Reflection Index Piya Tan

Reflection Index An index to the weekly reflections by Piya Tan (2007-2016)

Inspired by Lee Chiew Lim of the Buddhist Fellowship Prison Mission who inspires those he ministers, and who loves these reflections

For the Reflection R-Numbers and Titles, see Full List of Reflections.

Symbols ↓ see under. For example, “↓Harlequin effect R403” means “See Reflection number 403; there is also a separate entry under “Harlequin effect.” A terminal ↓ – for example, “mettā↓” – simply means “see also mettā.” ↓↓ see under more than one entry. → see also. ~ (a tilde) or wiggly sign means that the headword should be inserted. angl anglicized (English borrowings of Indian words) T reflection title

Conventions (1) The headword is the key word at the head of the line or list of definitions. (2) Articles (“a,” “the,” etc) have been omitted from the heardwords. (3) Reflection titles are given in full with an initial capital: see (2). (4) If you know the Pali term, eg “sotāpanna,” look it up first. Otherwise, start with the word/s you know, eg, “streamwinner” or “stream-entrant.” (5) In a series of references, the one(s) underlined gives details, eg “4 elements R195 R245.” (6) Alpbhabetical order: Mahā Brahmā comes before mahā,bhūta.

How to use the Reflections (1) Make sure you first read through and understand the Symbols and Conventions above. (2) Look up the reflection, story, or theme in the Reflection Index (RI). (3) Go to http://dharmafarer.org and click “Weekly Reflections.” (4) Then, click what you want (usually either “Inspirations” or “Revisioning Buddhism”). (5) If you need help, email us at [email protected].

Editorial note This is only a preliminary index for immediate reference, especially in connection with the training of the BF Prison Mission volunteers, and providing them with a wide range of resource materials. The following remain to be desired: (1) indexing of the footnotes; (2) hyperlinking every file references for easy consultation (voluntary input is needed here).

For courses, go to: http://themindingcentre.org 1 Reflection Index (2016)

9 abodes of beings ↓abodes of beings 10 wholesome courses of action ↓kusala,kamma- # Numerical sets & Numbers patha 11 benefits of lovingkindness ↓metta, benefits See also under topic, eg “jewels 3.” 24 elements ↓elements 24

2 kinds of meditation R438 25 December: “Buddhist Renewal Day” R64 2 kinds of pains ↓pain 2001 September 11 R344 2 kinds of teachers ↓teachers 2002 Sutta Discovery R28 2 kinds of universe ↓universe 2008 priorities (New Year resolutions) R26 2 teachers ↓Bodhisattva 2010, To a listening year R117 3 bases of mindfulness ↓satipaṭṭhāna 3 2012 world ending R51 R55 3 cobblers ↓three cobblers are better than one S$5000: those earning ~ pm not happy R120 3 D’s and beyond, The 3 D’s of life ↓decay, disease, death 3 doors (of action) ↓dvāra 3 A 3 intoxications ↓mada Abhaya Sutta (A 8.184) R126 3 jewels ↓ratana-t,taya Abhaya Rāja,kumāra Sutta (M 58) R232 R390 3 kinds of feelings ↓feeling(s) Abhidhamma R390 3 kinds of love ↓love 3 without sutta understanding R438 3 levels of perversion ↓vipallāsa 3 abodes of beings 9 3 knowledges ↓knowledges Abraham R292 3 things to be grateful for R181 Abrahamic religions R66 3 trainings ↓sikkha-t,taya abusive mother R360 3 wrong views ↓views, wrong academic Buddhism ↓Buddhism 4 attitudes to work ↓work Accept yourself, reject your self (T) R274 4 biases ↓agati 4 accepting others as they are R226 4 elements ↓mahā,bhūta 4 access ↓opanayika 4 great revolutions ↓revolution Acchariya Abbhūta Sutta (M 123) R238 4 kinds of food ↓food 4 Achebe, Chinua R294 4 modes of perversion ↓vipallāsa 4 Acinteyya Sutta (A 4.77) R333 4 noble truths ↓truths, 4 noble Ackerman, Susan ↓Lee L M, Raymond, & ~ 4 postures ↓posture(s) Acton, Lord (John Dahlberg-Acton) R253 4 powers ↓powers 4 ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) R387 4 questions ↓Four questions Ādhipateyya Sutta (A 3.40) R52 4 refuges, The R183 ↓refuges affective consciousness ↓consciousness 4 ways of knowing a person ↓knowing a person Again and again (poem) R247 5 aggregates ↓pañca-k,khandha against the current ↓paṭisotagāmī 5 basic Buddhist practices ↓R159 Āgamas R161 5 elements ↓mahā,bhūta agape ↓love (types) 5 fears ↓fears agati (biases) 4 (greed, hate, delusion, fear) R70 5 mental hindrances ↓nīvaraṇa 5 R210 R250 R251 R271 R296 5 senses ↓senses, 5 physical motivations R454 5 values ↓value(s) age gracefully 5-dollar tree R415 Aggi Vaccha,gotta Sutta (M 72) R232 6 animals ↓parables aggregates 5 ↓pañcakkhandha 6 elements ↓mahā,bhūta aggression (defence) R221 6 realms ↓realms Agni R400 6 senses ↓senses agnostic R375 7 treasures ↓ratana agocara (unsuitable places for monastics) R85 7 weeks’ meditation by the Buddha R144 Ahab (Moby Dick) R448 7 years of childhood, first ↓childhood (Āhāra) Avijjā Sutta (A 10.61) R117 8 winds of change ↓loka,dhamma 8 (Ahita) Thera Sutta (A 5.88) R130 R393 R409 R432

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Ajātasattu R135b ↓pets Akkhaṇa Sutta (A 8.29) R401 reality, how they perceive akkhāta (pointer our or shower of the way) R436 reborn in heaven R68a R152 Alabbhanīya Ṭhāna Sutta (A 5.48) R337 R441 ~ stories R264 Alagaddûpama Sutta (M 22) R92 R387 R446 →subhuman realms Āḷāra Kālāma R411 Animal emotions R264 Āḷavī: weaver’s daughter R151 Animals go to heaven (T) R68a Alexander VI (Pope) añjalī (palms together) R68b Alexander the Great R135b R150 ‘ annihilationism ↓uccheda,diṭṭhi great man ideology R449 Anthony, Lawrence R264 Alice in Wonderland R156 elephants attend his funeral R264 alienation anti-semitism R389 emotional R180 ānupubbī.kathā (gradual talk) R436 social R433 anusaya (latent tendencies) 3 (lust, ill will, ignor- Aliens and UFOs R146 ance) R379 all (totality of experience) R94 R164 Apadāna R414 all the senses R258 R268 -(12) apophasis (negative language) R414 all other things being equal ↓ceteris paribus App, Urs R404 All the world’s a stage R82 appeal to authority ↓ad verecundiam All views are wrong views (T) R92 appreciation R289 Allah R17 approval aloneness R116 we don’t need anyone’s ~ Alzheimer’s disease R125 Arahanta Sutta (S 1.5) R153 R154 Am I really happy? ↓happiness Araṇa Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 139) R138 R153 R413 ambulance jhāna R279 →”first aid” Buddhism Are Bodhisattvas selfish? (T) R106 Amitābha R342 arhat R128 →arhathood amorality ↓views, wrong 3 ~ ideal Anaṇa Sutta (A 4.62) R219 awakening same as Buddha’s R420 (Ānanda) Abhibhū Sutta (A 3.80) R450 claiming to know an ~ R449 ānāpānasati R125 R129 →meditation “inferior” R343 breath meditation R133 R273 knowing an ~ R412 breathe now R237 layman ~ R252 technique R129 R281 no need to become buddhas R420 (Anātha,piṇḍika) Pīti Sutta (A 5.176) R34 teachers R171 anattā (non-self) ↓ti,lakkhaṇa wrong views about ~a R198 Anatta Lakkhaṇa Sutta (S 22.59) R403 arhathood ancestor final awakening R414 R420 worship R182 →Qingming Aristotle ↓śraddha criticizes Plato R426 ancestor worship ↓ancestor Poetics R317 anger R83 Arnold, Edwin →”Light of Asia” Angry monk syndrome R83 art R407 Andersen, Hans Christian R267 →Greek Andha,kra Sutta (S 56.46) R450 →Mathura Aṅguli,māla R38 art & truth R25 Ang Beng Choo Artist R123 R280 Ang Yong Chuean R299 Artist, The R419 anicca (impermanence) ↓ti,lakkhaṇa Artist’s suffering, The (T) R280-title R297 R368 (Anicca) Cakkhu Sutta (S 25.1) R200 R442 arūpa samāpatti (formless attainments) R411 anicca,saññā (perception of impermanence) As if (T) R99 R360 R430 as we learn we will teach R374 animal/s āsajja upanīya R412 loyalty R352 Asaṅga R309

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Ascended ones, The R329 bad or evil mistaken as good ↓vipallāsa 4 Asian values R359 Bāhiya Dāru,ciriya R323 (Asi.bandhaka,putta) Kulā Sutta (S 42.9) R232 death R252 Āsīvisa Sutta (A 4.110) R308 teaching R151 Āsīvisôpama Sutta (S 35.238) R308 Bāla Paṇḍita Sutta (M 129) R216 R421 Asking the right questions (T) R232 ↓question balloon (figure) R233 R241 Asoka (India) Barlaam and Josaphat R150 aspiration Bactria R150 Dharma ~ R9 Bad can be good (T) R417 Assutava Sutta 1+2 (S 12.61) R263 Bamiyan R146 Assyria R191 banana republic R214 asura R289 →subhuman realms baptism R15 R19 R64 Asurans (Stargate) R335 basic Buddhist practices ↓Buddhist, 5 ~ assurance of awakening R176 →sotāpatti Batchelor, Stephen and Martine R206 atam,mayatā (not making anything of that) R328 bats in a cave listening to Abhidhamma R68a atheism R1 R293 R330 R410 Be a Dharma heir (T) attacking Buddhism →books Be Buddhist, not a Buddhist (T) R342 attention span R163 Be true, be free (T) R296 Aṭṭhaka Vagga (Sn 4/766-975) R375 beautiful aureole ↓halo, aureole, mandorla ~ breath R273 Australia ~ places R167 Buddhist national anthem make life ~ R352 dissatisfaction of Sydneysiders R299 beauty R280 friend R392 beauty and truth R130 R147 R208 R232 R280 R285 non-sectarian friend R391 R348 R372 R414 justice R299 Buddhism R170 automation & assembly line R427 divine abodes →brahmavihāra 4 autopilot meditation R145 mind on ~ R2 spiritual friendship, pillars of R208 Avadāna,śataka (“A Hundred Stories”) R401 Becoming human: It’s easier than you think (T) R95 Avalokiteśvara R187 R198 becoming monks/nuns ↓pabbajjā appearances beer R126 Guanyin R32 R291 bees and flower R435 Guanyin encounters R32 being and having R166 R174 R181 R201 R205b R214 Guanyin, why female? R291 R241 R245 R254 R285 R293 R369 Avatar (movie) R260 Being everything to everyone (T) R221 awaken (v) R278 R288 Being present (T) R163 Awaken in this life R442 belief(s) R12 R185 R223 R244 R373 R375 awakening ↓bodhi →views through love ↓love ~based knowledge R162 Awakening moments (T) (poem) R206 ~ system R69 R217 R248 R283 R315 AWARE (Association of Women for Action and ~ deeply rooted in social realities R427 Research) R80 believe vs know in religion R13 261 axial age R168 believing vs knowing R94 R239 R346 Belief limits, wisdom frees (T) R293 Believable fiction (T) R202 B believers and unbelievers R164 Believing makes it true? (T) R387 Back to the Buddha (T) R367 Believing nothing (T) R437 Bacon, Francis R73 Bergson, Henri bad Berkeley Zen Center R429 ~ deeds not done willingly Bernays, Edward R223 ignorance, root of ~ R303 Best mantras (T) R284

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Best stories are unfinished, The (T) R25 body and mind R71 R246 R323 R411 R414 Better change ourselves (T) R196 body-based life R133 →body-being Bhaddekaratta Suttas (M 131-134) R206 body-based meditation ↓satipaṭṭhāna bhāvita,citta (cultivated in mind, cultivated in mind) body-being R273 →body-based life R430 R441 body, mind and spirit R189 bhāvita,kāya (cultivated in body; cultivated in body) Body parts, The (T) R430 R436 R441 body recollection ↓recollections Bhaya Bherava Sutta (M 4) R126 body sick, mind not sick R71 Bhikkhuṇī saṅgha revived R108 body, speech and mind ↓doors 3 biases 4 (greed, hate, delusion, fear) ↓agati 4 book(s) R402 Bible R98 R158 ~s attacking Buddhism R86 Burmese ~ R158 book Buddhism ↓Buddhism big R376 ↓printing Biggest thing in the world, The (T) boothengkel ↓hantu tetek Bimbisāra Borgia Pope R404 biological evolution ↓evolution born again R202 R286 bird freed from cage R345 ~ and again R286 birthday R360 Borobudur R85 black holes R450 Botanic Gardens (Singapore) R415 Blake, William R414 boundless emotions ↓brahma,vihāra blamelessness ↓powers 4 boundless love ↓mettā blindside R156 R346 Bowing (T) R68b blindspots R312 bows 3 R238 blood, giving R287 Brahmā (God) Blow my balloon ↓Please blow my balloon as loves, compassion, gladness and equanimity blur (Singlish), R170 R148 boat R292 brahmins’ claims R19 Bodh-gaya ↓God touristy R342 invites the Buddha to teach R157 R378 bodhi (awakening) R81 rejects offerings R26 bodhi leaf R297 (Brahma,cārī) Sagārava Sutta (M 100) 284 Bodhi Rāja,kumāra Sutta (M 85) R284 Brahma,deva (monk) R26 bodhi tree R135b R334 R395 Brahma,deva S (S 6.3) R26 Buddha alone radiant under ~ R138 R161 Brahma.jāla Sutta (D 1) R444 bodhisatta (the Buddha-to-be) R362 Brahmali R177 Bodhisattva (angl) →bodhisatta (Pali) Brahmanism R343 →brahmins st 1 dhyana R112 R452 Brahmavamso R9 R114 R413 2 teachers R449 brahma,vihāra 4 (divine abodes) R63 R148 R217 child R238 R358 R399 emaciated ↓Buddha 4 kinds of persons R148 exist?, Do ~s R327 God R428 Gotama R238 R414 living with God R173 historical ~ R378 positive emotions R454 later idea (incl Mahāyāna) R198 R309 R362 prayer R452 not mentioned in the suttas R362 brahminical mythology ↓mythology pleasure palaces R383 brahmins selfish? R106 claims and teachings R19 self-torture R382 dominant class R66 teachers R411 brain Bodhisattva Ever-weeping (T) R382 healthy ~ R125 Bodhinyana (Perth) R257 brainwashing bodily cultivated ↓bhāvita,kāya religion as ~ R251 body, renouncing the R208

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Brasington, Leigh R413 speakers ↓Dharma speakers break-up R226 statues R146 Breaking free (T) R286 suffered the most R18 breath R239 R281 R359 →meditation sun, the R188 at peace with the ~ R81 R199 R235 teaches to all R30 ~ meditation →ānāpānasati teaches to gods and humans R179 brightened up with lovingkindness R383 Buddha and “Allah” R17 door to the heart R195 Buddha and Christ R114 joyful R369 Buddha and Prometheus, The (T) R179 natural Buddha better (T) R298 peaceful ~ R266 R377 Buddha Dharma is for all religions (T) R30 spirituality R140 R178 Buddha, man, God (T) R388 watching the ~ R197 R377 Buddha, one and only (T) R390 Breathe Dharma (T) R324 one and only Buddha R451 breathingless meditation R411 Buddha reaches out to all (T) R19 Brooke, Dorothea (Middlemarch) R352 Buddha smile, The (T) R132 Brown, Robert L R421 Buddha Word R426 ↓Dharma Buck, Pearl S R161 Buddhaghosa R55 R148 Buddha →Buddhas buddhahood R198 awakening R411 Buddha and arhats have no need of further ~ Day ↓Vesak “enlightenment” R444 ~ Word R343 R388 Mahayana R420 communicator, master R18 Buddhas cosmic ~s R288 cannot define ~ into existence R451 death R200 R298 Cosmic ~ R450 accepting the ~’s death R420 numerous like sand R378 R380 R390 R420 doctor, ~ as a R420 where do they come from? R444 emaciated ~ R421 Buddhas die if we worship them (T) R200 feelings, ~ has R112 R132 Buddha’s refugees (T) future ~ R110 E288 →Maitreya Buddha’s voice, The (T) R377 happiest man R147 Buddhism →specific topics such as Japanese Buddh- hesitated R157 ism →Dharma historical ~ R30 R185 R380 R400 R432 R440 academic Buddhism R88 R347 human R244 R388 ages of ~ R406 why human? R453 as is ↓mere Buddhism (here) image R135b R444 book Buddhism R69 R88 Greek influence R421 R444 ~ for real R343 meditative symmetry R421 ~s R343 killing the ~ R292 ↓Chinese ~ knowledge R333 ↓religion, commodified lone radiant ~ R264 R344 R395 civilization R69 looks R135b creating our own ~ R130 mantra ↓”buddho” critical ~ R236 meditates for 7 weeks R147 ↓culture meaning R134 R152 decline R31 R309 naturally happy R132 DIY R119 →self-reliance nature R298 early ~ R10 R172 R196 R380 R402 R433 R437 one and only ~ R362 R390 compared to a park R440 original ~ R362 not a religion R380 pointer out or shower (of the way) ↓akkhātā not about crowd, church, charisma R431 power for good R298 essentials R440 R444 racist ~ R343 ethnic/eastern ~ R36 R142 R177 R198 R294 R380 ↓self-mortification R395 R403

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“first aid” ~ R343 → ambulance jhāna Buddhism for life or for a living? (T) R243 experience R151 Buddhism for real (T) R343 false ~ R404 Buddhism goes beyond God and religion (T) R94 first missionary religion R339 Buddhism Inc (T) R145 for life or for a living R243 Buddhism is as easy as walking (T) R37 frees us R223 R234 →liberation Buddhism is about patterns (T) R31 global ~ R142 R150 Buddhism rises in the west (T) R150 groups R440 Buddhism sets you free (T) R223 growth/evolution R187 R406 R426 Buddhism without Buddha? (T) R347 healthy food R119 Buddhism without words (T) R165 historical ~ R69 Buddhist R243 →sutta Buddhist incorporated R145 5 basic Buddhist practices R159 Instant ~ R391 ~ cosmology ↓cosmology later ~ R150 R177 ~ evangelism R400 learning ~ R228 ~ flag R83 local ~ R11 R36 ~ magic R406 Malaysia R380 ~ practices R288 mere ~ R6 R31 R85 R117 R395 ~ practices 5 R159 money, urbanized ~ →money ~ Renewal Day R64 R271 My ~ & Your ~ R270 R354 ~ Studies R347 natural R10 R94 R372 R375 ~ texts, discovery of ancient R444 no such thing! R69 ~ training compared to child-raising R37 non-religious R176 ~ work R118 non-sectarian R391 infant (figure) R228 patronage R145 R402 lone ~ R234 R238 R279 philosophical response R130 ↓mythology philosophy or religion? R69 persecuted R83 prefixed ~ R292 pietist ~ R400 purpose of ~ R442 prophecy R55 racist ↓ethnic (here) sick ~ (figure) R228 religion, not a R69 R292 simplistic ~ R400 revolution R210 triumphalist ~ R400 scholarly ~ ↓academic (here) weak ~s R228 scientific R390 Buddhist-Christian mix-up ↓Christian-Buddhist mix- social constructs R367 up spiritual Buddhist Fellowship (BF) R15 R32 response R130 Buddhist Global Conference R15 system R69 Buddhist love lessons (T) R218 spread R177 Buddhist Peace Fellowship R429 state of mind R234 Buddhist prophecies for our times (T) R55 state religion R402 Buddhist questions (T) R187 textual bookBuddhism ↓book Buddhism (here) Buddhist Renewal Day (T) R271 truth-based R98 renewal day R116 R169 western ~ etc ↓west Bulat (Tan Beng Neo) R236 why we are ~ R343 Bullshit (T) R12 without Buddha? R347 Bunyiu Nanjio R354 word level R73 burning house R177 worldly ~ R404 Bush retreat (T) R257 Buddhism and feeling (T) business preachers R396 Buddhism and mental illness (T) R400 butterfly R333 Buddhism and Science Symposium (2008) Buddhism a religion, a philosophy , or what? (T) R69 Buddhism for dummies (T) R159

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charity ↓ratana 7 Charlie Gordon R383 C Cheng Hoon Teng R327 Chickaduck, The (T) R50 Cabezon, Jose R30 Chicken Licken R138 càitáng (vegetarian hall) R291 Chief High Priest R36 cakka,vatti (universal monarch) R402 Chiggala Sutta 2 (S 56.47) R95 Cakkavatti Sīhanāda Sutta (D 26) R55 R110 R171 child is the father of the Man, the R267 Cakkhu,pāla (monk) R123 Child we still are, The (T) R393 calm and clear mind R204 childhood Calvin, John R256 first 7 years (developmental psychology) R268 Can I help? (T) R282 Canada repressed ~ friend R392 children Canal, Giovanni Antonio (Canaletto) R272 first 7 years R359 Canaletto dream R272 innocence and truthfulness R307 Caṅkī Sutta (M 95) R117 not our refuge R359 “cannot change” R175 R417 raising ~ R359 cannot do, don’t say R54 true little artists R371 car (figure) R227 ↓driving Chile R409 career monastics ↓monastics China & Chinese carpe diem R308 Chinese “yes” R289 Carr, Allen R39 controlf of religion R17 Carraway, Nick (The Great Gatsby) R355 cosmology R97 Carroll, Lewis R156 culture R182 Casaubon, Edward (Middlemarch) R352 science R341 casuistry R396 ↓truth, Chinese cat, remarkable R264 Chinese Buddhism R402 Catch-22 R244 cultural baggage R130 Catholic woman dreams of Guanyin R433 Daoist influence R404 Catholicism, Roman R150 R253 ↓Harlequin effect R404 persecution of Buddhists R83 Chinese Revolutions (1911, 1949) ↓revolution(s), 4 world domination R493 great cause and effect R251 →conditionality Chinese whispers causes →conditions Chingming (Chinese festival) ↓Qingming no first cause R286 Chinua Achebe (T) R294 external ~ R400 Choice Vesak, A (T) R137 CEO priest R334 R382 Chong ‘er R182 Ceteris paribus (T) R336 Chopin, F R419 Chah, Ajahn R177 R279 R413 Christian fundamentalists R83 Chan Buddhism R130 Christian pastor seeks help from Buddhist R116 change →impermanence R161 certain R255 Christian-Buddhist mix-up ~ yourself R196 R247 ↓Josaphat ~ is meaning R434 R449 prayers R404 reflection on ~ R247 Christianity R158 senses, the 6 R345 conquests R17 Change please! (T) R247 meditation R158 change what I can R189 world domination R404 Chann’ovāda Sutta (M 114) R414 Christmas chanting R91 Buddhist ~ R169 characteristics 3 ↓tilakkhaṇa ↓Buddhist Renewal Day charisma R118 wrong practice R15

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Christians, teaching Dharma to R116 existential ~ R115 chrysalis R104 R175 ↓food(s) 4 Citta (layman) R288 impermanent R256 not through faith R451 insight & ~ R183 citta, mano & viññāṇa R263 meditation R283 R373 City Harvest Church (wealth gospel) R66 R424 consultation ↓relationshio(s) class & class system R223 R241 R286 R395 consumerism R55 China R291 contact (sense-stimuli) ↓food(s) Clear light of Dharma, The (T) R23 container and contents R416 clinging ↓upādāna contemplation of death R360 Close your eyes, see better (T) R161 contentment ↓revolution, inner close your eyes, see more R74 continuity R446 Closer to God (T) R253 conversion ↓evangelism co-dependence ↓dependence & ~ why people convert to other religions? R86 COEMAS R236 why others want to convert Buddhists? R86 coffin R359 corporate exploitation R447 cognitive consciousness ↓consciousness cosmology R450 Collins, Steven R347 Cost of living (T) colonialism R63 R150 R158 R404 counselling God & ~R428 ~ process R135a colours ↓meditation spiritual R87 R400 commensal eating ↓eating students R76 commercial meditation ↓meditation suicidal case R76 communication R222 violent boy R360 positive ~ R153 counter-argument R336 community, lay Buddhist R137 counter-transference (defence mechanism) ↓trans- compassion R83 R106 R113 R132 R149 R211 ference & counter-transference R239 R344 R399 courage ↓vesārajja ↓brahmavihāra 4 ~ and honesty R443 mercy R299 courtship R225 Mahāyāna ~ R426 Couto, Diego de R150 wisdom, ~ & R282 crabby Compassion or gratitude? (T) R101 Creation Science R330 compersion creativity R282 complex R154 Italians R299 computer crises, surviving R214 recovering corrupted files R77 critical Buddhism ↓Buddhism, critical conceit →māna critical thinking R78 concentration ↓samādhi Cromwell, Oliver R63 conciliation ↓powers 4 crowd & religion R96 R391 R395 R406 R407 condition(s) & conditionality R72 131 231 R360 →Buddhism, groups R251 R278 R286 R400 goes the wrong way R434 many causes and conditions R138 R211 R226 leaving the crowd R241 ↓cause and effect crypto-Buddhist R172 conditioning R296 →cultural ~ Cūḷa Dukkha-k,khandha Sutta (M 14) R454 Confucianism Cūḷa Hatthi,padôpama Sutta (M 27) R412 women’s position R291 Cūḷa Māluṅkyā,putta Sutta (M 63) R232 Confucius Cūḷa Panthaka R284 Duke of Shè R11 Cūḷa Sīha,nādā Sutta (M 12) R403 connotation & denotation R367 cult(s) R152 R354 R400 consciousness R197 R67b guru with 79 wives R203 affective ~ R414 cultivated cognitive ~ R414 ~ in body ↓bhāvita,kāpa

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~ in mind ↓bhāvita,citta →devil cultivation of lovingkindness ↓mettā bhāvanā denial (defence mechanism) R78 R307 cults R152 R354 denialist rhetoric R347 culture R187 denotation ↓connotation & denotation cultural baggage (Buddhism) R395 dependence & co-dependence R78 R307 cultural conditioning R61 R296 ↓emotional dependence limits of ~ R261 →emotional independence cyclic lives ↓life →samsara dependent arising ↓paṭiccasamuppāda cyclic ~ and routine work R133 Descartes, Réné R201 Desire (T) R126 desire D fear, caused by ~ R126 destinies 5 R216 →realms 6 Daddabha Jātaka (J 322) R138 destiny, fear of a bad R338 →fears 5 Dalai Lama R292 DeTamble, Henry Dakkhiṇa Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 142) R454 determinism ↓views, wrong 3 Dance like nobody’s watching (T) R275 developmental psychology ↓childhood, first 7 years Dangerous knowledge (T) R244 devil R281 →bad →demons →evil →ghosts →Māra Dark Age & dark ages R278 R444 dhamma R372 →Dharma Dark Night of the Soul R332 Dhamma Niyāma Sutta (A 3.134) R367 dating ↓relationship(s) Dhamma,cakka Pavattana Sutta (S 56.11) R426 Davies, Robert R312 Dhammakāya cult R347 dead, seeking what is R178 “flying saucer” stupa R146 death Dhammapada (Dh) 1+2 R323, 3-4 R122, 25 R284, 62 ~ ritual ↓ancestor worship R206, 64-65 R451, 93 R206, 97 R451, 103 R448, ~-sleep R327 121 R176, 121-122 R454, 125 R126, 142 R60 R395, fear of ~ R338 →fears 5 152 R269, 158 R417, 160 R256 R453, 165 R256, speculating about ~ R178 166 R417, 178 R342, 183 R436, 201 R175 R322, decay, disease, death (3 D’s of life) R133 R178 204 R289, 239 R454, 260 R395, 264 R397, 266 R317 R395, 276 R420 R453, 290 R342, 330 R395, 348 3 D’s and beyond R317 R319, 381 R405, 382 R372 beyond ~ R317 Dhānañjānī Sutta (S 7.1) R64 intoxications overcome R449 Dhānañjānī brahminee R284 ↓mada (intoxication) 3 dhāretā (who remembers) R436 decision or commitment? R451 Dharma (angl of Pali, dhamma) →Buddhism decision procedure R336 →dhamma deconstruction R243 be ~ R333 dedication of merit ↓merit beyond worldliness R23 deep down R289 Buddha Word R429 default mode network R373 change: don’t change the ~ R171 R196 defence mechanisms R221 ↓aggression ↓denial changes a person, how ~ R94 ↓dependence & co-dependence ↓identification deserving the ~ R132 ↓isolation ↓reaction formation ↓rationalization ~ heir(s) R9 R61 R405 ↓transference & counter-transference ~ is change R171 Degree of happiness (T) R88 ~ light R419 delusion R251 R407 R438 ~ messengers ↓Dharmadūta →biases 4 ~-moved R219 ↓mūla 3 experience, ~ as R413 dementia R125 R236 faith in ~ R362 preventing ~ R213 forest ~ R134 Democritus R295 giving ~ (gift of ~) R23 R219 demons R400 goal R430

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island, as an R81 Do I know you? (T) R314 laity ↓lay practice do not own the pain ↓pain, disown the language R151 Do we really know what we are? (T) R103 life R23 doer (mind) ↓minds 2 music-like R170 R171 Does a layman arhat die the same day? (T) R252 need ~ when we are bad R417 Does Buddhism matter? (T) R440 not Buddha’s ipsissima verba R429 dog ↓Hachikō nothing more, nothing less R380 Kotuhalaka R68a practising ~ R378 Dogmas are harmful to menatl health R67b priority R65 dogma R73 protects R72 doing R181 qualities ↓virtues (here) Don’t just be a fan, be cool yourself (T) R451 refuge, ~ as R81 R88 R405 Don’t own the pain (T) R122 refuge, the one R200 R397 Don’t stop changing (T) R360 speakers R383 Don’t tell me (T) R209 spirit R244 doom-sayers R191 timeless R296 doors 3 (body,speech, mind) R366 virtues R74 R367 Dord (T) R270 wheel-turning ↓Three turings of the wheel Dorothea ↓Brooke, Dorothea with wonders R382 Double bind (T) R331 Dharma is music to the ear (T) R130 doubt ↓nīvaraṇa 5 ↓saṁyojana 3 ↓vicikicchā Dharma is still with us, The (T) R28 Chan ~ R130 Dharma Preachers’ Training Course (DPTC) R302 dragon R291 Dharma retreats (T) R392 Dream, The (T) R415 Dharma-spirited practice ↓sotāpatti-y-aṅga dream(s) (reports) Dharma trains (T) R381 Canaletto R272 Dharma wheel nature R258 4 turnings of ~ R309 prettiest girl R415 Dharmadūta (Dharma messengers, missioners) R432 Dream-book R259 Dharmafarer motto R374 Driving meditation (T) R227 Dharmapala, Anagarika R319 drumming, native American Indian drumming R327 dhātu 4 ↓mahābhūta dualisms Dhātu Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 142) R135b R341 dukkha (suffering) ↓tilakkhaṇa ↓truths, noble dhyana (angl of Pali jhāna) →jhāna dummies, Buddhism for (T) R159 diamond, raw R204 Durkheim, Emile R239 Dickens, Charles R441 Duties of those who have (T) R218 Dīgha,nakha S (M 74) R92 R269 dutiya (partner) R395 digital forest R341 dvāra 3 (doors of action: body, speech, mind) R335 diligence (industry) R396 dying ↓funeral, proper direct experience ↓experience disciple ↓sāvaka discipleship, true R454 E Discovered dharma, invented Dharma R372 discovery of ancient Buddhist texts ↓Buddhist texts early Buddhism →Buddhism disown the pain ↓pain early Buddhist texts (EBT) R343 distractions R115 earth element meditation ↓mahā,bhūta divine abodes ↓brahmavihāra eat as we need R213 divine right of kings R63 eating, commensal R213 divinity R196 EBT ↓early Buddhis texts moral basis R216 ecology R220 division of labour R427 economics, Buddhist R219 R220 →right livelihood Discovered Buddhism, invented Buddhism (T) R372 Edison, Thomas A R341 Do Bodhisattvas exist? (T) R327 effort

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4 kinds R399 ethnic Buddhists ↓Buddhism ↓indriya 5 etymology R448 personal ~ R380 euphoria R321 egg (figure) R296 evangelism & evangelists Ehrman, Bart D R98 R364 conversion of tribes R86 Eight winds of life, The (T) R67a critical thinking discouraged R78 either you are with us or against us R428 evangelism R209 R236 R292 (Ekā,dasaka) Cetanā’karaṇīya Sutta (A 11.2) R193 not hearing about hell R39 elements 4 ↓mahā,bhūta 4 ignoring evangelists R232 elements 5 (earth, water. fire, wind, space) silent treatment R209 ↓mahā,bhūta 4 tries to convert a monk R39 elements 24 R376 trying to destroy Buddhism R13 elephant Even a donkey can be wise (T) R231 ~s come for man’s funeral R264 Ever-weeping ↓Bodhisattva Sadaprarudita ~ in the room R307 Every thing, everything (T) R164 serving the Buddha in Pārileyya R68a Everything is beautiful – really? (T) R230 Elephant in the room, An (T) R307 evidence R217 R354 Eliot, George R352 evil R407 →sin →bad or evil emotional dependence R78 evil one →devil →Māra ↓dependence & co-dependence evil & sin R303 →sin emotional independence R21 R79 R81 R118 R120 evolution R159 biological ~ R81 →individual, true evolving man R204 not relying on others R81 spiritual ~ R81 love: learn to let go R304 exercises, spiritual be emotionally independent R304 4 recollections (satipatthana) R71 Emotional independence or emotional alienation anger, overcoming R321 (T) R180 Awaken in this life R442 emotional resilience R172 Don’t own the pain R122 Emperor’s New Clothes, The (T) R267 learning from pain R75 emperor’s new clothes R307 lovingkindness R275 empirical truth R444 →verification no fixed “I” R154 empowering others R212 self-criticism R123 ↓self-empowerment We are the world R195 emptiness (Mahāyāna) R404 R426 when we break a precept R454 Buddhism 69 why do I like this teacher? R100 emptiness and form R426 existence, nature of R131 energy ↓powers 4 experience ↓verification engaged Buddhists R85 →socially engaged direct ~ R353 Engler, Jack R128 explicit meaning ↓meaning, explicit and implicit enjoy what we do R443 external help, no R62 R178 epicaricacy R322 eye(s) Epicurus R94 looking R227 Epimenides R331 Epimetheus R179 epistemology R346 F EQ (emotional quotient) R360 Failing and imagining (T) R439 equanimity (upekkhā) R112 ↓brahmavihāra 4 failure R284 Erikson, Erik R407 definition R439 eros ↓love (types) Failure am I?, A (T) R337 estrogen ↓oestrogen Failure and giving up (T) R5 “eternal” meaningless and dangerous R164 Failure and pain (T) R18

12 For reflections, go to: http://dharmafarer.org Reflection Index Piya Tan fairy tales and fables R94 R249 fight or flight mode R384 faith R78 R201 R433 figures & imagery R152 ↓specific figures ↓boat blind ~ R13 R211 R265 ↓burning house ↓egg ↓elephant ↓emperor’s feudalistic ~ R437 new clothes ↓healthy food ↓heart specialists ↓indriya 5 ↓hen hatching eggs ↓journey ↓ladder ↓nose not through ~ R61 R451 ↓parables ↓rope ↓switches ↓toddler ↓ratana 7 ↓traveller with money and goods ↓water true ~ R414 filial piety R25 truth, ~ and R266 filtering (removing distractions in meditation) R75 wise ~ R211 R217 R265 R362 R395 R163 falling from an elephant R382 Finnegans Wake R94 falling in love isn’t always a conscious decision R304 fire element meditation ↓mahā,bhūta Falling in love, staying in love (T) R225 firefly R276 False “false monastic” & true “false monastic” (T) Firefly Mission (FFM) R54 R8 firm false gurus ↓guru being ~ helps R443 fame and obscurity ↓loka,dhamma 8 first time, doing things the R135a family R220 Fitzgerald, F Scott R355 R419 ~ counselling R360 five-dollar tree R415 spiritual ~ R137 fixation on someone R268 →infatuation Family history R420 floods (2011), Thailand R214 FAO R146 flower(s) ↓bees and flower Farewell, brother (T) R236 Flowers for Algernon (T) R383 Farewell to God (Templeton) R364 Flying Spaghetti Monster (T) R330 Farish A Noor R17 focus of mindfulness ↓satipaṭṭhāna father-figure R344 focused attention R373 fault-finding and excuses R251 food(s) 4 (solid food, contact, motives and con- fear (v) R127 R191 R286 →biases 4 sciousness) R197 R262 fear(s) 5 (loss of livelihood, of reputation, of meeting joy as food R262 people, of death, and of a bad destiny) R338 the richest food is love for the heart R261 Fear not (T) R338 Ford, Henry R427 feel (v) R194 R89 R168 R280 R281 R333 formless attainments ↓aṛupa samāpatti 6 senses R346 Four refuges, The (T) R183 direct experience R143 Francis, Connie R362 ↓feeling (s) Frankfurter, Harry G R11 how to ~ R20 R123 R194 Frankl, Victor R146 feeling(s) (n) R20 R26 R112 R235 R323 R414 Free Buddhism (T) R292 →Buddha Free genius (T) R431 3 kinds R197 free will R197 relating to people R222 freedom ↓liberation ~ the Dharma R147 ~ of mind R417 saints have ~s R132 ~ through wisdom R417 feeling-based meditation ↓satipaṭṭhāna taste of ~ R343 Feeling is the root of religion (T) R20 Freeing pain (T) R289 Feeling meditation (T) R414 Freud, Sigmund R407 feeling renunciation R226 friend(s) feeling the “now” R237 wine (figure) R227 Fehmi, Les R161 friends feminine feels, masculine does R316 ~ are made, not found R250 feral children R216 R282 ~, enemies and strangers R143 Ferarri monk R21 friendship fetish R135b good friendship R398 fetters, mental ↓saṁyojana ↓spiritual ~

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true-hearted ~ R270 Give what we cannot lose (T) R205b Friendship Day R146 giving R77 R219 forest Dharma →Dharma best way of ~ R3 R23 Forewarned, forearmed (for some) (T) R1 ↓blood Four questions (T) (Is it true? Why is it true? What charity R3 do I do about it? What would I be then?) R394 →Dharma, giving fourfold virtues ↓sāncóng sìdé incomparable ~ R20 Free thinking (T) R138 material ~ R219 free will R82 not lost R77 French Revolution (1789) ↓revolution(s), 4 great gladness (muditā) ↓brahmavihāra 4 frog gladness ↓pāmojja deva R152 glaucoma R365 From born again to never again (T) R98 Global Buddhism (T) R142 From love must come wisdom (T) R254 global network of Buddhist seekers R318 From stumbling-blocks to stepping stones (T) R214 globalization →Buddhism Fromm, Erich R205b R256 Glorious Revolution (1688) ↓revolution(s), 4 great full-moon, new-moon days ↓holy days glow-worm ↓276 full-time lay Buddhist worker R334 R382 go forth ↓mission & missiology funeral goal-setting R439 burning real paper money R97 God →God-idea our own funeral R259 against ~, arguments R98 proper ~ R215 Epicurus R94 ritual R215 Hume R94 funicular train R381 blamed R76 future books against ~ R364 ~ is watching us R434 Buddha’s teaching R64 ~ memories R434 cannot define something into existence R131 R332 ↓colonialism constructed R78 G evolution of ~ R102 R410 externalised R80 Gadrabha Samaṇa Sutta (A 3.81) R288 R311 love R172 gain and loss ↓loka,dhamma 8 love, ~ is R26 R63 Gajah Berang Secondary English School R358 love for ~ R211 galaxies R450 most politicized R26 games names of ~ R17 board ~ R213 our and other R428 Gandhara Buddha-images R421 owned by priests, the rich and powerful R428 Gārava Sutta (S 6.2) R397 R436 religion R73 Garfield, Hay R426 succour R346 Garth, Caleb (Middlemarch) R352 white man’s superiority and exploitation R63 Gateless Gate ↓Wmén’gun whose God? R172 generosity R443 within us R26 R32 genius R295 God-idea R102 R127 R158 R191 R196 R217 R239 defined R431 R253 R281 R298 R332 R354 R411 German R322 benefits of ~? R205a Gethin, Rupert R232 Creator-God like a witch-doctor R86 Getting the best from our mind (T) R60 crowds and crowd control R210 ghost ↓realms encourages the worst things R80 R202 hungry ghosts ↓preta (Pali peta) most dangerous idea R210 Ghosts amongst us, The (T) R7 narratives R140 Ghoṭa,mukha Sutta (M 94) R397 Pascal’s wager debunked R205a give what we can, take what we need R374 quest R140

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↓tribes & tribalism Muses R147 God is a question (T) R445 Prometheus R179 God is love—and more (T) R63 Sisyphus R138 R141 R204 R208 Godliness R63 desiring his rock R453 gods R200 laughing at his rock R416 Gogh, Vincent van R326 R332 R368 greeting one another R68b suffered R419 groupee R395 Goh Chok Tong Grow more brain R373 palms together R68b growing in religiosity R194 going forth ↓pabbajjā growing old, but not growing up R393 Gomez, Luis R196 Guanyin →Avalokiteśvara good guilt R127 R173 →self-hate →sin capacity for ~ R319 Gunaratana, H R413 definition R137 guru R152 doing ~ & making others do ~ R35 dangers R431 ~ and right R396 false ~s R203 R396 ~ brings pleasure and happiness R137 Gyges ↓ring of ~ ~ doctor (Buddha/Buddhist) R86 ~ in everyone R352 ~ is possible R111 H little by little R454 ↓karma Hachi: A Dog’s Tale R362 lovingkindness conduces to doing ~ R303 Hachikō R362 why doing ~ is better R205a halo, aureole, mandorla R421 good and bad R344 hammer R269 Good and right (T) R396 Han dynasty (China) R402 Good Earth, The R161 hands, use both (preventing dementia) R213 Good from bad (T) R149 Hanging man, The (T) R308 Good heavens (T) R136 hantu tetek (boothengkel) R236 Good in all, The (T) R429 happiest man ↓Buddha good listener ↓sotā happiness good people, why they do bad things? R245 am I happy doing this? R104 Google R315 →online social networking am I really happy? R278 ~ Buddhism R354 making others happy R24 Google stops thinking (T) R315 triple ~ R16 Gorkin, Chanie (poet) R408 true ~ R172 R261 R302 gradual talk ↓ānupubbīkathā unconditional R441 Grand Canal (painting) R272 happiness and sorrow ↓loka,dhamma 8 grateful for ↓3 things to be ~ Hard questions (T) R444 gratitude R181 R378 Harlequin R404 Gray, Thomas (English poet) R188 Harlequin effect, The(T) R404 great commission, The R54 Harris, Sam R1 R292 Great Crash R223 Has Ṃaitreya come? (T) R110 Great Gatsby,The (T) R355 Has the Buddha feelings? (T) R112 great man ↓mahā,purisa Has the Dharma come to Singapore? (T) R11 Greatest love, The (T) R148 hate R225 →biases 4 greed have & are = ↓have & be →biases 4 have & be ↓being and having ↓To have and to be excessive ~ R55 have & having R219 R245 R390 R241 →being Greek if we are what we have R335 art R135b what we have is impermanent R293 influence R135b R150 have to do or love to do R381 Greek mythology

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head and heart R383 holy days healing others R222 full-moon, new-moon days R174 health ↓revolution, inner holy places ↓Bodh-gayā healthy food ↓Buddhism homosexual couple R316 hear homosexuality ↓sexuality how we ~ R283 honesty R443 we can still ~ the Buddha today R377 ↓courage & ~ hearing hope R265 repeated ~ R265 Horace R308 hearing the true teaching ↓sotāpatti-y-aṅga Horse’s teeth, The (T) R73 hearing-based knowledge ↓knowledges 3 How am I? R445 Hearing voices R201 How Buddhism was edited (T) R402 hearsay R387 how Buddhism was invented (T) R354 heart R203 how can I help or support you? R384 heart and head ↓head and heart How Kim Chuan R365 heart culture R245 how many rooms has your house? R378 heart specialists, monastics as R85 How religions learn (T) R158 heaven R185 →afterlife →paradise How self-healing works (T) R87 eternal ~ R136 How the Buddha awakened (T) R411 here and now R148 R254 How to address a Dharma teacher (T) R100 impermanent ↓impermanence How to be creative (T) R123 judgement R136 How to end the world – really (T) R191 within ourself R133 How to enjoy life(T) R369 Heaven can wait (T) R185 How to (k)now (T) R353 hell →subhuman realms How to write a reflection (T) R325 fear of ~ R185 how we know things R122 hell, ~ & R133 Huikai R114 impermanent ↓impermanence human money: ~ notes R97 body, have a ~ R95 punishment R309 ~ nature R261 talking about ~ R427 ~s physically inferior to animals R306 help not born ~ R7 R216 R217 R273 ~ing others R3 R116 rebirth as ~ easy R95 offering ~, but not helping R321 sub~ behaviour R7 Helping one another in faith (T) R116 humanization R273 R240 R268 hen hatching eggs R74 Hume, David R94 R372 Henry, O R214 R295 humility R72 Hercules R444 ~ is hidden pride R121 hero R148 Humpty Dumpty rule R156 heroism R200 Hungry ghosts (T) R97 →preta hieroglyphics R341 husband & wife arguing R50 Hīnayāna R288 R343 R354 R426 Huxley, Aldous R413 hindrances, mental 5 ↓nīvaraṇa 5 hyperbole R402 hiri,ottappa (moral shame, moral fear) R162 hypothesis R244 →ratana 7 historical buddha ↓Buddha historical criticism R134 historical revisionism R130 I history “I” R70 religious conflict R142 impermanent R154 hobby (hobbies) R213 I accept myself just as I am ↓self-acceptance Holiday, holy day (T) R174 holiness is not a place R174

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I, me, mine ↓owning the pain Indonesia I” of the storm, The (T) R154 bombs in religious schools R203 I think I know (T) R211 judge R389 I will wait for you (T) R362 indriya 5 (pañcindriya, the 5 spiritual faculties), R399 iatrogenic (problems cause by healer) R303 R400 fingers R399 iconography →Buddha image Industrial Revolution R174 R219 R427 ideas R138 industry ↓diligence ideals R189 Infatuation (T) R405 identification (defence) R221 R395 infatuation R268 If I were a hammer (T) R269 information R333 if science is fact, religion is fiction R202 inner achievement changes outer reality R439 If there is no self, what is there? (T) R246 inner journey R161 ignorance R223 inner space R162 R168 R258 illness →Vimalakirti inner speech (what we say to ourself) R384 ill will R78 R173 inner truth ↓truth within ↓nīvaraṇa 5 insecurity R400 →self-hate inspiration ↓pasāda Ill will and mental cultivation R127 inspiring writing R325 imagination instrumental value ↓values wholesome ~ R439 insulting the audience R353 imagining ↓maññita Integrated Syllabus (Sunday Dharma school) R358 “Imagining Religion” R159 interfaith immeasurable ↓measure →boundless ~ cooperation R116 impermanence R31 R53 R55 R67b R79 R101 R122 ~ dialogue R161 R154 R156 R164 R200 R246 R285 R293 R336 R365 ~ fellowship R429 R441 ~ forum R146 basis for value and meaning R438 intermediate states R77 →change International Buddhist University (IBU) R36 death R401 internet ↓online social networking free ourselves R446 intrinsic value ↓values good is ~ R454 Investments R359 heaven and hell impermanent R185 Inward journey, The (T) R434 ~ mistaken as permanence ↓vipallāsa 4 Iraq, Coalition invasion of R264 like flow of water R381 Is dhyana possible? (T) R413 like ripples R399 Is it true? ↓Four questions traffic (figure) R227 Isi,gili Suta (M 116) R414 implicit meaning ↓meaning, explicit and implicit Islam R389 impure mistake as pure ↓vipallāsa 4 colonialism & conquests R17 R146 incarnation (rebirth) isolation (defence mechanism) R395 registration R17 It’s a joke! (T) R141 income tax R215 “It’s all right!”, Don’t say R35 R259 R321 independence R111 It’s OK to have a big ego (T) R72 independent of others R395 India: holy land ↓Bodh-gaya 6th century BCE R199 J individual R225 R406 Jambu,dīpa (Jambul Continent) R450 →emotional independence Jambul continent ↓Jambu,dīpa healthy ~ R212 James, William R414 individuality R315 Janus (two-faced god) R395 true ~ R208 R241 R441 Jāṇussoṇi R288 associating with true ~s ↓sotāpatti-y-aṅga Japan individuation R208 R286 Christian influx R404

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~-centric Buddhism R354 rituals (brahmins) R19 Kublai Khan’s naval invasions R327 woman R184 Japanese Buddhism R354 karma and rebirth R76 R130 R261 Jaspers, Karl R168 Karma as teacher (T) R441 Jedi religion R152 R194 karuṇā (compassion) ↓brahmvihāra Jekyll and Hyde R395 Kassapa ↓Mahā Kassapa Jesuits R404 (Kassapa) Ovāda Sutta 3 (S 16.8) R309 R334 jewels 3 ↓ratana-t,taya Kaundinya Lim R275 jewels 7 ↓ratana 7 (cakka,vatti) ↓ratana 7 (trea- Kāya Sutta (S 43.1) R74 sures) Keats, John R419 jhāna (angl as dhyana) R127 R413 Keep Buddhism simple and effective (T) R6 2 kinds of ~ R413 Kesaputtiya Sutta (A 3.65) R353 R387 1st ~ (Bodhisattva) R112 Khagga,visāṇa Sutta (Sn 1.3) R414 conscious only affectively R414 khandha 5 ↓pañca-k,khandha nature of ~ R193 R419 killing, destroying a living part of us R366 →pañca,- prevents negative emoitons R454 sīla range R333 Kind of right (T) R389 senses suspended R414 kindness Jhana Grove (Perth) R257 like ripples in water R262 Jie Zitui R182 know, train and free the mind ↓mind John of the Cross R332 Know what we believe (T) R356 Johor R84 knower (mind) ↓minds 2 joke R141 R313 knowing limits creativity R235 Josaphat ↓Barlaam and Josaphat knowing a person R260 journey 4 ways of R175 life as a ~ R269 knowing ourself ↓self-knowledge spirituality as a ~ R434 knowledge joy (bliss) dangerous ~ R244 as food R262 →food 4 direct ~ R353 criterion for good practice R21 R414 false ~ R353 joyful interest or zest ↓pīti how do we know? R143 R353 Joyce, James R94 knife, like a R211 judging & judgement R389 →justice lack of ~ R211 Just be good (or why Pascal is wrong) R205a means for full living, only the R211 justice R336 →judging & judgement provisional, ~ is R293 ↓self-knowledge where our ~ comes from R353 K wrong ~ R353 knowledges 3 (based on hearing, thinking and medi- Kabbalah R157 tation) R193 R353 Kaliṅga Bodhi Jātaka R135b Knowledge limits (T) R276 Kāma Bhaya Sutta (A 8.56) R126 Knowledge limits, vision frees (T) R229 Kāma Sutta (Sn 4.1) R421 R449 Kong Hee (pastor) R424 kamikaze R327 Kornfield, Jack R279 Kanishka (king) R402 Kosala Sutta 1 (A 10.29) R450 Kaṇṭhaka (the Bodhisattva’s horse) R68a Ksitigarbha Kāraṇa,pālī Sutta (A 5.194) R397 R412 exist? R327 karma R202 R298 R333 Kukkura,vatika Sutta (M 57) R382 family R184 kundalini R192 good ~ R84 R116 Kuroda, S R354 group karma R17 kusalā sahitâsahitassa (skilled in what is helpful and lightest fruits of bad ~ R441 what is not) R436 purification of ~? R251

18 For reflections, go to: http://dharmafarer.org Reflection Index Piya Tan kusala,kammapatha 10 (wholesome courses of Lesson from a flower (T) R53 action) R366 Let go, get it (T) R309 applied R443 Let go of the I R2 Kushans R146 Let the dead bury their dead (T) R178 Kūṭa,danta Sutta (D 5) R3 Let the moment seize us (T) R376 Let your hair down (T) R249 letting go R82 R129 R270 R309 L LG R214 liberating beings (Vesak) R70 lack & have R331 liberation (freedom) R223 R286 R296 ladder, spiritual R434 freedom R391 Lakehouse (2006 movie) R139 taste of freedom R105 lakkhaṇa ↓tilakkhaṇa life Lakuṇṭaka Bhaddiya R4 R302 R405 cyclic ~ (samsara) R82 R246 land-sighting bird R448 enjoying ~ R369 Landor, Walter Savage R109 respect ~ R443 language value ~ R438 accessible R138 when did ~ begin? R353 communication R199 life is sacred R178 →values 5 conditional R414 life is work ↓work, 4 attitudes local ~ R138 life, love, light, liberation R329 philosophy & ~ R199 Life-book R259 problem R154 Life’s three highest priorities (T) R65 Last chance to breathe (T) R10 “Light of Asia” R354 Last leaf, The (T) R297 1st book R449 Latin R404 Like God (T) R239 laughing liking and disliking R225 what are we ~ at here? R416 liking and disliking R143 lay Buddhist worker R181 R374 Lim Ei Geik [pronouned “ee-gaik”] = Ratna Lim lay Dharma teacher R100 (Piya’s wife) R120 R358 lay practice R374 Lim Eng Chuan R358 laymen as saints R417 limbs for streamwinning ↓sotāpattiyaṅga Learn to say “No”! (T) R79 lion-roar R270 R403 learning listen, makes (inspires) others ↓sāvetā capacity for ~ R431 Listen to yourself (T) R176 deep ~ R596 listener ↓sāvaka ↓sotā (good lisener) difference, the R189 listening growing R438 deep ~ R259 ~ by looking and listening R371 to others R35 ~ from failure and difficulties R276 literature ~ from others R36 local ~ R431 ~ from suffering ↓suffering English ~ R181 life-long ~ R213 Little Prince, The (T) R312 ↓ratana 7 Little that we know, The (T) R438 spiritual ~ R204 Live, love, learn (T) R358 toddler (figure) R119 Live to love (T) R350 Learning bad (T) R303 live to work ↓work, 4 attitudes Leaving church (T) R364 livelihood, fear of loss of R338 ↓fears 5 leaving home ↓pabbajjā living, earning a R250 Lee Kuan Yew R334 R396 living being R291 Lee L M, Raymond & Susan Ackerman R358 Living Buddhism (T) R119 Lee Saik Chuan R358 Living commentary, A (T) R432 less and more R259 living for others R66

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Living lay Dharma (T) R374 with wisdom R254 Living well, dying well (T) R109 Love is blind (T) R24 logic R217 →reason love, light, life, liberation R63 Logos R158 love mode, power mode R222 R314 R360 ↓love (Loka) Assāda Sutta (A 3.102) R111 power mode ↓power loka,dhamma 8 (the 8 worldly conditions) R67a Love never loses (T) R304 R235 Lovingkindness (poem) (T) R160 lok’antarika (world-interspaces) R450 lovingkindness →mettā →meditation Loka,cintā Sutta (S 56.41) R333 lovingkindness and compassion R225 Loka,vyūha (World Marshals) R51 Lovingkindness is simply healing (T) R58 London R103 loyalty R362 Lone Buddhists, The (T) R234 ↓Buddhist luck look less, see more, etc R71 bad ~, good ~ R251 looking and seeing R317 lust affairs R407 Looking but not seeing (T) R156 Luther, Martin R407 looking deep R156 lying →bullshit Looking for love (T) R268 loss through death R357 M through rejection R357 lost love ↓love, unrequited McLuhan, Marshall R315 R367 lotus (figure) R18 McMindfulness (T) R444 rises from the mud R235 Mad about meditation (T) R192 Lotus Sutra R152 R390 R402 R414 mada (intoxication) 3 (youth, health, life) R133 love (types) R218 Mada Sutta (A 3.59) R133 3 kinds (animal, human, divine) R357 Madhurā Sutta (M 84) R397 all-embracing ↓mettā magic R215 R406 attention: to ~ is to pay attention R312 Mahā Brahmā R450 awakening through ~ R254 Mahā Govinda Sutta (D 19) R254 begins with self R256 Maha Kapi Jataka (J 407) R68a better to have loved and lost R350 Mahā Kaccāna R397 biological ~ R268 Mahā Kamma Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 136) R73 boundless love ↓metta Mahā Kappina R284 God-centred ~ limited R298 Mahā Kassapa R409 human and divine R205b Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta (D 16) R36 R112 R397 R405 learned, ~ can be R256 R414 R432 loss R62 assemblies, adapting to R221 ~ is to suffer R282 (Maha-p,phala) Dna Sutta (A 7.49) R3 ~ mode R222 →love mode, power mode Mahānāma ~ or lust? R423 a once-returner still troubled by the 3 roots R454 lying to those whom we love R350 (Mahānāma) Gilayāna Sutta (S 55.54) R252 ↓rejection Mahā Saccaka Sutta (M36) R112 R411 R412 R421 religious R253 R298 Mahā Sudassana Sutta (D 17) R421 selfless ~ R254 R393 Mahā Vacchagotta Sutta (M 73) R124 sex, ~ & R282 mahā,bhūta (= dhātu, the 4 great or primary showing ~ R225 R250 elements) staying in ~ R225 4 elements R195 R246 R261 timeless R301 feel the ~ now R235 ↓unconditional ~ states of matter R446 unequals, betweeb R350 5 elements ↓elements universal ~ R291 boy’s response R361 unrequited R105 R423 meditation R180 why we should not keep it R205b 6 elements R363

20 For reflections, go to: http://dharmafarer.org Reflection Index Piya Tan mahā,purisa (great man) R449 ~ of our suffering R184 (Mahā,purisa) Vassa,kāra Sutta (A 4.35) R412 →purpose Māhāyāna R98 quest R283 nature R10 R187 R198 R288 R309 R327 R343 R354 we create meaning R70 R153 rise R402 R426 measure Maitreya (Sanskrit) ↓Metteyya (Pali) immeasurable, good things are R143 (Majjhima) Sappurisa Sutta (M 113) R412 ↓māna Making nothing of it (T) R328 ~ing people R4 R52 R99 R120 R168 R221 R241 Making sense of things (T) R70 R346 R405 making the same nistake R184 ~ing and harvesting R167 Malacca ↓Melaka not everything can be measured R143 Malacca Buddhist Association (SeckKia Eenh) R358 Meditate, naturally (T) R300 Malacca High School R358 meditation R127 R293 R364 maladaptive cognition R128 benefits R119 R373 Malaysia breath meditation →ānāpānasati race and culture R431 colours ~ on R6 Māluṅkyā,putta’s teaching ↓Bāhiya’s teaching commercial ~ R6 R447 Māluṅkyā,putta Sutta (S 35.95) R328 ↓consciousness man as measure of all things R167 criterion for good ~ R414 Man, the unfinished (T) R204 dangers R192 management, bad R447 definition R373 mandate of heaven R203 dementia, prevents 213 mandorla ↓halo, aureole, mandorla Dharma-based ~ R187 R414 Maṇḍuka Devaputta Vimāna Vatthu R8a R152 direcrt way of knowing Dharma R377 Maṇi,cūḷaka Sutta (S 42.10) R9 distractions, removing ↓filtering Manjusri R113 ↓emotional independence māna (conceit, measuring) R128 R154 R395 experience R419 maññita (imagining) E263 feeling ~ R414 mano →citta, mano & viññāṇa first impressions R5 mantras guide-books R392 best R284 hen hatching eggs R74 “buddho” R284 how to meditate effectively and safely? R442 meditation R284 inner & outer R438 many causes and conditions ↓conditionality ↓jhāna Māra R123 R177 R395 letting go R166 →renunciation Vasavatti R179 lovingkindness meditation →mettā bhāvanā market forces R219 →mantra marriage, failed R352 ~-based knowledge ↓knowledges 3 Married to the Dharma R287 →mind Martians R232 music (figure) R74 Marx, Karl R407 natural R300 masculine do ↓feminine feels, masculine does open-monitoring ~ R373 mathematics R402 R414 practice R125 R145 R155 R392 →numbers ↓present moment Mathura progressing?, how do we know we are R300 Buddha image R135b proper approach R163 McLean, Don (singer) R368 religions, benefitting other R158 meaning renunciation, ~ as R166 R226 R268 R279 R300 explicit and implicit R183 retreat R257 R392 life, ~ of R123 R135a R137 R146 R265 R278 R281 happy retreatant R258 ~ & purpose of life R120 R132 R183 R277 R281 solitary ~ R258 R392 R285 R430 R446 R453 →purpose ritual, ~ as R349 safety R155 R192

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science R150 R155 non-judgemental acceptance R378 senses suspended ↓jhāna problems and solutions R318 smile in ~ R132 recalling good times R398 talking ~ R279 rising above self R312 thought-free R193 smile R132 time & timelessness R75 R452 ↓unconditional love toddler (figure) R119 Metta Sutta R240 views R74 Metteyya (Sanskrit Maitreya) R51 R191 R362 Meditation has no name (T) R152 Has ~ come? R110 Meditation on consciousness (T) R283 Miàoshàn ↓R291 medium R367 micchā,dhamma R55 message, the ~ is the R315 wrong practices R159 meeting people, fear of ↓stage fright Micius ↓Mozi Melaka (Malacca) R236 R380 middle way R175 R230 R449 history 429 middle of the ~ R269 meme R111 R118 Middlemarch (T) R352 Meme (that’s “Me Me” always!) (T) R78 Miga,sālā Suttas R417 memory R122 R143 migrating to a bettert place R376 our memories will keep us together R415 Milinda,pañha R252 R402 mental chatter R193 milking a monkey in the forest ↓proverbs mental concentration ↓samādhi mind(s) R2 R328 R332 →brain mental cultivation R244 3 words for ~ ↓citta, mano & viññāṇa mental difficulties R250 actions, ~ behind R323 mental focus R163 beautiful ~ R3 mental health R220 calm and clear R60 R132 mental proliferation ↓papañca clear open ~ R443 mental renunciation R226 curious ~ R371 Mental slavery (T) R118 doer & knower R414 mental slavery R315 freeing the ~ R132 mental volition ↓food(s) 4 how the ~ works R132 mentally cultivated ↓bhāvita,citta know, train and free the ~ R228 mentor R393 lying to itself R5 Merchant of Venice R389 measurer and judge of experience R143 mercy ↓compassion meditation R125 mere Buddhism ↓Buddhism open ~ R438 merit story-teloler, greatest R140 dedication of ~ R401 use it or lose it R125 R162 merry-go-round R381 mind and body ↓body and mind Merton, Thomas R128 mind the mind R366-(14) →pañca,sīla Mesopotamia R401 mind-being R273 Meta-meditation R259 mind-body rules R443 mettā (lovingkindness) R21 R196 R224 R282 R322 mind-consciousness R323 R373 R436 mind-based meditation ↓satippaṭṭhāna all-embracing love R256 mind-healing R30 benefits R119 R145 mind-made R164 11 benefits R254 mind-objects R197 boundless love R428 Mind Only (citta,mātra) R426 ↓brahmavihāra 4 Mind, the three words (T) R263 daily cultivation R224 mindfulness R279 R323 R373 healing R58 ↓indriya 5 ↓love (types) mindful examination R376 ~ bhāvanā R125 R173 R300 R317 R373 right ~ R447 starters R32 R300

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wrong ~ R447 criteria R159 Minding Centre ↓The Minding Centre monks →monastics Minding change, changing mind (T) R228 first 60 monks R54 mindset R384 Monksfield, Angie R82 Minum kopi-lah! (Drink your coffee!) (T) R39 moral courage ↓vesārajja miracles R395 moral relativism R389 mirage effect R447 moral shame, moral fear ↓hiri,ottappa “misrepresent me, do not” (Buddha) R385 moral values, basic R447 mission & missiology moral virtue ↓morality ↓sīla monastics R54 training →sikkha-t,taya foreign ~ R334 morality 2 (worldly & spiritual) R137 →moral virtue missionary religion, first (Buddhism) R339 More than human (T) R306 Mitra, Jake (Australia) R98 Moses R339 Moby Dick R352 R448 Most beautiful sunset, The (T) R188 Modern monastics? (T) R93 Most difficult thing to give up, The (T) R3 Mohammed R339 mother moment loving ~ (figure) R240 live the ~ R438 ~’s love R282 ↓present moment mother-in-law, wicked R291 Mona Lisa R85 motives R197 monastics →monkhood →robes ↓food(s) anger, showing R83 motives behind our actions R197 career ~ R93 R100 R226 mountain-climbing R207 celibacy R55 mouths are moving, The R114 earning $18,000 a month R99 Moved by the Dharma (T) R147 false ~ R8 R100 movies (links) modern (modernist) ~ R13 R85 R93 What is that? (An old man, his son and a sparrow) money ~ R9 R157 R334 R424 →religion, Mozart, W A R419 commodification of Mozi (Mo-tzu) R291 moneyless ~ R134 R215 muditā (gladness) R21 R175 sexuality R55 ↓brahmavihāra socializing R85 mūla 3 (roots of action) socially engaged R22 chains R210 →Vinaya like tattoos R393 weak ~ R397 unwholesome roots R70 R82 R222 R303 R331 worldliness R309 R342 R348 R397 R344 R379 money wholesome roots R25 R323 affluence R146 R223 Mūla Sutta (A 3.69) R289 burning ~ R215 Muller, Max R354 buys pleasure R9 Mumonkan ↓Wmén’gun →monastics, money Muses →Greek mythology ~ priests E8 music ↓meditation ↓sutta(s) →religion, commodification of classical ~ R213 priest taken to court R157 ↓silence unhappiness R120 R135a My influence on the Buddha (T) R152 Money and monastics (T) R9 mystery, religious R73 Moneytheism (T) R424 mysticism R168 moneytheism R8 R177 R296 mythology R286 →Greek ~ monkey offers food to the Buddha in Pārileyya brahminical ~ R401 forest R68a R264 Buddhist ~ monkhood mythical languag3e R452 Catholic R128

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nobody You have to be somebody R128 N non-religious self-help R30 Non-sectarian (T) R391 Nāgasena ↓Milindapañha non-self (anattā) R122 R192 R245 R287 R407 na kalaha.kāraka (who does not quarrel) R436 breath meditation R300 Namo tassa R169 no I, no you R147 mantra R284 →mantra ~ mistaken as self ↓vipallāsa 4 nanites R335 ship paradox R365 narcissism R128 R234 R360 R384 ↓ti,lakkhaṇa Nasrudin, Sufi R313 what is there R245 nation R220 non-zensical R114 National University of Singapore None are so (poem) (T) 242 ~ Buddhist Society R15 R32 Norway 2011 bombing R203 ~ Business School R120 nose (figure) R332 Natural Buddhism, supernatural Buddhism (T) R375 Not by food alone (T) R262 nature R157 R213 R209 R410 →outdoors, great Not by works alone (T) R85 Nature says go, cultuire says stop (T) R261 not everything needs fixing R314 Necessity of right livelihood, The (T) R220 Not worth a thought (T) R333 Netherlands R103 nothing R328 neuroplasticity R125 definition R131 R437 neuroscience R373 ~ worth clinging to R62 R427 New clothes and nakedness (T) R267 Nothing is worth clinging to (T) 62 New Year priorities (2008) (T) R16 nothingness or non-being (Daoist wú) R404 New York Times 2002 R322 no views ↓views, no Newton’s cradles R263 “now” meditation R237 Neyy’attha Nīt’attha Sutta (A 2.3.5+6) R390 Now is the moment (T) R237 Ngo Dinh Diem R83 numbers R196 R414 →mathematics Ngo Dinh Nhu R83 nuns →monastics →bhikkhuṇī Nick Carraway ↓Carraway Nidhi,kaṇḍa Sutta (Khp 8) R414 Nietzsche, Friedrich R315 Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta Sutta (S 41.8) R451 O nihilism ↓views, wrong 3 O-Lan (making the same mistake) R184 nimitta (sign) R341 Oedipus Rex R317 3 ~ (old man, sick man, dead man) R178 212 oestrogen R316 4 ~ (the 3 sights + renunciant) R317 R348 R453 office trouble R125a R454 R449 Okkanta Saṁyutta (S 25) R397 meditation sign R226 old, the nirvana (Pali, nibbāna) R185 R336 R411 mistreating ~ R359 ancient city R381 Om Money Centre R184 nissaya (tutelage) R348 omniscience R217 minimum of 5 years R395 On religion, off religion (T) R363 nīvaraṇa 5 (the 5 mental hindrances) R78 On turning 65 (T) R361 Nīvaraṇa Bojjhaṅga Sutta (S 46.52) R127 once-returner (sākadāgāmī) R414 R416 no life kives forever (Swinburne) R109 One Mind R404 No need to give up our faith (T) R339 One that I feed, The (T) R344 No pain, no gain (T) R96 online social networking No religion please, we’re good (T) R248 Facebook R440 no, saying ↓Learn to say “No”! ↓Say no, say yes, be Google R315 silent psychological problems R315 No views frees (T) R255 Twitter R341 noble truths ↓truths Only the heart can truly see (T) R312

24 For reflections, go to: http://dharmafarer.org Reflection Index Piya Tan only this is right R269 pañca,sīla (5 precepts) R81 R128 R137 R159 R216 ontology R446 R234 R366 R379 opanayika (gains access) ↓R75 applied R443 open mind ↓mind basic guides R8 open-monitoring meditation ↓meditation mettā↓ helps us keep ~ R176 Opening our eyes to the Dharma (T) R56 →sīla optical illusions R312 stop aspect R369 orality R343 values 5 R369 Orchard Road (Singapore) R38 paññā (wisdom) Orwell, George R207 R302 training →sikkha-t,taya other religion followers as Buddhists R30 papañca (mental proliferation) R335 others papañcita R263 priority for ~ R65 paper R341 self & ~ R133 parables →proverbs →figures wrong, when ~ are R175 6 animals R317 ought R255 angel and the crowd looking up R233 Our own true refuge (T) R397 blind turtle R95 Ourbrain, Ourbody R336 burning house R389 outdoors, great R213 →nature carts R389 owning the pain (I, me, mine) R337 →disowning the donkey in the well R231 pain good Samaritan R244 man trapped on a cliff R308 prison island R230 P raft R387 rhinoceros, lone R395 pabbajjā (going-forth) serpent R308 first 60 monks R54 water-snake R387 Pacalā Sutta (A 7.58) R62 paradigm personalities R168 paccattaṁ veditabbo viññūhi (to be personally paradise R185 →heaven understood by the wise) R75 paradox R331 pacceka,buddha (angl as pratyeka-buddha) R414 pārājika 2 R157 paedophilia R299 Parallel universes (T) R450 →universe Pain in stone (T) R421 Param’attha Mañjusā R450 pain →suffering Pārāyana Vagga (Sn 5/1032-1149) R375 as teacher R105 Pārileyya forest R68a disown the ~ R180 R398 Pārileyyaka (elephant) R264 do not own the ~ ↓disown the ~ Parliament of World Religions R319 R354 ~ is natural, suffering optional R212 Parthia R402 pain is natural, suffering is optional R38 R344 partner ↓dutiya painful, mistaken as pleasurable ↓vipallāsa 4 pasāda (inspiration) R123 pains, 2 kinds R71 Pascal, Blaise R205a →body and mind Pasenadi (king) R20 Pali R91 past, (the) ~ texts R432 caught in the past R122 R175 R178 Pali House R181 R432 letting go of the ~ R398 palindrome R408 shaped by the ~ R261 pāmojja (gladness) R371 →muditā using ~ R255 pañca-k,khandha (the 5 aggregates) past, future, present details R246 let go of ~ R16 R178 ↓past mental aggregates R403 Paṭācārā R184 R323 what we really are R326 paṭicca.samuppāda (dependent arising) R411 pañca,nīvaraṇa (5 mental hindrances) ↓nīvaraṇa 5 (Pāṭihāriya) Saṅgārava Sutta (A 3.60), R412 paṭisanthāra (welcome) ↓love (types)

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paṭisota,gāmī (against the stream) R430 R437 poems Payutto, Prayudh (Thai monk) R117 Again and again R247 peace R199 Awakening moments (T) R206 inner ~ R208 Carpe diem (Horace) R308 ↓revolution, inner Lesson from a flower (T) R53 pema (affection) ↓love (types) Let go of the “I” (T) R2 people, relating to R222 Lovingkindness R160 perception R103 R263 R283 May I R189 perversion of ~ ↓vipallāsa 3 None are so (T) R242 perception of impermanence ↓aniccasaññā Poet’s wisdom, The (T) R435 perfect?, how can we be R265 Seven wonders, The (T) R105 Perfection of Wisdom ↓Prajñāpāramitā Shadow and light (T) R121 person R246 My true-hearted friend (T) R57 most important ~ R287 Why? R94 Personal and bold (T) R412 Word is not the thing, The R89 personal continuity R365 Worst day ever? R408 personal identity R365 Poetics ↓Aristotle personally understood by the wise ↓paccattaṁ poetry R109 veditabbo viññūhi Poetry in prose (T) R151 pet(s) R68a Poet’s wisdom, The (poem) (T) R435 ↓animals polite fiction R307 R389 dog R362 politics R402 loving our ~ R268 Portugal R404 treat ~ well R84 positive emotions ↓brahma,vihāra peta ↓preta possible worlds R185 Petavatthu (Peta Stories) R401 Possibility of awakening, The (T) R111 Phaedrus R372 posture(s) 4 (standing, walking, sitting, reclining) PhD R226 R212 phenylketonuria R383 Potter, George R312 philia ↓love (types) Poṭṭhapāda Sutta (D 9) R153 Phra Khru Ba Nuea Chai (T) R22 poverty R146 Pilotikā and Piṅgiyānī R412 power R199 R222 piṇḍa (rice-ball) & piṇḍa,pitṛ (rice-body) R401 corruption R253 Piṅgiyāni ↓Pilotikā and ~ ~ mode R339 R360 Pinkerton syndrome R15 R169 ~ & pride R438 Pious fiction (T) R406 ~ and wealth, greater than all R370 pīti (zest or joyful interest) R123 power mode, love mode ↓love mode, power mode pīti-sukha R454 powers 4 (wisdom, energy, blamelessness, and pitṛ (Sanskrit, father or ancestor) R401 conciliation) R338 Piya Tan →Tan, Piya praise and blame ↓loka,dhamma 8 Plato R230 R426 praising others R288 R412 ↓Aristotle Prajñāpāramitā (Perfection of wisdom) R404 R426 cave parable R230 pratyeka-buddha ↓pacceka,buddha Playing dead (T) R345 prayer →supreme worship Please blow my balloon! (T) R233 does not work R196 R198 R265 R449 Please leave God alone! (T) R80 most selfish of human thoughts R167 pleasures of earth and heaven can teach us nothing ~ without words R167 R423 silent R213 R449 pleasures that satisfy R443 spare tyre R227 ploughing festival R452 worship, no R200 Plutarch R365 Prayer without words (T) R167 PODZ Group Pre-monitoring session R83 precepts →sīla

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5 ~ ↓pañcasīla prophet R236 R436 How do I keep ~ properl;y? R442 prophecy R309 →Buddhist streamwinner not breaking precepts R454 religion R395 what if we break the ~? R454 prose poetry R151 predestination R390 Protestant Reformation R404 prehistoric ancestors R102 proverbs →parables Preludes, The ↓Wordsworth, William milking a monkey in the forest R113 presence of someone, attentive to the R314 psyching & psycher R259 Present being (T) R323 Psychus (pl psychi) R259 present moment R31 R129 R163 psychology R414 be present, you are gifted R89 Buddhist R128 R380 best present R23 R260 R24 psychonauts R259 every moment a new moment R265 Psyphones R259 meditation R75 Pukkusāti R341 reality is the ~ R293 Punch magazine (1962) angel cartoon R233 today is the best gift R24 Puṇṇa (monk) R21 preta (anglicizaion of Pali, peta) →subhuman realms Puṇṇ’ovāda Sutta (M 145) R21 Chinese view R401 Pure Land R291 departed ancestors R401 →ancestor purpose →meaning ghosts R401 highest ~ of life R265 hungry ghosts R401 ~ of life R120 R290 psychological state R97 to be happy R417 Pretty in Pink (movie) R250 Preventing dementia R213 priests R388 Q →money priests power R202 Qingming (T) R182 primary elements 4 ↓mahābhūta qigong R192 primitive religion ↓religion quality control R177 principles, not people R443 Quality of mercy (T) R299 printing R401 quarrel, who does not ↓na kalaha.kāraka priorities R16 Quest for meaning (T) R281 3 highest ~ R65 Quest for meaning, The (T) R449 prison question problems for family R299 ~s R187 writers (O Henry) R214 4 ~s R151 prison island ↓parables 10 ~s R232 prison of faith R230 acting on the answer R453 prison of words R230 asking the right ~s R232 R453 problem fundamental ~ R187 defining the ~ R321 great ~ 67b laughing at our ~ R141 ~ what, not who R445 solving a ~ R59 R87 R119 right ~s R59 R104 pro-choice lifers R83 trick ~s R232 profession (religion) R347 →see following undetermined ~s R232 profession & professional R243 R307 → see preced- wrong ~s R263 R277 ing Question’s the answer, The (T) R265 professional scholars ↓scholars & ~ Questions that answer (T) R59 projecting an image to another R314 proliferation, mental ↓papañca Prometheus R179 R prophet & prophecy race R198 →Buddhism, ethnic/eastern

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racist→Buddhism of the body R71 radiance R248 writing ~ R123 →writing raft R170 Reform Bill (UK 1832) R352 rajoharaṇaṁ R284 refuge(s) ↓saraṇa →ti,saraṇa Rapunzel R249 refuge-going ~ syndrome R249 levels R311 ratana 7 (treasures: faith, moral virtue, moral monastics as witness R397 shame, moral fear, learning, charity, and wisdom) reject the Buddha, Buddhists who R116 R162 rejection (unrequited love) ratana 7 (the 7 jewels of a cakka,vatti) R421 don’t take it personally R304 ratana-t,taya (the 3 jewels) ↓ti,ratana loving the one who does not love you R304 rationalization (defence mechanism) R84 show unconditional love R304 Ratna Lim (Piya‘s wife) ↓Lim Ei Geik, Ratna you have not lost anyone R304 reaction formation (defence mechancism) R395 relationship(s) R175 reactivity consultatuion R287 overcoming ~ R254 dating R287 read Dharma of ~ R387 how to ~ suttas ↓suttas, how to read reliances, The 4 ↓refuges 4 read and write (preventing dementia) R213 relics Read me like a book (T) R260 Buddha ~ controversy (Singapore) R25 reading R341 false ~ R25 ~ habits R315 ↓true relics, The Read-ready (T) R371 →science Real Buddhists are countless (T) R172 afterlife R136 real or true? R211 attitude tiwards ~ R363 real or virtual? R70 attempt to speak for God R410 reality authenticating ~ R319 moment, ~ is the R293 ` best served unheard R209 private ~ R400 bipolar R101 true ~ R255 blinds us R312 virtual ~ R248 ↓brainwashing reality-based meditation ↓satipaṭṭhāna bullshit R11 realms 6 R114 R216 circle of walls R388 →destinies 5 commodified R8 R31 R145 in our present lives R115 con (fraud) R203 →subhuman realms constructed R340 R344 reason R217 R265 →logic defined by rich and powerful R427 everything happens for a ~? R251 DIY ~ R159 reasoning, a human faculty R251 R346 domination, means of R194 rebirth everyone has an opinion R207 charitable but immoral R22 experience R170 ending ~ R98 extremes (faith and words) R230 fiction? R202 false ~ R159 ↓human fiction R202 politicized R17 foolish ~ R217 recluses (samaṇa) 4 R403 heart and mind R433 reflection on impermanence ↓anicca,saññā insiders vs outsiders R433 reflections & prayer R367 judgement R136 daily ~ R224 kinds R191 R217 lost R77 macro ~ R196 of dharmas R71 make-believe R406 of feelings R71 marketing ~ R159 of mind R71 mass delusion R407

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memeplex R78 →meme Replicators (T) R335 mind and heart ↓heart and mind (here) reputation, fear of loss of R338 →fears 5 most destructive of human forces R1 representational view of perception R328 multinational corporation R194 resolution ↓mystery daily ~ R224 natural ~ R340 New Year ~ R224 nature of ~ R78 R158 R191 R248 responsive to others R72 need? R424 rest, getting enough R213 need not change our religion R63 restlessness (uddhacca) organized ~ R391 mental ~ R163 personal preference R265 restlessness and remorse ↓nīvaraṇa 5 power R199 restorers, art R272 primitive ~ R197 R199 retreat ↓meditation prison-like R223 R388 revisionings, writing R325 purpose R319 Revolution! (T) R210 religiously “bilingual” R433 revolution(s) replicates itself R78 →meme 4 great revolutions R210 retarded adult R383 internal or inner ~ R210 reward/punishment R136 rhinoceros ↓parables rhetoric R146 rhinoceros poaching crisis R264 scholars’ ~ R159 rice Christians R296 think: most do not want to think for themselves right thought (or intention) R408 R132 right livelihood R220 →economics, Buddhist unsatisfactory ~s R217 R278 Right moves (T) R395 violence R80 right speech 4 R325 word, ~ as, R266 →Word, The right view ↓view, right word-free ~ R199 ring composition R124 worldly & spiritual R185 ring of Gyges R424 Religion as illusion (T) R407 rituals R182 R223 R363 Religion can be bipolar (T) R102 good luck ~ R251 Religion without words (T) R199 ~ and vows, attachment to →fetters, the 3 religions are the people who follow them R408 self-deception R349 Religious building, building religion R266 should be abandoned R349 religious materialism R234 Roach, Michael R400 religious statements are not knowledge R94 Road less travelled, The (T) R171 remembers ↓dhāretā Robert the Bruce R346 remorse ↓vipaṭissara ↓uddhacca robes Renaissance R414 do not make a monastic R395 Renewal Day ↓Buddhist ~ early monastic ~ are simple R168 renunciation R177 monastic ~ R177 Bodhisattva’s ~ R214 design R100 ↓going-forth (pabbajjā) power symbol R395 levels R270 robots R326 meditation as ~ ↓meditation Rohitassa Sutta R191 of body, thoughts and views R342 role reversal R222 R233 renunciants R363 Roman Catholicism ↓Catholicism, Roman true renunciants R85 →meditation roots of action ↓mūla space, ~ as R363 rope (figure) mistaken for a snake R274 stages R226 Rorty, Richard R109 true ~ R226 roses have thorns R393 why renounce? R137 Rowling, J K R439 wrong ~ R342 R348 →monastics, worldliness Russell, Bertrand R196 R330 repeated hearing ↓hearing

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Russell’s teapot R330 Sārajja Sutta (A 5.101) R396 Russian Revolution (1917) ↓revolution(s), 4 great saraṇa (refuge) 1 ~ (the Dharma) R200 R426 3 ~s →ti,saraṇa 4 ~s R183 S Buddha as ~ R311 R397 S 25 ↓Saṁyutta Nikāya chapter 25 definition R397 Sabba,lahusa Sutta (A 8.40) R441 ↓↓Dharma, refuge Sacca Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 141) R240 levels ↓refuge-going Sad is not really bad (T) R278 “refugees” R311 Sadaprarudita ↓Bodhisattva Ever-weeping self as ~ R81 R397 (Saddha) Jāṇussoṇi Sutta (A 10.177) R6 R9 R22 R84 Sāriputta R288 R401 not through faith R451 sadness will last forever, The (van Gogh) R368 Sāriputta and Moggallāna R240 R369 Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, R312 satipaṭṭhāna 3 (bases of mindfulness) R112 Saka R402 satipaṭṭhāna 4 (focuses of mindfulness) R397 R399 sakkāya,diṭṭhi (self-identity view) R403 →saṁyojana Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (D 22, M 10) R21 3 sāvaka (disciple, listener) R410 self-identity R256 awakening (sāvakabodhi) R414 Sakra’s throne R382 sāvetā (makes or inspires others to listen) R436 Saḷāyatana Vibhaṅga Sutta (M 137) R112 R132 saving the world ↓world Saḷha Sutta (A 3.66) R111 R124 Say no, say yes, be silent (T) R29 ↓no, saying salvation through membership R381 say what we mean, mean what we say R156 samādhi (mantal concentration, stillness) R155 Schadenfreude (T) R322 ↓indriya 5 schizophrenia training ↓sikkha-t,taya religious ~ R395 Samaṇa-m-cala Sutta 1 (A4.87) R17 scholars & professional scholars R134 Sāmañña,phala Sutta (D 2) R135b R348 no final say in Buddhism R243 Sambādh’okāsa Sutta (A 6.26) R266 purpose and profit from religion R438 Saṁdhinirmocana Sūtra R426 schooling R410 same-sex ↓homosexual science R150 R204 R244 R356 R414 Sammā,sambuddha Sutta (S 22.58) R420 Buddhism invalidated by ~? R319 samsara →cyclic lives question or problem? R445 saṁvega = samvega (angl) (spiritual urgency) R123 religion & ~ R292 saṁyojana 3 (mental fetters) scientific R217 3 fetters [self-identity, doubt, ritualism] R120 R128 will ~ invalidate Buddhism? R319 R335 R403 Scotland R346 10 fetters R128 Scott, Maylie R429 Saṁyutta Nikāya chapter 25 (S 25) R13 R60 Scott, Walter R346 sāncóng sìdé (the threefold submissions and scriptures ↓R217 fourfold virtues) R291 →Confucianism not a basis for truth R387 →ad verecundiam Sandaka Sutta (M 76) R217 Seck Kia Eenh ↓Malacca Buddhist Association (Saṅgaha) Bala Sutta (A 9.5) R338 secret(s) R289 Saṅgārava Sutta (M 100) R217 confessing ~ to beloved R314 saṅgha Secret relationships (T) R175 conventional ~ R397 sectarianism R187 faith in the ~ R362 R414 religious ~ R391 Saṅghāṭi,kaṇṇa Sutta (It 92) R72 see, hear, sense, know R274 Saṅkhār’upapatti Sutta (M 120) R450 R454 see, how we R283 R312 Saññoga Sutta (A 7.48) R316 seeker, true R84 Sanskrit R420 self R246 st sapiṇḍīkārana (brahminical ancestor prayer) R401 1 priority R65 I, me, mine R2

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renewing R254 no sensing, all mind R258 ~ and selves R318 6 ~ R31 R132 R157 R163 R164 R197 R202 R231 something bigger than ~ R120 R250 R283 R306 R356 R372 →all →soul as soon as they are born, they begin to die R345 without ~ mistaken as self ↓vipallāsa 4 faculty, object, consciousness, contact and feel- self-acceptance R58 R180 ing (22 el;ements) R379 self-burning ↓self-immolation our ~ are the world R321 Self-compassion (T) R384 stop feeding ~ R369 self-conversion R395 we create our world R435 Self-destruct or self-construct (T) R245 sense-objects R197 self-destructive behaviour R245 “Seven wonders, The” (poem) R105 Self-discovery through sutta study (T) R4 source of knowledge R70 R143 R314 R430 self-doubt R133 using our senses well R109 self-driven or Dharma-inspired? R451 we are our ~ R126 R268 self-effacement R72 sensual desire R52 self-empowerment R76 R203 R293 ↓nīvaraṇa 5 self-esteem R384 sensual indulgence R421 self-examination R312 seven treasures →ratana self-forgetting R194 R280 sex R282 self-fulfilling R295 the most selfish human act R167 self-guarded R295 sex change R316 self-hate R127 →ill will sexual misconduct, disrespecting others body and healing ~ R184 heart R366 →pañca,sīla self-healing R192 sexuality R55 self-help R81 →refuge homosexuality R55 we can help ourselves R293 incest R55 self-identity view →sakkāyadiṭṭhi neutral R316 self-image R154 religion R251 self-immolation R83 rising above our ~ R316 self-knowledge R69 R99 R211 Shadow and light (T) R121 Buddhism R438 shadows self-liberation R453 religion R281 self-love Shakespeare, William R387 ~ can be good R256 Shankman, Richard R279 unconditional ~ R314 Shaw, G B R106 self-made rut R274 Shelley, P B R146 self-mortification R421 Shi Mingyi R82 R424 self-noting R321 shore, this and other R198 self-priority R65 Should we modernize the Buddha’ teaching? R85 self-refuge ↓refuge, self as Shuang Lin temple (Toa Payoh), R68b self-reliance R104 R119 R403 R406 Siddhattha R137 self-salvation R194 meaning of name R295 self-view R99 R372 R381 R384 prince and powerful R449 selfless loving ↓love sees the 3 sights R317 selflessness ↓non-self young boy R267 Selling Spirituality (Carrette & King) R447 Sigāl’ovāda Sutta (D 31) R55 Senauke, Alan R429 false friends R267 senses R170 R208 R273 R277 R372 true friends R289 5 physical ~ R74 R89 R152 R170 R199 R201 R204 sights 4 R383 R449 →decay, disease, death R255 R280 R323 R391 sign →nimitta →sights 4 back-seat driver R233 Sikh and God R68b beyond ~ R369 Sikkhā Sutta 1 R442 description R168

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sikkha-t,taya (3 trainings) R29 R79 R189 R214 R223 Smith, Adam R427 R279 R381 R442 So you want to kill yourself? (T) R76 sīla (moral virtue) R216 R396 R414 social problems R55 5 ~ ↓pañca,sīla social status R307 noble moral virtue ↓sotāpannassa aṅgāni social system R69 streamwinning R454 socially engaged ↓engaged Buddhists silence society R220 contemplative R292 Socrates R372 defence against mindlessness R209 Socratic method R117 inner ~ R201 Soka Gakkai President R267 meditation training R29 solid food ↓food(s) 4 music R105 R285 solipsist R391 ~ the mind R89 Somdet Phra Buddhacharn (Kiew) R306 silent prayer ↓prayer something, is there really? R131 Silent sunny spaces (T) R285 Something to sit on (T) R74 simple joy R276 Soṇadaṇḍa Sutta (D 4) R200 Siṁsapā Sutta (S 56.31) R232 Sona Kolivīsa Sutta (A 6.55) R11 sin R127 R407 →evil →evil & sin Song dynasty (China) R402 sinful R173 sophistry R396 sinner(s) R78 Sophocles R317 ~ sellers R203 sorrow R423 Sinatra, Frank R362 sotā (good listener) R436 Singapore sotāpanna (streamwinner) R403 R417 R433 Dharma in Singapore R11 R35 big ego R72 ethnic Buddhisms R11 stream (figure) R414 R430 incorruptibility R396 sotāpannassa aṅgāni 4 (the limbs of a streamwin- inhibition R299 ner) R430 predominantly Chinese E431 sotāpatti (streamwinning) R216 R432 ~ Buddhism R36 aspiration R442 water problem R396 definition R430 R431 Singapore Buddhist Lodge R66 in this life R60 R176 R200 R414 Singapore Dharma Interaction (SINDI) R302 why attain ~ in this life itself? R442 R454 Singapore rock cake (T) R103 sotāpatti-y-aṅga 4 (limbs for streamwinning) R430 single mother soul R128 R365 →self and only son R378 fear of death R102 with violent teenage son R360 South Africa R264 Sinhalese missions space element meditation ↓mahā,bhūta education: poor quality and attendance R56 Spain R404 Dharma activities as fund-raisers R56 species R204 sisterhood R291 speech Sisyphus ↓Greek mythology how we communicate R430 Sixth Patriarch, the monks and the banner R114 ↓right speech skillful means true and useful R390 honesty R25 sperm cell R365 lies R389 sphinx R270 “sky is falling” story ↓Daddabha Jātaka spiral growth R381 slavery ↓mental slavery spirit R189 sleep happily, wake happily R58 R180 R240 spiritual awakening R111 →awakening sloth and torpor ↓nīvaraṇa 5 spiritual exercise(s) ↓exercises Small change (T) R189 spiritual faculties ↓indriya 5 smell, how we R283 spiritual family ↓family smile R132 →meditation Spiritual friendship (T) R144 spiritual friendship

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beauty and truth R144 R208 Flapjack, The (Singapore rock cake) R103 general R144 Gratitude to an uncaring mother R101 relationship R245 Horse’s teeth, The R73 strong and compassionate R314 Minum kopi-lah! R39 Spiritual streaming (T) R430 promotion, executive rejects R135a spiritual virtuoso R419 So you want to kill yourself? R76 spirituality R168 R287 R374 R406 That’s nice (sambal mistaken for jam) R103 local ~ R431 stories (referred to) śraddha (brahminical ancestor worship) R401 Creation of class from God’s body R66 Sri Lanka saints, see under saint’s name Buddhism arrival R11 Turkish folk-tales stage fright R338 ↓fear(s) 5 Who dares knows R370 Stargate (TV series) R335 Stories we live by R140 Atlantis R329 Straits Times (4 Oct 1924) R186, (23 Apr 2005) R80, Starry Night (painting) R326 R332 (6 Jan 07) R1, (2007) R8, (28 Dec 07) R17, (1 Jan Starry night (T) R368 09) R66, (17 Jan 2010) R120, (29 Sep 2010) R157. statistics R172 (6 Aug 2011) R203 helpful ~ R275 →Sunday Times status R334 stream-entrant ↓sotāpanna stealing, taking what we don’t deserve R366 stream-entry ↓sotāpatti →pañca,sīla streamwinner ↓sotāpanna Still ahead R248 streamwinning ↓sotāpatti Still centre (T) Streamwinning in this life R414 Stockholm syndrome R17 structured environment R76 Stop, thinking! Welcome, feeling! (T) R235 student R382 storge ↓love (types) study story R327 vital to practice and wisdom R28 R426 not reality R26 Subhā (nun) R405 ~ tellers R294 Subha (brahmin youth) R288 stories (parables) subhuman realms R97 R168 R216 R286 R401 Blind man and his wife R398 amongst us R7 R454 Buddhism is as easy as walking R37 chariable but immoral R22 Chickaduck, The R50 falling into the ~ R454 Chicken Licken R138 nature of ~ R102 R136 Chrysalis, The R104 →realms 6 Dog-tooth relic R25 Sub-Sub-Librarian, The (T) R448 Donkey can be wise R231 success If you die, you will be free R345 quest for R88 Last leaf, The R297 unhappiness R120 Moving friend (Nasrudin) R313 such (tādi) R252 Old man, his son and a sparrow R385 ↓movies Sucitto (monk) R70 One that I feed, The R344 Sudhana R109 R320 Perfect woman (Nasrudin) R313 ~ Tey R84 Rapunzel R249 sun and the sky R435 Sikh and the brahmin (God) R68b suffer (meaning) R282 Sixth Patriarch, the monks and the banner R114 suffering Time traveller’s wife, The R301 cannot deny ~ R411 Two blind pilots R56 ending, and R255 When life shoves dirt uppon us R231 explanation R96 When love is truly blind R24 learning from ~ R122 R276 Witch doctor (Creator-God) R86 of others R259 stories (real-lfe accounts) ↓ti,lakkhaṇa ↓Avalokitesvara: Guanyin encounters ↓truths, noble

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~ mistaken as pleasurable ↓vipallāsa 4 Suzuki, Shunryu E437 why me? R132 svākkhata (well-taught) R75 whu ~? R445 Sweet sorrow R423 Suffering servants (T) R250 Swinburne, Algernon Charles R109 suicide R76 switches R177 Sujato R139 R347 Switzerland R326 outspoken R310 system, the R315 sukha (happiness, joy) →pīti-sukha Sumedho R15 sun, the R188 R285 sunrise, sunset R285 T sunbird R82 Tālapuṭa Sutta (S 42.2) R322 Sunbird and free will, The (T) R82 Taliban R146 Sundarika Bhāradvāja Sutta (Sn 3.4) R15 Talking bad about Buddhism (T) R86 Sunday Times (27 Jan 09) R22 →Straits Times talking heads R85 sunset ↓Most beautiful sunset, The Talking meditation (T) R279 superman R135b Taman Negara (National Park, Malaysia) R32 Superstition R251 Tan, Piya superstition R182 R248 R251 R401 →saṁyojana 3 addressed R100 supreme worship R200 R247 R378 R405 R420 R453 Australia: meditation retreat in Perth R257 no “eternal” Buddhas R438 awakened? R52 Sutra R343 Berkeley R429 sutta(s) R343 R436 →under specific suttas University of California at R117 “academic”? R88 books “cheem,”don’t say R28 R90 loss of ~ R313 critics R28 R88 love of ~ R186 ethnic Buddhists’ attitude to ~ R56 brother ↓Tan Beng Tee how to read ~ R371 (see following) Buddhist quest R138 R139 how to study ~ R341 (see precedintg) →sutta cat R68a study (here) cat offers food to Piya R254 music (figure) R27 childhood R236 reading ~s R151 R341 Christian brother R39 repetitions R124 counselling work R87 respect ~ R171 courses R163 source of Dharma R440 Dharma courses R302 studying ~ like a happy marriage R90 Dharma work R380 R432 ~ Buddhist R243 ↓dreams ~ study R4 R56 early religion R15 ~ translation ↓translation family (house) meeting R181 teachings R261 financial difficulty R259 writing on leaves R10 first impression of Buddhism R380 Sutta Discovery (SD) series R90 R360 frugality R374 2002 R28 full-time lay Buddhist work R84 R433 commentaries R432 funds R374 most detailed annotated translation R374 Guanyin encounters R32 R327 overview R33 R380 health R365 sutta translation R360 housing R181 Suttanipāta (Sn) 766-771 R421 library training R358 Sutta, Pali and chanting (T) R91 London R103 Suttas and marriage (T) R90 Mahāyāna R15 suttas, knowing the R302 Melaka R188 Suttas, translating R313 relatives R186 Suzuku, D T R354

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religions R429 theodicy R185 schooling R358 theology R256 monkhood R380 R432 R433 theory R244 nephew, Buddhist R68b ~ of everything R356 nephew, Christian R391 Theosophy R110 Netherlands R103 Thera,gāthā (Tha) R123, 113=601 R409, 1051 R409, religion, early R433 469 R4 R405, 471 R405, 496-472 R302, 1002 f schooling (Melaka) R186 R178 R361, 1070 R409, 1085 R409 sister ↓Bulat Therī,gāthā (Thī) R123, 381 R405, 396 R405 sutta R138 Thera,vāda R327 R347 love for ~s R176 Theseus (Plutarch’s play) R365 ~ commentaries & essays R432 Thich Quang Duc R83 ↓Sutta Discovery, overview think R2 Thailand R15 R38 R139 R380 R428 how we ~ R178 R283 R353 uncle (Tan Gim Ann) R186 ↓poem University of California @ Berkeley R327 ↓thinking weekly writing of reflections and revisionings R123 too much thinking R89 Tan Beng Neo (Bulat; Piya’s sister) R358 thinking R323 Tan Beng Tee (Piya’s brother) R236 R358 convinced by our own ~ R265 Tan Gim Ann (Piya’s uncle) R186 R236 ~ limits the mind R235 Tan Chai Cheng (Piya’s nephew) R68b ~ makes it so R366-(13) Tan Lim Chai Leng (Piya’s son) ) R181 R358 thinking-based knowledge ↓knowledges 3 Tan Lim Chai Seng (Piya’s son) R181 R358 This moment forever (T) R398 Tantric Buddhism R402 Thoughtless meditation (T) R193 tasks 4 ↓truths, 4 noble thoughts, perversion through ↓vipallāsa 3 taste, how we R283 thousandfold world system R450 Tāva,tiṁsa R329 three cobblers are better than one R138 Taylor, Barbara Brown R364 Three Questions ↓Tolstoy, Leo Taylor, F W R315 threefold submissions ↓sāncóng sìdé Taylorism R315 Thubten Jinpa R319 Teacher or teaching? R183 R279 R348 R380 Tibetan Buddhism →reliances 4 scandals R400 teachers, 2 kinds R73 Tibtan Buddhist(s) R15 teaching or teacher? ↓teacher or teaching? Tikki (Piya’s cat) R181 Temple of God is within us, The (T) R26 Tikkun olam (T) R157 temple ti,lakkhaṇa (the 3 (universal) characteristics) R328 ~ Buddhism, leaving R433 R403 R411 ~ politics R234 time ~ slave R184 concepts: linear and cyclic R196 Templeton, Charles R364 everything exists in ~ R434 temporary freedom R417 quality ~ R135a testosterone R316 ~-traveller R301 Tevijja Sutta (D 13) R19 R63 R173 ~ly speech R325 texts wasted for my rose R312 Buddhist ~ R134 Time and being (T) R273 ↓early Buddhist texts Time for “monks” to pay income tax (T) R215 Tey, Sudhana ↓Sudhana time is everything R366 Thailand applied R443 ↓floods 2011 Time is love (T) R301 thanking R289 time-being R273 Thapati Sutta (S 55.6) R362 Time-space in meditation (T) R446 The Minding Centre (TMC) R4 R320 R374 Timelessness and meditation (T) R75 dedication verses R320

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ti,ratana (the 3 jewels) R159 R238 R242 R288 R307 true renunciants ↓renunciation R359 R397 R414 True to all faith (T) R433 faith in the 3 jewels R362 →sotāpanassa aṅgāni Truly beautifu mind (T) R133 false jewels R31 Truly Buddhist Christmas?, A (T) R169 talking against the ~ R385 Truly professional (T) R162 →ti,saraṇa Truly purposeful life, A (T) R120 Tirokuḍḍa Sutta (Khp 7 = Sn 1.5) R97 Truly renouncing (T) R226 ti,saraṇa (the 3 refuges) R454 →Dharma →refuge(s) trust →refuge-going →ti,ratana ↓revolution, inner ti,sikkhā (the 3 trainings) ↓sikkha-t,taya trustworthy are the best of relatives, the R175 titles →status R334 truth To a listening year 2010 (T) R117 ↓art & truth To be Bodhisattva, be arhat first (T) R198 ↓beauty and truth To be Buddhist is to see beyond Buddhism (T) R194 “Chinese” ~ R22 R389 to be or not to be frees us R232 R444 not the question R269 →lying To believe, to know, to feel (T) R168 not “out there” R211 To have or to be? (T) R166 that holds and truth that frees R444 To live is to feel (T) R89 truthfulness R307 R325 To love is to learn (T) R282 value R390 To those we’ve lost (T) R357 within, not outside R187 toddler (figure) ↓learning ↓meditation worse than lies R11 Toilet training (T) R416 The truth is in how we breathe (T) R129 Tolstoy, Leo R259 truths, 4 noble R277 R439 Three Questions R259 applied R453 totem animal R327 counselling process R87 touch, how we R283 darkness of not knowing ~ R450 Tough love (T) R318 definition R441 Toynbee, Arnold R150 meaning and purpose of life R441 trainings 3 ↓sikkha-t,taya problem solving R337 Tranquerah English School R358 suffering first R294 transference of merit ↓merit, dedication of tasks 4 R440 transference & counter-transference (defence ~ makes life good R366 →pañca,sīla mechanisms) R344 R395 wheels of a car R227 Translating suttas is very enjoyable (T) R33 Turing, Alan R315 translation Turkish folk-tale ↓Stories (referred to) difficulties R88 R412 Turnings of the wheel, The Three (T) R426 sutta ~ R62 R157 →Sutta Discovery Turow, Scott R301 travel R213 tutelage ↓nissaya travellers with money and goods (figure) R173 Twitter brain (T) R341 treasures →ratana Two kinds of pain (T) R71 tree meditation R240 Two kinds of people (T) R35 tribe(s) & tribalism R140 R194 R217 R248 R263 type-writing R315 evolution of religion R199 R410 tribalism R80 R168 R173 R381 triumphalism R205a True aspirations (T) R224 U True-hearted friend (T) R57 uccheda,diṭṭhi (annihilationism) R437 True genius (T) R295 Udakûpama Sutta (A 7.15) R128 True individual (T) R208 Uddaka Rāma,putta R411 true individual ↓individual, true Udumbarikā Sīha,nāda Sutta (D 25) R161 R339 True prayer (T) R449 UN Day of Vesak R82 True relics, The: The early suttas (T) R21

36 For reflections, go to: http://dharmafarer.org Reflection Index Piya Tan unbeliever R236 instrumental & intrinsic R387 R390 Unconditional love (T) R66 Value of loss (T) R313 unconditional love R133 R133 R172 R211 R350 Vāseṭṭha Sutta (M 98 = Sn 3.9) R220 →mettā Vatican flag R83 unconscious Vatthûpama Sutta R124 R174 R342 ~ tendencies R222 vegetarian halls ↓càitáng ~ views ↓views vegetarianism R213 under normal circumstances ↓ceteris paribus verification R73 R437 understand ↓viññātā →empirical truth ~ that we may believe R445 Very basic Buddhism (T) R366 understand, who helps or makes others ↓viññā- Vesak R81 R83 R137 R238 petā aspirations R34 understood by the wise, personally ↓paccattaṁ quest for meaning R449 veditabbo viññūhi reflections R238 unexplained questions ↓question, undetermined Vesak Baby (T) R238 UNICEF R146 vesārajja (moral courage) R338 R396 unicorn R451 vicikicchā (doubt) R286 →saṁyojana universe R53 victim role R122 R127 Unitarian Universalists R437 Vietnam R83 Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship R437 persecution of Buddhists R83 universal characteristics ↓tilakkhaṇa views R73 R170 R185 R296 R336 universal monarch ↓cakkavatti →beliefs universe letting go of ~ R3 2 kinds R164 no ~ R255 parallel ~s R13 no ~ is a view, too R92 personal ~ R164 perversion of ~ ↓vipallāsa 3 ↓world religion, challenge to R20 R228 Unsatisfactory religions (T) R217 right ~ R269 Unsubscribe (from email list) (T) R107 unconscious ~ R111 unsubscribe R361 wrong ~ R92 unthinkables 4 R333 wrong ~s 3 R205a Untitled (T) R334 Vimalakirti upādāna (clinging) R263 illness R88 R113 upekkhā (equanimity) ↓brahma,vihāra 4 space R320 uposatha R81 Vimalakirti’s illness (T) R113 Vīmaṁsaka Sutta (M 47) R52 Upside down poem (T) R408 Vimāna Vatthu R68a urgency, Dharma-moved ↓saṁvega Vinaya R55 R177 R397 uroboros R255 misunderstanding of ~ R149 using “God” R17 monastic rules R8 Vincent (song) R368 viññāṇa →citta, mano & viññāṇa V viññāpetā (who makes or helps others understand) R436 Vaccha,gotta R124 viññātā (who understands) R436 Vairocana R404 violence Vajrayāna religious ~ R239 rise R426 vipallāsa 3 (levels of perversion or distortion through Vakkali R405 perception, thoughts and views) R274 Vakkali Sutta (S 22.87), R444 vipallāsa 4 (modes of perversion) R274 value(s) R255 Vipassana meditation R279 5 ~ (life, happiness, freedom, truth, wisdom) R172 vipaṭissara (remorse) R263 R290 Virgin Mary R83

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Vitakka Saṇṭhāna Sutta (M 20) R124 What religion? (T) R340 vocation what shall I do now? R337 R441 calling R243 What would I be then? volition ↓mental ~ What the hell (T) R427 Voltaire R375 R396 R406 What Vesak means to me (T) R81 vows what we really are (our body) R195 keeping ~ or keeping to the Dharma? R451 wheel →Dharma wheel when am I? R445 When God helped (T) R410 W When God walks away (T) R332 when life shoves dirt upon us R231 Walk in the Dharma (lyrics) R310 When love is truly blind (T) R24 Walker, Jeff D R319 when self-love is good R246 Waltzing Matilda for the Buddha (T) R310 when others fail us – forget R231 Wanderers of today (T) R348 when people need help – give R231 Wat Srakes (Bangkok) R15 R429 When the sitting gets tough (T) R409 water when the situation seems bad – forbear R231 floods R214 When we do something bad (T) R454 flowing R381 when we fail – forgive R231 swimming in dangerous ~s R309 Who dares knows (T) R370 ~ element meditation ↓mahā,bhūta Who really is Guanyin? (T) R32 Way to true awakening, The (T) R403 Who suffers who knows (T) R259 We are not born humans (T) R216 Who, what, why, when (T) R277 We are the world (T) R195 wholesome and unwholesome, who is skilled in the we can help ourselves →self-help ↓kusalā sahitâsahitassa We can still meet the Buddha (T) R38 Who’s talking now? (T) R346 We got class? (T) R241 why? R81 R346 wealth R302 why am I? R445 destroys religion R424 Why am I me? (T) R326 uses R219 Why Buddhism is boring (for some) (T) R52 wealthy “God-like” R355 why do I question R445 weaver’s daughter ↓Āḷavī Why early rather than late (T) R380 “Website is dead!, The” (Sujato) R310 Why Guanyin appears female (T) R291 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary R270 why is it true? ↓Four questions well taught ↓svākkhāta Why is there something rather than nothing? (T) west R131 advent of Buddhism R150 Why monks wear robes (T) R177 Buddhism, western R142 R150 R405 Why rituals should be abandoned (T) R349 whale, chasing our R448 Why suttas repeat themselves (T) R124 Whalen-Bridge, John R83 Will the world end in 2012? (T) R51 What am I? R445 William treks the world R276 What can Buddhism do for me? (T) R453 Williams, Paul R131 What do I do about it? ↓Four questions. Williams, Robin R359 what do I do next? R104 R122 wind element meditation ↓mahā,bhūta what do I learn from this? R135a winds of change ↓loka,dhamma 8 what do you think? R117 wisdom R223 R314 R396 →powers 4 →ratana 7 What does the Buddha mean? (T) R134 with love R254 What does the Buddha really look like? (T) R135b wisdom and compassion R137 what happens to me then? Four questions wise attention ↓yoniso manasikāra What if we awaken (T) R288 wise faith ↓faith What is given is not lost (T) R77 wisely know the difference R189 What is the most difficult thing to give up? (T) R3 wish-fulfilling R185 What’s that? R365 Wish I knew you better (T) R186

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Wishing Buddhists Happy Christmas? (T) R15 Worst day ever? (poem) R408 Wittgenstein, Ludwig R170 wraiths (Stargate) R335 Wolf, Maryanne R315 R341 Write words (T) R207 Woolf, Virginia R352 writing R123 R341 R372 R420 woman, looking for the perfect R313 effects R315 woman jewel (cakka,vatti) R421 joy of ~ R207 women like an artist R123 →Artist demeaned in Chinese culture R184 ~ & printing R401 demeaned in Zen R149; in China R291 wrong practices ↓micchā,dhamma liberation R291 wrong questions ↓questions Wong Kim Siong R358 wrong views R420 Wong, Jonathan R299 Wu Zetian (empress) R402 Word, The R158 R170 Wmén’gun (Mumonkan, Gateless Gate) case 29 word(s) R183 R114 drugs, ~ as R170 have their way with us R235 meaning of ~ R153 memorable ~ R443 X not to be taken seriously R20 Xavier, Francis R403 ~ is not the thing, the R25 R26 R153 xenia ↓love (types) Words are drugs (T) R170 xenobiologists R260 Wordsworth, William R267 R326 Xuanzong (emperor) R182 The Preludes R326 work 4 attitudes R290 Y Dharma of ~ R287 growth R439 yellow-necks R159 ~ makes life meaningful R135a yoniso manasikāra (wise attention) ↓sotāpatti-y- ~ happily R135a aṅga Work and life (T) R290 You have to be somebody before you can be no- work is done ↓work, 4 attitudes body (T) R128 work to live R443 ↓work, 4 attitudes Your mind: use it or lose it (2) (Preventing demen- working class R427 tia) (T) R213 world R220 Your mind: use it or lose it (1) (Neuroplasticity) (T) 3 senses R191 R125 cruel and unjust R79 Yuttadhammo R413 meaning R191 body and mind R323 place and people R220 Z real ~ R79 Zelig (movie) R221 saving the ~ R212 Zen – R106 thinking about the ~ R333 enigmatic R69 who created ~? R328 nothing R437 ~ ending R51 R55 R191 →2012 (under “T”) soldier ~ R354 World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) R81 ~ monk & Vinaya monk ↓Tanzan & Ekido World in our hand, The (T) R399 Zen stories world interspaces ↓lok’antarika Tanzan & Ekido R106 R149: spurious world-systems ↓cosmology Vinaya monk & ~ priest R106 World Trade Center building (NY) R344 zero R402 Worlds of our own R115 zest ↓pīti worship Zeus R179 against ~ ↓prayer Zhuge Liang R138 ~ing Buddhas or loving the Buddha? R451

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