Preface

• Preface

• Introduction

• THE BUDDHA IN THE MAJJHIMA NIKĀYA

• THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

• THE TEACHING OF NON-SELF

• THE ORIGIN AND CESSATION OF SUFFERING

• NIBBĀNA

• THE WAY TO THE CESSATION OF SUFFERING

• THE GRADUAL TRAINING

• APPROACHES TO MEDITATION

• THE FOUR PLANES OF LIBERATION

• THE ARAHANT

• KAMMA AND REBIRTH

• THE BUDDHA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

• TECHNICAL NOTES

• DHAMMA

• SANKHĀRA

• NĀMARŪPA

• BRAHMA

• A NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION

• A Summary of the 152 Suttas

• PART TWO: THE MIDDLE FIFTY DISCOURSES

• PART THREE: THE FINAL FIFTY DISCOURSES

Suttra

• 1. The Root of All Things
• 2. All the Taints
• 3. Heirs in Dhamma
• 4. Fear and Dread
• 5. Without Blemishes
• 6. If a Bhikkhu Should Wish
• 7. The Simile of the Cloth
• 8. Effacement
• 9. Right View
• 10. The Foundations of Mindfulness
• 11. The Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar
• 12. The Greater Discourse on the Lion's Roar
• 13. The Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
• 14. The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
• 15. Inference
• 16. The Wilderness in the Heart
• 17. Jungle Thickets
• 18. The Honeyball
• 19. Two Kinds of Thought
• 20. The Removal of Distracting Thoughts
• 21. The Simile of the Saw
• 22. The Simile of the Snake
• 23. The Ant-hill
• 24. The Relay Chariots
• 25. The Bait
• 26. The Noble Search
• 27. The Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint
• 28. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint
• 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood
• 30. The Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood
• 31. The Shorter Discourse in Gosinga
• 32. The Greater Discourse in Gosinga
• 33. The Greater Discourse on the Cowherd
• 34. The Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd
• 35. The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka
• 36. The Greater Discourse to Saccaka
• 37. The Shorter Discourse on the Destruction of Craving
• 38. The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving
• 39. The Greater Discourse at Assapura
• 40. The Shorter Discourse at Assapura
• 41. The Brahmins of Sālā
• 42. The Brahmins of Verañja
• 43. The Greater Series of Questions and Answers
• 44. The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers
• 45. The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things
• 46. The Greater Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things
• 47. The Inquirer
• 48. The Kosambians
• 49. The Invitation of a Brahmā
• 50. The Rebuke to Māra
• 51. To Kandaraka
• 52. The Man from Atṭhakanagara
• 53. The Disciple in Higher Training
• 54. To Potaliya
• 55. To Jīvaka
• 56. To Upāli
• 57. The Dog-duty Ascetic
• 58. To Prince Abhaya
• 59. The Many Kinds of Feeling
• 60. The Incontrovertible Teaching
• 61. Advice to Rāhula at Ambalațṭhikā
• 62. The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rāhula
• 63. The Shorter Discourse to Mālunkyāputta
• 64. The Greater Discourse to Mālunkyāputta
• 65. To Bhaddāli
• 66. The Simile of the Quail
• 67. At Cātumā
• 68. At Naḷakapāna
• 69. Gulissäni
• 70. At Kīṭāgiri
• 71. To Vacchagotta on the Threefold True Knowledge
• 72. To Vacchagotta on Fire
• 73. The Greater Discourse to Vacchagotta
• 74. To Dīghanakha
• 75. To Māgandiya
• 76. To Sandaka
• 77. The Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin
• 78. Samaṇamaṇ̣̣ikāputta
• 79. The Shorter Discourse to Sakuludāyin
• 80. To Vekhanassa
• 81. Ghaṭikāra the Potter
• 82. On Raṭthapāla
• 83. King Makhādeva
• 84. At Madhurā
• 85. To Prince Bodhi
• 86. On Angulimāla
• 87. Born from Those Who Are Dear
• 88. The Cloak
• 89. Monuments to the Dhamma
• 90. At Kannakatthala
• 91. Brahmāyu
• 92. To Sela
• 93. To Assalāyana
• 94. To Ghotamukha
• 95. With Cankī
• 96. To Esukārī
• 97. To Dhānañjāni
• 98. To Vāsetṭha
• 99. To Subha
• 100. To Sangārava
• 101. At Devadaha
• 102. The Five and Three
• 103. What Do You Think About Me?
• 104. At Sāmagāma
• 105. To Sunakkhatta
• 106. The Way to the Imperturbable
• 107. To Gaṇaka Moggallāna
• 108. With Gopaka Moggallāna
• 109. The Greater Discourse on the Full-moon Night
• 110. The Shorter Discourse on the Full-moon Night
• 111. One by One As They Occurred
• 112. The Sixfold Purity
• 113. The True Man
• 114. To Be Cultivated and Not To Be Cultivated
• 115. The Many Kinds of Elements
• 116. Isigili: The Gullet of the Seers
• 117. The Great Forty
• 118. Mindfulness of Breathing
• 119. Mindfulness of the Body
• 120. Reappearance by Aspiration
• 121. The Shorter Discourse on Voidness
• 122. The Greater Discourse on Voidness
• 123. Wonderful and Marvellous
• 124. Bakkula
• 125. The Grade of the Tamed
• 126. Bhūmija
• 127. Anuruddha
• 128. Imperfections
• 129. Fools and Wise Men
• 130. The Divine Messengers
• 131. One Fortunate Attachment
• 132. Ānanda and One Fortunate Attachment
• 133. Mahā Kaccāna and One Fortunate Attachment
• 134. Lomasakangiya and One Fortunate Attachment
• 135. The Shorter Exposition of Action
• 136. The Greater Exposition of Action
• 137. The Exposition of the Sixfold Base
• 138. The Exposition of a Summary
• 139. The Exposition of Non-Conflict
• 140. The Exposition of the Elements
• 141. The Exposition of the Truths
• 142. The Exposition of Offerings
• 143. Advice to Anāthapiṇ̣ika
• 144. Advice to Channa
• 145. Advice to Punna
• 146. Advice from Nandaka
• 147. The Shorter Discourse of Advice to Rāhula
• 148. The Six Sets of Six
• 149. The Great Sixfold Base
• 150. To the Nagaravindans
• 151. The Purification of Almsfood
• 152. The Development of the Faculties