READER'S GUIDE
Dealing with Personal Problems
Argumentative. 157
Critical. 79, 97, 221, 227, 253, 275
Discontented. 196, 236
Distracted. 159, 205
Doubtful. 142, 163, 183, 259, 291
Downcast. 127, 130, 131, 172, 343
Envious. 208
Frightened. 7, 75, 215, 342
Gossiping. 63
Impatient. 101, 202, 203, 218, 266
Interfering. 157, 216
Intolerant. 140, 155, 235
Judgmental. 28, 79, 95, 97, 306, 327
Lazy. 60, 74, 104, 201
Lonely. 92, 133, 215
Mean. 13, 152, 284, 303
Proud. 127, 129, 134, 152, 300, 307
Quarrelsome. 45, 109, 155, 157, 217, 220, 238, 245
Sick. 84, 147, 149, 190, 205, 212, 231, 295, 345
Talkative. 63, 245
Unforgiving. 30
Worried. 330, 341
What The Buddha Said About…
Ānanda. 224, 234, 252, 345, 349, 351
Becoming a lay disciple. 65
Consideration. 214
Death. 205, 212, 237
Desire and craving. 40, 54, 103, 118, 267, 273
Disappearance of the Dhamma. 213
Doing good. 15, 23, 58, 64, 70, 130, 260, 287
Drinking. 22, 94, 101, 246
Effort. 78, 162, 171, 318
Equanimity. 124, 184, 191, 244, 251, 311, 332
Faith. 3, 27, 107, 123, 165, 173, 305, 362
Fame. 134
Family. 39, 47, 48, 90, 100, 129, 150, 200
Food. 34, 113, 170, 203
Fools. 106, 109, 251
Forgiveness. 30
Friends and friendship. 18, 24, 87, 92, 94, 132, 249, 349, 360
Gratitude. 23, 287, 293, 303, 335
Harmony. 31, 214, 226, 304, 323
Happiness. 17, 40, 43, 70, 198, 269, 288, 357
Health. 78, 205, 212, 269, 318, 345
Helpfulness. 19, 198, 287, 314
Honesty. 38, 63, 284
Human life, its rarity. 2, 71
Humility. 18, 152, 300
Idle speculation. 159, 263
Jewels, the three. 65, 75, 83, 143, 146, 150, 176, 235, 342, 351
Kisa Gotami. 242
Learning Dhamma. 158, 186, 197, 211, 223, 239, 254, 294, 314, 348
Livelihood. 17, 94, 96, 156, 177
Love. 29, 31, 38, 42, 113, 114, 128, 182, 186, 191, 207, 210, 214, 219, 226, 234, 264, 281, 284, 298, 306, 312, 323, 329, 332, 340, 346
Mind. 35, 36, 49, 55, 67, 80, 85, 91, 100, 212, 315
Mindfulness. 267, 279, 280, 296, 308, 311, 317, 329, 336, 346
Modesty. 193
Nirvana. 77, 81, 137, 144, 171, 228, 263, 269, 272, 304
Nirvana and desire. 273
Noble Eightfold Path. 9, 55, 77, 81, 178, 206, 228, 316, 333
Not-self. 330, 331, 344, 357
Nursing the sick. 115, 200, 231, 297
Oneself and others. 19, 65, 79, 199, 216, 232, 262, 314, 334, 346
Parents. 29, 39, 47, 68, 181
Patience. 146, 218, 235, 277, 319, 325
Peace. 63, 144, 157, 180, 257, 304
Pleasure of the senses. 40, 43, 54, 103, 119, 267
Reputation. 129
Reverence. 146, 277, 319, 325
Sangha. 158, 175, 176, 215, 235, 342
Self-honesty. 110
Silence. 270, 299
Solitude. 265, 324, 354, 358
Sympathetic joy. 124, 184, 191, 124, 244, 332
Sympathy. 150, 169
Speech. 38, 63, 166, 207, 245, 281, 319
Tathāgata. 8, 99, 305, 310, 320, 325, 347
Teachers and disciples. 88, 164, 337
Teaching the Dhamma. 28, 79, 83, 150, 192, 198, 204, 211, 222, 224, 231, 281
Trees. 37, 86, 293, 306, 325
Virtue. 15, 65, 152, 261, 163, 179, 286, 338
Wisdom. 106, 123, 189, 338
The Buddha – His Example and Greatness
The Buddha's beauty. 105, 148, 194, 209
The Buddha as the giver of comfort. 84, 115, 234, 307, 333
The Buddha's compassion. 86, 115, 145, 198, 310
The Buddha's concern for others. 204, 322
The Buddha and elephants. 265, 392
The Buddha as the embodiment of the Dhamma. 84, 98, 254
The Buddha's fearlessness. 292
The Buddha's forbearance. 53
The Buddha as a good friend. 215, 333
The Buddha's love. 114
The Buddha's magnanimity. 140, 229
The Buddha as a peacemaker. 183
The Buddha as a good physician. 115, 136, 147, 242, 274
The Buddha's pre-eminence. 8, 26, 138, 276
The Buddha's reliability. 10, 99
The Buddha as a safe refuge. 7, 75, 215
The Buddha and the sāl blossoms. 325
The Buddha's silence. 263
The Buddha as a skillful teacher. 88, 105, 111, 141, 143, 183, 198, 274, 290
On being in the Buddha's presence. 98
On worshipping or honoring the Buddha. 256, 325
Advice on Meditation
The nature of the mind. 36, 49, 67, 80, 85, 91, 100, 149, 212, 220
The importance of mental development. 35, 49, 56, 86, 256, 315
Mindfulness of breathing. 37, 46, 57
Guarding the sense doors. 43, 52, 267
Stilling thoughts. 41
Hindrances, the five. 44, 54, 66, 110, 247, 263
Sense desire. 40, 103
Ill-will. 108, 116, 117, 174
Restlessness and worry. 172, 202
The Recollections. 121
Recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. 131, 143, 176, 215, 363
Recollection of virtue. 130, 139
Recollection of generosity. 34, 51, 126
Recollection of friendship. 87, 132, 133
Recollection of death. 205
Recollection of peace. 137, 144, 180
Overcoming the five Hindrances. 247
The Jhānas. 250, 268, 326, 339
The four Foundations of Mindfulness. 263, 279, 280, 296, 308, 317
Freedom of mind. 218, 298, 309, 311, 315, 320, 328, 343, 352
The Buddha when old. 228, 240
The reply to Māra. 204
The sāl trees burst into flower. 325
Ananda's grief. 234
The Buddha's praise of Dhammārāma. 256
The Buddha's final instructions. 254, 336
The Buddha's last words. 248
After the Buddha's passing. 304
GLOSSARY
The Ageless. Ajarā, a synonym for Nirvana.
Ānanda. The Buddha's cousin and long-time attendant.
Bārānasi. The capital of the kingdom of Kāsi, now known as Banares or Varanasi.
Brahmā. The supreme god of Brahmanism, the prevailing religion during the Buddha's time.
Brahman. A hereditary priest of Brahmanism.
Conqueror. Jina, a title for the Buddha, who has conquered the mental defilements.
Devadatta. The Buddha's wayward and ambitious cousin.
Doṇa. A brahman who happened to be in Kusinārā at the time of the Buddha's funeral.
Fig-eater. One who shakes a tree but eats only a few of the fallen fruit, i.e. a wastrel.
Fires, the three. Greed, hatred and delusion.
Gandhakutī. Fragrant Hut, a small house in Jeta's Grove where the Buddha used to stay when in Sāvatthī.
Gayā. A city sacred to Hindus, not far from Uruvelā.
Gods, the Thirty-Three. The deities who reside in the second of the six heavens of Brahmanical cosmology.
Immortal. Amata, a synonym for Nirvana.
Jeta's Grove. A park on the outskirts of Sāvatthī which became a monastery.
Jettamūla. A month in the Indian calendar, equivalent to May-June.
Kapilavatthu. The capital of the Sakyan clan and the Buddha's hometown.
Kāsi cloth. A type of expensive brocade manufactured in Bārānasi.
Kings, the Four Great. The deities believed to preside over each of the four directions.
Kinsuka tree. Butea fondosa, Flame of the Forest, a medium-sized tree that bears a profusion of orange/red flowers.
Kosambi. The capital of the Kingdom of Vamsa.
Kusa. A type of grass with a sharp edge, often made into rope.
Magadha. The most powerful kingdom at the time of the Buddha.
Mantras. Passages from the Rig Veda believed to have a magical power when chanted.
Māra. The personification of evil.
Moggallāna. One of the Buddha's two chief disciples.
Nigantha Nātaputta. An older contemporary of the Buddha and the founder of Jainism, known as Mahāvīra by Jains.
Naked ascetics. The adherents of several religious sects who believed that nakedness was proof of radical world-renunciation.
Nerañjara River. A sandy shallow river that flows past Uruvelā.
Noble One. Arahat, an enlightened person.
Non-Returner. Anāgāmin, someone who has attained the third stage of enlightenment who will be reborn in a heaven realm and from there attain enlightenment.
Once-Returner. Sakadāgāmin, someone who has attained the second stage of enlightenment and will only be reborn once more in this world before enlightenment.
Payāga. The city at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, now called Allahabad.
Rāhula. The Buddha's son, who later became a monk.
Rājagaha. The capital of Magadha, now called Rajgir.
Sakya. The clan to which the Buddha belonged.
Sāl tree. Shorea robusta, a large hardwood tree with fragrant yellow flowers.
Samsāra. The continual process of birth, death and rebirth.
Sāriputta. One of the Buddha's two chief disciples.
Sāvatthī. The capital of the kingdom of Kosala where the Buddha spent much of the last 20 years of his life.
Stream-Winner. Sotāpana, someone who has attained the first stage of enlightenment and will only be reborn at most seven more times before attaining enlightenment.
Tagara. Tabernaemontana coronaria, a small bush with fragrant star-shaped white flowers.
Tathāgata. An epithet for the Buddha meaning 'The Thus Come One' or 'The Thus Gone One.' The Buddha usually referred to himself by this epithet.
Uruvelā. The small village on the outskirts of which the Buddha attained enlightenment, now called Bodh Gayā.
Vangīsa. A brahman who became a monk and earned a reputation as a poet.
Vesālī. The capital of the Vijji Confederacy which was to the north of Magadha.
Yama. The king of the underworld in Brahmanical cosmology.
Yojana. A measure of distance equivalent to about 8 kilometers.
ABBREVIATIONS
All references are to the volume number (Roman numerals) and page number (Arabic numerals) or where relevant (for Dhammapada and Sutta Nipāta), to verse numbers, of the Pali Text Society's editions of the Tipitaka and its commentaries. References with an asterisk indicate the words of someone other than the Buddha.
| A | Anguttara Nikāya, ed. R. Morris and E. Hardy, PTS London, 1885-1900. |
| Cp | Cariyapitaka, ed. N. A. Jayawickrama, PTS London 1974. |
| Cp-a | Cariyāpitaka Atthakathā, ed. D. L. Barua, PTS London 1979. |
| D | Dīgha Nikāya, T. W. Rhys Davids, J. E. Carpenter, PTS London, 1890. |
| Dhs | Dhammasanganī, ed. E. Muller, PTS London 1885. |
| Dhp | Dhammapada, ed. O. von Hinuber, K. R. Norman, PTS Oxford 1994. |
| Dhp-a | Dhammapada Atthakathā, ed. H. C. Norman, PTS London 1906-14. |
| It | Itivuttaka, ed. E. Windisch, PTS London 1889. |
| Ja | Jātaka with commentary, ed. V. Fauseboll, London PTS 1877-96. |
| M | Majjhima Nikāya, ed. V. Trenchner and R. Charmers, PTS London 1887-1902. |
| Mil | Milandapañha, ed. V. Trenchner, PTS London 1880. |
| Pmj | Paramatthajotikā, ed. H. Smith, PTS London 1915. |
| Pv. | Petavatthu, ed. N. A. Jayawickrama, PTS London 1977. |
| S | Samyutta Nikāya, ed. L. Feer, PTS London 1884-98. |
| Sn | Sutta Nipāta, ed. D. Andersen and H. Smith, PTS London 1913. |
| Th, Thi | Theragāthā and Therīgāthā, ed. H. Oldenberg and R. Pischel, 2nd edition, PTS London 1966. |
| Ud | Udāna, ed. P. Steinthal, PTS London 1885. |
| Vibh | Vibhanga, C. A. F. Rhys Davids, 1904. |
| Vin | Vinaya, ed. H. Oldenberg, PTS London 1879-83. |
| Vism | Visuddhimagga, ed. C. A. F. Rhys Davids, PTS London 1920-21. |