1. Index of Similes
2. Index of Persons
3. Index of Subjects

Acrobat: 47
Ancient city: 239
Archer: 173
Baby boy: 61
Ball of saliva: 181
Ball of sealing wax: 142
Banyan tree: 128
Bathman: 150
Beauty queen: 40
Borrowed goods: 138
Bowl of water: 133
Bronze bowl: 57
Butcher: 30
Carpenter: 159
Carpenter's adze: 20
Cat: 157
Chain of bones: 138
Chariot: 150
City made of bones: 140
Cook: 35
Cowherd: 1
Dream: 138
Drops of water on heated iron pan: 60; 181
Drops of water on lotus leaf: 181
Earth: 180
Elephant: 33; 157; 163
Field: 220
Fire: 97; 180; 207
Fletcher: 59
Footprint of elephant: 79
Fruits of a tree: 138
Goldsmith: 182
Grass torch: 138
Guest house: 112
Hawk and quail: 37
Heated jar: 225
Hen and eggs: 20
House with windows: 234
Impenetrable darkness: 192
Impurities in gold: 132; 160
Insects falling into flame: 135
Iron ball: 68
Island in middle of river: 91
Ivory carver: 64
Ladle in soup: III/A
Leaves in hand: 188
Leper: 139
Light of moon: 79
Lotuses in pond: 150
Lump of flesh: 138
Man going from village to village: 64
Man holding quail: 161
Man in debt: 134
Man in love with woman: 59
Man in prison: 134
Man stabbed by spears: 193
Man standing on tall building: 64
Man walking quickly: 159
Man with good eyes: 159; 181
Man wrapped in white cloth: 150
Mirror: 6
Moisture: 220
Monkey trap: 38
Mountain cow: 162
Ocean: I/B; 18; 42
Ocean-going ship: 20
Pain in healthy person: 175
Painted picture: 142; 234
Park: 67
Person reflecting: 150
Pile of dust: 44
Pit of glowing embers: 138
Pool of water: 64; 144; 157
Pot: 108
Potter: 64
Potter's vessels: 19
Puddle in cow's footprint: 144
Puppets: 142
Quail in hand: 161
Rabbit: 157
Raft: 113; 114
Rag in road: 144
Rain of gold coins: 141
Rain on mountains: 125; 238
Reflection of one's face: 58, 64
Ridged roof: 75
River: 131
River Ganges: 13; 49; 90
Road through desolate country: 134
Royal frontier fortress: 73; 99
Sack of grain: 30
Salt crystal: 13
Scented woods: 77
Seed: 184; 220
Shadow: 8
Sheaves of reeds: 228
Sick man: 134; 144
Six animals tied together: 39
Slave: 134
Snap of fingers: 181
Sound of drums: 64
Space: 180
Spike of bearded wheat: 109
Spring-fed lake: 150
Stakes for impaling animals: 191
Strong man: 159; 181
Sun ray: 234
Thicket of views: 51
Thoroughbred horse: 177
Tree: 26; 128; 208
Tuft of cotton seed: 68
Turban on fire: 58
Turner: 30
Unbroken colt: 177
Vina: 86
Water: 180
Water jar: 150
Water tank: 150
Wheel of chariot: 8
Wind: 110; 180
Young woman or man: 58; 64; 159

Ajita Kesakambalin: 240
Ananda, Ven.: 36; 48; 64; 67; 68; 115; 152; 166; 174; 176; 181; 214; 220; 231; 237; 240
Anathapindika: 135; 187
Anuruddha, Ven.: 45; 161; 167
Bodhisatta: 1; 161; 239
Brahma: 124; 177
Byagghapajja (TigerPaw): 117
Ciravasi: 209
Dasama: 174
Dhammadinna, Sister: 105; 148; 204; 223
Frying Pan: 47
Gandhabhaka: 209
Gavampati, Ven.: 194
Godha: 116
Indra: 177
Jatila Bhagiya, Sister: 176
Jivaka: 142
Kaccayana, Ven.: 186
Kalamas: 2
Kundaliya: 92
Magandiya: 139
Maha Kassapa, Ven.: 56
Maha Kotthita, Ven.: 201; 228
Maha Moggallana, Ven.: 45; 57; 147
Mahanama: 116
Makkhali Gosala: 240
Mara: 24; 37; 221
Moliyasivaka: 14
Mundika: 61
Nigantha Nataputta: 240
Pañcakanga: 61
Paharada: 18
Pajapati: 177
Pakudha Kaccayana: 240
Pañcakanga: 61
Purana Kassapa: 240
Rahula, Ven.: 6; 180
Sandha, Ven.: 177
Sañjaya Belatthaputta: 240
Sariputta, Ven.: 56; 57; 74; 89; 107; 144; 167; 172; 175; 198; 201; 202; 203; 216; 227; 228
Sona, Ven.: 86
Subha, Sister: 142
Subhadda, Ven.: 240
Udayin, Ven.: 60; 175; 176
Uggahamana: 61
Unnabha: 67
Uttiya, Ven.: 27; 99
Vassakara: 152
Visakha: 105; 148; 223

• Abhidhamma: v, 58, 74, 84, 154
• Ajivakas: 4
• Arahantship: 47, 58, 64, 93 (§34), 175
  • attainment of, 68 (§22), 151 (§86), 152 (§88), 253 (§167), 340
  • factors leading to, 138, 152, 248ff., 252 (§166)
  • qualities of arahant, 135 (§67), 151 (§87), 183 (§106), 188, 232
• Astronomy: 3, 21, 59
• Attention, appropriate (yoniso manasikara):, iv, 23, 28, 29, 29ff. (§1), 35ff (§6), 38, 109ff. (§51), 113 (§53), 155ff., 200, 279, 306ff., 308, 337 (§239);
  • and discernment, 283;
  • and listening to the Dhamma, 192;
  • as factor of stream-entry, 140 (§70);
  • as feeding the factors for Awakening, 158, 165ff. (§§95-6);
  • in frames-of-reference practice, 160;
  see also Questions, appropriate
• Attention, inappropriate: 109ff. (§51),158, 165ff. (§95), 199 (§125);
  • wrong view arising from, 277;
  • and name-and-form, 305;
  see also Questions, inappropriate
• Awakening, stages of: see Stream-entry, Once-returning, Nonreturning, Arahantship
• Balance in meditation practice: 27, 81, 127, 157, 169 (§97);
  • as "tuning" the factors, 107, 117 (§58), 126, 132 (§66), 138, 143 (§74), 150 (§86), 172 (§99);
  see also Skill, Feeding/starving, Music theory
• Buddha's Awakening: 1ff.;
  • Three insights (recollection of past lives, insight into death and rebirth of beings, and insight into the ending of the effluents), 6, 9, 38;
  • Two knowledges (of the regularity of the Dhamma and of Unbinding), 5, 9, 16ff., 39, 44, 64
• Causality: vii;
  • linear, 11ff., 40;
  • meditation as mastery of, 10, 18, 77;
  • synchronic, 11ff.;
  • Vedic and Samana views of, 4;
  see also Non-linearity, This/that conditionality
• Chaos theory: vii, 13, 22, 301;
  see also Feedback loops, Holography, Mandelbrot set, Non-linearity, Scale invariance
• Commentaries: v, ix;
  • commentarial interpretations of specific terms:
    • atapi, 75;
    • Dhamma, 194;
    • jhana, 224, 248ff.;
    • nibbana, 291;
    • rebirth, 303
• Concentration: 8, 24, 59, 75ff., 124ff.;
  • mastery of, 125, 127;
  • noble right concentration, 125, 174ff., 179 (§106), 231, 234 (§150), 250, 262, 307;
  • relation to discernment, 155 174, 226, 255;
  • right concentration, 72, 173, 177 (§101), 223ff.;
  • wrong concentration, 173, 177 (§101), 227, 237ff. (§152);
  see also Jhana
• Consciousness: 23, 42, 290, 292ff. (§197), 298 (§207), 302, 303ff., 307ff., 314 (§210), 320 (§218), 321 (§220), 325 (§225), 331 (§232)
  • released from its object, 25, 44, 309ff., 333 (§235)
• Conviction: 39, 137ff., 140ff. (§71, §72, etc.) 173, 188ff., 205;
  • in kamma, 28, 47ff., 155, 289;
  • in the regularity of the Dhamma, 16;
  • unshakability of conviction upon stream-entry, 188
• Cosmological mode of awareness: 39ff., 43ff., 156, 159
• Dependent co-arising (paticca samuppada): 8, 10, 23, 42ff., 79, 227, 250, 271, 279, 292, 299ff., 304ff., 318 (§216), 319 (§217);
  • complexity of, 43, 300ff., 330 (§231);
  • critical links to sever, 281ff., 307ff.;
  • as a guide to appropriate attention, 310
• Dhamma-Vinaya (doctrine & discipline): 9, 19, 190;
  see also Vinaya
• Discrimination: defined, 106
• Doubt: 33 (§2), 71 (§25), 110 (§51), 143 (§74), 191, 312 (§209) 326 (§225), 335 (§237), 339 (§240);
  see also Conviction
• Effluents (asava): 4, 6ff., 32, 43, 109ff. (§51), 124, 130 (§64), 180 (§106), 230, 231, 256 (§173), 305
• Emotion: 78, 263 (§179)
• Entry into emptiness: see Frames-of-reference practice
• Fabricated realm (sankhata): 6, 15, 291, 301;
  see also Unfabricated realm
• Faith: see Conviction
• Feedback loops: vii, 11, 14, 22, 43, 281, 300ff.;
  • in dependent co-arising, 301, 304ff.;
  • in frames-of-reference meditation, 160;
  • in the seven sets, 62ff., 136, 138, 176;
  • in this/that conditionality, 13, 41, 300;
  • involving abandoning craving and knowing, 281;
  • involving attention/intention and concentration/discernment, 8;
  • involving concentration, equanimity and mindfulness, 159;
  • involving ignorance and action, 43
• Feeding/starving the factors: 106, 154, 157ff., 165ff. (§96)
• Fire imagery: v, 6, 290ff., 303, 311
• Four modes of practice: 147 (§84), 148 (§84)
• Four Noble Truths: 7, 43;
  • as categories for analysis, 19, 24, 28, 47, 89 (§30), 159, 191
• Frames-of-reference practice: 45, 72ff.;
  • first stage (frame of reference), 74, 107, 125, 272;
  • second stage (origination and passing away), 77, 106, 107, 127, 157, 229, 272; 282;
  • third stage (entry into emptiness), 40, 79, 107, 127, 160, 272; 280, 282;
  • following Awakening, 81
• Free will: 13, 42
• Friendship with admirable people: 28, 29, 69 (§23), 113 (§53), 140 (§70), 189, 190, 195 (§115), 196 (§117)
• Generosity: 17, 19, 61, 174, 189ff., 196 (§§ 120ff.), 278
• Heavens & hells 32, 46, 49ff. (§9), 53 (§11), 130 (§64), 193, 198 (§122), 199 (§124), 202 (§128), 278
  see also Kamma
• Holography: vii, 62;
  • holographic nature of the seven sets, 155, 175ff.;
  see also Chaos theory
• Imponderables (four): 41, 53
• Intention: see Kamma
• Jains: 4, 6ff., 40, 42
• Jhana: 114 (§55), 122 (§61), 125, 139 (§69), 140 (§72), 142 (§73), 223ff.;
  • canonical definition, 31 (§1), 248ff.;
  • commentarial definition, 248ff.;
  • mastery of, 225;
  • pleasure of, 230ff.;
  • relation to discernment, 72, 248ff., 255 (§171);
  • relation to mindfulness, 72ff., 92 (§33), 94 (§35),
  see also Concentration
• Kamma: i, 7ff.;
  • and rebirth, 51ff.;
  • as intention, 8, 23, 28, 51;
  • four types of, 39ff., 55ff. (§§16-17);
  • present, 55;
  • past, 40, 55;
  • relation to appropriate attention, 8;
  see also Attention, appropriate
• Lokayatans: 4, 21
• Mandelbrot set: 41
• Meditation techniques:
  • body sweep, 76;
  • breath, 76; 78, 90 (§31), 163 (§93), 224, 227ff., 236 (§151), 306;
  • kasina, 249;
  • loathsomeness, 80, 101 (§45), 102 (§46), 148 (§85), 170 (§98), 269 (§181);
  • mastery of, 77;
  • mental noting, 75;
  • mindfulness of death, 146 (§82);
  • parts of the body, 80, 85 (§30), 133;
  • walking, 239 (§138)
• Metaphysics: 14, 46
• Music theory: 25ff., 59;
  • musical analogies to meditation, 138, 150ff. (§86)
• Name-and-form (nama-rupa): 23, 303ff.;
  • and consciousness, 42, 309ff.;
  • in feedback loops of dependent origination, 306ff.
• Narrative mode of awareness: 39ff., 43ff., 156, 159
• Noble eightfold path: abandoned upon reaching the goal, 175, 186 (§113);
  • distinct from the goal, 126, 134 (§67), 173
• Non-fashioning: 9, 25, 64, 79, 139, 160, 173, 232, 263, 265 (§179) 270 (§183), 271ff., 274, 283, 308ff.;
  see also Frames-of-reference practice, third stage; Unfabricated realm
• Non-linearity: 11, 24, 40, 42, 300
• Nonreturning: 64, 90 (§30), 174, 203 (§130), 230ff., 248ff., 340 (§240)
• Not-self: 70 (§23), 110 (§51), 157, 159, 232, 256 (§172), 280
• Number symbolism: 59
• Once-returning: 64, 174, 340 (§240)
• Patimokkha: 37 (§7), 69 (§23), 71 (§25), 201 (§126)
• Phenomenological mode of awareness: 40ff., 107, 156, 159ff., 273
• Phenomenology: vi;
  • radical: vi, 40, 43 160
• Present (time): 8, 10, 13;
  • as focal point for practice, 15, 19, 26, 40, 61, 302;
  • and entry into emptiness, 282ff.;
  see also Phenomenological mode of awareness; This/that conditionality; Time
• Pure Abodes: 64;
  see also Heavens & hells
• Questions: appropriate, 155ff., 191, 306, 310;
  • inappropriate, 155, 159, 279, 304ff.;
  • four types of, 156;
  see also Attention, appropriate; Attention, inappropriate;
• Reason: 17
• Refuge: 16, 38, 49 (§9), 105 (§ 48)
• Restraint: 49 (§9), 52 (§11), 67ff. (§22), 98ff. (§39), 106, 108 (§50) 110ff., 161 (§92)
• Samana: 3;
  • as one "in-tune" with Dhamma, 27, 59;
  see also Ajivakas; Jains; Lokayatans
• Sarvastivadin Canon: v, 74
• Scale invariance: vii, 42, 47, 274
• Shamanism: 3, 6
• Skill: development of, 7, 105ff., 307;
  • mastery of, 22ff., 107, 119ff. (§61), 124, 126,
• Stream-entry: 38, 64, 172ff., 340 (§240)
  • factors leading to, 58, 137ff., 140 (§70), 188, 191, 193ff., 231, 248;
  • qualities of stream-winner, 140 (§71), 183 (§107), 190, 192, 193ff.
• Sublime attitudes (brahma-vihara): 60, 61, 81;
• Supranormal powers: 124, 127ff., 128 (§64), 133 (§66), 135 (§68), 230, 250
• Survival beyond death: 4
• Thai forest tradition: vi
• This/that conditionality (idappaccayata): 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 22ff., 40, 155, 273ff., 281, 283, 300, 319 (§217);
  see also Causality
• Time: 8, 10, 300ff.;
  • disbanding of, 23;
  see also Present; This/that conditionality
• Unbinding: 2, 5ff., 9;
  • as health, 16;
  • fire imagery of, 6, 311;
  • knowledge of, 44ff.;
  • of the Buddha, 19;
  see also Buddha's Awakening: Two knowledges; Unfabricated realm
• Unfabricated realm: 6, 9, 12, 14, 18, 64, 125, 263, 274, 282ff., 301, 310;
  • as a separate type of consciousness, 290;
  see Fabricated realm; Non-fashioning
• Upanishads: 4
• Veda and Vedists: 3ff., 7, 40
• Vinaya: 19, 84
  see also Dhamma-vinaya
• Virtue: 17, 60ff., 178ff. (§§103ff.), 278;
  • as foundation for concentration, 59ff.
• Wheel symbolism: 284, 301, 305;