Aṅguttara Nikāya — The Numerical Discourses – page 4
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AN 4.92: Immersion (1st)
Serenity and discernment.
AN 4.93: Immersion (2nd)
Serenity and discernment should be developed.
AN 4.94: Immersion (3rd)
To develop serenity and discernment, you should ask experienced practitioners.
AN 4.95: A Firebrand
Practice to help yourself and others.
AN 4.96: Removing Greed
Practice to help yourself and others.
AN 4.97: Quick-witted
Practice to help yourself and others.
AN 4.98: To Benefit Oneself
Practice to help yourself and others.
AN 4.99: Training Rules
Practice to help yourself and others.
AN 4.100: With Potaliya the Wanderer
Which is better: appropriate praise and criticism, or equanimity?
AN 4.101: Clouds (1st)
Four people similar to clouds.
AN 4.102: Clouds (2nd)
Four people similar to clouds.
AN 4.103: Pots
Four people similar to pots.
AN 4.104: Lakes
Four people similar to ponds.
AN 4.105: Mangoes
Four people similar to mangoes.
AN 4.106: [Mangoes (2nd)]
This is a ghost sutta: there is no text for it in any available editions. However, the summary verse at the end of the chapter (AN 4.110) mentions “two on mangoes”. The commentary notes the existence of a discourse here, but merely says that its meaning is clear. A note in the VRI edition says that there is a reading that has <i lang='pi' translate='no'>obhāsa</i> where the previous sutta has <i lang='pi' translate='no'>vaṇṇa</i>.
AN 4.107: Mice
Four people similar to mice.
AN 4.108: Oxen
Four people similar to oxen.
AN 4.109: Trees
Four people similar to trees.
AN 4.110: Vipers
Four people similar to vipers.
AN 4.111: With Kesi
Guiding people like horses: sometimes, strictly, sometimes gently. And sometimes you have to kill them.
AN 4.112: Speed
A mendicant is like a king’s thoroughbred.
AN 4.113: The Goad
A thoroughbred responds when it sees the goad. So does a mendicant.
AN 4.114: A Royal Elephant
A mendicant is like a king’s elephant.
AN 4.115: Things
Things that are pleasant or unpleasant, harmful or beneficial.
AN 4.116: Diligence
Don’t neglect good conduct.
AN 4.117: Guarding
Practice in your own way.
AN 4.118: Inspiring
Four inspiring places to visit.
AN 4.119: Perils (1st)
The perils of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
AN 4.120: Perils (2nd)
The perils of fire, water, kings, and bandits.
AN 4.121: Guilt
The fears of guilt, shame, punishment, and rebirth in a bad place.
AN 4.122: The Danger of Waves
The risks of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks.
AN 4.123: Difference (1st)
Length of rebirth in various exalted realms.
AN 4.124: Difference (2nd)
Contemplating jhānas with wisdom.
AN 4.125: Love (1st)
Rebirth in Brahmā realms from divine abiding meditations.
AN 4.126: Love (2nd)
Contemplating divine abiding meditations with wisdom.
AN 4.127: Incredible Things About the Realized One (1st)
The Buddha illuminates even interstellar space, so that beings reborn there see each other.
AN 4.128: Incredible Things About the Realized One (2nd)
Even in a world full of attachment, people listen to the Buddha’s teaching.
AN 4.129: Incredible Things About Ānanda
Monks, nuns, laywomen, and laymen love to hear Dharma from Ānanda.
AN 4.130: Incredible Things About the Wheel-Turning Monarch
Monks, nuns, laywomen, and laymen love to hear Dharma from Ānanda.
AN 4.131: Fetters
People who have given up various fetters.
AN 4.132: Eloquence
Speaking on topic and fluently.
AN 4.133: One Who Understands Immediately
One who understands immediately, one who understands after detailed explanation, one who needs personal guidance, and one who merely learns by rote.
AN 4.134: The Fruits of Initiative
Living on the fruit of effort or of past karma.
AN 4.135: Blameworthy
The blameworthy, the mostly blameworthy, the slightly blameworthy, and the blameless.
AN 4.136: Ethics (1st)
Fulfilling morality, convergence, and wisdom.
AN 4.137: Ethics (2nd)
Valuing morality, convergence, and wisdom.
AN 4.138: Retreat
Retreat of body and mind.
AN 4.139: Dhamma Speakers
Good and bad Dharma speakers, and their followings.
AN 4.140: Speaker
Having things to say, and saying them well.
AN 4.141: Brightness
The brightness of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.
AN 4.142: Radiance
The radiance of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.
AN 4.143: Light
The lights of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.
AN 4.144: Shining
The shining of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.
AN 4.145: Lamps
The lamps of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.
AN 4.146: Times (1st)
A time for listening to the teaching, a time for discussing the teaching, a time for serenity, and a time for discernment.
AN 4.147: Times (2nd)
A time for listening to the teaching, a time for discussing the teaching, a time for serenity, and a time for discernment.
AN 4.148: Bad Conduct
Speech that’s lying, divisive, harsh, or meaningless.
AN 4.149: Good Conduct
Speech that’s true, harmonious, gentle, and meaningful.
AN 4.150: Essentials
Morality, convergence, wisdom, and freedom are essentials.
AN 4.151: Faculties
The faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, and convergence.
AN 4.152: The Power of Faith
The powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, and convergence.
AN 4.153: The Power of Wisdom
The powers of wisdom, energy, blamelessness, and inclusiveness.
AN 4.154: The Power of Mindfulness
The powers of mindfulness, convergence, blamelessness, and inclusiveness.
AN 4.155: The Power of Reflection
The powers of reflection, development, blamelessness, and inclusiveness.
AN 4.156: Eons
It’s not easy to measure the length of an eon.
AN 4.157: Illness
Physical health is easier than mental health.
AN 4.158: Decline
Signs of decline: much greed, much hate, and much delusion; and wisdom doesn’t go deep.
AN 4.159: Nun
A nun fakes illness as a pretext to seduce Ānanda.
AN 4.160: The Training of a Holy One
Things that lead to the disappearance of the Dharma.
AN 4.161: In Brief
Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: in brief.
AN 4.162: In Detail
Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: in detail.
AN 4.163: Ugly
Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: in detail.
AN 4.164: Patient (1st)
Impatient practice, patient practice, taming practice, and calming practice.
AN 4.165: Patience (2nd)
Impatient practice, patient practice, taming practice, and calming practice.
AN 4.166: Both
Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: which is best?
AN 4.167: Moggallāna’s Practice
Sāriputta and Moggallāna discuss their practice.
AN 4.168: Sāriputta’s Practice
Sāriputta and Moggallāna discuss their practice.
AN 4.169: Extra Effort
Getting awakened either with or without extra effort.
AN 4.170: In Conjunction
Ways of practicing serenity and discernment.
AN 4.171: Intention
Intention and its results.
AN 4.172: Sāriputta’s Attainment of Textual Analysis
Sāriputta realized the four kinds of textual analysis a fortnight after he ordained.
AN 4.173: With Mahākoṭṭhita
When the senses end, is there anything left? Or is that just proliferation?
AN 4.174: With Ānanda
When the senses end, is there anything left? Or is that just proliferation?
AN 4.175: With Upavāṇa
A “terminator” is someone who has made an end of suffering. But are they defined by knowledge or conduct?
AN 4.176: Aspiration
Leading examples for the four assemblies.
AN 4.177: With Rāhula
A teaching to Rāhula, the Buddha’s son, on the four elements.
AN 4.178: Billabong
Meditative attainments don’t always lead to letting go of the attachment to self.
AN 4.179: Extinguishment
Why only some people realize Nirvana in this life.
AN 4.180: The Four Great References
How to determine what is an authentic teaching of the Buddha.
AN 4.181: A Warrior
How a mendicant is like a warrior.
AN 4.182: Guarantee
There are some things no-one can guarantee.
AN 4.183: Vassakāra on What is Heard
What we say should never go beyond what we know; but it must also be meanungful.
AN 4.184: Fearless
Not everyone is afraid to die.
AN 4.185: Truths of the Brahmins
The Buddha redefines the truths of the brahmins.
AN 4.186: Approach
A monk asks a series of questions, which are praised by the Buddha.
AN 4.187: With Vassakāra
The Buddha explains to Vassakāra how only a good person can judge others. Meanwhile, the followers of Todeyya complain about the King.
AN 4.188: With Upaka
If you criticize someone, you should have a good reason.
AN 4.189: Things to be Realized
Different things are realized in different ways.
AN 4.190: Sabbath
On the Uposatha night, the Buddha praises monks of great spiritual attainments in the Saṅgha.
AN 4.191: Followed by Ear
The benefits in the next life of studying Dharma in this life.