1. Endowed with good
conduct of body,
2. Endowed with
good conduct of speech,
3. Endowed with
good conduct of mind,
4. Who did not revile
the Noble Ones,
5. Who held right
views and undertook actions under the influence of right views
… on the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the good destination, the heavenly world.
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Oh Atula! Indeed,
this is an ancient practice, not one only of today:
they blame those
who remain silent,
they blame those
who speak much,
they blame those
who speak in moderation.
There is none in
this world who is not blamed.
Acquiring of Wealth
Spending Wealth
Five Dangers for
Wealth
Five benefits that
can be obtained from wealth
Three types of People
(Acquiring Wealth)
Lost of Wealth
The four Ignoble
Searches
Conditions of Spiritual
Progress
Four Kinds of Bliss
to a householder
Two Pleasures
Three types of persons
hard to find in the world
Three Roots of Evil
Four causes of evil
Thought
Three Growth
Four types of thunderheads
Three of Practices
Four grounds for
the arising of craving (for monks)
Four types of people
Five things that
are welcome, agreeable, pleasant and hard to obtain in the world
Five Rewards in
listening to the Dhamma
On why the Buddha
is called the “Tathagata”
Eight worldly conditions
Four types of persons
Four elements in
the self
Four Noble Truth
Noble Eight-fold
Path
Two extremes
Five Growth as compared
to the Sal Tree
Four things conduced
to the confusion and the vanishing
Away of Saddhamma
Four Qualities of
the Elephants
Four types of Fear
Four Wheels of Prosperity
Five rewards of
conviction in a layperson
These four are clinging
Four Places of Pilgrimage
The Three Persons
Ten Meritorious Deeds
(Dasa Kusala Kamma)
Ten Demeritorious
Deeds (Dasa Akulasa Kamma)
Conditions and Effects
for Demeritorious Deeds
Five Gravely Kamma
Results of Bad Action
Punna, there are
four kinds of kamma
The Cause of Rebirth
The Reserved Fund
(On Merit – Punna)
5. DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES
Three qualities of
a friend
The householder’s
duty (to the monk)
How to listen to
the Dhamma
Four grounds for
the bonds of fellowship
Living Together
Five qualities in
teaching Dhamma
Five Sphere of Release
Four kinds of Enemies
in the Guise of Friends
Six evil consequences
in indulging in gambling
A giver of What
Who and What to
give?
Four Flood of Merit
(to laymen)
Two types of Gifts
The Treasure of
generosity
In giving a meal,
the donor gives five things to the recipient
Giving at the proper
time
A Good Man’s Gifts
A master of giving
Five rewards of
generosity
Giving even one’s
last meal
Five timely Gifts
The Motivation for
Giving
The Gift of the
Dhamma (Truth) excels all other gifts
Worthy of Offerings
Three types of clouds
The Manner of giving
Many motives, many
fruits
Wholesome and Unwholesome
How a monk is incapable
of falling away and is right in the presence of Unbinding
Three types of anger
There are these
four ways of answering questions
Four Bases of Sympathy
Five aspects of
speech by which others may address you
The Causes for the
Rising of Anger
The Causes for the
Rising of Lust
Three types of sick
people
Three types of Uposathas
There are these
three grounds for meritorious activity
Five strengths for
one in training
Four people who,
subject to death, is not afraid or in terror of death
New Comers in the
Dhamma
What’s to speak?
Eight Precepts
Five faultless gifts
The Seven Treasures
Taste of the Dhamma
The Four Great Authorities
What is the purpose
of skillful virtues? What are their rewards?
Ten ways of subduing
hatred
Five ways of removing
annoyance
Seven things that
pleases the enemy
Ten topics of [power]
conversation
What is an outcaste
of a lay follower?
The Army of Mara
The Four incapable
of Falling Away
The Novice’s Ten
Questions
Destination of the
actors and comedians
Two qualities have
a share in clear knowing
Four developments
of concentration
Four (Controlling)
Powers
Four Powers
Five Learner’s Powers
Seven factors of
Awakening
Prescription for
dealing with drowsiness in meditation
Five Hindrances
Three Indulgences
Four determinations
Five Spheres of
Release
Ten Fetters
Four Right Efforts
Eleven Benefits
of Practicing Metta (Loving Kindness)
32 Parts of Impurities
of the Body