The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
CONTENTS - General - Ch. IV......Page 7
 CONTENTS - Ch. V - VIII......Page 8
 CONTENTS - Ch. IX - XIV......Page 9
 CONTENTS - Ch. XIV (cont.) - XVII......Page 10
 CONTENTS - Ch. XVII (cont.) - XX......Page 11
 CONTENTS - Ch. XX (cont.) - XXIII......Page 12
 CONTENTS - Conclusion - Tables......Page 13
CONTENTS - Detailed, by Topic and Paragraph No.- Ch. I - III......Page 14
 CONTENTS - Detailed - Ch. III - VI......Page 15
 CONTENTS - Detailed - Ch. VI (cont.) - XII......Page 16
 CONTENTS - Detailed - Ch. XII (cont.) - XVI......Page 17
 CONTENTS - Detailed - Ch. XVI (cont.) - XVIII......Page 18
 CONTENTS - Detailed - Ch. XIX - XXI......Page 19
 CONTENTS - Detailed - XXI (cont.) - XXIII, Conclusion (Epilogue)......Page 20
Bibliography......Page 21
Abbreviations......Page 23
Message from HHLD......Page 25
Publisher's Foreword 4th Ed.......Page 26
Translator's Preface......Page 27
Introduction......Page 29
THE PATH OF PURIFICATION......Page 59
 Part I Virtue (Sīla)......Page 61
   I. Introductory......Page 63
   II. Virtue......Page 68
  Chapter II The Ascetic Practices......Page 113
 Part II Concentration (Samādhi)......Page 137
  Chapter III Taking a Meditation Subject......Page 139
   A. Development in Brief......Page 144
   B. Development in Detail - The Ten Impediments......Page 145
   The Eighteen Faults of a Monastery......Page 171
   The Lesser Impediments......Page 174
   The Earth Kasiṇa......Page 175
   Making an Earth Kasiṇa......Page 176
   Starting Contemplation......Page 177
   The Counterpart Sign......Page 178
   The Two Kinds of Concentration......Page 179
   Guarding the Sign......Page 180
   The Ten Kinds of Skill in Absorption......Page 182
   The Five Similes......Page 188
   Absorption in the Cognitive Series......Page 189
   The First Jhāna......Page 191
   Extension of the Sign......Page 203
   The Second Jhāna......Page 206
   The Third Jhāna......Page 209
   The Fourth Jhāna......Page 214
   The Fivefold Reckoning of Jhāna......Page 218
   The Water Kasiṇa......Page 220
   The Fire and Air Kasiṇas......Page 221
   The Blue and Yellow Kasiṇas......Page 222
   The Red, White and Light Kasiṇas......Page 223
   General......Page 224
   General Definitions......Page 227
   The Bloated......Page 228
   The Gnawed, Scattered, Hacked & Scattered, Bleeding, worm Infested, and a Skeleton......Page 238
   General......Page 240
  Chapter VII Six Recolections......Page 244
    Accomplished......Page 246
    Fully Enlightened......Page 250
    Endowed with Clear Vision and Virtuous Conduct......Page 251
    Sublime......Page 254
    Knower of Worlds......Page 256
    Incomparable Leader of Men to be Tamed......Page 260
    Teacher of Gods and Men......Page 261
    Enlightened, Blessed......Page 262
   (2) Recollection of the Dhamma......Page 267
    Well Proclaimed......Page 268
    Visible Here and Now......Page 270
    Inviting of Inspection......Page 271
    Onward-Leading......Page 272
    Entered on the Good, Straight, True, Proper Way......Page 273
    Fit for Gifts......Page 274
    Fit for Offering, Fit for Salutation, As an Incomparable Field of Merit for the World......Page 275
   (4) Recollection of Virtue......Page 276
   (5) Recollection of Generosity......Page 278
   (6) Recollection of Deities......Page 279
   General......Page 280
   (7) Mindfulness of Death......Page 283
   (8) Mindfulness Occupide with the Body......Page 294
   (9) Mindfulness of Breathing......Page 317
   (10) Recollection of Peace......Page 344
   (1) Loving Kindness......Page 349
   (2) Compassion......Page 366
   (3) Gladness......Page 367
   (4) Equanimity......Page 368
   (1) The Base Consisting of Boundless Space......Page 379
   (2) The Base Consisting of Boundless Consciousness......Page 384
   (3) The Base Consisting of Nothingness......Page 386
   (4) The Base Consisting of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception......Page 388
   General......Page 391
   Perception of Repulsiveness in Nutriment......Page 395
   Defining of The Elements: Word Definitions......Page 402
   Texts and Commentary in Brief......Page 403
   In Detail......Page 404
   Method of Development in Brief......Page 406
   (2) With Constituents by Analysis......Page 407
   (3) With Characteristics in Brief......Page 415
   Additional Ways of Giving Attention......Page 416
   The Benefits of Developing Concentration......Page 425
   (1) The Kinds of Supernormal Power......Page 427
   (2) The Divine Ear Element......Page 458
   (3) Penetration of Minds......Page 460
   (4) Recollection of Past Lives......Page 462
   (5) THe Divine Eye - Knowledge of Passing Away and Reappearance of Beings......Page 473
   General......Page 479
 Part III Understanding (Paññā)......Page 487
   A. Understanding......Page 489
    The Materiality Aggregate......Page 497
    The Consciousness Aggregate......Page 513
     The 89 Kinds of Consciousness......Page 514
     The 14 Modes of Occurrence of Consciousness......Page 520
    The Feelings Aggregate......Page 524
    The Formations Aggregate......Page 526
    According to Association with Consciousness......Page 527
    Materiality......Page 539
    Feeling......Page 542
   D. Classes of Knowledge of the Aggregates......Page 544
   A. Description of the Bases......Page 550
   B. Description of the Elements......Page 554
   A. Description of the Faculties......Page 561
   B. Description of the Truths......Page 564
    (i) Birth......Page 568
    (iii) Death......Page 572
    (v) Lamantation......Page 573
    (viii) Despair......Page 574
    (xi) Not to Get What One Wants......Page 575
   The Truth of the Origin of Suffering......Page 576
   The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering......Page 577
   Discussion on Nibbāna......Page 578
   The Truth of the Way......Page 582
   General......Page 584
   Section A. Definition of Dependant Origination......Page 591
   I. Preamble......Page 597
   II. Brief Exposition......Page 598
    (i) Ignorance......Page 605
    (ii) Formations......Page 606
    (iii) Consciousness......Page 621
    (iv) Mentality-Materiality......Page 637
    (v) The Sixfold Base......Page 641
    (vi) Contact......Page 644
    (vii) Feeling......Page 646
    (viii) Craving......Page 647
    (ix) Clinging......Page 648
    (x) Becoming......Page 651
    (xi)-(xii) Birth, Etc.......Page 655
    (i) The Wheel......Page 656
    (iii) Cause and Fruit......Page 658
    (iv) Various......Page 661
    (1) Definition Based on the Four Primaries......Page 667
    (3) Definition Based on the Twelve Bases......Page 670
    (5) Brief Definition Based on the Four Primaries......Page 671
   How the Immaterial States Become Evident......Page 672
   No Being Apart from Mentality-Materiality......Page 674
   Interdependence of Mentality and Materiality......Page 676
   Neither Created by a Creator nor Causeless......Page 679
   General and Particular Conditions......Page 680
   Kamma and Kamma-Result......Page 681
   No Doer Apart form Kamma and Result......Page 685
   Full-Understanding of the Known......Page 686
   The Three Kinds of Full-Understanding......Page 689
   Insight: Comprehension by Groups......Page 691
   Comprehension by Groups - Application of Text......Page 693
   Strengthening of Comprehension in Forty Ways......Page 695
   Comprehension of the Material......Page 697
    (a) Kamma-Born Materiality......Page 698
    (b) Consciousness-Born Materiality......Page 699
    (c) Nutriment-Born Materiality......Page 700
    (d) Temperature-Born Materiality......Page 701
   Comprehension of the Immaterial......Page 702
   The Material Septad......Page 703
   The Immaterial Septad......Page 710
   The Eighteen Principle Insights......Page 712
   Knowledge of Rise and Fall......Page 715
   The Ten Imperfections of Insight......Page 718
  Chapter XXI Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Way......Page 724
    1. Knowledge of Rise and Fall - II......Page 725
    2. Knowledge of Dissolution......Page 726
    3. Knowledge of Appearance as Terror......Page 731
    4. Knowledge of Danger......Page 733
    5. Knowledge of Dispassion......Page 736
    7. Knowledge of Reflection......Page 737
    Discerning Formations as Void......Page 739
    8. Knowledge of Equanimity About Formations......Page 742
   The Triple Gateway to Liberation......Page 743
   The Seven Kinds of Noble persons......Page 746
   The Last Three Knowledges are One......Page 747
   Insight Leading to Emergence......Page 748
   The Twelve Similes......Page 750
   The Difference in the Noble Path's Factors, Etc.......Page 753
   9. Conformity Knowledge......Page 756
   Sutta References......Page 757
    The First Path - First Noble Person......Page 759
    The First Fruition - Second Noble Person......Page 762
    The Second Path - Third Noble Person......Page 763
    The Fourth Path - Seventh Noble Person......Page 764
   II. The States Associated with the Path, Etc.......Page 765
    The Four Functions......Page 779
    The Four Functions Described Seperately......Page 781
   Conclusion......Page 786
   B. The Taste of the Noble Fruit......Page 788
   C. The Attainment of Cessation......Page 792
   D. Worthiness to Receive Gifts......Page 800
CONCLUSION......Page 803
INDEX of Subjects & Proper Names......Page 809
Pali-English Glossary of Some Subjects and Technical Terms......Page 832
TABLE I: The Materiality Aggregate......Page 846
TABLE II: The Formations Aggregate......Page 847
TABLE III: Consciousness Aggregate......Page 848
TABLE IV: The Combination of the Formations Aggregate and Consciousness Aggregate......Page 850
TABLE V: The Cognitive Series in the Occurance of Consciousness (citta-vīthi) as Presented in the Visuddhimagga and Commentaries......Page 851
TABLE VI: Dependent Origination (paṭicca-samuppāda)......Page 852