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This is a partial index of numerically arranged topics that appear in the suttas available here at Access to Insight.

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# 1. One

Food:
  Khp 4
Quality leading to benefits in this life and the next:
  Iti 23
Quality that leads to the development of the five faculties:
  SN 48.56
Quality to be abandoned:
  Iti 1, Iti 2, Iti 3, Iti 4, Iti 5, Iti 6
Taste:
  Ud 5.5
Transgression that leads to evil:
  Iti 25
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Ones

# 2. Two

Assemblies, kinds of:
  AN 2.46
Assistance, kinds of:
  Iti 98, Iti 100
Bodily conduct, kinds of:
  DN 21
Dhamma discourses given in sequence:
  Iti 39
Ease, causes of living with:
  Iti 29
Equanimity, kinds of:
  DN 21
Extremes:
  SN 12.15, SN 56.11, Ud 6.8
Feelings:
  SN 36.22
Fermentations (asava), qualities that lead to the ending of:
  Iti 37
Fools:
  AN 2.21, AN 2.98
Forms, kinds of:
  DN 21
Gifts, kinds of:
  Iti 98, Iti 100
Grief, kinds of:
  DN 21
Guardians:
  AN 2.9
Heaven, causes of rebirth in:
  Iti 33
Hell, causes of rebirth in:
  Iti 32, Iti 48
Joy, kinds of:
  DN 21
Mass-donations, kinds of:
  Iti 100
Name-and-Form (nama-rupa):
  Khp 4
Nibbana, aspects of:
  Iti 44
Pains:
  SN 36.6
People who slander the Tathagata:
  AN 2.23, AN 2.25
Remorse, causes of:
  Iti 30
Remorse, causes of no:
  Iti 31
Safeguards of the world:
  Iti 42
Searches, kinds of:
  DN 21, MN 26
Sharing, kinds of:
  Iti 98, Iti 100
Stress, causes of:
  Iti 28
Thinking, sorts of:
  MN 19
Trains of thought that often occur to the Tathagata:
  Iti 38
Unbinding property, forms of:
  Iti 44
Verbal conduct, kinds of:
  DN 21
Views:
  MN 11, SN 22.80
Wise persons:
  AN 2.21
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Twos

# 3. Three

Actions, kinds of:
  AN 3.15
Acquisitions of a self:
  DN 9
Becoming, kinds of:
  SN 12.2
Bliss, kinds of:
  Iti 76
Causes for the origination of actions:
  AN 3.33
Cleanliness, kinds of:
  Iti 66
Cravings:
  Iti 58
Dangers that can separate mother and child:
  AN 3.62
Defilements:
  SN 3.23, AN 3.65
Dhamma, properties of:
  AN 3.134
Discussion, topics for:
  AN 3.67
Divine sounds:
  Iti 82
Dukkha, kinds of:
  SN 38.14, SN 45.165
Escape, properties of:
  Iti 72
Eyes:
  Iti 61
Fabrications, characteristics of:
  AN 3.47
Fabrications, kinds of:
  SN 12.2, SN 41.6
Faculties:
  Iti 62
Falling away of a monk, things that lead to the:
  Iti 79
False Dhamma, forms of:
  Iti 89
Feeling, kinds of:
  DN 15, MN 59, SN 36.19, SN 36.22, Iti 52, Iti 53, Khp 4
Fermentations:
  Iti 56, Iti 57
Fires (passion, aversion, delusion):
  Iti 93
Fool, qualities of a:
  AN 3.2
Gems
Good conduct, kinds of:
  Iti 65
Governing principles:
  AN 3.40
Grounds for meritorious action:
  Iti 60
Internal stains/enemies/murderers:
  Iti 88
Intoxication, forms of:
  AN 3.38
Investigation, modes of:
  SN 22.57
Miracles:
  DN 11, AN 3.60
Misconduct, kinds of:
  Iti 64
Palaces of the Buddha:
  AN 3.38
People, types of:
  AN 3.22, Iti 75
Persons appearing in the world for the benefit of many:
  Iti 84
Properties:
  Iti 51
Qualities a successful monk possesses:
  Iti 59
Refuges
Roots of unskillful action:
  AN 3.69, Iti 50
Sagacity, forms of:
  AN 3.120, Iti 67
Searches:
  Iti 54, Iti 55
Sectarian guilds:
  AN 3.61
Sensual pleasures, ways of obtaining:
  Iti 95
Sick people, types of:
  AN 3.22
Sons and daughters, types of:
  Iti 74
Stressfulness, kinds of:
  SN 38.14
Supreme objects of confidence:
  Iti 90
Teacher:
  frames of reference for becoming a good, MN 137; kinds of, DN 12
Themes:
  AN 3.100 (xi-xv)
Thoughts, skillful:
  Iti 87
Thoughts, unskillful:
  Iti 80, Iti 87, SN 22.80
Times:
  Iti 63
Trainings:
  AN 3.88, AN 3.89
Uposathas:
  AN 3.70
Urgent duties of a farming householder:
  AN 3.91
Urgent duties of a monk:
  AN 3.91
Wise person, qualities of a:
  AN 3.2
Worldly and harmful qualities:
  SN 3.23
Worthy qualities of a monk:
  AN 3.94
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Threes

# 4. Four

Amazing qualities of Ananda:
  DN 16
Amazing qualities of a universal monarch:
  DN 16
Answering questions, ways of:
  AN 4.42
Archers:
  SN 20.6
Assurances:
  AN 3.65
Attainments, specific:
  DN 16
Bases of power (iddhi):
  SN 51.20, also: "The Four Bases of Power" in The Wings to Awakening
Birthplaces of craving:
  Iti 105
Bliss, kinds of:
  AN 4.62
Bonds of fellowship, grounds for:
  AN 4.32
Born, things that are:
  AN 4.200
Brahma-viharas:
  AN 3.65
Causes for the body to come into existence:
  AN 4.159
Clinging, kinds of:
  SN 12.2
Concentration, developments of:
  AN 4.41
Courses of action:
  AN 4.115
Craving, birthplaces of:
  Iti 105
Determinations:
  MN 140
Discernment, qualities of a person with great:
  AN 4.35
Family losing/preserving its wealth, causes of:
  AN 4.255
Fear of death, ways of overcoming:
  AN 4.184
Floods:
  SN 45.171
Flow, types of individuals who go with or against the:
  AN 4.5
Frames of reference:
  SN 47.6, SN 47.7, SN 52.10, also: "The Four Frames of Reference" in The Wings to Awakening
Generation, kinds of:
  MN 12
Horse-training, methods of:
  AN 4.111
Searches:
  ignoble, AN 4.252; noble, AN 4.252
Kamma, kinds of:
  MN 57, AN 4.235
Noble ones, pairs of:
  MN 118, Sn 2.1
Noble Truths:
  AN 3.61, SN 56.11, Khp 4
Noble understandings:
  AN 4.1
Nothing, things that are next to:
  Iti 101
Nutriments:
  SN 12.11, SN 12.12, SN 12.64
Obscurations to shining with Dhamma:
  AN 4.50
Off-course, ways of straying ~ in one's practice:
  AN 4.19
Paths to arahantship:
  AN 4.170
People, types of (fettered & unfettered):
  MN 66
People, types of (heading for darkness or light):
  AN 4.85
People, types of (practicing for oneself & others):
  AN 4.95, AN 4.96, AN 4.99
People, types of (practicing the brahma-viharas):
  AN 4.125, AN 4.126
People, types of (practicing jhāna):
  AN 4.123, AN 4.124
People, types of (tranquillity & insight):
  AN 4.94
Perceptions:
  AN 10.29
Personal traits that can be gauged by others:
  AN 4.192
Persons resembling thunderheads, kinds of:
  AN 4.102
Persons worthy of a stupa (burial mound):
  DN 16
Perversions of perception:
  AN 4.49
Pilgrimage sites (places to make merit):
  DN 16
Pleasant abidings in the here and now:
  AN 5.179
Practice, modes of:
  AN 4.162, AN 4.163, AN 4.164, AN 4.165, AN 10.29
Practices, ways of taking on:
  MN 45
Properties (dhatu; earth, liquid, fire, wind):
  DN 9, MN 28, MN 33, MN 109, SN 22.56, SN 22.57, SN 35.197, AN 11.18
Qualities that lead one to Nibbana:
  AN 4.37
Real things:
  SN 56.20
References, great:
  DN 16
Right exertions:
  "The Four Right Exertions" in The Wings to Awakening
Speech, kinds of right:
  Sn 3.3
Stream-entry, factors of:
  SN 55.30, SN 55.31, SN 55.32, SN 55.33, AN 10.92
Things not to be disparaged for being young:
  SN 3.1
Thoroughbred horses and persons, kinds of:
  AN 4.113
Traditions of the Noble Ones:
  AN 4.159
Unconjecturables (questions not worth asking):
  AN 4.77
Unyokings:
  AN 4.10
Vices:
  DN 31
Views about the Tathagata after death:
  SN 22.86
Warrior, qualities of:
  AN 4.181
Wealth and happiness, conditions for:
  AN 8.54
Wheels of prosperity:
  AN 4.31
Wilderness, qualities required for living in:
  AN 4.259
Yokes:
  AN 4.10
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Fours

# 5. Five

Aggregates:
  SN 22.48, SN 22.56, SN 22.85, SN 35.197, Khp 4. See also: "The Five Aggregates" (Study Guide)
Aggregates of one beyond training:
  SN 3.24
Attachments:
  Dhp 370
Concentration, factors of Noble Right:
  AN 5.28
Concentration, realizations arising from immeasurable:
  AN 5.27
Consummate, ways of being:
  AN 5.130
Destinations:
  MN 12
Dreams that appeared to the Buddha:
  AN 5.196
Escape, mental qualities leading to:
  AN 5.200, AN 6.13
Exertion, factors of:
  MN 90, AN 5.53
Exhortations for new monks:
  AN 5.114
Faculties:
  SN 48.10, SN 48.38, SN 48.39, Dhp 370, also: "The Five Faculties" in The Wings to Awakening
Fear and animosity, forms of:
  AN 10.92
Feelings:
  SN 36.22
Fetters:
  Dhp 370
Future dangers:
  AN 5.77, AN 5.78, AN 5.79, AN 5.80
Generosity, fruits of:
  AN 5.34
Gifts, great:
  AN 8.39
Gifts, timely:
  AN 5.36
Giving a meal, things given when:
  AN 5.37
Giving, qualities of ~ from a person of integrity:
  AN 5.148
Grave deeds:
  AN 5.129
Hatred, ways of subduing:
  AN 5.161, AN 5.162
Here & now, things that can turn out in two ways in the ~:
  MN 101
Hindrances:
  SN 3.24, SN 46.51, AN 9.64
Lay-follower, qualities that make one a good/bad:
  AN 5.175
Listening to Dhamma, rewards of:
  AN 5.202
Loss, kinds of:
  AN 5.130
Omens of a deva's imminent death:
  Iti 83
Pleasant things that are hard to obtain:
  AN 5.43
Possibilities that don't exist during meditation:
  AN 5.176
Precepts
Questions, motives behind:
  AN 5.165
Reflections for a practitioner of mindfulness of breathing:
  AN 5.96, AN 5.97, AN 5.98
Respect, things worthy of:
  SN 16.13
Rewards a lay person can expect for having conviction:
  AN 5.38
Sensuality, strings of:
  MN 13, MN 26, MN 59, MN 66, MN 105, MN 122, SN 36.19, SN 47.6, SN 47.7, AN 9.38, AN 9.42
Sick, contemplations to maintain when one is:
  AN 5.121
Speech, aspects of suitable:
  MN 21
Speech, factors of well-spoken:
  AN 5.198
Strengths:
  AN 5.2, AN 8.28; also: "The Five Strengths" in The Wings to Awakening
Subjects for frequent recollection:
  AN 5.57. See also "Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection" in A Chanting Guide.
Supporting factors for right view:
  AN 5.025
Teaching, qualities required for:
  AN 5.159
Training, things that weaken the:
  AN 9.63
Unshakeable state, qualities that lead to the:
  AN 5.95
Virtue, rewards of:
  Ud 8.6
Warriors, types of:
  AN 5.75
Wealth, benefits to be obtained from:
  AN 5.41
Wings to Awakening, prerequisites for:
  AN 9.1
Wishes that can never come true:
  AN 5.49
Worthy qualities of a king's elephant:
  AN 5.139, AN 5.140
Worthy qualities of a monk:
  AN 5.139, AN 5.140
Wrong livelihood, types of:
  AN 5.177
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Fives

# 6. Six

Actions of an arahant:
  AN 6.55
Amiability, conditions leading to:
  AN 6.12
Calmings:
  SN 36.11
Conditions to be remembered:
  DN 16
Consciousness, classes of:
  MN 137, MN 148, SN 12.2
Contact, classes of:
  MN 137, MN 148, SN 12.2
Craving, classes/spheres of:
  MN 148, SN 12.2, SN 35.88
Distress, kinds of:
  household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Equanimity, kinds of:
  household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Feeling, classes of:
  MN 148, SN 12.2, SN 22.56, SN 22.57 SN 36.22
Grave deeds:
  AN 6.87
Hooks {senses}:
  SN 35.189
Joy, kinds of:
  household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Obstructions to realizing the Dhamma:
  AN 6.86
Perception, kinds of:
  AN 6.63
Properties:
  MN 140, AN 3.61
Qualities:
  required for achieving the cooled state, AN 6.85; to help one realize the Dhamma, AN 6.88
Rewards of stream-entry:
  AN 6.97
Sense media:
  MN 140, SN 12.2, SN 12.15, SN 12.20, SN 12.23, SN 12.65, AN 3.61, Khp 4; external, MN 137, MN 148, SN 35.197; internal, MN 137, MN 148, SN 35.197.
Sextets:
  MN 148
View-positions:
  MN 22
Ways to facilitate growth of one's understanding of Dhamma :
  AN 6.51
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Sixes

# 7. Seven

Awakening, factors for:
  DN 16, SN 46.1, SN 46.14, SN 46.51, Khp 4; also: "The Seven Factors for Awakening" in The Wings to Awakening
Bases:
  SN 22.57
Consciousness, stations of:
  DN 15
Dhamma to last a long time, causes for the:
  AN 7.56
Drowsiness, things to shake off:
  AN 7.58
Enemy, things pleasing to your:
  AN 7.60
Friend, qualities of a:
  AN 7.35
Good qualities:
  MN 53, DN 16
Obsessions (anusaya):
  AN 7.11, AN 7.12
People, types of:
  MN 70, AN 7.15
Perceptions:
  DN 16, AN 7.46
Qualities that make one worthy of gifts:
  AN 7.64
Respect, kinds of ~ that lead to non-decline:
  AN 7.31, AN 7.32, AN 7.33, AN 7.34,
Sangha's long-term well-being, conditions for the:
  AN 7.21
Sexual attributes not worth attending to:
  AN 7.48
Treasures:
  AN 7.6, AN 7.7
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Sevens

# 8. Eight

Assemblies:
  DN 16, MN 12
Dimensions of mental mastery:
  AN 10.29
Discernment, causes of:
  AN 8.2
Downfall, causes of the ~ of families:
  SN 42.9
Earthquakes, causes of:
  DN 16
Emancipations:
  DN 15
Happiness in this life and the next, causes of:
  AN 8.54
Individuals worthy of gifts:
  AN 8.59
Lay follower, qualities of a:
  AN 8.25
Laziness, excuses for:
  AN 8.80
Liberations:
  DN 16
Mastery, fields of:
  DN 16
Noble Eightfold Path:
  SN 12.65, SN 22.56, SN 22.57, SN 35.145, SN 45.2, SN 45.8, SN 47.40, SN 56.11, Khp 4.
Noble ones, types of:
  Ud 5.5, Sn 2.1
Personal qualities that keep one in harmony with the Dhamma:
  AN 8.53
Precepts
Rare qualities in a person of wealth and power:
  AN 8.23, AN 8.24
Skillful conduct, rewards of:
  AN 8.39
Thoughts of a great person:
  AN 8.30
Unruly horses and unruly men:
  AN 8.14
Uposatha practices:
  AN 8.43, Sn 2.14
Worldly conditions:
  AN 8.6
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Eights

# 9. Nine

Abodes:
  Khp 4
Arahantship, obstructions to:
  AN 9.62
Concentration, attainments of:
  AN 9.36, AN 9.41, AN 9.43, AN 9.44, AN 9.45
Impossible actions of an arahant:
  AN 9.7
Nibbana, ways to describe the pleasure of:
  AN 9.34
Openings in the body:
  AN 9.15
Perceptions:
  AN 9.16
Streams:
  Sn 1.11
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Nines

# 10. Ten

Actions (unwholesome):
  MN 41, MN 136
Actions (wholesome):
  MN 41, MN 136
Arahant, qualities of:
  Khp 4
Armies of Māra:
  Sn 3.2
Benefits of contemplation of the body:
  MN 119
Fetters:
  AN 10.13
Indeterminates (questions the Buddha refused to answer):
  MN 63
Inspiring qualities in a monk:
  MN 108
Noble dwellings:
  AN 10.20
Perceptions:
  AN 10.60
Perfections:
  See "The Ten Perfections" (Study Guide)
Precepts
Praise, grounds for:
  AN 10.70
Protective qualities of mind:
  AN 10.17
Recollections:
  See "The Ten Recollections" (Study Guide)
Reflections for a monk:
  AN 10.48a
Skillful qualities:
  MN 78
Totality-dimensions:
  AN 10.29
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Tens

# 11. Eleven

Benefits of metta (good will):
  AN 11.16
Doorways to the Deathless:
  MN 52, AN 11.17
Spiritual growth:
  obstructions to, MN 33, AN 11.18; supports to, MN 33, AN 11.18
See also:
  Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Elevens

# 13. Thirteen

Ascetic practices:
  Thag 16.7

# 18. Eighteen

Craving-verbalizations:
  AN 4.199
Explorations for the intellect:
  MN 137, AN 3.61
Feelings:
  SN 36.22

# 20. Twenty

Factors siding with skillfulness:
  MN 117
Factors siding with unskillfulness:
  MN 117

# 31. Thirty-one

Planes of existence

# 32. Thirty-two

Parts of the body:
  SN 35.127, Khp 3. See also "Contemplation of the Body" in A Chanting Guide.

# 36. Thirty-six

Feelings:
  SN 36.22
States to which beings are attached (satta-pada):
  MN 137
Streams:
  Dhp 339

# 37. Thirty-seven

Wings to Awakening (bodhipakkhiyadhamma):
  The Wings to Awakening

# 108. One hundred eight

Craving-verbalizations:
  AN 4.199
Feelings:
  SN 36.22