CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PART I

  1. Introduction

  2. What is NibbÆna?

  3. Ratana Sutta Paritta

  4. Calling a Halt to Kamma-actions

Purity of mind

Purity of belief

Investigating Knowledge

Knowledge of the Rise and Fall of Aggregates

Stream-Winner and the like

Arahatship through Alms-giving

Arahatship through insight-meditation

  5. No Yearning for Death nor for Life

  6. Rebirth is Dependent on craving

  7. No Craving, No Rebirth

  8. Like a Flame Extinguished

  9. The meaning of NibbÆna

10. The Meaning of Santi

Kilesa Vatta

Kamma Vatta

Shun the Ignorant

VipÆka Vatta

11. Round and Round

12. How to Escape from the Three Rounds

13. Annihilation of Existence

14. SammÆsa Sutta

15. Like Unto the Stump of a Palm-tree

16. NibbÆna-happiness

17. True Bliss

18. First JhÆnic Bliss is Better than Happiness Derived from Sensual Pleasures

19. Different Stages of JhÆnic Bliss

PART II

20. SaNkhÆra and NibbÆna

(1) Uppada and Anuppada

(2) Pavatta and Appavatta

(3) Nimitta and Animitta

21. Signlessness Felt through Bha£ga ÑÆ¤a

22. NibbÆna: Its Characteristics, Functions and Manifestations

23. NibbÆna is formless

(4) ÆYUHANÆ AND ANÆYUHANÆ

24. Kamma-actions Do not Cease without Exertion

25. The Flesh iS Prone to Evil

26. Where Kusala is Wanting, Akusala Dominates

27. Arahats Never Abandon Kusala Kammas

(5) Patisandhi and Appatisandhi

28. Three Loads

A. Kilesa Load

B. Æbhisa£khÆra Load

C. Khandha Load

29. The Cord of Existence

30. Five Faculties of the Senses

31. Cessation of Lust

32. AnupÆdisesa NibbÆna

33. Two Noteworthy Verses

PART III

34. The Hymn

35. The Story of BÆhiyadÆruciriya

36. Just See as You See It

37. BÆhiya Became an Arahat

38. The Eye and Visual Perception

39. The Ear and Auditory Perception

40. The Nose and Olfactory Perception

41. The Tongue and Gustatory Perception

42. The Body and Tactile Perception

43. The Mind and Perception of Ideas

44. Cessation of Æyatanas is NIBBÆNA

45. Fixing the Mind on NibbÆna

46. Right Method of Practice

47. Sense of Disgust

PART IV

48. Respectful Attention

49. The Attentiveness of a Female Spirit

50. About the Nature of NibbÆna

51. NibbÆna is Real

52. No Primary Elements is NibbÆna

53. Matter non-existence in NibbÆna

54. Absence of Mind dependAnt on Matter

55. Absence of Arþpavacara Citta

56. Absence of Both Mind and Matter in NibbÆna

57. NibbÆna is Beyond All Worlds

58. Attributes of NibbÆna

NibbÆna has no Mass

NibbÆna is Deathless and Birthless

NibbÆna has no Abode

No OccuRrence of NÆmarþpa

NibbÆna Offers you no Sense-objects

NibbÆna Means the End of Suffering

59. Rohitassa Sutta

60. You cannot Walk to the End of the World

61. Sufferings End with the End of the World

62. Four Noble Truths Reside in the Body

63. The Universe Within Us

64. Meditating on four Elements

65. An Easy Step in Meditation

66. Suffering and Its Cause Become Manifest during Ideation

67. Discovery of NibbÆna Where the Universe Ends

68. Appatittha, No Foothold

PART V

69. Cessation of Craving

70. Let me Consider it

71. Loth to Earn Merit for NIBBÆNA

72. Maung KÆla

73. A Stream-winner far Excels a Universal Monarch

74. Also Excels a Deva or a Brahma

75. Also Excels the King of Brahmas

76. Beings in Sensuous Spheres Dislike A Brahma’s Life

77. Beings in Form Spheres Dislike the Absence of Form or Body

78. Craving has no Affinity for NIBBÆNA

79. The Noble Truth of Cessation of Suffering

80. The Four Upadhis

81. Nirodha as Expounded in Kevatta Sutta

82. About Miracles

83. Psychic Powers

84. Magical Powers

85. Knowledge of Other People’s Thoughts

86. Power of Dispensation

87. Where Does Cessation Take Place?

PART VI

88. NibbÆnic Peace is Real

89. MahÆ PajÆpati Gotamø

90. King Suddhodana and Queen Gotamø Became Stream-winners

91. Cousin Nanda and Son RÆhulÆ

92. PariNIBBÆNA of Suddhodana, the Arahat

93. Admission of Women into the Order

94. ÆnandÆ Intervened

95. Permission granted

96. PariNIBBÆNA of Gotamø Therø

Her Tribute to Buddha

Three GÆthÆs which Can Bring Blessings

Obeisance to Sanghas

Gotamø Therø Comforted ÆnandÆ

Miracles of gotamø Therø

The Last Request

The ParinibbÆna

97. In Praise of NibbÆna

98. Buddha’s Exhortation