THE WORDS OF THE BUDDHA — VOLUME 3

Foundation in The Teachings

Name: Foundation in The Teachings
Author: David Roylance

By David Roylance

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Journey through The Words of The Buddha with select Teachings organized from The Pāli Canon and explanations to support learning, reflection, and practice.

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Chapter	Title
Begin Here	Before You Begin	Read Chapter ➜
Note	Note from Author	Read Chapter ➜
Preface	Foundation in The Teachings	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 1	One Who Points Out Treasure	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 2	Rare That One Obtains the Human State	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 3	Consciousness Conditions Name-and-Form	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 4	Paying Homage to the Six Directions	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 5	Four Worthy Deeds to Be Undertaken with Wealth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 6	Repaying One’s Mother and Father	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 7	Affection and Hatred are Born	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 8	The Foremost, the Best, the Distinguished, the Supreme, and the Finest Householder	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 9	Welfare and Peacefulness in This Present Life	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 10	Four Things Leading to the Welfare and Peacefulness in Future Lives	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 11	Four Sources of Depletion and Accumulation of the Wealth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 12	Six Ways of Wasting One’s Substance	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 13	Five Cords of Sensual Pleasure	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 14	Five Factors of Well Spoken Speech	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 15	The Tathāgata’s Speech	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 16	Four Qualities of a Wholesome Person	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 17	Four Qualities of an Unwholesome Person	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 18	Do Not Go by Oral Tradition	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 19	To Understand Even a Single Sentence	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 20	Develop Meditation That is Like the Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Space	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 21	Gain, Honor, and Praise, Are an Obstacle Even For an Arahant	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 22	How Is a Monk Mindful and Exercising Clear Comprehension?	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 23	Wonderful and Marvelous Quality of The Tathāgata	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 24	The Six Subjects of Conscious Awareness	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 25	Having Full Awareness When Lying Down	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 26	From Darkness to Light - From Light to Light	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 27	Harmoniously Without Disputes	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 28	Disputes Arise from Craving	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 29	Dependent Origination	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 30	Cause of Ill Will	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 31	Craving/Desire is the Root of Discontentedness	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 32	Seven Principles to Prosper and Not Decline	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 33	Four Things that Lead to the Continuation of the Wholesome Teachings	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 34	Four Things that Lead to the Decline and Disappearance of the Wholesome Teachings	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 35	Conditioned Objects Are Impermanent	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 36	Become Unrighteous	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 37	Causes of a Decrease in People’s Lifespan	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 38	Craving, Anger, and Ignorance	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 39	Eight Qualities Are Fit to Share This Message	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 40	I Will Not Speak a Falsehood Even as a Joke	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 41	A Snake Has Passed Through Feces	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 42	Six Aspects of Kamma to Be Understood	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 43	This Body is Old Kamma	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 44	The Five Precepts	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 45	A Great Gift	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 46	The Eight Precepts The Uposatha Precepts	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 47	Ten Courses of Unwholesome Kamma	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 48	Ten Courses of Wholesome Kamma	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 49	The Benefits from Residing Possessed of Virtue	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 50	To Obtain a Straight Destination and Rebirth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 51	Leading to Hell, to the Animal Realm, and to the Realm of Afflicted Spirits	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 52	Reappear in a Happy Destination	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 53	Eight Worldly Conditions	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 54	Deeds with Fruit That Result in Great Accomplishment and Power	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 55	An Unsurpassed Field of Merit for the World	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 56	People Who Generate Much Merit (Wholesome Kamma)	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 57	Adjusted to a Balanced Pitch	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 58	The Pleasure of Sleep	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 59	One Who Is Constantly Dedicated	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 60	One Who Is Constantly Complacent	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 61	The Preservation of Truth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 62	The Discovery of Truth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 63	The Final Arrival at Truth	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 64	Five Future Dangers in the Way for Consideration	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 65	When the Mind Becomes Sluggish	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 66	When the Mind Becomes Excited	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 67	Four Developments of Concentration	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 68	Develop Concentration (First Discourse)	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 69	Develop Concentration (Second Discourse)	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 70	The First Jhāna Is Secure from Danger and Māra	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 71	Craving and Anger Does Not Exist	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 72	Calm and Reflection Have Part in True Wisdom	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 73	One Who Inclines Towards Nibbāna (Enlightenment)	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 74	Great Fruit and Benefit of Breathing Mindfulness Meditation (Anāpānasati)	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 75	Breathing Mindfulness Meditation An Excellent and Peaceful Dwelling	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 76	A Monk Who Is Not Lacking of Jhāna	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 77	Breathing In and Breathing Out Is a Certain Kind of Body	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 78	Mindfulness of the Body	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 79	One Who Has Developed and Cultivated Mindfulness of the Body	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 80	Mindfulness Directed to the Body “A Strong Post for Mind”	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 81	The Simile of The Tortoise	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 82	The Simile of the Bowl of Oil	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 83	Great Good of Mindfulness Directed to the Body	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 84	Training a Mind Filled with Loving-Kindness, without Hostility or Ill Will	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 85	Benefits of Developing Various Kinds of Meditation	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 86	One Who Is Capable of Entering and Residing in Right Concentration	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 87	Do Concentration in the Morning, in the Middle of the Day, and in the Evening	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 88	Remote Lodgings in Forests and Jungle Groves Are Hard to Endure	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 89	Four Times, Rightly Developed and Coordinated, Gradually Culminate in the Destruction of the Taints	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 90	One Should Be Mindful and Clearly Aware	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 91	Why Every Practitioner Should Study The Tathāgata’s Words	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 92	The Noble Eight Fold Path is The Wholesome Practice Instituted	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 93	The Buddha’s Last Days	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 94	Reside with The Teachings as Your Refuge	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 95	Four Criteria that Assure The Words of The Buddha	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 96	The Supreme Honor and Respect	Read Chapter ➜
Chapter 97	Teachings and Discipline Will Be Your Teacher	Read Chapter ➜