Aṅguttara Nikāya — The Numerical Discourses – page 3
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AN 3.150: Broken (1st)
Wholesome deeds keep you whole.
AN 3.151: Broken (2nd)
Blameless deeds keep you whole.
AN 3.152: Broken (3rd)
Ethical deeds keep you whole.
AN 3.153: Broken (4th)
Pure deeds keep you whole.
AN 3.154: Homage
Kinds of homage: body, speech, and mind.
AN 3.155: Morning
A good morning, a good afternoon, a good evening.
AN 3.156–162: Practices
AN 3.163–182: Ways of Performing Deeds
AN 3.183–352: Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
AN 4.1: Understood
Both the Buddha and his disciples have been reborn for a long time due to ignorance.
AN 4.2: Fallen
Without morality, convergence, wisdom, and freedom, one has fallen from the teaching.
AN 4.3: Broken (1st)
After reflection, you should criticize those worthy or criticism, and praise those worthy of praise.
AN 4.4: Broken (2nd)
You harm yourself by acting badly towards parents, the Buddha, and spiritual practitioners.
AN 4.5: With the Stream
A person who goes with the stream; a person who goes against the stream; a stable person; and one who has crossed over.
AN 4.6: A Little Learning
Learning the texts and getting the point of learning.
AN 4.7: Grace
A monk, nun, laywoman, and layman who light up the Saṅgha.
AN 4.8: Self-assured
Because of his spiritual attainments and practice, a Buddha is supremely self-confident.
AN 4.9: The Arising of Craving
Sources of craving for mendicants.
AN 4.10: Yokes
The yokes of sensual pleasures, future lives, views, and ignorance.
AN 4.11: Walking
A mendicant gets rid of unwholesome states right away, in whatever posture they happen to be in.
AN 4.12: Ethics
Morality and further practice of eliminating hindrances in all postures.
AN 4.13: Effort
The four right efforts: to prevent, to give up, to develop, and to preserve.
AN 4.14: Restraint
The endeavors to restrain, to give up, to develop, and to preserve.
AN 4.15: Regarded as Foremost
The foremost in body, sensuality, dominion, and spiritual development.
AN 4.16: Subtlety
Subtlety of form, feeling, perception, and choices.
AN 4.17: Prejudice (1st)
Making decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.
AN 4.18: Prejudice (2nd)
Making decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.
AN 4.19: Prejudice (3rd)
Making decisions prejudiced and unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.
AN 4.20: A Meal Assigner
Allocating meals prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.
AN 4.21: At Uruvelā (1st)
Who should the Buddha revere?
AN 4.22: At Uruvelā (2nd)
What qualifies you as a senior.
AN 4.23: The World
Why the Buddha is called the Realized One.
AN 4.24: At Kāḷaka’s Monastery
The Buddha knows what can be known, and remains poised in the midst of the world.
AN 4.25: The Spiritual Life
This spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint, giving up, fading away, and stopping.
AN 4.26: Deceivers
Mendicants who are deceivers, stubborn, flatterers, frauds, insolent, and scattered: they are no mendicants of the Buddha.
AN 4.27: Contentment
A mendicant should be content with trifles that are easy to get hold of.
AN 4.28: The Noble Traditions
Contentment with any old robe, alms-food, lodgings, and love of meditation: these are ancient traditions of the noble ones.
AN 4.29: Footprints of the Dhamma
Contentment, good will, mindfulness and convergence are basic principles.
AN 4.30: Wanderers
A discussion with some wanderers on the basic principles.
AN 4.31: Situations
Living in a suitable region, relying on good people, right determination, and past good karma.
AN 4.32: Inclusion
Inclusiveness through giving, kind speech, taking care, and impartiality.
AN 4.33: The Lion
A lion’s roar terrifies beasts. The Buddha’s teaching terrifies the gods.
AN 4.34: The Best Kinds of Confidence
Confidence in the Buddha, the path, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are the best kinds of confidence.
AN 4.35: With Vassakāra
A great man as understood by brahmins and by the Buddha.
AN 4.36: Doṇa
The brahmin Doṇa is filled with wonder when he sees the Buddha’s footprints.
AN 4.37: Non-decline
A mendicant who has morality, guards the sense doors, eats in moderation, and is committed to wakefulness can’t decline.
AN 4.38: Withdrawn
A mendicant has eliminated idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth, has totally given up searching, has tranquilized bodily activity, and is said to be ‘withdrawn’.
AN 4.39: With Ujjaya
The Buddha criticizes violent sacrifice, but not non-violent giving.
AN 4.40: With Udāyī
The Buddha criticizes violent sacrifice, but not non-violent giving.
AN 4.41: Ways of Developing Immersion Further
Developing convergence for pleasure, understanding, mindfulness, and ending defilements.
AN 4.42: Ways of Answering Questions
Answering questions definitively, analytically, with a counter-question, or setting it aside.
AN 4.43: Valuing Anger
Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
AN 4.44: Valuing Anger (2nd)
Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
AN 4.45: With Rohitassa
The god Rohitassa tells how he tried to go to the end of the world.
AN 4.46: With Rohitassa (2nd)
The Buddha relates the story of Rohitassa.
AN 4.47: Very Far Apart
The sky and earth and very far apart. What’s further apart?
AN 4.48: With Visākha, Pañcāli’s Son
The Buddha praises the teaching of the monk Visākha.
AN 4.49: Perversions
Distortions of perception, mind, and view.
AN 4.50: Corruptions
Four things obscure the sun and moon, so they don’t shine and glow and radiate. And four things corrupt mendicants: alcohol, sex, money, wrong livelihood.
AN 4.51: Overflowing Merit
When a mendicant meditates using an offering, merit overflows for the donor.
AN 4.52: Overflowing Merit (2nd)
When a mendicant has confidence and morality, merit overflows for the donor.
AN 4.53: Living Together (1st)
Living with gods and zombies.
AN 4.54: Living Together (2nd)
Living with gods and zombies.
AN 4.55: Equality (1st)
How a married couple can stay together in this life and the next.
AN 4.56: Equality (2nd)
How a married couple can stay together in this life and the next.
AN 4.57: Suppavāsā
Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.58: Sudatta
Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.59: Food
Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.60: Lay Practice
A lay disciple serves the mendicant Saṅgha with robes, alms-food, lodgings, and medicines.
AN 4.61: Fitting Deeds
Four things that are desirable, but hard to get; and how to get them through deeds of substance.
AN 4.62: Debtlessness
The happiness of ownership, using wealth, debtlessness, and blamelessness.
AN 4.63: Living with Divinity
A family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with Brahmā.
AN 4.64: Hell
Breaking precepts leads to hell.
AN 4.65: Appearance
Estimating others based on appearance, voice, austerity, and principle.
AN 4.66: Greedy
The greedy, the hateful, the delusional, and the conceited.
AN 4.67: The Snake King
Spreading loving-kindness to snakes and other creatures.
AN 4.68: Devadatta
Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.
AN 4.69: Effort
The endeavors to restrain, to give up, to develop, and to preserve.
AN 4.70: Unprincipled
Corruption of the realm follows corruption of the king.
AN 4.71: Effort
Unfailing practices: morality, learning, energy, and wisdom.
AN 4.72: Right View
Unfailing practices: thoughts of renunciation, good will, and kindness; and right view.
AN 4.73: A True Person
Speaking well and ill of others.
AN 4.74: Best (1st)
The best morality, convergence, wisdom, and freedom.
AN 4.75: Best (2nd)
The best form, feeling, perception, and state of existence.
AN 4.76: At Kusinārā
As he lay dying, the Buddha encouraged his disciples to ask any last questions.
AN 4.77: Unthinkable
If you try to think about these things you will go mad or get frustrated.
AN 4.78: A Religious Donation
Four ways of purifying an offering to a teacher.
AN 4.79: Business
Why for different people the same kind of business undertaking might fail or succeed.
AN 4.80: Persia
Ānanda asks the Buddha why females don’t attend council meetings, undertake business, or travel to Persia.
AN 4.81: Killing Living Creatures
Precepts lead to heaven or hell.
AN 4.82: Lying
Wrong or right speech leads to heaven or hell.
AN 4.83: Where Criticism Takes You
Criticizing and praising leads to heaven or hell.
AN 4.84: Valuing Anger
Valuing defilements above the Dharma leads to hell.
AN 4.85: From Darkness to Darkness
The dark bound for darkness, the dark bound for light, the light bound for darkness, and the light bound for light.
AN 4.86: Sunk Low
One sunk low who sinks lower, one sunk low who rises high, one risen high who sinks low, and one risen high who rises higher.
AN 4.87: The Son
The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the refined ascetic of ascetics.
AN 4.88: Fetters
The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the refined ascetic of ascetics.
AN 4.89: Right View
The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the refined ascetic of ascetics.
AN 4.90: Aggregates
The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the refined ascetic of ascetics.
AN 4.91: Titans
Demons and gods.