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Contents: Kalama Sutta: The Rediscovery of Conscience |
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Homages |
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Preface |
ix |
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Introduction |
xi |
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BOOK ONE: the KALAMA SUTTA |
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THE SETTING |
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THE PREDICAMENT |
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THE MAIN POINT |
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THE TEN IRRELEVANCIES & THE CRITERION FOR REJECTION |
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WHAT TO REJECT |
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THE TEN IRRELEVANCIES & THE CRITERION FOR ACCEPTANCE |
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WHAT TO ACCEPT |
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THE MEDITATION |
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THE BENEFITS |
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THE RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE |
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BOOK TWO: REDISCOVERY of CONSCIENCE, KALAMA SUTTA VYAKHYA |
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Part I: The Predicament |
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Consideration 1: The Kalamas' Predicament |
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Who were the Kalama people? |
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Who had been visiting them? |
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What did they teach? |
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The Nature of the Kalamas' consequent difficulties |
40 |
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Consideration 2: OUR PREDICAMENT |
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The Similarities between the Kalamas' predicament and ours |
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What distinguishes us from them |
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The implications for our understanding of the discourse |
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Part II: The Buddha's Solution |
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Stage 1: The Profound Main Point |
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The Peculiarities of the Buddha's Answer |
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Showing the Relation of the Pecularities to the Nature of Reality |
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Stage 2: The Buddha's Condemnations of Certainty |
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General Characteristics |
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Detailed Presentation |
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Not by faith |
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Not by relishing |
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Not by recited tradition, ma anussavena |
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Not by traditions, ma paramparaya |
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Not by reports, ma itikiraya |
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Not by what scriptures impart, ma pitakasampadanena |
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Not by reason of philosophy, ma takkahetu |
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Not by reason of logic, ma nayahetu |
185 |
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Not by thinking ideas through, ma akaraparivitakkena |
219 |
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Not by intuitive acceptance of views, ma ditthinijjhanakkhantiya |
283 |
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Not by (others') seeming capability, ma bhabbarupataya |
327 |
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Not by "This ascetic is our teacher", ma samapo no guruti |
349 |
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Stage 3: The Buddha's Summons to Free Inquiry |
399 |
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The Focus of Inquiry |
399 |
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The Nature of the Inquiry |
408 |
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Congruence with Earlier Answers |
410 |
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Stage 4: The Buddha's Introduction to the Spiritual Path |
411 |
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Afflictive Processes |
413 |
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In general: the rationale of three |
413 |
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In particular |
414 |
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>Lobha: wanting |
415 |
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>Dosa: aversion |
425 |
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>Moha: being deluded |
433 |
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The Consequences |
443 |
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>Sarambha: rage |
443 |
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>Five ways of loss |
444 |
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Freedom from Afflictive Processes |
451 |
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>Alobha: freedom from wanting |
453 |
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>Adosa: freedom from aversion |
459 |
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>Amoha: freedom from delusion |
463 |
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The Four Mental Residences of Purity |
465 |
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In common |
467 |
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In particular |
477 |
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>Amity (metta) |
479 |
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>Caring (karupa) |
503 |
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>Joy (mudita) |
517 |
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>Perspective (upekkha) |
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Stage 5: The Buddha's Vindication of the Inquiry |
545 |
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Main point: that everything is covered |
545 |
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Implication: that ideology wastes time |
546 |
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Specific examples: the afterlife, and ethical consequences |
548 |
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Part III: The Response from the People |
557 |
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The response of the audience |
557 |
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The Buddha's response |
558 |
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Our response |
562 |
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Appendix One: Transliteration Schemes |
565 |
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Pali and Sanskrit |
565 |
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Arabic |
565 |
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Appendix Two: Translation rationales |
567 |
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Bibliography |
573 |
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Colophon |
583 |