DISCOURSE ON PA¿ICCASAMUPPÆDA

1. Importance of the Doctrine

2. Reflection of the Bodhisatta

3. Anuloma Reasoning

4. Beyond Reasoning and Speculation

5. Dhamma is only for the wise

6. Difficulty of understanding

7. What is Avijjæ?

8. Ignorance of the origin of Dukkha

9. Ignorance of the Third and Fourth Noble Truths

10. Right View, etc.,

11. Avijjæ leads to Sa£khæra

12. Unwholesome Kammas

13. Rejection of good Kamma means bad Kamma

14. Ignorance and Illusion

15. Sa£khæra causes Viññæ¤a

16. How Sa£khæra leads to new Viññæ¤a

17. Sassata and Uccheda

18. Death-bed visions

19. The Story of Mahædhammika upæsakæ

20. Viññæ¤a and Næma-rþpa

21. Upapata rebirth

22. Sansedaja beings

23. VØthi-cittas

24. Manodværa VØthi

25. Follow-up VØthi

26. From Viññæ¤a arises Næmarþpa

27. The Story of Cakkhupæla Thera

28. The Thera’s Verdict

29. Pure thought and Happiness

30. Næmarþpa and Salæyatana

31. Rþpa and Æyatana

32. Summary

33. The Buddha’s Emphasis on Practice

34. The Abstruseness of the Doctrine

35. Recapitulation

36. Vedanæ leads to Ta¤hæ

37. SIX KINDS OF Ta¤hæ

38. Ta¤hæ and Samsæra

39. The Story of Mahætissa Thera

40. Story of a Parrot

41. Contemplation and Extinction

42. Cutting off at the Foundation

43. Kilesæ and Unmindfulness

44. Thoughts and Tactile Impressions

45. Three kinds of Craving

46. Ta¤hæ causes Upædæna

47. Bases of Sensual Pleasure

48. Right Views

49. Seeing the world beyond

50. PæramØ and Kamma

51. Sølabbatupædæna

52. The Story of Korakhattiya

53. Other Sølabbata practices

54. Attavædupædæna

55. Kammabhava

56. Story of Mendaka

57. Upædæna and Kammabhava

58. Puppharatta Jætaka

59. Right and wrong good Kamma

60. Kamma and Rebirth

61. Four kinds of Kamma

62. Story of Ajætasattu

63. Habitual and Death-bed Kammas

64. Birth and Suffering

65. Grief and Lamentation

66. Story of Subrahma deva

67. KæmuPædæna means all kinds of Excessive Craving

68. Attachment to belief as the Cause of Rebirth

69. Superstition and Evil Rebirth

70. Fanaticism or Religious Upædæna

71. Sølabbatupædæna-Attachment to wrong Practices

72. Attavædupædæna

73. Story of Uggæ

74. Vipassanæ Practice and Upædæna

75. Life-cycle and three time-dimensions

76. Five causes in the Past

77. Distinction between Sa£khæra and Kammabhava

78. Present Effect due to Past cause

79. Knowledge for Vipassanæ practice

80. Removing the Present causes

81. The Arahat’s outlook on life

82. Not annihilation but Extinction of Suffering

83. Story of Yamaka

84. BhikkhunØ Vajiræ on the Nature of Khandhæs

85. Four layers, three links and twenty factors

86. Three cycles

87. Four Aspects of Paticcasamuppæda

88. The False View of Sæti

89. Distinctive Character of each Phenomenon

90. Absence of Effort

91. Conclusion

92. Cutting off the Cycle of Defilements

93. Arahan and the Attributes of the Buddha.

94. Story of Baka brahmæ

95. Sammæsambuddha

96. The fame of the Buddha

97. The Four Noble Truths in brief

98. Summary