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when 
succumbing to 292 
untimely eating, refraining from 
125-6 
unwholesome behaviour, friend 
who 
warns one against 43 
unwholesomeness 227-8: abstaining 
from 225-32; at mind level 227; at 
personality level 228; 
characteristics 
of 227-8; defined 227; easier to do 
than wholesomeness 225; more than 
just breaking the precepts 230; 
refraining from tenfold path of 128-
9; Tenfold Path of 128-9, 227; 
turning 
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one's back on 25 
uprooting, bad karma directly 197 
upsetting others, avoiding 304 
urinating out of sight of buddha 256 
usage: artfulness in 119-29; needs 
to be 
known, before benefit can be taken 
from something 254 
usefulness, basis of wholesome 
speech 
134 
V 
VaAijja sutta 187 
value, adding to materials 114 
values: decayed, unwholesomeness 
at 
personality level 228; fashionable 
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19; 
function of merit to upgrade 83; 
universal 19 
Van Gogh, unworthy role model 51 
vanity, overcome by keeping eight 
precepts 349 
vehicles: as suitable gift 188; 
restraint 
from talk of 336 
vengeance: absolutely not being 
200; 
across generations in china 264; 
caused, mark of external-based 
happiness 274; thought 129 
vengefulness 415, 413: 
accumulation of 
167; defilement of physical body 
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356; 
preoccupation with 293; provoking 
114; source of stubbornness 315 
ventilation: adequate 66, 68 
verbal: abuse of monks 59; karma, 
easier to produce than physical 
karma 131; work in buddhism 214; 
skilfulness 114 
vice, absence of dens of 66 
vicissitudes, a mind invulnerable to 
worldly 395-401; encountered by 
buddha 398; reducing vulnerability 
to 398-9; should not be taken 
personally 399; the supramundane 
are invulnerable to 358; worldly 
396 
view: catalytic 96, right 245 
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views: dealing with stubbornness 
from 
317; shackle of 422; source of 
stubbornness 314-5; straightening 
one's 81; subject to 265 
villages, restraint from talk of 336 
violence: household 167; in front of 
one's 
children 167; preoccupation with 
293 
virtue 
virtue: breaking even in 183; doesn't 
exist unpackaged 261; hand-in-hand 
with knowledge 120; most easily 
seen 
from parents 141; progress by 21; 
seen exemplified, to be understood 
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301; speaks for itself 264; strength 
of 29; understanding by seeing 
example 321; worthy role model 
facilitates spread of 52 
virtue-less celebrities, not worthy of 
respect 58 
virtues: bowing connects us with 
others' 
53; bowing helps us appreciate 53; 
looking at people for their virtues 
353; sermon as a mirror to examine 
one's 292; wise one defined in 
terms 
of 40 
virtuous: speech and action 94; 
retribution of insulting the 133 
voice inside, the little 33, 48 
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W 
wages, paying 218 
waking listener to the reality of life, 
dhamma sermons 291 
walking in a higher place 256 
wandering mind 234, 247 
wanting: in excess of your fair share 
414, 413; little, talk about 135, 336; 
something in return, giving while 
186-7; to obtain things by 
unscrupulous earnings 414, 413 
wasting, damage from alcohol 233 
water supply 66, 68, 72 
ways of seeing a true monk 323-5 
weaknesses, expressing respect to 
overcome our 53 
wealth: as worldly vicissitude 396; 
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attained by receiving monk at home 
326; benefit of not drinking 236; 
care 
of shared 172; destruction by 
alcohol 
235; generosity as origin of 185; 
measure of a person's worth 261; 
result of generosity 85 
weapons: as unsuitable gift 189; 
dealing 
in 216; manufacture 114; not 
suitable 
for monk 322 
wedding ritual, Buddhist 170 
weights and measures, fixing 216 
western values concerning alcohol 
233-
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448 A Manual of Peace: 38 Steps 
towards Enlightened Living 
4 
wheel, reinventing the 253 
whims, forgoing 265 
whole perception, non-attachment 
to 
352 
wholesome behaviour, friend who 
encourages one to have 43 
wholesomeness: fulfilling the 
tenfold 
path of 200; turning towards 65 
wicked: behaviour but expecting 
fortunate outcomes 244; people 284 
widow, celibacy rather than 
remarriage 
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367 
wife: as close family 206; 
cherishing 
one's 165-176; contentment with 
271; 
duties to husband 172; praising 
one's 
171 
wild fruit, picking 123 
willingness 180 
wine, part of Christian mass 233 
wisdom 42, 72, 245, 377: affected 
by 
quality of mind 38; as virtue of 
compatibility 170; attained by 
receiving monk at home 326; 
beyond 
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price 332; bowing in search of 53; 
considering things with 247; 
cultivating 115; Dhamma 
discussion 
aim at 335; function of merit to 
bring 
83; mark of a wise one 37; mark of 
personal potential 270; more 
quickly 
attained by Dhamma listeners 296; 
progress by 21; recollecting the 
buddha's when bowing 54; result 
from giving 193; supported by 
patience 303; talk about 135; vs. 
knowledge 37; vs. learning 37; 
worthy quality of the buddha 55; 
worthy role model facilitates 52; 
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worthy subject of dhamma debate 
336 
wise counsel, friend of 43 
wise ones 39-42: associating with 
44-5, 
265; available 66, 69; friendship, 
qualities 43-4; recognizing 42-44; 
social consequences of lack of 46-7; 
society is crying out for 46; tell-tale 
behaviours 42-3; varieties of 47-8; 
vs. 
fool 37-9 
wishes, fulfilment of 84 
wit, analytic insight into 423 
witch doctery, not suitable for monk 
323 
wits, sharpening through dhamma 
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discussion 333 
womb: internment in 373; physical 
shocks to 373 
women, restraint from talk of 336 
words: chosen, to say things 134; 
humility of 264-5; treating monks 
with kindly 191 
work: appropriate approach to 179; 
backlog of 178; blameless 213-21; 
equipment, helping extended family 
who need 208; ethic, in buddhism 
177-8; ethical value 214-5; 
expanding 
to fill available time 177; fmishing 
work after one's employer 218; 
getting around to doing 179; 
helping 
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parents with 145, 146; improving on 
one's skills 218; loving one's 179; 
not 
leaving undone 177-81; not looking 
down on 307; pride in one's 271; 
satisfaction 179; shirking 271; 
slipshod 
177; starting before one's 
employer 218; three types of 
Buddhist 214; unfinished 178-9 
workable mind, humility ensures 
264 
workers, three types of 214 
working: capital 192; mothers 172 
workplace: arbitration 219; 
problems 
219-20; relationships in the 218-20 
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world peace, from helping extended 
family 207-8 
world view, pessimistic 167 
world: being a parent to the whole 
147; 
relies on generosity 186 
worldly: concerns, buddhist 
independence from 191; education, 
insufficient 19; 
worldly knowledge 103: gift of 80, 
186 
worldly vicissitudes, defined 396 
worse quality, gift of 188 
wounds in combat 373 
wriggling, during dhamma sermons 
332 
wrong livelihood, avoiding 215-8 
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wrong view 230, 413, 415: not 
succumbing because non-drinker 
236 
Y 
yourself: gratitude to 285-6; never 
looking down on 295; not 
compromising by one's sermon 294 
youth: attending temple from 95; 
drunkenness concerning 235 
youthfulness, too precious for 
recklessness 244 
Blessing Thirty-Eight: The Blissful 
Mind 449 
II - PALI INDEX 
thapantyapaiiha 334 (see also 
keeping one's silence) 
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aAumattesu vajjesu bhaya-dassavE 
416 (see also seeing danger in the 
smallest things) 
atifiadatthuhara 31 (see also 
mercenary) 
AbhasarA 361 
Agati 287 (see also bias) 
AjEvaparisuddhi 127, 324 (see also 
purity of livelihood) 
Ajjava 201 (see also integrity) 
AkAsAnancAyatana 361 (see also 
realm of infinite space) 
Akificafirikatana-jhAna 341 (see 
also sphere of nothingness) 
Amisa-paEisanthAra 258 (see also 
material. hospitality) 
AmisapEjA 54 (see also homage 
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through gifts) 
Arafinikalga 350 (see also 
forestdweller's 
practice) 
ArakkhasampadA 40 (see also 
stewardship) 
Asajja dAnaO deti 186 
Asana 326 (see also a place to sit) 
AsavakkhayafiAAa 324, 339, 423 
(see also knowledge of an end of 
defilements) 
Ayatana 297, 298 (see also 
sensedoors) 
Ayatana nibbAna 388 (see also 
Nirvana as the location of Nirvana) 
Ayu 190 (see also long-life) 
abbhokAsikaIga 351 (see also 
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openair 
dweller's practice) 
abhAyadAna 42, 80, 186 (see also 
forgiveness) 
abhifiriA 423 (see also Sixfold 
Mental 
Powers) 
abhidhamma 75, 245, 297 
abhijAtaputta 146 
abhijjA 356, 413, 414 (see also 
covetousness) 
abhijjhAvisamalobha 413, 414 (see 
also open covetousness) 
abhiprajila 386 (see also 
metaphysics) 
acinteyya 386 (see also 
unfathomable) 
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adAsi me ti dAnaO deti 187 
adinnAdAna 199, 275 (see also 
stealing) 
agAriyavinaya 122 (see also 
discipline for householders) 
agocara 325 (see also out-of-bounds 
areas) 
ahaO pacAmi, ime na pacanti,Ana 
arahAmi pacanto apacantAnaO 
adAtunaO ti dAnaO deti 187 
aho sukhaO 424 
akAliko 333 (see also timeless) 
akaniEEhA 361 
akificarifiAyatana 361 
akkodha 201 (see also non-anger) 
akusaladhammapatha 128, 131, 
227 (see also Tenfold Path of 
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