Index of Subjects
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A
- Acting
- Action See Kamma
- Ad hominem cross-questioning
- Aggregates
- a being and
- appropriate attention to
- arahants’ view of
- arising and passing away of
- being and
- cessation of
- craving for
- dependent co-arising as including
- direct knowledge, apprehension through
- discernment and
- disenchantment with
- dropping of concept of
- first noble truth and
- freedom from
- “I am” conceit and
- in general
- inconstancy of
- jhāna and
- meditative absorptions and
- not-self, as
- obsession with
- person, as defining
- self and
- self cross-examination and
- self-identity view and
- stress, as
- subduing of passion for
- Tathāgata, regarding as
- ten undeclared issues and
- tetralemma regarding existence of Buddha after death and
- Aging
- Agnosticism
- Alertness
- Alms
- Analogies See Cross-questioning
- Analysis of qualities
- Analytical answer, questions deserving
- Anattā See Not-self
- Anguish
- Anicca See Inconstancy
- Annihilationism
- Answers
- Appropriate attention
- analysis of qualities and See Analysis of qualities
- categorical answers, questions deserving and See Categorical answer, questions deserving
- defined
- dependent co-arising and
- four noble truths and See Four noble truths
- in general
- inappropriate attention
- kamma and
- objectification and See Objectification
- pragmatic effects of
- putting aside questions and
- questions deserving and not deserving
- ten undeclared issues and
- Arahantship
- Āsava See Fermentations
- Asceticism
- Authenticity, practice for
- Awakening
- cross-questioning mode leading to
- views and
- watches of the night See Watches of the night of awakening
- Axial Age
B
- Bases of success, four
- Becoming
- basic terms of
- being, becoming of
- cessation of
- consciousness and
- cosmos and
- craving for
- dependent co-arising See Dependent co-arising
- dismantling of
- first noble truth and
- identity and
- kamma and
- stress, as central to
- tetralemma regarding existence of Buddha after death and
- types of
- Being
- Bhava See Becoming
- Birth
- Bodhisatta
- Bodily conduct
- Body
- aggregate See Aggregates
- conduct of See Bodily conduct
- disease, cancer, arrow, painful, affliction, as
- establishing of mindfulness
- fabrications and
- focus on
- ignorance and
- pleasure and pain arising with
- sense medium, as See Six sense media
- Bombast
- Brahmans
- Buddha
C
- Caste
- Categorical answer, questions deserving
- appropriate attention and
- arahantship and
- bodhisatta and
- cross-questioning and
- function of
- in general
- indication of
- investigation of mind by
- people fit to talk with
- recommended questions
- right view and
- significance of
- stream entry and
- Triple Gem, refuge in and
- use of
- Categorical teachings
- Causality
- Classification of questions
- Clinging
- aggregates See Aggregates
- dependent co-arising See Dependent co-arising
- tetralemma regarding existence of Buddha after death and
- who clings
- Coherence, rhetorical system and
- Compassion
- Conceit
- Concentration
- Consciousness
- Contemplative life
- Conventional truth
- Conviction
- Cosmology
- Cosmos
- awakening of Buddha to
- conjecture about
- craving and
- dependent co-arising and
- distaste for
- end of
- eternal nature of
- four elements as equivalent to
- jhāna and
- kammic process of creating perception of
- metaphysics of, putting questions as to aside
- origination of
- questions regarding, putting aside
- release, portion gaining
- six sense media and
- stress and
- Craving
- becoming and
- four noble truths and See Four noble truths
- in general
- tetralemma regarding existence of Buddha after death and
- who craves
- Cross-examination
- offense by monk See Monks, offense, cross-examination on
- self cross-examination See Self cross-examination
- Cross-questioning
- analytical answers and
- bodhisatta and
- categorical answers and
- clarification through
- compassion and See Compassion
- debate, use of See Debate
- hypotheticals See Hypotheticals
- in general
- invitations for
- kamma and
- orthodoxy, establishing of
- putting question aside and
- question, clarification of
- right view and
- self cross-examination See Self cross-examination
- similes and
- situations used in
- Tathāgata after death, regarding
- unclear statements, clarification by
- Cross-questioning, questions deserving
D
- Death
- Death of Buddha
- Deathless See Unbinding
- Debate
- Defilement, freedom from
- Dependent co-arising
- abandoning of
- aggregates and See Aggregates
- annihilationism See Annihilationism
- appropriate attention and See Appropriate attention
- becoming, perception of and
- being and
- categorical teaching, as
- cessation of
- consciousness
- conviction and
- cosmos and
- in general
- Desire
- Determinism
- Devas
- Development based on directing or
- not directing
- Dhamma eye
- Dhamma eye, arising of
- eternalism and See Eternalism
- extremes avoided
- fermentations and
- four noble truths and
- invalid questions
- map of
- mode of perception, as
- not-self and
- objectification and
- other-made
- perception of self and
- putting questions aside and
- questions applied to
- right view and
- self and
- self cross-examination and
- self-made
- six sense media and
- skillful kamma and
- stress and
- Dhamma-vicaya See Analysis of qualities
- Dialectics
- Discernment
- Discernment, questions and
- Disciples of Buddha, responses by
- Divisive speech See Speech
- Doubt
- Dukkha See Stress
E
- Effort See Right effort
- Eightfold path
- Embryo
- Empathetic joy
- Emptiness
- Energy See Persistence
- Equanimity
- Establishings of mindfulness
- Eternalism
- Exertion
F
- Fabrications
- aggregate See Aggregates
- agnosticism as
- inconstancy of
- perception and See Perception
- Factors for awakening
- Faculties See Five faculties
- Faith See Conviction
- Families, downfall of
- Feeling
- Fermentations
- Fetters
- First principles
- Fit and function of question and answer
- Five faculties
- Forms
- dependent co-arising of See Dependent co-arising
- in general See Aggregates
- inconstancy of
- not-self nature of
- pursuit of
- sense object, as See Six sense media
- Formulation of questions
- Foundational thinking
- Foundations of mindfulness See Establishings of mindfulness
- Four elements
- Four inconceivables
- Four noble truths
- abandoning concept of
- aggregates and
- appropriate attention and
- categorical teaching, as See Categorical teachings
- cosmos and
- dependent co-arising and See Dependent co-arising
- discernment of
- duties of
- first noble truth
- fourth noble truth
- framework for
- in general
- inappropriate attention and
- kamma and
- path, fourth noble truth as
- right view and
- second noble truth
- stress as center
- third noble truth
- third watch and
- Frames of reference See Establishings of mindfulness
- Friendship, admirable
- Future
G
H
- Habits
- Habits & practices, grasping at
- Happiness
- Harsh speech See Speech
- Heedfulness
- Hindrances
- Holy life See Contemplative life
- Householder life
- Hunger, freedom from on release
- Hypotheticals
I
- “I am”
- “I-making”
- Idappaccayatā See This/that conditionality
- Ideas
- Idle chatter See Speech
- Ignorance
- Illness
- Impermanence See Inconstancy
- Inconceivables See Four inconceivables
- Inconstancy
- Infinitude of consciousness
- Infinitude of space
- Integrity
- Intention
- Intoxicants, business in
J
- Jhāna
- aggregates and
- end of cosmos and
- entry into
- formless
- hindrances and
- judging of
- questioning of
- range of, as inconceivable
- right concentration, as
- rose-apple tree, entry into under
- skillful resolves, second jhāna and
- Judging
K
- Kamma
- agnosticism and
- anattā and See Not-self
- appropriate attention and
- becoming and
- bright and dark
- categorical teaching, as
- central teaching, as
- collaborative effort
- cosmos, kamma of creating perception of
- cross-questioning and
- declaration of
- determinism and
- diversity in
- eightfold path and
- end of
- feeling and See Feeling
- form-property and
- formless-property and
- formless states and
- four noble truths and
- general principles of
- going forth and
- hypotheticals of
- in general
- inaction, teaching of
- intention as
- learning, of See Learning
- mastering of
- meditation and
- mental action and
- misunderstandings regarding
- new and old
- newness of concept
- nibbāna and See Unbinding
- not-self and See Not-self
- primary frame of understanding, using as
- putting question aside as teaching of
- results of as inconceivable
- right view and
- second watch, insight into
- self, kamma of creating perception of
- shaping of teaching by
- skillful, development of
- speaking as
- spiritual autobiography and
- stress and See Stress
- teaching, principle for judging
- ten undeclared issues and
- this/that conditionality and
- unbinding and See Unbinding
- values taught by Buddha and
- views, effect of building
- workings of, complexity of
- Kamma of teaching
- Kindliness
- Knowledge
L
M
- Meat, business in
- Meditation
- Mental action
- Mettā See Good will
- Middle way
- Mind
- Mindfulness
- Mnemonic questions
- Monks
- Muditā See Empathetic joy
- “My-making”
N
- Name & form See Dependent co-arising
- Neither perception nor non-perception, dimension of
- Nibbāna See Unbinding
- Nine abodes of beings
- Non-becoming, craving for
- Not-self
- Nothingness, dimension of
- Nuns
- Nutriment, four types of
O
- Objectification
- appropriate attention and
- becoming and
- being and
- Buddha’s use of
- cessation of possibility of
- conflict resulting from
- cross-questioning and
- dependent co-arising and See Dependent co-arising
- drawbacks of
- in general
- inappropriate attention and See Appropriate attention
- maps to arising of categories of
- perceptions and categories of
- pleasure and pain, self- or othermade, as
- putting aside questions and
- questions resulting from
- range of
- right view as putting aside
- self, existence of
- six sense bases and
- ten undeclared issues and
- thinking and See Thinking
- unskillful kamma, as
- Once-returning
- Oneness
P
- Pain
- Papañca See Objectification
- Past
- Paṭicca samuppāda See Dependent co-arising
- Pāṭimokkha, restraint in
- Perception
- Persistence
- Personality view See Self-identity
- Pleasure, self-made or other-made
- Poison, business in
- Present
- Proliferation See Objectification
- Psychic powers, Buddha’s use of
- Purification
- Putting aside, questions deserving
- agnosticism and See Agnosticism
- appropriate attention and See Appropriate attention
- categorical answer, as avoiding
- cosmos, questions regarding See Cosmos
- cross-questioning and
- dependent co-arising, questions regarding See Dependent co-arising
- function of
- in general
- indication of
- Kālāmas, questions of
- kamma and See Kamma
- objectification and See Objectification
- people fit to talk with
- pragmatic and
- right view and See Right view
- self cross-examination and
- significance of
Q
- Questioners
- Questions
- assumptions underlying
- awakening, quest for and
- beliefs underlying
- bodhisatta and
- Buddha’s own path and
- correction of
- discernment and
- equivalent
- framing of
- invitations for
- levels of
- mnemonic
- novice’s
- numbers, use in
- ordering of teachings around
- preconceived notions and
- purpose of
- reworking of
- riddles in
- seven types of in Buddha’s discovery and teaching of path
- silence as response
- similes, use of in answering
- skillful
- strategic nature of
- trick
- unskillful
- dependent co-arising and
- intentions and
- putting aside See Putting aside, questions deserving
- recognition of
R
- Rebirth
- Resolve
- Responsibility in teaching
- Rhetoric
- Right action
- Right concentration
- Right effort
- Right livelihood
- Right mindfulness
- Right resolve
- Right speech
- Right view
- abandoning of
- action based on
- conditions for
- definitions of
- dependent co-arising and See Dependent co-arising
- development of
- discernment and See Discernment
- eightfold path, as condition for
- engendering of
- four noble truths and See Four noble truths
- framing questions in terms of
- gaps in teaching of
- happiness and See Happiness
- hearing teachings with
- in general
- inconsistencies in teaching of
- kamma and
- levels of
- mundane, use of
- path, as step on
- putting aside questions and
- questions establishing frame of
- ramifications of
- requirement for awakening, as
- response-strategies and
- self cross-examination and See Self cross-examination
- skillful mental action, as
- Rites & rituals See Habits & practices, grasping at
S
- Saṅgha
- Saṅkhāra See Aggregates
- Saññā See Aggregates
- Satipaṭṭhāna See Establishings of mindfulness
- Satta See Being
- Searching
- Self
- aggregates and See Aggregates
- annihilationism and
- atta-bhāva
- becoming See Becoming
- constancy of
- cross-examination See Self cross-examination
- defining of and objectification
- dependent co-arising and See Dependent co-arising
- eternalism and
- existence of
- extermination of
- governing principle
- identity with See Self-identity
- inconstancy of
- objectification and
- perception and
- personal identity
- process of creating
- self cross-examination and perception of
- stressful, regarding as
- Self cross-examination
- Self-identity
- Sense faculties See Six sense media
- Sensuality
- Sexual misconduct See Bodily conduct
- Shame
- Silence in response to question
- Six sense media
- all, as
- arahant, discernment by
- cessation of
- cosmos and See Cosmos
- dependent co-arising See Dependent co-arising
- disenchantment with
- feeling based on, inconstancy of
- inconstancy of
- objectification and See Objectification
- old kamma, as
- perception of
- restraint of
- self cross-examination and
- ten undeclared issues and
- transcending of
- Skill in questions, defined
- Slaves
- Soldiering
- Speech
- abusive
- bodily conduct compared
- coarse
- cryptic, by Buddha
- divisive
- examination of
- fabrications and
- false
- idle chatter
- kamma and
- lies, telling of
- noble ones, speech of
- person of no integrity, by
- pleasing and skillful distinguished
- pleasure and pain arising with
- purification by
- pursuit of
- reflection on
- self cross-examination and
- skillful
- unpleasing and unskillful distinguished
- unskillful
- Spiritual autobiography
- Stealing See Bodily conduct
- Stream-entry
- Stress
- action and
- aggregates and See Aggregates
- becoming and See Becoming
- cessation of
- cosmos and
- definition of
- dependent co-arising and
- dimension constituting end of
- freedom from
- illness and
- kamma and
- meditation regarding
- origination and ending of
- questions and ending of
- self cross-examination and
- teaching of stress and its end
- Suffering See Stress
- Sympathetic joy See Empathetic joy
- Sympathy
T
- Taking of life See Bodily conduct
- Tathāgata, tetralemma, meaning in
- Teachers
- Buddha as
- choosing
- conviction in
- criticism, as worthy or not worthy of
- disparaging of others
- duties of
- evaluation of
- material gain, teaching for sake of
- motivations of
- non-harming by
- other sects, teachers of
- qualification for
- respect, teaching for sake of
- self cross-examination and
- senior disciples as
- Teaching
- appropriate attention and
- collaborative nature of
- compassion and
- despair at, Buddha’s
- dialectics and
- example, teaching by
- fitness of
- foundational approach to
- judging of
- kamma of See Kamma of teaching
- learning See Learning
- mnemonic questions and
- noble ones, by
- pleasing or unpleasing nature of
- practice of Dhamma as
- pragmatic nature of
- questions, through
- responsibility and
- rewards of listening to
- rhetorical approach to See Rhetoric
- right action, application to
- right livelihood, application to
- right speech, application to
- senior disciples, by
- strategic nature of
- sympathy and See Sympathy
- teleological nature of
- timeliness of
- tools of
- truth as requisite
- Ten undeclared issues
- Tetralemma on Tathāgata after death See Death
- Thinking
- appropriate attention and See Appropriate attention
- cause of
- cessation of
- foundational See Foundational thinking
- mental conduct See Mental action
- objectification
- right concentration and
- right resolve and
- This/that conditionality
- Three times
- Transmigration
U
- Ultimate truth
- Unbinding
- Uncertainty See Doubt
V
- View
- abandoning of
- awakening and
- cessation of
- character of person consummate in view
- entrenchment in
- kammic effect of building See Kamma
- pernicious views held by monks See Monks
- pleasure and pain, self- or other-made
- right See Right view
- standpoints
- ten undeclared issues and
- thicket of
- wrong See Wrong view
- Viññāṇaṁ anidassanaṁ
W
- Warriors
- Watches of the night of awakening
- Weapons
- Wings to awakening
- Wisdom See Discernment
- Words, nature of
- World See Cosmos
- Wrong livelihood
- Wrong path
- Wrong view
Y
- Yoniso manasikāra See Appropriate attention




