INDEX




Numbers following entries refer to the number of the Letter. This index includes entries for the Letters only. For an index to Notes on Dhamma see L. 41. This index is arranged in the order of the English alphabet. Diacritical marks are not considered in this order. Boldface numbers indicate a fuller discussion. Book titles are generally listed only as sub-headings under their respective authors. n = footnote to the letter; x = editorial note to the letter.

Abhidhamma Pitaka:
78, 79, 82, 83, 83x; origination of, 79, 82, 83; rejection of, 3, 39, 51, 76, 78, 79, 80, 144
Abhidhammatthasangaha:
39
Abhivinaya Pitaka:
79
absolute:
9, 135, 139
absolute zero:
126
abstract thinking:
81, 89, 90
absurd (see also despair; meaninglessness):
33, 59, 68, 119, 128
Achilles:
89
action:
see kamma
Adam and Eve:
132
addictions:
13, 25
adhivacana:
147
ákiñcaññáyatana:
86
Alice in Wonderland:
31, 42
aluham:
97
America:
33, 75
amoebiasis:
4, 14, 17x, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 93a
anágámí:
36, 92, 128, 146
Ánanda Thera, Ven.:
83, 102, 103, 109, 121
ánápánasati:
22, 29, 91, 92, 126; translation of, 111
Anáthapindika:
52
anattá (see also self):
5, 6, 36, 37, 53, 75
áneñja:
149
anger:
128
angoisse:
62
anicca, aniccatá:
with dukkha, anattá, 2, 6, 53, 56, 75, 145; and the eternal, 27, 28, 145; and flux, 5, 6, 53, 75; and using the impermanent, 89; and nuclear physics, 37, 53; objective and subjective, 6, 53; subtleness of, 37, 38, 56
anxiety:
33, 62, 119, 120, 121
appearance:
7, 9, 75, 91
arahat:
and avijjá, 6, 149; and consciousness, mental states, 9, 107a; and craving, 13, 36, 37, 102, 131; existence of, 98, 137, 139, 146, 149; experience of, 13, 28, 56, 75, 89, 119, 120, 135, 135n, 137, 149; and jhána, 92; official recognition of, 104; and the sekha, 36, 38, 50, 53n, 92, 128, 146; and self, 22, 28, 53n, 102, 107a, 137, 139, 149; and suicide, 20, 47, 49, 50, 93a
ariya (see also attainment, sekha):
insight of, 13, 14, 28, 50, 53, 56, 92, 128, 145; levels of, 50, 91, 92, 148; nowadays possible?, 50, 94; and suicide, 20, 47, 49, 50, 93a
árogya paramá lábhá:
15
art:
81, 96, 116, 127, 132n
arúpa (see also jhána):
76, 92, 149
asankhata:
107a
ásava:
92, 146, 149
asceticism:
53
asekha (see also arahat; ariya; attainment; sekha):
38
Ashby, Ross (Design for a Brain):
15, 90
asmimána:
9, 13, 121, 149
Asoka:
83, 110x
asubha:
20, 21, 56, 114
attá:
see self
attá ca loko ca:
9, 9x
attachment:
89
attá hi attano n'atthi:
119
attainment (see also awakening):
22x, 47x; in Christianity, in Burma, 104, 126, 145; impediments to, 2, 50; levels of, 91, 92, 148; of Sister Vajirá, 99, 100; as too easy, 121
attavádupádána:
37, 44n
attention:
2, 6
Atthasáliní:
79, 82
Audiberti:
5
Augustine, Saint (Confessions of):
126, 128
authenticity:
and duty, 9, 44, 46, 114; Heidegger on, 9, 22; and humour, 119, 120, 121
avidyá:
130
avijjá:
130, 149; and existentialism, 9, 59; and Maháyána, 6, 56, 75, 130; structure of, 6, 75, 97, 135n, 145, 149
awakening (see also attainment):
134
awareness (see also mindfulness; reflexion):
2, 44, 45, 50


Babbler:
104
bad faith:
9, 46
Báhiya Dárucíriya:
121
Balfour (...Mrs Willett's Mediumship...):
4, 62, 67, 91n, 141, 144, 145
Beethoven:
67
being:
9, 89, 121, 135
Berkeley, Bishop:
137
bhávaná (see also mental concentration; samádhi; samatha):
22, 87
bhavatanhá:
64, 102, 119, 120
bhikkhu (see also vinaya):
in Ceylon, 39, 50, 52, 53, 76, 84, 133; and disrobing, 47, 49; life of, 13, 14, 45, 53, 96, 103; and official distinctions, 104; and suicide, 45, 47, 49, 50, 56; and vinaya, 117, 119
Blackham (Six Existentialist Thinkers):
22, 43, 44, 56
blame:
144
Bodhidharma:
4, 5
bodhipakkhiyá dhammá:
52
body (see also káya):
and meditation, 29, 64, 76, 110; science and Sartre on, 12, 15; Suttas on, 12, 15, 16, 102, 115
books:
medium of, 3, 52, 80; significance of, 60; types of, 53, 67
boredom:
22
Borrow, George:
75
B.P.S. (Buddhist Publication Society):
9x; criticism of, 121; Wheel issues discussed, 4, 9, 11, 42, 48, 50, 50x, 53, 56, 111
bracketing experience:
9x, 22, 44n, 48, 50
Bradley, F. H.:
and Notes, 4, 89, 90, 91; and philosophy, 4, 5, 7, 8, 89, 90, 91, 145; Principles of Logic, 4, 5, 7, 89, 90, 91, 116, 145
brahmacariya:
67, 109
brahman:
139
brain:
12, 15, 44, 56
breathing (see also ánápánasati):
29, 76
Broad, C. D.:
56
Brumblowski:
73
Buddha:
awakening of, experience of, 6, 90, 116, 145; and devas, 82; and Western thought, 4, 75, 132
Buddhaghosa Thera, Ven. (see also Visuddhimagga):
79, 82, 83
Buddha Jayanti:
99
Buddha's Teaching:
is difficult, 12, 37, 94, 121, 137; and comedy, pathos, 27, 28, 119; fundamental question of, 37; and God, 13, 135; for privileged class, 105; and sexual relationships, 67; and Western thought, 8, 27, 33, 42, 56, 89, 116, 119, 126, 135
Buddhism and Buddhists:
42n, 53
Buddhism in a Nutshell:
121
Buddhist places:
134
Buddhist Publication Society:
see B.P.S.
Buddhist Society:
131
Buddhist tradition:
42, 42n; and complacency, 3, 22, 32, 39, 50, 75, 94, 101, 123
Burma:
3, 39, 53, 104
Burns, Robert:
22
Burtt, E. A.:
4
Butler, Samuel (Erewhon):
131


calendar:
79x, 110
Camus, Albert:
61; on existentialism, 43, 62, 141; on friends, 62; on suicide, death, 20, 88; and Transcendence, 135; Exile and the Kingdom, 59, 62; The Fall, 129; Myth of Sisyphus, 62, 130, 141; Noces (Nuptials), 62; The Plague, 109; The Rebel, 61
care:
33, 119
Catholic Action:
58
cetaná (see also intentionality):
2, 32, 37, 44, 76, 145
Ceylon:
Buddhists of, 14, 45, 50, 75; tradition of, nationalism in, 3, 39, 60; places for meditation, 53
Chamfort:
132
change (see also anicca; flux):
6, 8; and Maháyána, 75, 88; structure of, 5, 6, 7, 8, 88; in the Suttas, 8
Channa Thera, Ven.:
20, 47
chess:
44
Chestov:
22
children:
121
Chinese pilgrims:
82, 82x, 87
Christianity:
13; attainment in, 104; and Europe, 33, 61, 72, 91, 101, 109, 127, 131; and Ven. Ñánavíra, 144; and paradox, 13, 119
cigarettes:
13
cinema show:
8
ciphers:
135
citta, cittasankhára:
76, 111
cittavíthi:
9, 9n, 70, 78, 79
citt'ekaggatá:
56
Claudel:
140
cogito ergo sum:
75
Colombo:
22, 89, 93a, 94
comedy:
see humour
commentaries:
criticism of, 9, 47, 50, 60, 82; and tradition, 3, 39, 149
communication:
3, 137, 144
communism:
46, 105
comparative religion:
126
conceit:
102
concepts, concrete thinking:
81, 121
Connolly, Cyril:
33, 71, 90, 96, 116; Horizon, 71; The Unquiet Grave, 135
consciousness (see also námarúpa; viññána):
and action, intention, 2, 37, 76; and the arahat, 6, 9, 109a; before body, 12, 15; ceasing of, 76; existentialist's view of, 9, 74, 134; hierarchy of, and movement, time, 9, 86, 89; requires object, 53, 134
contradiction, the existential:
75, 119, 120, 121
Conze, Edward:
107a
Coomaraswamy, Ananda:
126
copyright:
42, 53
coroner:
20, 30, 150
corpse:
21, 56, 114
cosmic number 137:
73
craving (see also tanhá):
44, 100, 102, 103, 128, 131
cybernetics:
15


Dahlke:
37, 38
Dasein (see also being; Heidegger):
9, 9x, 121x
de Andrade:
89
death:
accounts of, 33, 67, 109; and existentialists, 22, 68, 109, 119; 'your son's', 53; fear of and mindfulness of, 21, 22, 28, 33, 64, 109; as final end, 71, 88
de Beauvoir:
140, 141
dépaysé:
132, 136
description and explanation:
9
desert island simile:
3n
desire:
see craving
despair (see also absurd; meaninglessness):
33, 71, 135
devas:
56, 79, 82, 149; and other invisible creatures, 48, 67
Dhamma (see also Buddha's Teaching):
as atakkávacara, 149; is beyond price, 40, 50; booklets on, 12; and essence, 9; fundamental question of, 37; modern approach to, 8, 44; and philosophy, and science, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 116
dhammabhúta:
116
dhammánusárí:
1, 91
dhammanvaye ñánam:
53
Dhammasanganí:
79
dhammatá:
119
Dirac, P. A. M. (Quantum Mechanics):
8, 12, 73, 75, 131
diseases (see also amoebiasis; health; mental health; satyriasis):
13, 18, 31, 115, 118
disrobing:
19, 20, 21, 47, 93a, 117
ditthipatta:
1, 91, 92, 148
ditthupádána:
146
divine eye:
48, 149
doctors:
12, 21, 26, 33
doing two things at once:
2
Dostoievsky:
22, 43, 56; The Possessed, 22, 56, 90
dreams:
2, 88
drought:
106, 111
drugs:
13, 20, 32, 33, 56
Ducasse, C. J.:
85
dukkata:
45, 93a
dukkha:
and addiction, 13; and flux, 6, 7, 53, 75; Ven. Ñánamoli on, 56; and selfishness, 14; sankháradukkha, 27, 145; as task and truth, 36, 42; as tragi-comedy, 28, 116; is the Teaching, 6, 50, 114
Duns Scotus:
126
Durrell, Lawrence:
127, 128, 129, 132, 135
duty:
9, 44, 46, 114


East/West (see also Europe):
and books, 60, 67, 79; and the common person, 100, 101, 128; and meditation, 52, 91; tradition or intellect, 3, 60, 67
Eddington, Sir Arthur:
73, 75, 90
education, modern:
8, 45
eight precepts:
119
Einstein:
14
Eleatics:
89
emotions:
awareness of, 2, 8, 22n, 23; in books, 53, 140; and suicide, 20; and women, 100; Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, 9
Encyclopaedia Brittanica:
9, 37
Encyclopaedia of Buddhism:
42n
England:
Buddhism in, 75; and France, 73, 75, 90, 118; philosophy in, 4, 33, 75, 90, 96, 132, 134
enlightenment:
134
E.S.P. (see also Balfour; iddhi, psychical research):
precognition and dreams, 88; and science, 10, 11, 12; spirits, etc., 48, 67
essence:
9
eternity:
20, 27, 119, 135, 145
ethics (see also síla):
and God's existence, 33, 61; 'What should I do?', 14, 33, 42; 'The Foundation of Ethics', 33x
Europe (see also East/West):
despairing intellectuals of, 33, 71, 105; and God, 33, 61, 91, 109, 127, 131; and money, 133; l'orgueil européen, 3
Evola (The Doctrine of Awakening):
87
exercise:
117, 149
exile:
62, 132, 136
existence (see also being; guilt):
justification for, 68, 71, 127, 128, 132, 141; significance of, 33, 59, 147; structure of, 42, 73, 90
existentialism:
9, 75, 121; basic contradiction of, 75, 119, 120, 121; and Buddhism, 52, 64, 91, 116, 121; phenomenological method, 48, 75, 121; standpoint of, 6, 9, 37, 56, 62, 68, 73, 75, 89, 91, 104, 121, 132, 134, 135
experience:
9, 44, 50, 76, 145
explanation and description:
9
Expositor, The:
82
Eye of Dhamma:
1, 38


facts:
9, 42, 73, 144
faith:
13, 33, 52, 135
fear:
33; of death, etc., 33, 46, 64; and humour, 119, 120, 121; of one's foolishness, 43, 96; Future Fearful Things, 78, 79
feeling (see also vedaná):
14, to one who feels, 53; and science, 12, 15
First Council, The:
58, 75, 83, 103
Five Future Fearful Things:
78, 79
flame, simile of:
36
Flaubert:
96
flux, universal (see also change):
doctrine of, 6, 8, 53; and Maháyána, 75, 88; rejection of, 5, 6, 36, 53, 75, 134
food:
102, 105, 137
Forster, E. M.:
62
Four Noble Truths:
see Noble Truths
France:
Buddhism in, 75, 90, 128; England, 33, 73, 75, 90, 118; language of, 65, 92
freedom:
33
Freud:
9, 21, 56, 98
friendship:
95
Fundamental Structure:
32, 42, 44, 90; and Bradley, 8, 89, 90; and the brain, 56; and change, flux, 6, 8, 53n, 89, 134; and consciousness, 86; and mathematics, 44, 73; and reflexion, 52, 53n; reviewed, 8n, 32, 42, 53n, 67; structure of, 41, 144


generality/particularity:
8
George, Saint:
67
Germany:
33, 75, 96
Gestalt psychology:
6
Gibbon (Decline and Fall...):
67
gifts:
40, 72
God (see also Christianity):
13, 33, 61, 135, 144; and eternity, 13, 27, 53, 119; and evil, 61, 62, 119; and existentialists, 33, 56, 62, 68, 135; and Hinduism, 61, 108, 139; of Kierkegaard, 13, 27, 56, 119; nature of, 13, 61, 62, 109; a saint without, 109, 131; and visionary experience, 56, 135
Godhika Thera, Ven.:
47
Goethe:
22
grasping:
see upádána
Graves, Robert (The White Goddess):
131
Greene, Graham:
136
Grenier (Absolu et Choix):
128, 130, 132, 136, 139
Grimm, Georg:
126
guilt:
59, 68, 121, 132
Gurney (see also Balfour):
62, 67, 141


habits, fixed:
34
haiku:
22
harvesting:
92
health (see also amoebiasis; satyriasis):
effects on meditation, 4, 14, 19, 20, 24, 25, 31, 126; as highest gain, 15, 16; mental, 21, 33; and morality, 18; Ven. Ñánavíra's, 4, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39, 45, 93a, 118, 121, 127
Hegel:
46, 91
Heidegger:
first question of, 136; philosophy of, 9, 22, 33, 116, 119, 141; and Sartre, 33, 104, 116, 141; and the world, 42, 121; Being and Time, 107, 115, 116, 119, 121x, 141
Heisenberg, Werner:
142
helping others:
14
Heraclitus:
89
Hermitage, Island:
see Island Hermitage
Hínayána (see also Theraváda):
82
Hinduism (see also máyá):
56, 61,139; and Buddhism, 22n, 75, 108, 126, 128, 130, 134, 135
historical method:
22, 42
holding:
see upádána
hope:
62, 68
Horner, I. B.:
126
Housman, A. E.:
62
Hume:
73
humour:
and anxiety, fear, 119, 120, 121; and Buddhism, 116, 119; comedy and pathos, 27, 28, 116, 119, 121
Husserl:
9, 9x, 22, 86, 86x
Huxley, Aldous:
56; mescalin and sex, 56, 67, 71, 98, 127, 128; on religion, Maháyána, 55, 56, 67, 98, 126; on strange mind objects, 48, 56, 81; talent of, 56, 67, 74, 108; on unstable-mindedness, 101; After Many A Summer, 55, 67; Brave New World, 91; Crome Yellow, 68; The Doors of Perception, 56; Island, 98, 127; Point Counter Point, 95, 96, 108, 113; Proper Studies, 101; Those Barren Leaves, 108, 109
Huxley, Thomas:
9x, 22


iddhi powers:
91n, 126
Idealism:
4, 7, 90, 91
ideas:
45, 81, 96, 119, 144
identity in difference:
5, 8, 89
identity, law of:
see laws of thought
images:
abstract and concrete thinking, 81, 90, 121; and concepts, ideas, 9, 45, 81, 96, 144; as memory, negatives, 44, 45; as mind objects, 53, 90; and Russell, 75n
imaginary and real:
56
imagination:
8, 9, 53, 56, 81, 90, 119
imasmim sati...:
4
immediacy:
22, 28, 44, 50, 145
impediments to release:
2, 50
impermanence:
see anicca
individual responsibility:
46, 53n
induction:
9, 44
inference:
44
infinite:
119
innocence:
68n, 132
instinct:
2, 15, 44, 45
intellectual, the:
60
intelligence:
134
intentionality (see also cetaná):
37, 38, 76, 145, 147
intuition:
145
invariant of transformation:
8, 37, 75
Irish grammar:
137
Island Hermitage:
10, 10x, 22x, 53, 53x, 93a, 99, 119, 140
Italy:
95


James, William:
67, 127, 141
Japanese monk's verse:
22
Játaka:
121, 121x
Jayatilleke (Buddhist Theory of Knowledge):
137
Jefferson, Sir Geoffrey ('Anatomy of Consciousness'):
12, 15, 53, 56
Jesus of Nazareth:
13
jhána (see also mental concentration; samádhi; samatha):
arúpa, áneñja, 76n, 92, 149; and attainment, 91, 92, 126; and body, breathing, 29, 76; in Suttas, 48, 148; and visionary experience, 56
jokes:
119, 121
Joyce, James:
53, 95; Dubliners, 95, 96, 112; Finnegans Wake, 95, 144; Portrait of the Artist..., 95; Ulysses, 53n, 59, 67, 95, 96, 112, 113, 114, 130
Jouhandeau:
135
judge:
44, 46, 53n
judgement:
90, 145
Jung:
56


Kafka:
and guilt, 59, 68, 132; interpretations of, 59, 60, 61, 62; The Castle, 59, 61, 62, 68, 69; The Trial, 59, 62, 68, 69, 71, 132
Kalanos:
53
Káma Sútra:
133
kamma:
and dependent origination, 9; is intentional, 2, 37; -vipáka, 107, 149; Sívaka Sutta, 107, 149
karuná:
121
Kassapa Thera, Ven.:
1, 22, 100
Kataragama:
22
Kathá Vatthu:
83
Kautilya:
110
káyasankhára:
76
Kennedy, J. F.:
74
khandha:
see pañc('upádán)akkhandhá
Kierkegaard:
27, 42, 119; on artists, writing, 22, 32, 42, 53, 89, 116, 137; on authenticity, truth, 9, 35, 46, 78, 119; on ethics, 50, 132; as existentialist, 9, 42, 104, 121; on God, Christianity, the eternal, 13, 27, 56, 72; on humour, 27, 119; on positive and negative thinkers, 22, 27, 44n; on questions, 3, 80; on scholars, objectivity, 9, 42, 56, 79, 89, 91; Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 9, 27, 42, 44n, 46, 50, 56, 78, 79, 80, 89, 91n, 119; Repetition, 22
knowledge:
145
'Know Thyself':
22
Koestler, Arthur:
13
Kumbhakára Játaka:
121
kuti:
53, 94


Laclos:
127
laughter:
see humour
Lawrence, D. H.:
67, 113
Laws of Thought:
5, 6, 14, 75
leper, simile of:
13
Lessing, G. E.:
135
Letters, Ven. Ñánavíra's:
burning of, 100, 101; as commentary, 53; drafting of, 67, 128; keeping of, 6, 15, 53
libido:
see satyriasis; sex
lifespan:
18
linguistics:
90, 132, 137, 144
Lin Yutang:
88, 89, 90
logic (see also Bradley, Laws of Thought; Stebbing):
9, 12, 44, 53, 73; Four Noble Truths as propositions, 42
logical positivism:
8, 42, 132
Look Back in Anger:
127
love:
as eternity, 135; and morbidity, 21, 120; and justification, 69, 127, 128, 140, 141
Loyola, Ignatius:
4, 5, 13
lust:
94x, 128


Mágandiya:
15, 16
magga/phala (see also attainment):
91, 92
Mahá Bodhi, The:
75n
Mahákaccána Thera, Ven.:
79
Maháyána (see also máyá):
and nibbána, 107a, 128, 130; Prajñápáramitá, 6, 130; and Theraváda, 55, 56, 75, 126, 130
mano:
111
manoviññána:
53
Mára:
89
maranasati:
21, 22
Marcel:
75, 89, 119, 121
marriage:
20, 67, 69, 89
martyrs:
53
Marx, Karl:
22n, 46
mathematics:
8, 44, 73; rules of, 5, 90; and Ven. Ñánavíra, 126
matter (see also námarúpa):
12, 137
Maugham, Robin:
110, 138
máyá (see also things):
75, 128, 130, 135
meaninglessness (see also absurd; despair):
59, 73, 114, 116
Medical Mirror, The:
33
medicines:
20, 26, 29, 31; and disease, 4, 17, 57
meditation:
see mental concentration
mediumship:
see Balfour, Earl of
memory:
8, 44, 45, 98
mental concentration (see also bhávaná; jhána; mettá; mindfulness; nimitta; samádhi; samatha):
and attainment, 91, 92; and death, 21, 22, 29, 114; and drugs, mysticism, Zaehner, 28, 29, 56, 126, 127; is affected by, 4, 14, 19, 20, 24, 26, 30, 31, 57, 93a, 126; and paññá, 91, 92, 126; and suicidal, erotic thoughts, 24, 25, 29, 30, 47, 93a; types of, 21, 22, 56; and Western thought, 52, 87, 91, 121
mental health:
21, 33
mental objects:
see objects
mescalin:
see Huxley, Aldous
metaphysics:
8, 73, 91, 105
mettá bhávaná:
22
Middle Ages:
126
Middle Way, The:
5
Milindapañha:
criticism of, 39, 72; doctrines of, 36, 70, 72; as Maháyánist, 55, 56
Mill, J. S.:
22n
Mind (journal):
134
mind:
48, 56
Mind Unshaken, The:
11
mindfulness (see also awareness; reflexion):
and awareness, 2, 50, 52; and concrete thinking, 81; and death, 22, 64, 109; as memory, 98; and mental concentration 2, 52; and reflexion, 86; Satipatthána Sutta, 2, 15, 16, 64, 92
money:
133
morality:
see síla; ethics
movement:
2, 6, 8, 42; and consciousness, immediate experience, 44, 86; and Zeno's paradox, 89
Mucalinda Nágarája:
98
mudhalali:
119
Munthe, Axel (The Story of San Michele):
69, 109
music:
65, 135
Muslims; Mohamet:
20, 126
mystical experience:
and Huxley, Zaehner, visions, 56, 126, 128; and laws of thought, Zen, 5, 10, 75, 91; and samádhi, 56, 91, 126
myth:
144


na ca so na ca añño:
36, 70
Nalanda:
87
námarúpa (see also consciousness; viññána):
with consciousness, 44, 86, 148; in Notes on Dhamma, 3, 80
ñánadassana:
56
Ñánamoli Thera, Ven.:
and books, 48, 133; on consciousness, 53; on impermanence, suffering, 56; on Ven. Ñánavíra, 22; and solitude, 94; Mindfulness of Breathing, 110, 111; Path of Purification, 4, 79; Pathways of Buddhist Thought, 48, 53; Three Cardinal Discourses, 56; Satipatthána Sutta, 92
Ñánatiloka Maháthera, Ven.:
10n, 53
Ñánavíra Thera, Ven. (see also amoebiasis; health; Notes on Dhamma; satyriasis; suicide):
and the arts, 65, 94, 135; and books, 53, 74, 90, 108, 113, 140; character of, 10, 62, 71, 101; and languages, 52, 87, 92, 95, 140; Letters of, 4, 6, 20, 21, 35, 50, 53, 67, 71, 91, 128, 130; meditation practice of, 1, 99, 126; and Ven. Ñánamoli, 99; others' opinions of, 22, 43, 105, 110, 138; past history of, 20, 20n, 93a, 110, 134; and philosophy, science, 44, 86, 89, 126, 136; and religion, 13, 67, 91, 94, 134, 144; solitude of, 21, 22, 45, 78, 94, 127; on Suttas, commentaries, 39, 60, 121, 149; writing style of, 4, 10, 22n, 71, 75, 126; writings, 42; The Doctrine of Awakening, 87; Sketch for a Proof of Rebirth, 99; 'An Uncertain Encounter', 142
negative in experience:
22, 44, 45
Nettipakarana:
79
neurology:
12, 121
nevasaññánásaññáyatanúpagá:
149
nibbána (see also nirvána):
and anxiety, 119; and attá, 126; and avijjá, 130; and change, 8; and good health, 15, 16; and jhána, 92, 126; and libido, 20; and Maháyána, 107a, 128, 130; (sa)upádisesánibbánadhátu, 36, 107a, 146; and Visuddhimagga, 133
Nichols, Beverley:
13, 13x, 14
Niddesa:
79
Nietzsche:
20, 22, 33, 89, 91, 117
Nikáya:
75
nikang:
77
nimitta:
92, 93a, 114
nirodhasamápatti:
89
nirvána:
56, 128, 130
Nobel Prize:
104
noble eightfold path:
13, 92
Noble Truths, Four (see also dukkha; craving):
13, 52, 53; as things, not facts, 42, 144
non-existence of things:
see things; máyá
Notes on Dhamma:
and author's suicide, 31, 32, 45, 49; and Bradley, 4, 7, 90, 91; and the Buddhist tradition, 39, 76, 97; difficulty of, 4, 28, 53n, 54, 59, 80, 85, 132; distribution of, 40, 58, 69, 71, 131; how to use, 41, 53n, 105; and Letters, 53; and Pali, 85, 88, 131, 132; preparing of, 3, 41, 58, 61, 62, 65, 70, 71, 88, 104, 116, 131, 132; provoking criticism, 3, 39, 66, 76, 77, 78, 104, 105, 106, 134, 144; publication of, 31, 39, 40, 43, 53, 54, 65, 93a, 97, 116, 131, 133, 134, 140; reactions to, 3, 4, 32, 39, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 84, 85, 96, 116, 132, 137, 143, 144; reasons for writing, 4, 28, 39, 43, 76, 93a, 104; reviewing of, 32; and reflexion, 52; standpoint of, 3, 39, 52, 53n, 54, 80, 85, 91, 97, 105, 123, 131, 132; structure of, 41, 71, 75; and Western philosophy, 132
numinous experience:
135


objectivity:
see subjectivity
objects (see also subject; things):
for arahat, 9, 135n; body as, 12; and image, 45, 81; immediately present, 44, 81; real and imaginary, 6, 53, 56, 81; and science, Russell, 12, 67, 121
obscene books:
113
official distinctions:
104
opium:
13
Oppenheimer, J. R.:
37, 37x
other people:
12, 22, 44
Oxford Group:
14
Oxford University:
131


pain:
12, 15, 28, 109, 114, 115, 120
Pali:
and Notes on Dhamma, 54, 85, 88, 131; translations from, 64, 103
Palinurus:
see Connolly
Pali Text Society:
3, 3x, 67, 131
pañc(upádán)akkhandhá (see also feeling; námarúpa; sankhára; saññá; upádána; viññána):
36, 37, 44, 137, 149
paññá:
2, 48, 60, 91, 92, 126
párájika:
45n, 56
paramattha sacca:
6, 75
parato ghoso:
80
parinibbána:
3, 89
Parmenides:
75n, 89
passion:
100, 101, 120, 131
Path of Purification (see also Visuddhimagga):
4, 4x, 79, 79x, 114, 126
paticcasamuppáda:
and abhidhamma, 79; and arahat, sekha, 146, 149; in Notes on Dhamma, 59; and rebirth, three lives, 9, 9n, 100, 105, 111; and sankhára, 76; understanding of, 4, 5, 59, 111, 146
patigha:
147
Patisambhidámagga:
4, 39, 79
patissati:
46
Patthána:
39, 76, 79
Peradeniya:
85, 137, 144
person:
see sakkáya
phassa:
72, 146, 149
phenomenology (see also existentialism):
6, 9, 48, 73, 121
philosophy (see also metaphysics):
'always the same', 90; and the Buddha's Teaching, 89; and meditation, 91; modern Western, 89, 96, 132; and not, 73; and poetry, 136; and speculation, 8, 86; and the Suttas, 4, 89, 132; and one's temperature, 127
physics (see also quantum physics):
67, 73, 91
Pirivena universities:
3
play:
119
poetry:
96, 136
Poincaré:
6
politics:
74, 103, 105
Porter, Jimmy:
127, 128
positive and negative thinkers:
22, 27, 44n
poya:
110
Prajñápáramitá:
6, 130
pride:
121
printing:
3, 52, 65
psychiatry:
21, 33
psychical research:
62, 67, 141
psychology:
9, 13, 75n, 91
puggala:
37, 62, 91n, 139, 148
Puggala Paññatti:
51
purpose:
147
puthujjana:
and anicca, 37, 38, 53, 56; and ariya, 20, 38, 44, 50, 149; defined, 37, 38; experience of, self of, 36, 75, 137, 145, 146, 149; and Heidegger, Sartre, 9, 119; is mad, 73; and síla, 97


quantum physics (see also Dirac; Eddington; physics):
6, 8, 12, 13, 37, 75, 142
questions:
four kinds of, 146; fundamental, 37; Heidegger's first, 136; ignorant, 43, 44; of life, 60; well-framed, 8, 76


randhagavesí:
105
rationalism:
75
realism, naive:
67, 90, 91
reality:
53, 56, 75, 90, 91, 134
rebirth:
and anágámí, 146; and authors, 88; and Buddhism, 9, 70, 115, 144, 149; writers on, 98, 128; logic for, 9, 141, 144; as myth, 144; and socialism, 105; and Mrs Willett, 62, 141, 144; The Case for Rebirth, 9
reflexion (see also awareness, mindfulness):
and consciousness, 9, 86; and concrete thinking, 81; and existence, 9, 42, 68; and immediate experience, 22, 28, 44, 45, 50, 86; and knowledge, 145; in the Suttas, 2, 52
religions:
96, 134, 144
repetition:
22, 48
revolt:
6, 101, 103
Rhine, J. B.:
91n
Rhys Davids:
42, 103
ridicule:
43, 96
right view:
13, 92, 146
Rimbaud:
133
romance:
138
rúpa (see also matter; námarúpa):
44, 147, 148
Russell, Bertrand:
and Bradley, 91; criticism of, 8, 67; and Zeno's paradox, 6, 6n, 89; Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, 67; Mysticism and Logic, 75, 89; Nightmares, 73


sabbe dhammá anattá:
37
sacrifice of the intellect:
4, 5, 13
saddhá:
33, 52, 60, 145; -vimutta, sekha, 91, 92, 148
sakadágámí:
128
Sakka:
56, 82
sakkáyaditthi:
13, 62, 139, 149
saláyatana:
149
samádhi (see also bhávaná; mental concentration):
52, 91, 92, 97, 114, 126, 127
samatha:
47, 87, 103, 121
sampajañña:
see awareness; mindfulness; reflexion
samsára:
67, 111
sañcetaná:
76
sanghádisesa:
93a
sankhára:
37, 50, 76, 111, 116
saññá:
of anicca, 37, 38, 53; ceasing of, 76, 149; with consciousness, 12, 44
Sanskrit:
75, 107
Sappadása Thera, Ven.:
47, 93a
Sáriputta Thera, Ven.:
48, 79
Sartre, J.-P.:
22, 46, 75, 90, 104, 105, 105x, 113, 116, 140, 141; on Americans, 33; on bad faith, 119; on the body and consciousness, 9, 12, 134; on change, 6; and love, 69; and other people, 44, 91; and self, 74; and transcendence, 135; the waiter of, 44, 46; on the world, 121; Being and Nothingness, 9, 12, 69, 74, 91, 121, 134; 'Bread Before Books', 105, 105x; Imagination, 9; Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, 9x
sati:
see awareness; mindfulness; reflexion
satyriasis (see also health):
4, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 45, 47, 57, 93a, 117, 118
scholars:
22, 39, 42, 60, 131
Schopenhauer:
21x
Schweitzer, Albert:
14, 42
science:
assumptions of, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 67, 73, 75, 91, 126; and the Buddha's Teaching, 6, 10, 11, 12, 53, 135; and consciousness, 12, 15, 91, 126; and education, 8, 45; and humour, 121; and the paranormal, 10, 11, 12; and the scientist, 12, 126
sekha (see also ariya):
and arahat, 38, 145, 146, 149; experience of, 50, 75, 97, 120, 145; impediments to, 2, 50; types of, 91; levels of, 50, 91, 92, 148
self (see also anattá; subject):
and avijjá, 149; attá and puggala, 37, 62; ambiguity of word, 53n; as the Eternal, as God, 27, 28, 126, 135; and guilt, 121; as contradiction, 22, 27, 75, 119; experience of, 22, 37, 44, 67, 73, 121, 135, 145; and flux, 6, 53; and Sartre, 74
self-awareness:
22, 44
self-correction:
2, 9x
self-identity of things, of subject:
5, 6, 27, 36, 37, 53, 75
selfishness:
14
sensation:
12
senses:
6, 44, 121, 149
sensibility:
132
sensuality:
13, 67, 98, 127, 130
serious-mindedness:
119, 121
sex (see also satyriasis):
6, 7, 98, 113, 127, 128; and eternity, 20, 135; fascination with, 117; overcoming of, 13, 21, 109, 128; and restraint, 67, 109, 117; and sensuality, libido, 20, 67, 98, 127, 133, 141
Siam:
3
síla:
2, 33, 119; General Theory of Morality, 18; and sotápanna, 50, 97
síl-poya:
110
Siva:
56
Smith, Sydney:
22
snakes:
53
socialism:
20n, 105
Society for Psychical Research:
see psychical research
solitude:
effects of, 3n, 22, 91, 100, 128; and 'this kuti', 53, 94; people's views of, 94, 117; 'solitaire', 62, 119; and suicide, 93a, 94
Soma Thera, Ven.:
133
Soná Therí, Ven.:
149
sotápanna, sotápatti:
and aniccatá, 37, 38; attainment of, 2, 4, 91, 92, 145; experience of, 14, 22, 50, 128, 145; in Ceylon, 50
soul (see also self):
145
space:
44, 121
speculation:
8, 86
spirits:
48, 67
split personality:
9n
stable-mindedness:
101
starvation:
20, 105
Stebbing, L. S. (Modern Intro to Logic):
5, 9, 90
Stendhal:
144
subject (see also object; self):
and object, 5, 9, 27, 28, 36, 37, 53, 75, 91, 145, 149
subjectivity/objectivity:
3, 6, 22, 22n, 42, 53, 53n, 57, 121
substance:
8, 44
suffering:
see dukkha
suicide:
not advocated, 20, 30, 49, 56, 67; and ariyapuggala, 20, 47, 49, 50, 93a; for bhikkhu, 20x, 45, 47, 56, 94; and Ven. Channa Thera, 20, 47; and coroner, 30n, 150; or disrobing, 19, 47, 49, 93a; existentialists on, 20, 22, 117; and ill-health, 20, 21, 22, 29, 31, 93a, 94; and morbidity, 21, 49, 94; planning for, 20, 22, 30, 49; reactions to, 31, 47, 93, 94, 117, 118; reasons for living, 20, 21, 24, 25, 32, 45, 50, 104; reflections on, 20, 21, 22, 30, 53, 93a, 118; and society, 20, 118; in the Suttas, 47, 50, 93a
sustenance:
97
Swiss gentleman:
88
syllogism:
53, 90


takka:
149
tanhá (see also craving):
102, 116
tantra:
98, 128
tasks:
42
Tathágata:
98
teacher:
103, 121
teleology:
15, 149
Tennent (Buddhist Doctrine...):
128
testimonials:
42
texts, Pali:
how to use, 1, 105, 107, 121, 149; intelligent approach to, 60, 89; and Maháyána, 55, 75, 128, 130; origination of, 83; and philosophy, 4, 89, 126, 132; which to accept, 1, 3, 39, 79, 80
Theraváda:
56, 75, 126
things (see also máyá; objects):
existence of?, 6, 7, 36, 56, 67, 75, 100, 128, 130, 135n; experience of, 44, 45, 121, 130, 135n, 137, 145; or facts, 42, 73, 75; general and particular, 8; and mental objects, 6, 9, 45, 53, 81; Russell's view of, 67, 73
thinking:
3, 44, 45, 76, 81; all-of-a-piece, 35
Third Council:
83
thitassa aññathattam:
6, 8, 37, 89n
tidy chart-making:
148, 149
time:
6, 8, 86, 89, 90, 126
Toynbee:
131, 132
tragic, the:
119, 120
transcendence:
9, 9x, 135
translations:
64, 67, 93a, 103
truth (see also Noble Truth):
89, 134, 144
Tyrrell (Personality of Man):
9n, 67


uccásayana-mahásayaná:
119
uddhacca-kukkucca:
100
ultimate reality:
56, 135n
unconscious:
2, 12; of Freud, 9, 56
universal:
in experience, 90, 116; order, 12
unselfishness, absolute:
14
unstable-mindedness:
101, 103
upádána:
36, 37, 146, 149
upádisesa:
36, 146
Upáli Thera, Ven.:
83
upásaka:
56, 67
upekkhá:
89
Uposatha:
110


vacísankhára:
76
Vajrayána:
75, 98, 126
vandaná:
100
Vassána:
79
vedaná:
see feeling
Vibhanga:
4, 39, 79
Vietnamese monk:
53, 56
Vinaya Pitaka (see also dukkata; párájika; sanghádisesa):
rules of, 45, 56, 93a, 94, 117, 137; texts of, 1, 39, 79, 82, 83, 103
viññána (see also consciousness; námarúpa):
and citta, mano, 111; with námarúpa, 44, 86, 148; and vedaná, saññá, 12, 44
viññánam anidassanam:
107a
viññánañcáyatana:
86
vipassaná:
92
vision, sense of:
6, 44, 121x
visionary meditation:
see mystical experience
Visuddhimagga (see also Path of Purification):
39, 79, 111, 114, 126, 133
vitamins:
31n
volition:
76


Walter, Dr. Grey (The Living Brain):
11
welfare of others:
14
What am I?':
22, 44
What am I doing?':
2
What should I do?':
14, 33, 42
Willett, Mrs:
see Balfour, Earl of
wisdom:
22, 48
wishing:
20n, 131
witness for the faith:
53
Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus):
42, 91
women:
68, 69, 100, 102, 103, 140, 141
world, the:
119, 130, 137; existential view of, 9, 22, 121, 135; of science, 10, 126
writers (see also art; books):
types of, 53, 67, 88; and Ven. Ñánavíra, 90, 110
writing:
20, 80, 116; to clarify ideas, 35
wrong view:
22, 67, 89, 139; of God and mystics, 13, 56; of West and East, 67


Yeats, W. B.:
136
yoga:
91
yoniso manasikára:
8, 80
Younghusband, Sir Francis:
61


Zaehner, R. C.:
126, 127, 131
Zen:
5, 75, 119, 126
Zeno's paradox:
6, 89







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