The Pali Line

Table of Contents

Part I: The Gradual Course

Preface
Nidana
Introduction
Getting Started: High Getting High
The Gradual Training: Introduction
The First Lesson: AHARA
High Getting High, 2

The Gradual Course

Giving
When to Give
Who to Give to
The Four Basics for Making Friends
Repay Two That Cannot Be Repaid
What to Give
How to Give
Expressing Gratitude

High Getting High: The Four Godly Thoughts

First Variation
Second Expansion

Self Torture

The Gradual Course: Ethical Culture

Occupations
The Finger Snap
Cover Your Bets
Signs of a Fool
Paths Leading Upward
2 Fools
How to Judge from Personal Experience
Knowing A Man
Bad Company
UPEKKHA
Abortion

The Gradual Course: JAGARIANUYOGA
Self Discipline

Guarding the Senses
Moderate Eating
Content with Little
The Wakeful Watch
On Guarding the Senses, Moderate Eating, and Vigilance
No Other Single Sight
The Mind Is Pure
Energetic Effort

The Gradual Course: The Advantages and Disadvantages

The Second Lesson: NAMA/RUPA

The Third Lesson: The 3 VEDANAS

The Fourth Lesson: The 4 ARIYASACCANI

The Fifth Lesson: The PANCUPADANAKKHANDHA

Kindred Sayings III: The KHANDHA Book: Tissa
Khanda-Samyutta, V: Live As A Light Unto Yourself

The Sixth Lesson: SALAYATANA

The All
The All Is In Flames
The All Is In Pain

The Seventh Lesson: The SATTA SAMBOJJHANGA

Kindred Sayings V: Kindred Sayings on the Limbs of Wisdom
The Practice
The Advantages
Roof Peak
Enthusiasm

The Eighth Lesson: The ARIYA ATTHANGIKA MAGGA

Part II: The Master Past Your Passion Pastures

Introduction
Nidana

1. Satisfaction with Body

Breathing in and Out
Satisfaction with One’s Position
Satisfactory Actions
The Bean Peddler
The Four Great Elements
The Charnel Field

2. Satisfaction with Sense Experience

3. Satisfaction with Heart

4. The Word That Satisfies

The Nivaranesu -- Bindups
The Khandhas -- The Stockpiles
The Salayatana -- The Realm of the Senses
The Sambojjhangha -- The Dimensions of Wisdom
The Ariyasaccani -- The 4 Truths
Conclusion

Appendix -- The Cactus Grove

Part III: High Get’n High

Introduction
Sit
Attain Balance
Prepare the Way
Get Rid of the Bindups
The First Burning
The Second Burning
The Third Burning
The Fourth Burning

Part IV: The 10^th Question

Introduction

The 4 Power Paths
The Cattari Iddhi Pada

Sankhara
Chanda
Viriya
Citta
Vimansa

The Four Power Paths

Length of Life

The Wondrous Powers

Sit
Get Rid of the Bindups
Get High

The Mind Made Body

Being One, Become Many
Pass through Solid Objects
Walk on Water
Fly through Space
Touch the Moon and Sun
Visit the Brahma Loka

Higher Powers

The Divine Ear
Mind Reading
The Chalangas

Kappa
Vyakarana
Nirutti
Sikkha

The Etymology of "Mula"

Jotisattha
Chando-Viciti

The Path of Eve’s Apple

The Brahma Gala Sutta (excerpts on Prophesying)

The Best of Signs

The Modes of Knowing through Signs

Dittha
Suta
Muta
Vinnata

Knowledge of Former Habitations

The Ninth Lesson
Nava Sattavasa

The Realms of the Imagination

Friendly Vibrations (3^rd Expansion)

The Powers of the Dibba Cakkhu -- The Divine Eye

The 10^th Question, Part II:
The Destruction of the Asavas

The Tenth Lesson

Samma Ditthi

The Brahma Gala Sutta: Excerpts on Views
High View in Detail

Samma Sankappa

Samma Vaca

High Talk
Low Talk
Wrangling Phrases
Kaccha
Lying

Samma Kammanta

The Little Analysis of Kamma
The Great Analysis of Kamma

Samma Ajiva

Samma Vayama

Effort
Restraint
Resolve
Similes
The Simile of the Raft

Samma Sati

Samma Samadhi

Samma Vijja

Downbound Confounded Rebounding Conjuration

Samma Upekkha

End

APPENDIXES

Keeping the Sabbath
The Ten Fundamental Attachments
And
The Four Pairs of Powerful Individuals
Indo-European Languages
ASCII version of diacritical marks for Pali as used by the Pali Text Society
The Pali "Cannon"

Bibliography

Links

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Posters

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