The Book of the Ones

The Buddha explains how the mind can be obsessed by the senses.

The Buddha explains what causes the hindrances to arise and how to abandon them.

The Buddha contrasts the undeveloped and developed mind.

Short teachings contrasting the untamed and the tamed mind.

The Buddha contrasts the misdirected and well-directed mind, and explains the importance of directing the mind.

The Buddha explains the importance of developing a radiant mind, a mind of loving-kindness and the consequences of negligence, diligence, and laziness.

The Buddha explains the importance of rousing of energy and the consequences of having many desires, few desires, dissatisfaction, contentment, (careless) attention, radical attention, clear comprehension and lack of it, and bad friendship.

The Buddha explains the importance of good friendship, the consequences of habitual engagement in unwholesome and wholesome qualities, wise and superficial attention, the loss or increase of relatives, wealth, and reputation contrasted with the loss or increase of wisdom.

The Buddha explains the consequences of negligence and diligence, idleness and arousing of energy, having many desires and having few wishes, discontentment and contentment, unwise and radical attention, clear awareness and lack of it, bad and good friendships, and good and bad habits.

The Buddha lists the mental qualities that form the internal factors leading to harm or benefit, the qualities that lead to the decline or continuity of the good Dhamma, and the actions that lead to the harm of many people.

The Buddha shares the importance of explaining correctly what is not the Dhamma, Vinaya, spoken or uttered, practiced, and prescribed by the Tathāgata.

The Buddha shares the importance of correctly explaining offenses and non-offenses, and the harm or benefit that comes from doing so.

The Buddha describes the unique qualities of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the perfectly Awakened One.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his bhikkhu disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his bhikkhu disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his bhikkhu disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his bhikkhu disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his bhikkhunī disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his lay disciples in various categories.

The Buddha describes the foremost of his female lay disciples in various categories.

The Buddha shares the importance of recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma, Saṅgha, one’s virtue, generosity, deities, in-and-out breathing, death, body, and peace.

The Buddha describes how wrong view leads to unwholesome qualities and suffering, while right view leads to wholesome qualities and happiness and what kind of attention fuels what kind of view.

The dangers of wrong view and the benefits of right view. A badly expounded teaching leads even the energetic to suffering, while a well-expounded one rewards the diligent. The Buddha does not praise even a tiny amount of existence.

Using the simile of Jambudīpa's rare delightful parks amid rugged terrain, the Buddha illustrates how rare it is to be reborn as a human, to encounter the Dhamma, and to gain the taste of liberation.

The Buddha shares qualities that inspire confidence in the spiritual life.

How much practice makes one a true practitioner? The Buddha declares that even a “finger snap” of cultivation fulfills the Teacher's instruction. A rapid-fire survey of the path's essential practices, emphasizing that if a moment is worthy, frequent practice is beyond measure.

Short teachings on the benefits of cultivating mindfulness of the body.

The Buddha explains the importance of mindfulness of the body in partaking in the deathless.