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sensual indulgence, shackle of 422 
sensual indulgence, unsuitable for 
monks 325 
sensual obsession, promoting 114 
sensual plane of mind 358 
sensual sphere 356: happiness of 
362 
sensuality, attitude to 363-5; 
overcoming 417 
sensuous sphere 360 
sentimentality in learning 106 
separation from loved ones & 
treasured 
things 374 
sequential: practice for the 
attainment 
of nirvana 391; quality of blessings 
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of life system 20, 22-3 
sequentially, Dhamma must be 
expounded 293 
sermon: as a mirror to look at one's 
virtues 292; content, looking down 
on 
294-5; never letting one pass by 
293; 
purpose of Dhamma 291; 
persuading 
spouse to listen to 173 
service 80, 365 
serving: one's parents 146; one's 
teacher 107 
setting oneself up properly in life 
91-8: 
helping extended family who are 
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208; 
prevarication about 95; 
seven-days apart, why Sabbaths are 
292 
seventh precept 126 
sex education 168 
sexiness, irrelevant to successful 
marriage 171 
sexual: attraction, harm of 167; 
discrimination in Buddhism 166-7; 
fantasies 168; intercourse 127; 
misconduct 172; relations 166, 366; 
restraint 120 
sexually transmitted disease, risk of 
sexual relations 166 
shackles, four 422 
shady trees, not damaging or 
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abusing 
285 
shame of doing evil 199, 230 
shamelessness, not succumbing 
because non-drinker 236 
shelter: as suitable gift 188; result of 
giving 193 
shepherding others to lead life 
properly 
42 
shoddiness 115; not succumbing to 
201-
2 
shoddy workmanship, intentional 
219 
shoes: as suitable gift 188; 
removing 
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256, 257 
shop-lifting 128, 215 
shopping, husband should take wife 
172 
shops, proximity 72 
shoulder, chip on one's 374 
show off, not discussing dhamma to 
333 
showing congregation the way to 
heaven, duty of monks 55 
showing due respect to a friend's 
family 
members 45 
shows: as unsuitable gift 189; 
frequenting 31, 94, 107 
shrine, respecting a temple's main 
257 
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shunning, cure for stubbornness 317 
shyness, to accrue merit 87-8 
Si"ngalovaada sutta 45, 107, 145, 
146, 
147, 150, 171, 191 
sick care for employees 218 
sick, looking after parents when 146 
sight of a true monk 321-30 
silent, keeping 334 
silver spoon, being born with 261 
sin: hereditary 142; transmissible 
226 
sincerity towards a wise one 44 
singing: profession, pitfalls 253; 
eight 
precepts prohibits 126 
single-parent families 174 
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sins, absolving 198 
sister, spouse like a little 169; object 
of 
respect 258 
sitter's practice 351 
sitting with composure 257 
situational avoidance 228-9 
situations, insightful analysis 83 
six directions: as Buddhist teaching 
for 
practice 386; fulfilling one's duties 
in 
the 200; 
sixth group of blessings 223 
sixth precept 125-6 
skilful: means 385; thinking 114; 
resolutions should be 189 
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skilfulness 113-8: cultivation 114-6; 
instilling 115-6; six components 
114; 
three categories 114 
skills, developed from knowledge 
114-
5; pro's & con's 114 
slaughter of old beasts of burden, 
ungrateful 285 
slaves: giving as a 188; spouse like 
169; 
dealing in 216 
sleep, barely necessary those 
attaining 
formless-absorptions 358 
sleepiness, eight precepts reduces 
126 
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sleeping apart, husband & wife 125 
sleeping: indulgent habits 122; to 
excess, not suitable for monk 323; 
distraction to work 179 
sloth 229 
slum, amenable location 72 
smiling, before criticizing 135 
smoking, prohibited by fifth precept 
124 
snake, should never underestimate a 
small venomous 295 
social: consequences of discontent 
274-
6; contract, reinforces virtue 281, 
282; degeneration, because of lack 
of 
wise ones 47; equality, difficulties 
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of 
37; hardship, unwholesomeness at 
social level 228; social harmony 85, 
119; infrastructure 66, 68; 
instability 
263; level, purification at a 197; 
potential 270-1; progress, depends 
on 
altruism 142; standing, result of 
respect 85 
society, barbaric 70; crying out for 
wise 
ones 46; every man to themselves 
attitude 142; merit function at level 
of 85; pillar of 183; success at the 
level of 78; throwaway 174 
soft drug industry 217 
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sorrowlessness 403-10 
soul, lies to the 22 
spacious building, amenable 
location 72 
speaking: from experience 294; 
Blessing Thirty-Eight: The Blissful 
Mind 445 
habitually in a good way 40; 
harshly, 
absolutely not 200; out against 
others 
who malign a friend 44 
speech: artful 131-8; Buddhism 
founded 
on correct 131; components of 
133-4; 
debt of gratitude in unwholesome 
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132; divisive 132; endearing 171, 
208-
9; harsh 132; ill-considered 228; 
impediments 236; polite 400; right 
245; skilful 83; sound 136; strength 
of intention in unwholesome 132; 
unwholesome 131-2; wrong 127 
spending, appropriate 41 
sphere of mental experience vs. 
inner 
experience 356 
spheres of existence 360-1; 
subdivisions 
within 361; vs. planes of mind 359-
60 
spirits, blaming intervention by 375 
spiritual: aim in life, exclusively 93, 
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95; 
care, received from parents 144-5; 
development, aim in 92; dialogue 
331-43; disappointment 374; 
entropy, 
backsliding 37; furtherment 119, 
244; gift-horse, not overlooking 
243; 
happiness 371; health, in Buddhist 
economics 214; help for extended 
family 209-10; knowledge 19, 80, 
103, 
186; learning 254; maturity 28; 
motivation to accept criticism 314; 
pauper 274; poverty 68; practice, 
sharing 173-4; profit 41-2; richness, 
environment of 68; teachers as 
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extended family 206; teachings, 
giving 42 
spiritual/material aim in life 93 
spirituality in old age 94 
sport, good for the lethargic 180 
spouse: as close family 206; 
categories 
of 168-70; cherishing one's 
165-176; 
contentment with 199, 271, 366 
spreading secrets, friend who 
doesn't 
43 
spur of the moment, avoidance on 
the 
128 
stability of mind 398: function of 
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merit 
to bring 82 
standing on one's own two feet 91, 
94 
standing respectfully before a monk 
326-7 
standing up for those who speak 
well 
of a friend 44 
started, never getting 179 
state of mind: maintaining 247; 
selfdiscipline 
as 121 
state of well-being, catalytic 96 
state, finances church 191 
status, possessions appropriate to 
one's 
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273 
staying celibate, to overcome 
sensuality 
417 
stealing 106, 128; absolutely not 
200; 
as defilement of action 199; as gross 
unwholesomeness 228; in 
development of greed 275; not 121, 
122, 123, 124; office supplies 218; 
punishable by disrobing 127 
step-parents 144 
stepping over respected objects 57 
stern teaching 333 
stewardship 40 
still mind, can overcome craving 
376 
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stinginess: overcome by generosity 
417; 
speaking to banish 400 
stone-walling, predictor of divorce 
170 
storehouses of human power 29 
strategies for abstinence 228-30 
stream-enterer 356, 381: body of 
enlightenment 380 
streets: restraint from talk of 336; 
roaming the 107 
strength: of knowledge 29; of 
thought 
29; of virtue 29; physical 29; result 
from giving 193 
strengths, the four human 29 
strict daily routine, suitable for 
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monk 
323 
strikes 219 
strip-tease 114 
striver's, outlook on the world 346, 
354 
striving: in meditation 347, 353; 
necessary to practising austerity 
351; 
talk about 135; worthy subject of 
Dhamma debate 336 
strong people, no need to show off 
264 
stubbornness 314-6, 380: categories 
of 
314-5; dealing with 317; degrees of 
313; humility ensures freedom from 
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264; not patience 304; overcoming 
for 
laypeople 316-7; overcoming for 
monks 316; punishment for 317; 
reasons for 315-6; restrained by 
discipline 126 
students: disillusioned 103; ideal 
103; 
nature of 106-7; praising 107; 
problems and risks 103-4; training 
properly 107; 
student-teacher relationship: 
lubricant 
in 254; undermined 107 
study, inefficient 103 
subdivision of rooms, amenable 
location 
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