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In the Buddha’s Words Book Summary, Notes and Highlights

Author: Bhikku Bodhi Publisher: Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications. Publish Date: 2005-6-28 Status:⏳ Rating: 5/5

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Nebulas

• In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter 3. Approaching the Dhamma
• In The Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discorces from the Pali Canon Chapter V. THE WAY TO A FORTUNATE REBIRTH
• In the Buddha’s Words Chapter VI. Deepening One’s Perspective on the World
• In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter VII. THE PATH TO LIBERATION
• In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter VIII. MASTERING THE MIND
• In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter IX. SHINING THE LIGHT OF WISDOM
• In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discources from the Pali Canon Chapter 10. The Planes of Realization

Notes

Total: 60

• Kamma
• Merit
• Mundane and supramundane wholesome kamma
• The devine abodes
• The environment that we live in is an external reflection of the internal processes of the mind
• The five precepts
• The ten pathways of wholesome and unwholesome kamma
• The three unwholesome roots
• The three wholesome roots
• Unwholesome kamma
• Wholesome kamma
• Uposatha Observance
• Annihilationism
• Clinging to our personal views of a situation gives rise to conflict and disputes
• Eternalism
• The three standpoints
• We ordinarily perceive reality through subjective biases shaped by our craving and attachments
• Serenity
• Insight
• Mindfulness
• The establishments of mindfulness
• Contemplation of body
• Contemplation of feeling
• Contemplation of mind
• Contemplation of phenomena
• Mindfulness of breathing
• Contemplation of the four postures
• Clear comprehension of activities
• Attention to the unattractive nature of the body
• Attention to the great elements
• The nine charnel ground contemplations
• Nibbana
• The twelve links of Dependent Origination
• The three characteristics
• The five aggregates
• Six sense bases
• The four nobel truths
• The great elements
• Direct Insight cannot occur without having a conceptual framework to facilitate it
• Conceptual understanding
• Experiential understanding
• Form
• Volitional formation
• Mind-body
• Identity view
• The water element
• The air element
• The fire element
• The earth element
• The space element
• The consciousness element
• Consciousness
• The two elements of nibbana
• Feeling
• The contemplation the senses and the sensations that arise them from through the three characteristics can lead to nibbana
• Perception
• Mind
• The Nobel Eightfold Path
• The Nobel Eightfold Path factors should be practiced simultaneously