CONTENTS
PART I
1. FOREWORD
3. Making preparatory arrangements
4. Sitting posture with legs-crossed
5. Permissible to meditate by taking up all four Iriyæ pathas or postures
8. Beneficial fruits of patience
9. The manner of developing Mettæ
10. How to develop (528) kinds of Mettæ
11. The manner of developing Mettæ by Ashin Subþti
12. Dhanañjænø and Mettæ-Jhæna
13. Eleven advantages of Mettæ
16. Developing Mettæ and Vipassanæ in combination
PART II
17. Way of sitting comfortably
18. Persons towards whom Mettæ should not be developed at the first initial stage
19. Persons upon whom Mettæ should not be bestowed
20.Person towards whom Mettæ should be developed first and foremost
22. Method of reflection to subdue anger
23. The manner of reflection according to the Ten Verses
24. How to subdue anger by reflecting on Kamma as one’s own property in possession
25. How to suppress anger by reflecting on the attributes of Bodhisatta
26. How patience was exercised by Khantøvædø‚ a great hermit
27. Story of Dhammapæla‚ the young child
28. The manner of practicing patience by an elephant‚ a monkey and a dragon
29. The manner of exercising patience through mindfulness by Ashin Po¤¤a
30. Extinguishing anger by reflecting on the elements after chemically analysing them
31. How anger is subdued by “Give & Take” policy
33. How Mettæ-Jhæna is achieved
34. It would also cause to enhance the advantages of Dæna, almsgiving
35. Preliminary Gæthæ (verse) of the MettA Sutta
36. The deities terrify the five-hundred Bhikkhus
37. Buddha delivered MettA Sutta to deter deities from causing dreadful sights and terror
38. It’s not just adequate enough doing the recitation only, but also needs to practise
39. The noble MettA Sutta Paritta
(1) Must be capable of practising
(2) & (3) Must be frank and honest
(4) Should be docile or disposed to compliance
(5) Must be gentle
(7) Should be easily contented
(8) Should be frugal
(10) To be temperated in the way of living or be agile
40. Should also take along the bowl and the water-strainer
(11) Should cultivate Indriya (calmness)
(12) Reflective knowledge must be mature
42. Seven Sappæyas or desirable things
(13) Should be free from rudeness
(14) To be freed of attachment to both male and female benefactors
(15) The last fundamental rule of conduct
45. Ordinary way of developing Mettæ
46. How to develop Mettæ by dividing it into two or three parts
47. Manner of developing Mettæ by separating into two parts
48. Manner of developing Mettæ by separating into three distinct parts
49. Three methods of developing Mettæ by again distinguishing into two parts
50. Manner of developing Mettæ so as to be free from unmerited misery
51. How genuine Mettæ should be developed-an illustration
52. How to develop broadly without limit
53. Time and posture prescribed for developing Mettæ
54. Living is the exercise of four noble postures called Vihæra
56. Practise to escape from rebirth or entering into a mother’s womb (Gabbhaseyya) by rejecting Di¿¿hi
57. Manner of practising to get Attadi¿¿hi rejected
58. How to practise to be liberated from Gabbhaseyya or entering into a womb
61. U Ba Htu’s Mettæ
62. Story of Sæmævatø who was unvulnerable against the shot of an arrow
65. How to contemplate, etc., re: Second MettA Sutta
66. Anicca, Characteristic of Anicca and Aniccænupassanæ
67. Dukkha, Characteristic of Dukkha and Dukkhænupassanæ
68. Anatta, Characteristic of Anatta and Anattænupassanæ
69. Continuation of Second MettA Sutta
70. The First MettA Sutta (Ref: A£guttara-p.443)
71. To contemplate Vipassanæ while developing Mettæ
75. Person towards whom Karu¤æ should be developed first
76. How to develop Karu¤æ according to the phrase-“Sabbe sattæ dukkhæ muccantu”
77. Manner of developing 132 kinds of Karu¤æ
78. How knowledge of Mahækaru¤æsamæpatti occurs
79. Constant worry is pitiable
80. It is pitiable for being also carried away to old age, sickness and death
81. Karu¤æ that had occurred at the time of Sæma¤era
82. It is pitiable for not really having anything to depend upon
83. Buddha could only preach and guide the way
84. To abandon everything is pitiable
85. Story of King SørIdhammæsoka
86. To be a slave to Tah¤æ is indeed pitiable
87. Beings are being pierced by arrows
88. The manner of getting rid of an arrow stump by contemplating and noting the Dhamma
89. Enmeshed in Ta¤hæ and drifting in the current of Ta¤hæ
90. Caught in the net of Di¿¿hi and drifting in the current of Di¿¿hi
92. The manner of developing Muditæ
93. What is Upekkhæ?
94. Is it not bad to be indifferent to the welfare of others?
98. Question raised by Subha, the lad
100. Kammic cause of short life and long life
101. Kammic cause of diseasefulness and good health
102. Story of Pþtigattatissa Thera
103. Kammic cause of ugliness and fair complexion
104. Kammic cause of few or more attendants
105. Kammic cause of poverty and affluence
106. Story of Ænanda, the millionaire
107. Kammic cause of low or high birth
108. Manner of developing 132 kinds of Upekkhæ
109. Kammic cause of lack of knowledge and of higher intellectual power
110. Akusala which is not deserving of reliance and which should be avoided
111. Kusala which should be relied upon and performed
112. The manner of practising meditation to gain Vipassanæ-kusala
113. Manner of contemplating and noting, and of how consciousness arises at the moment of seeing
114. Manner of contemplating and noting, and of how consciousness arises at the moment of hearing
115. Manner of contemplating and noting, and of how consciousness arises at the moment of smelling
116. Manner of contemplating and noting, and of how consciousness arises at the moment of eating
117. Manner of contemplating and noting, and of how consciousness arises at the moment of contact
119. Kusala which should be relied upon and performed (continuation)
120. Explanation given in the light of the present Kamma
121. Kamma and its effects-Critical comments in conclusion
122. Final Conclusion and Blessing