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Skill in Questions
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Abbreviations
Foreword
Skill in Questions
Chapter 1: The Kamma of Teaching
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Skill in Questions
Skill in Answers
The Buddha’s Rhetoric
Chapter 2: The Bodhisatta’s Quest
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Chapter 3: Categorical Answers
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Categorical Teachings
Appropriate Attention
Skillful & Unskillful Actions
The Four Noble Truths
Dependent Co-arising
Recommended Questions
Views & Awakening
Papañca
Chapter 4: Analytical Answers
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On Judging People
Judging Ways of Life
Judging Practices
Kamma & Feeling
On the Buddha as Teacher
Chapter 5: Cross-questioning: I
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Establishing Orthodoxy
Cross-Questioning in the Process of Learning
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Invitations to cross-questioning
The Buddha anticipates cross-questioning of his teaching by faultfinders
Ven. Sāriputta anticipates cross-questioning of the teaching by sincere, intelligent people
Awakening through cross-questioning the speaker
The Buddha’s final invitation to cross-question him
The Buddha Questions Other Sectarians
Clarifying the Question
Extracting Definitions
Hypotheticals: on the Buddha as Teacher
Hypotheticals: Kings, Princes, & Generals
Hypotheticals: Brahmans
Hypotheticals: Kamma
Hypotheticals: Understanding Pleasure & Pain
People Worth Talking to (& Not)
Debates
Chapter 6: Cross-questioning: II
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Chapter 7: Questions Put Aside: I
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Livelihood
Other Teachers
Chapter 8: Questions Put Aside: II
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Agnosticism
Inconceivables: Kamma & the World
The Buddha’s Silence
Questions of Inappropriate Attention
Dependent Co-arising: Extremes Avoided
Dependent Co-arising: Invalid Questions
The Ten Undeclared Issues
View-standpoints from DN 1
The Tetralemma
The Tetralemma Declared Meaningless
Different Responses to Similar Questions
Chapter 9: A Path of Questions
Appendix 1: Buddhaghosa on the four categories of questions
Appendix 2: Mnemonic Questions
Appendix 3: Eternalism & Annihilationism
Appendix 4: On the meaning of ‘tathāgata’ in the tetralemma
Glossary
Skill in Questions
How the Buddha Taught
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
(Geoffrey DeGraff)
