous teachings
VII
The distinguishing of the subjects of meditation
1
Thirty-eight subjects of meditation
2
Method of discovering the qualities
3
By way of meditation
4
By way of transcending
5
By way of increasing
6
By way of cause
7
By way of object
8
By way of speciality
9
By way of plane
10
By way of seizing
11
By way of person
VIII
Entrance into the subject of meditation
1
Section One
1.1
Earth kasiṇa, its practice, salient characteristic, function and near cause
1.2
Benefits
1.3
Meaning of kasiṇa
1.4
Kinds of earth
1.5
Non-prepared earth
1.6
On making a mandala
1.7
Method of earth kasiṇa meditation
1.8
Tribulations of sense-desires illustrated in twenty similes
1.9
Renunciation and its benefits
1.10
Method of practice of earth kasiṇa
1.11
Three ways of sign-taking
1.12
Grasping sign
1.13
The after-image
1.14
The sign
1.15
Protecting the sign
1.16
Access-meditation
1.17
Fixed meditation, jhāna
1.18
Increasing of the kasiṇa
1.19
Skilfulness in fixed meditation, jhāna
1.20
Ten ways
1.21
Simile of the horse-chariot
1.22
Simile of the inked-string
1.23
The first meditation, jhāna
1.24
Three kinds of separation from lust and demeritorious states
1.25
Two kinds of lust
1.26
Roots of demerit
1.27
Reasons for treating lust and demerit separately
1.28
Separation from demeritorious states
1.29
Difference between lust and demerit
1.30
Initial and sustained application of thought
1.31
Initial application and sustained application of thought discriminated
1.32
Similes of the bell etc.
1.33
Similes of the bird etc.
1.34
Solitude
1.35
Joy and bliss
1.36
Five kinds of joy
1.37
Bliss
1.38
Five kinds of bliss
1.39
Differences between joy and bliss
1.40
First meditation (jhāna)
1.41
Five hindrances
1.42
Five factors
1.43
Similes of chariot and army
1.44
Three kinds of goodness
1.45
Ten characteristics
1.46
Twenty-five benefits
1.47
Simile of the bath-attendant
1.48
Three kinds of rebirth
1.49
Meditation which partakes of deterioration, stability, distinction and penetration
2
Section Two
2.1
The simile of the young cow
2.2
Entrance into the second meditation, jhāna
2.3
Simile of the pool of water
2.4
The third meditation, jhāna
2.5
Simile of the calf
2.6
Simile of the lotus pond
2.7
The fourth meditation, jhāna
2.8
Simile of the white cloth
2.9
The sphere of the infinity of space
2.10
The concentration of the sphere of infinite consciousness
2.11
The sphere of nothingness
2.12
The sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
2.13
Miscellaneous teachings
2.14
The water kasiṇa
2.15
The fire kasiṇa
2.16
The air kasiṇa
2.17
The blue-green kasiṇa
2.18
The yellow kasiṇa
2.19
The red kasiṇa
2.20
The white kasiṇa
2.21
The light kasiṇa
3
Section Three
3.1
The (separated) space kasiṇa
3.2
The consciousness kasiṇa
3.3
Miscellaneous teachings
3.4
The ten perceptions of putrescence
(1) The perception of bloatedness
(2) The perception of discolouration
(3) The perception of festering
(4) The perception of the fissured
(5) The perception of the gnawed
(6) The perception of the dismembered
(7) The perception of the cut and the dismembered
(8) The perception of the blood-stained
(9) The perception of worminess
(10) The perception of the bony
Miscellaneous teachings
The recollection of the Buddha
The recollection of the law
The recollection of the community of bhikkhus
The recollection of virtue
The recollection of liberality
The recollection of deities
4
Section Four
4.1
Mindfulness of respiration
4.2
Benefits
4.3
Procedure
4.4
Counting, connection, contacting and fixing
4.5
Sixteen ways of training in mindfulness of respiration
4.6
The three trainings
4.7
The four foundations of mindfulness
4.8
The seven enlightenment factors
4.9
Mindfulness of death
4.10
Similes of the foam, plantain trunk and bubble
4.11
Mindfulness of body
4.12
Thirty-two parts of the body
4.13
Mindfulness in thirteen ways
4.14
The worms that rely on the body
4.15
Bones of the body
4.16
Impurity of the body
4.17
Some diseases
4.18
The recollection of peace
4.19
Miscellaneous teachings
5
Section Five
5.1
The immeasurable thought of loving-kindness
5.2
Disadvantages of anger and resentment
5.3
Simile of the saw
5.4
Twelve means of removing hatred
5.5
Simile of the pond
5.6
Ten perfections
5.7
The four resolves
5.8
The immeasurable thought of compassion
5.9
The immeasurable thought of appreciative joy
5.10
The immeasurable thought of equanimity
5.11
Miscellaneous teachings
5.12
The determining of the four elements
5.13
Twenty ways of grasping the element of earth
5.14
Twelve ways of grasping the element of water
5.15
Four ways of grasping the element of fire
5.16
Six ways of grasping the element of air
5.17
The four elements
5.18
Simile of the puppet
5.19
The loathsomeness of food
5.20
The dwelling of the homeless
IX
The five forms of higher knowledge
1
Three kinds of supernormal power
2
Seven kinds of supernormal power
3
Procedure of developing supernormal power
4
Supernormal power of resolve
5
Supernormal power of transformation
6
Supernormal power caused by mind
7
Miscellaneous teachings
8
Divine hearing
9
Knowledge of others’ thoughts
10
Recollection of past lives
11
Divine sight
12
Miscellaneous teachings
X
On distinguishing wisdom
1
Wisdom defined
2
Benefits of wisdom
3
Meaning of wisdom
4
Two kinds of wisdom
5
Groups of wisdom (various)
5.1
First group of three in wisdom
5.2
Second group of three in wisdom
5.3
Third group of three in wisdom
5.4
First group of four in wisdom
5.5
Second group of four in wisdom
5.6
Third group of four in wisdom
5.7
Fourth group of four in wisdom
5.8
Fifth group of four in wisdom
5.9
Sixth group of four in wisdom
5.10
Seventh group of four in wisdom
5.11
Eighth group of four in wisdom
5.12
Ninth group of four in wisdom
5.13
Tenth group of four in wisdom
5.14
Eleventh group of four in wisdom
XI
The five methods
1
Section One
1.1
The aggregate of form
1.2
Four primaries defined
1.3
Derived material qualities
1.4
Sense-organ of eye
1.5
Sense-organ of ear
1.6
Sense-organ of nose
1.7
Sense-organ of tongue
1.8
Sense-organ of body
1.9
Difference between the four primaries and derived matter
1.10
Simile of the three sticks
1.11
Material qualities by way of arising
1.12
Material qualities by way of group
1.13
Material qualities by way of birth
1.14
Material qualities by way of diversity,—groups of two in material qualities
1.15
Groups of three in material qualities
1.16
Four kinds of material qualities
1.17
Material qualities by way of unity
1.18
Aggregate of feeling
1.19
Aggregate of perception
1.20
Aggregate of formations
1.21
Thirty-one similes
1.22
Aggregate of consciousness
1.23
Through sense-organ-object
1.24
Through object
1.25
Through states
1.26
Through word meaning
1.27
Through characteristic
1.28
Through discrimination
1.29
Through comprehension
1.30
Twelve sense-organs and sense-objects
1.31
Through word meaning
1.32
Through limits
1.33
Through condition
1.34
Simile of the thread
1.35
Simile of the mango
1.36
Element method
1.37
Conditioned arising method
(a) Direct order
(b) Reverse order
1.38
Ignorance
1.39
Formations
1.40
Simile of the seeds
1.41
Simile of the sun
1.42
Simile of the two bundles of reeds
1.43
Simile of the seed, shoot and plant
1.44
What conditions ignorance
1.45
Simile of the colours of a painter
1.46
Conditioned arising to be known in seven ways
1.47
First three links
1.48
Death of the ignorant craving evil-doer
1.49
Action, action-sign, destiny, destiny-sign
1.50
Four group division
1.51
Twenty modes
1.52
Direct and reverse order
1.53
Mundane and supramundane conditioned arising
1.54
Four kinds of conditioned arising
1.55
Through comprehension
2
Section Two
2.1
The four noble truths
2.2
Truth of ill
2.3
Five groups of clinging
2.4
Two kinds of ill
2.5
Three kinds of ill
2.6
Truth of the origin of ill
2.7
Truth of the cessation of ill
2.8
Truth of the path leading to cessation of ill
2.9
Through word meaning
2.10
Through characteristics
2.11
Through series
2.12
In brief
2.13
Similes of the poisonous tree, the ship, the burden
2.14
Through discrimination
2.15
Through enumeration
2.16
Through sameness
2.17
Through difference
2.18
Through one kind etc.
2.19
Through inclusion
XII
On discerning truth
1
Section One
1.1
Aggregates, elements, sense-spheres
1.2
Similes of the three hundred halberds and of the burning head
1.3
Procedure
1.4
Differences between name and form
1.5
Summary of the truth of ill
1.6
Cause and condition of ill
1.7
The purity of transcending uncertainty
1.8
Truth of cessation
1.9
Truth of the path
1.10
One hundred and eighty ways of knowing the five clinging aggregates
1.11
Impermanence, ill, not-self
1.12
The signless, the unhankered, and the void
1.13
The knowledge of the rise and fall
1.14
Defilement-grasp
1.15
Concentration-grasp
1.16
Insight-grasp
1.17
Two ways of grasping of thought-characteristics
1.18
Characteristics of rise and fall in three ways
1.19
Acquiring the highest knowledge
1.20
Simile of the bird surrounded by fire
1.21
Four states
1.22
Non-effort in the arising of the formations
1.23
Reviewing of breaking up
1.24
Breaking up through three ways
(a) Through assemblage
(b) Through duality
(c) Through understanding
1.25
Similes of drum-sound, town of gods, lightning
2
Section Two
2.1
Fear knowledge
2.2
Similes of the man with the sword, poisonous snake, and heap of fire
2.3
Knowledge of the desire for release
2.4
Adaptive knowledge
2.5
Knowledge of adoption
2.6
Similes of the boat, lamp, and sun
2.7
Simile of the burning city
2.8
Three fetters
2.9
Once-returner
2.10
Non-returner
2.11
Saintship
2.12
Three kinds of stream-entrant
2.13
Five kinds of non-returner
2.14
Simile of the fiery sparks
2.15
Miscellaneous teachings
2.16
Serenity and insight
2.17
Initial application of thought and bare insight
2.18
Joy
2.19
Feeling
2.20
Plane
2.21
Faculties
2.22
The three emancipations
2.23
Emancipation and the entrance into it
2.24
One hundred and thirty-four defilements
2.25
Three immoral roots
2.26
The three kinds of seeking
2.27
The four corruptions
2.28
The four knots
2.29
The four floods
2.30
The four yokes
2.31
The four clingings
2.32
The four wrong courses of action
2.33
The five kinds of meanness
2.34
The five hindrances
2.35
The six roots of contention
2.36
The seven latencies
2.37
The eight worldly conditions
2.38
The nine conceits
2.39
The ten defilements
2.40
The ten courses of unskilful actions
2.41
The ten fetters
2.42
The ten errors
2.43
The twelve reversals
2.44
The twelve arisings of unskilful thought
2.45
The two enjoyments
2.46
Enjoyment of the fruit
2.47
A second point of view
2.48
A third point of view
2.49
The signless concentration of mind
2.50
The enjoyment of the dissolution of perception and sensation