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definitions 69; household level 70; 
local level 69; national level 69; 
neighbourhood level 69-70 
amenable resting place 173 
amenable sleeping place 173 
analysis, retrospective 180 
analytical insights [pa.tisambhidaa], 
fourfold 423 
anarchists, absence of 66, 69 
angelic body 356, 378, 379 
angels, respect towards 173 
anger, accumulation of 167; 
banishing 
400; gravely damaging but 
shortlived 
412; not expressing in a 
dhamma discussion 335; 
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overcoming 
229, 417; patience in the face of 305 
angered, by decent conversation 30; 
not 
easily 42-3 
animal kingdom, suffering of birth 
in 
373 
animals, gift to 190; gratitude to 
285 
announcing parent's goodness, by 
our 
example 147 
annoyance 380; defilement of the 
formless-brahma body 356 
annoying one's aging parents, 
avoiding 
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146 
answering back 311; not 312, 313 
answering questions, four ways 334 
anxieties, reduced 83; 
unwholesomeness at personality 
level 228 
any-bed users' practice 351 
apologizing quickly 264 
appearance worsened, 
unwholesomeness at personality 
level 228 
appearance, improved personal 83 
appearances, obsession with 106 
appetite, overcoming slavery to 
one's 
350 
application, artfulness 113-8 
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application, initial 180 
application, sustained 180 
appreciating debt of gratitude, 
practical 
ways 145 
appreciation of others' virtues, 
bowing 
helps 53 
appreciation, of debt of gratitude 
141 
apprentice, rapport with trainer 253 
apprenticeship 116 
approach to work, appropriate 179 
appropriate spending 41 
appropriate, contentment with what 
is 
272-3 
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model 
protects from 52 
artful application, six components 
of 
114; three categories 114 
artful speech 131-8; basis of 
spiritual 
dialogue 331; defined 133; qualities 
of 134; those who don't appreciate 
135 
artfulness in application 113-8; 
cultivating 114-6; definition 113-4; 
instilling 115-6 
artfulness in knowledge 102-11; 
definition 104 
artfulness in usage 119-29; 
definition 
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120-1; objectives of study 119-20 
artificial morality 226 
asking questions, helps learning 254 
assassination 217 
assistance, not giving those who 
lack 
gratitude 284 
associating with good friends 40; to 
overcome sensuality 417 
association 44-7; with fools, worthy 
role 
model reduces possibilities of 52; 
with the wise, cultivating 48 
association, definition 31; principles 
of 
45-6 
assuming one is right 265 
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astrology, causing prevarication 179 
attachment 404; to rites and rituals 
380; in development of greed 275; 
letting go by centring 189; neither 
in 
whole nor in part 352-3 
attainer made noble, the noble truths 
372 
attainment obstructed, 
unwholesomeness at lifestyle level 
228 
attainment, deterioration of previous 
133; falling away from 133; merit 
leading to 84 
attention, capturing listener's 136 
attentive learning 107, 108 
attitude; of respect 59; to 
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possessions 
276 
attitudes, changing one's 374 
attracting favourable circumstances 
78 
attraction, in development of greed 
275 
attractive gift 189 
attractiveness, irrelevant to 
successful 
marriage 171 
audience size, should not be motive 
for 
giving sermons 294 
audience, not compromising by 
one's 
sermon 294 
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aunts as extended family 206 
austerities, categories of 349; monk 
must practise 323; the practice of 
347-56 
austerity 349-352; self-mortification 
349; blessings one to thirty as 
groundwork to 347; defined 349; 
ten 
virtues of a ruler 201; necessary 
virtues for practising 351-2; thirteen 
forms of intense 349-51; to remove 
defilements 347 
author, physical skilfulness 114 
average person, between extremes 
of 
good & evil 39 
avoidance, defined 228 
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avoidance, levels of 128; planned 
229; 
situational 228-9; transcendental 
229 
avoiding evil, the patience to 305 
awareness 120; of responsibilities 
248 
awkwardness, unwholesomeness at 
personality level 228 
Aztec civilization, cause of fall 254 
B 
babble, purposeless 129 
backslider's, outlook on the world 
346, 
354 
backsliding, alien to buddhism 271; 
overcome by patience 303; 
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overcoming excuses 354 
bad company, associating with 107 
bad deeds; in the guise of good 95; 
dilution of 228; not evened out by 
good deeds 228 
bad friends, distraction to work 179 
Blessing Thirty-Eight: The Blissful 
Mind 427 
bad habits, defilements as residue of 
348; dhamma talks remind us of our 
331 
bail, helping extended family who 
need 
208 
bank account, emotional 171 
barbaric society 70 
basic needs, four 207 
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battered children 147-8 
battle, restraint from talk of 336 
beasts of burden, letting retire 
instead 
of slaughtering 285; not working in 
midday sun 285 
beauty, measure of a person's worth 
261; misuse of 287 
bedclothes, as a token of respect 58; 
as 
suitable gift 188 
beds, as suitable gift 188; restraint 
from 
talk of 336 
before giving, intention 190 
beggars, always having something 
to 
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give 208 
behaving habitually in a good way 
40 
behaviour, habits dictate future 348; 
improved 83; wise one defined in 
terms of 39-40 
being a refuge to a friend 45 
being influenced by a fool 32 
being open, helps learning 254 
being without self, as universal 
characteristic 397-8 
believing in what you do 114 
belongs to doer, character of merit 
78 
benchmarks for personal potential 
270 
benefactors, available 66, 69; 
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needed to 
establish new town 69 
benefit of the doubt, giving dhamma 
teachings 335 
benefit, brought by parents 148; for 
present lifetime 71; latent 283 
recognizing in others 283 
benefiting from things, requires 
knowing their usage 254 
benefits, allocating 218; inability to 
recognize 284, in the present 
lifetime 
40 
betrays homeland, because of lack 
of 
wise ones 47 
better quality, gift of 188 
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beyond control, as universal 
characteristic 398 
bias, avoiding 202; endangers 
gratitude 
287; lack of 200-201; refraining 
from 
200 
biased personality 167 
birth, danger of 421; suffering of 
373; 
suffering of being cleaned up after 
373 
birthday, abstaining from sex on 
366 
biting the hand that feeds 284 
black arts, unsuitable for monks 325 
blaming others 104 
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blessing eighteen, in the sequence 
of 
the blessings 213 
blessing nine, relation to previous 
blessings 119 
blessing seventeen, place in the 
sequence 205 
blessing six in order of thinks 91, 
objectives 91 
blessing, importance of first 27 
blessings of life, as an ethical 
system 
22; definition 21; extracurricular 
recompense 19; historical origins of 
20; popular in Thailand 19 
blessings, definition 21, sixth group 
of 
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223 
bliss, defined 422; difficulty in 
finding 
421-2; summum bonum of all 
blessings 421 
blissful mind 421-424 
blocking monks' way 257; others' 
way 
259 
boastfulness, avoiding 115 
boasting 129; of dhamma 
knowledge in 
front of a teacher 257; alien to 
dhamma discussion 335; not 
suitable 
for monk 323, 325; source of 
stubbornness 316 
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bodies of knowledge, die without 
respect 254 
bodies, inner 378, 379 
bodily organs, sacrificing 192 
body & mind, constitutes human 
being 
37 
body of enlightenment 380; 
characteristics 378-81 
body, independent of mind 247; 
sound 
136 
bonds 422 
bonuses, paying 218 
boredom; of marriage 174; of one's 
marriage partner 174 
born, empty-handed 70; those 
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competing to be 286; those invited 
to 
be 286 
borrowing from others 91 
boss, giving as a 188; spouse like a 
169 
bottom pinched 367 
bowing 259, 264; connects us with 
others' virtues 53; effectiveness 53-
4; helps us appreciate others' 
virtues 
53; parents worthy of 148; to a 
monk 
257, 326; 
bowl-eater's practice 350 
brahmacariya, 
brahma-faring 125; defined 357; 
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