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personality: biased 167; developing 
83; 
merit function at level of 83; 
success 
at the level of 78; unwholesomeness 
of 228 
persons worthy of respect 54-6 
persuading others: to do evil 30; to 
share merit 84 
pessimistic world view 167 
photographs of respected people 57 
photography, physical skilfulness 
114 
Phramonkolthepmuni, greatest 
modern understanding of Nirvana 
388 
physical attraction 364; care 144; 
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disappointment 374; health of 
population 213-4; strength 29; 
suffering, patience in the face of 
305; 
work in Buddhism 214; skilfulness 
114 
physical body 356: deserves 
gratitude 
285-6 
pick-pocketing 215 
picture of yourself, as unsuitable 
gift 
189 
piety, filial 141 
pillar of society 183 
pitfalls, in a body of knowledge 253 
place in society, knowing one's 270 
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planes of mind 358: subdivisions 
within 
358; vs. spheres of existence 359-60 
planned avoidance 229 
plumbing, physical skilfulness 114 
poisons: as unsuitable gift 189; 
dealing 
in 216 
polite manners, suitable for monk 
323 
polite speech 400: necessary for 
dhamma discussion 335 
Blessing Thirty-Eight: The Blissful 
Mind 441 
politesse: basis of wholesome 
speech 
134; facilitates receiving criticism 
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313 
politics: internal of problem 
families 
205; not suitable for monk to speak 
of 323 
poor taste, unwholesomeness at 
personality level 228 
population, honest 66, 69 
position, measure of a person's 
worth 
262 
positive: aspects, looking for 52; 
development, sign of 21; light, 
seeing 
the world in 80 
possessions: administering 276; 
appropriating your 31; greed for 
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275 
possessive love, sorrow as 
withdrawal 
of 403 
posthumous nirvana 388 
post-prandial sleaze 92 
potency, possessions appropriate to 
one's 273 
potential of mind, function of merit 
to 
increase 82-3 
potential, knowing your own when 
associating with fools 32 
poverty: absence of as economic 
indicator 276; spiritual 68; two 
types 
274; vs. happiness 273-4 
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power: four storehouses of 29; 
greed for 
275 
practical: knowledge about 
ordination 
367-8; quality of blessings of life 
system 20, 24 
practice for purity 198-200: vs. pure 
practice 201 
practice, getting down to 44-5; 
homage 
through 54 
practising Dhamma 198 
praise: as worldly vicissitude 396; 
attracting 84; before criticism 
134-5; 
for one's wife 171; for students 107; 
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merit doesn't imply 78; more 
difficult 
to tolerate than insult 306; 
unreliable 
measure of values 214-5; to face 31; 
preacher's ability, looking down on 
295 
preaching 81: with eyes closed 295 
preceptor, object of respect 258 
precepts 71, 93, 121-2, 245: 
avoidance 
having requested the 128; breaking 
167; compromised by working 
stress 
219; equivalent to defilements of 
action 199; indicator of ethical work 
215; jeopardized by drinking 
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alcohol 
234; keeping 41, 79, 81, 87, 114, 
122-
6, 308, 335, 351; make the mind 
cheerful 321; most practical method 
of avoiding evil 229; must be 
properly 
kept to attain dhammakaya 391; 
persuading spouse to keep 173; 
pure, 
benefit of not drinking 236; 
seriousness of breaking 124-5; 
underpinning virtue for a human 
199 
preciousness of life, ignored by 
butchers 
216 
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pregnancy: care during 143-4; loss 
of 
self-sufficiency 207; risk of sexual 
relations 166 
premarital sex 128 
present life, benefit in 40, 71, 94 
Presley, unworthy role model 51 
pretentiousness 262: avoiding 270, 
274 
prevarication 115, 179: about 
improving bad habits 95; about 
setting oneself up in life 95; 
strategies for non- 179-80; warning 
about 94 
pride: cultivating 271; humility 
ensures 
freedom from 264 
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printing, physical skilfulness 114 
priorities: in repaying debts of 
gratitude 286; lack of clear 92; 
setting 
92 
priority families to help 210 
prison, not exempted from the 
learned 
37 
problems, bringing into the family 
of 
external 173 
process of acquiring discretion 28 
procrastination 177-81 
profession, choice of 113 
professionals, increasingly opt for 
celibacy 165 
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profit for next life 41, 71-2 
profit in life 27: material 40-1; 
misunderstood by fools 42; spiritual 
41-2; wise one defined in terms of 
40-
2 
profit, degree of anticipated 187 
profound matters, good friend able 
to 
treat 336 
progress in life 21: hankering after 
271; 
obstructed by unwholesomeness at 
social level 228 
progressive society, result of merit 
85 
progressive, quality of blessings of 
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life 
system 20, 22-3 
Prohibition, The American 233 
promiscuity 275: avoiding 166; 
encouraged by mass media 166; 
overcome by keeping eight precepts 
349; prohibited by buddhism 166 
promises: to make a gift, breaking 
187; 
empty 31 
promotion, hankering after 271 
proper care of household 172 
proportional to: effort, character of 
merit 78; intention strength, 
character of merit 78 
prostitutes 217: because of lack of 
wise 
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ones 47; immoral sexual partner 
124; 
protecting: a friend 45; parents, 
while 
alive 146 
protection: from fools 29; from 
potential 
248; from past evil 198; parental 
148 
protective friend 43 
protest, when learning discipline 
121 
provisions to take with one, 
generosity 
as 185 
provocation: alien to dhamma 
discussion 335; turning a blind eye 
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to 307 
provocative dressing 278 
provoking others, not suitable for 
monks 322 
pseudo-openness to criticism 314 
pseudo-patience 304 
psychological distance 31 
public sector, wrong livelihood in 
217 
public speaking, buddhist principles 
of 
136 
publicizing one's own goodness, 
objective of expressing respect 255 
pundit 37 
pure practice 200-201: vs. practice 
for 
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purity 201 
pure: mark of inner-based happiness 
274; monks duty to be 191; wise 
one's 
mind habitually 42 
purification: Buddhist 197; Catholic 
197; Hindu 198; of actions 247; of 
non-Buddhist religions 197-8; of the 
mind by generosity 185-6; on a 
interpersonal level 197; on a 
personal 
level 197; on a social level 197 
purify the mind, the patience to 305 
purifying: oneself 189, 228 
purity 40 
purity: behaving in accordance with 
200; of livelihood 127-8; 
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recollecting 
the Buddha's when bowing 54; 
worthy quality of the Buddha 55 
purpose: creating in everyday life 
92; 
in life 65 
putting others down 264 
442 A Manual of Peace: 38 Steps 
towards Enlightened Living 
putting up with things 303-4 
Q 
qualities of people, opens our eyes 
to 
254-5 
quality of mind 38: effect on 
wisdom 38; 
inefficiencies 39; wise one defined 
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in 
terms of 42 
quality of work, in Buddhist 
economics 
214 
quality, of gift 186 
quarantine for fools 28, 31 
quarter moon-days, time to hear 
sermons 292 
questions: five reasons for 334; five 
sorts of 334; returning 334 
quickness in work 179-80 
quick-wittedness: mark of personal 
potential 270; result from giving 
193 
R 
radiance of mind: function of merit 
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to 
bring 82; patience as maintaining 
305 
radiant, mark of inner-based 
happiness 
274 
rag-robe wearer's practice 349-50 
raising children, devotion of parents 
in 
144 
raising quality of mind, function of 
merit 82 
rank, measure of a person's worth 
262 
rape 128 
rapport, between apprentice and 
trainer 253 
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raving 129 
readiness to give 193 
reading: Dhamma books 81; the 
minds 
of others 423 
realms of existence 360: vs. levels 
of 
mind 357-362 
reasons: having the patience to give 
208-9; must be given for dhamma 
taught 293-4 
reawakening to value of Dhamma, 
easier for Dhamma listeners 296-7 
rebirth 362: escaped through 
generosity 
185; in early Christianity 362; 
misinformation about 362; vs. 
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reincarnation 362 
receiving things from fools 33 
recent past 79 
recipient: for gifts 190-1; pure 190 
reciprocal relationship, between 
husband & wife 172-3 
recklessness 243-4 
recognition of Dhamma message, 
more 
quickly attained by Dhamma 
listeners 296 
recollecting: death, to overcome 
sensuality 417; one's previous lives 
423; others' previous lives 423; 
meditation object 246; teachings 58; 
refined: gifts 189; work 114; 
working 
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