*: Non-return: The third of the four levels of Awakening. On reaching this level, one will never be r[...]
**: These two statements are repeated in each discourse. To avoid monotony, they are given here only i[...]
***: The bad destinations rebirth in hell, as a hungry shade, as an angry demon, or as a common animal.[...]
**: These two statements are repeated in each discourse. To avoid monotony, they are given here only i[...]
*: "The All" = the six senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, & ideation) and their respective[...]
*: Appropriate attention (yoniso manasikara) is the ability to focus attention on questions that lead[...]
**: A person "in training" is one who has attained at least the first level of Awakening, but not yet[...]
***: Bondage = the four yokes: sensual passion, becoming, views, & ignorance.
*: In S xlv.2 the Buddha says, "Having admirable people (kalyana-mitta) as friends, companions, and [...]
*: The seven treasures are a divine wheel, an ideal jewel, an ideal elephant, an ideal horse, an idea[...]
*: Magadha was a kingdom in the time of the Buddha, corresponding roughly to the present day state of[...]
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*: A.x.176 defines bodily misconduct as killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct; verbal misconduct a[...]
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*: M.117 gives the following example of an evil view: "There is nothing given, nothing offered, noth[...]
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*: "Not handed down": not derived from an ancient tradition, and not dependent on ancient tradition [...]
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*: Direct knowledge = abhiñña. The Canon lists six types of abhiñña: psychic powers, clairaudience, t[...]
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*: Urgency & awe = samvega. Other meanings for this term include shock, dismay, & alienation. In the [...]
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*: Ignorance (avijja) means ignorance of stress, its origination, its cessation, and the way leading [...]
**: Conscience (hiri) means a healthy sense of shame -- derived from self-esteem -- at the idea of do[...]
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*: With fuel remaining (sa-upadisesa) and with no fuel remaining (anupadisesa): The analogy here is t[...]
*: With fuel remaining (sa-upadisesa) and with no fuel remaining (anupadisesa): The analogy here is t[...]
**: Such (tadi): An adjective to describe one who has attained the goal. It indicates that the person[...]
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*: This discourse illustrates, in a technical fashion, the function of appropriate attention explain[...]
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*: The property of form corresponds to the experience of the form of the body as present in the first[...]
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*: According to the Commentary, the first of these faculties corresponds to the first noble attainme[...]
**: Such (tadi): see the note to §44.
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*: At first glance, the verses here do not bear much relationship to the prose introduction. However,[...]
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*: See the note to §30.
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*: See §109.
**: See §63.
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*: Renunciation here means the first level of jhana, which is attained when one is secluded from sens[...]
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*: Activity = work of various sorts, such as construction work, robe-making, etc.
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*: According to the Commentary, this refers to a monk's tendency to be overly intimate with lay peop[...]
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*: The wings to Awakening are the four frames of reference, the four right exertions, the four bases [...]
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*: Devadatta, one of the Buddha's cousins, plotted to take over the Sangha, and ended up causing a s[...]
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*: The four groups of noble disciples when taken as pairs are those who have attained (1) the path to[...]
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*: The "seven attachments" are passion, aversion, delusion, views, conceit, defilement, & misconduct[...]
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*: As the verse makes clear, these three categories denote three levels of devas in the heavens of s[...]
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*: See the note to §82.
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*: In the brahmanical religion, a "three-knowledge man" was one who had memorized the three Vedas. T[...]
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*: This is one of a monk's basic requisites. There is some disagreement as to whether it refers to m[...]
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*: The five lower fetters are self-identity view, uncertainty, attachment to practices & precepts, s[...]
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*: S.XXXV.82 defines the "world" as the six sense spheres, their objects, consciousness at those sph[...]
**: These are epithets usually associated with the Great Brahma. See § 22.
***: The Brahma-wheel = the Dhamma-wheel, the name of the Buddha's first sermon, so called because it [...]
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