The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony by Bodhi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Contents Publisher’s Acknowledgment Foreword Prologue List of Abbreviations Key to the Pronunciation of Pāl Acknowledgments Detailed List of Contents General Introduction I. Right Understanding

Introduction 1. Right View Comes First 2. Understanding the Unwholesome and the Wholesome 3. A Miscellany on Kamma 4. Beings Fare According to Their Kamma 5. When You Know for Yourselves 6. A Teaching Applicable to Oneself

II. Personal Training

Introduction 1. Generosity

(1) Miserliness (2) Accomplishment in Generosity (3) Reasons for Giving (4) A Superior Person’s Gifts (5) The Gift of Food (1) (6) The Gift of Food (2) (7) The Gift of the Dhamma

2. Virtuous Behavior

(1) Moral Introspection (2) Accomplishment in Virtuous Behavior (3) Protecting Countless Beings (4) The Bad and the Good (5) Impurity and Purity

3. Removing the Defilements of the Mind

(1) Sixteen Defilements of the Mind (2) Two Kinds of Thoughts (3) Practicing Effacement

4. Loving-Kindness and Compassion

(1) The Four Divine Abodes (2) Loving-Kindness Shines Like the Moon (3) The Benefits of Loving-Kindness (4) Still More Benefits (5) Loving-Kindness and Right Mindfulness (6) The Destruction of the Influxes

III. Dealing with Anger

Introduction 1. The Slaying of Anger 2. Three Kinds of Persons 3. Persons Like Vipers 4. The Grounds for Resentment 5. Dangers in Anger and Benefits in Patience

(1) Five Dangers (2) Another Five Dangers (3) Seven Dangers (4) Being Spurned by Others

6. Removing Anger

(1) Ten Ways to Eliminate Resentment (2) The Buddha Teaches Five Ways (3) Sāriputta Teaches Five Ways

7. Patience Under Provocation

(1) Being Patient When Criticized (2) Non-Retaliation (3) Patience Over Punishment

8. Exemplars of Patience

(1) The Buddha Rejects Abuse (2) Puṇṇa’s Courageous Spirit (3) Sāriputta’s Lion’s Roar (4) Sakka and the Anger-Eating Demon

IV. Proper Speech

Introduction 1. Well-Spoken Speech

(1) Possessing Four Factors (2) Possessing Five Factors

2. Holding Discussions 3. Speak in an Appropriate Way 4. Don’t Create Arguments 5. Assigning Praise and Blame 6. Praise When Praise Is Due 7. Knowing What to Say and How to Say It 8. Reproving Others

V. Good Friendship

Introduction 1. The Qualities of a True Friend

(1) Seven Factors (2) Another Seven Factors

2. Four Kinds of Good Friends 3. Good Friendship in the Household Life 4. Good Friendship in Monastic Life

(1) To Ānanda (2) When a Monk Has Good Friends

VI. One’s Own Good and the Good of Others

Introduction 1. The Fool and the Wise Person 2. The Bad Person and the Good Person 3. The Roots of Harm and Benefit for Self and Others 4. Four Kinds of Persons in the World

(1) The Best Kind of Person (2) The Removal of Lust, Hatred, and Delusion (3) The Five Training Rules

5. The Monk 6. The Lay Follower 7. One of Great Wisdom

VII. The Intentional Community

Introduction 1. Kinds of Communities

(1) The Shallow and the Deep (2) The Divided and the Harmonious (3) The Inferior and the Superior (4) The Ignoble and the Noble (5) The Unrighteous and the Righteous

2. The Formation of Community

(1) How Beings Come Together and Unite (2) Like Attracts Like (3) Four Means of Embracing Others

3. Sustaining Community

(1) The Standard of Authority (2) The Reasons for the Training Rules (3) Six Principles of Cordiality (4) Ten Principles of Cordiality (5) Seven Conditions for Social Harmony (6) Seven Conditions for Monastic Harmony (7) Attending on the Sick

4. Caste Is Irrelevant

(1) Merging Like the Rivers in the Ocean (2) All Can Realize the Highest Goal (3) The Criteria of Spiritual Worth

5. A Model of Monastic Harmony 6. Monastics and Laity

(1) Mutual Support (2) A Visitor of Families (3) Showing Compassion to Laypeople (4) Families Worth Approaching

VIII. Disputes

Introduction 1. Why Do Beings Live in Hate? 2. Disputes among Laypeople, Disputes among Ascetics 3. Conflicts Due to Sensual Pleasures 4. Rooted in Craving 5. The Blind Men and the Elephant 6. Arguments among Monks 7. The Quarrel at Kosambī 8. Roots of Disputes 9. Schism in the Sangha

IX. Settling Disputes

Introduction 1. Confession and Forgiveness 2. Resolving Differences in Opinion 3. Settling Disputes in the Sangha 4. Disputes Over Discipline

(1) The Need for Self-Reflection (2) Avoiding Acrimony

5. Mutual Correction 6. Accepting Correction from Others 7. Settling Disputes between Laity and Sangha

(1) Overturning the Almsbowl (2) Loss of Confidence (3) Reconciliation

8. Expelling Miscreants

(1) Sweep the Chaff Away! (2) Forced Eviction

X. Establishing an Equitable Society

Introduction 1. Reciprocal Responsibilities 2. Parents and Children

(1) Parents Are of Great Help (2) Repaying One’s Parents

3. Husbands and Wives 4. The Household

(1) For the Welfare of Many (2) Like the Himalayas (3) Ways of Seeking Wealth (4) Avoiding Wrong Livelihood (5) The Proper Use of Wealth

5. Social Status

(1) No Fixed Hierarchy of Privilege (2) Caste Is Mere Convention (3) Status Is Determined by Deeds (4) Deeds Make the Outcast

6. The State

(1) When Kings Are Unrighteous (2) War Breeds Enmity (3) The Wheel-Turning Monarch (4) How a Wheel-Turning Monarch Conquers (5) The Monarch’s Duties (6) Providing for the Welfare of the People

Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Editor Copyright

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