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UNIQUE DHAMMAS
There is only one unique situation where Suffering
(Dukkha) is eliminated. It is Nibbana without
geographical location. It is there where the four fundamental
elements find no footing.
TWOFOLD DHAMMAS
Two Male Chief Disciples: Thera Sariputta (Right
Wing) and Thera Moggallana (Left Wing)
Two Female Chief Disciples: Theri Khema (Right
Wing) and Theri Uppalavanna (Left Wing)
Two seven-year-old Arahatswere Samanera Sumana
and Samanera Pandita (Sukha) (Ref: Dhammapada V. 382 &
V.80)
Two kinds of Happiness (Sukha) : Kayasukha and
Cittasukha.
Two Foremost Teachers: The Mother and the Father
Two kinds of personality Belief (Sakkaya Ditthi): (1)
takes delight in individuality (Sakkaya bhirata) and (2) who strives
towards cessation of mind and matter phenomena(Nibbana bhirata).
Two kinds of Individual (Bhirata): eternity belief (sassata
ditthi) and annihilation belief (uccheda ditthi).
Two persons which one can never pay back
gratitude-debts in full: the Mother and the Father who
raised one up.
Two principles guarding the world ( Lokapala
dhamma):
THREEFOLD DHAMMAS
The Three Baskets: Tipitakas: Vinaya, Sutta and
Abhidhamma
Three kinds of Bodhisatta; those destined to become
a Buddha ():
1. Dana
2. Sila
3. Vipassana
1. Impermanence ( anicca),
2. Suffering or unsatisfactoriness (dukkha) and
3. The uncontrollable and non-self nature (anatta)
FOURFOLD DHAMMAS
Four Noble Truths
1. Robes
2. Alms-food
3. Dwelling, and
4. Medicine
1. chandiddhipado,- chanda
2. viryaddhipado, - viriya
3. cittiddhipado, - citta
4. vimamsiddhipado, - vimamsa or panna
FIVEFOLD DHAMMAS
1. Five nivaranas
2. Five khandhas
3. Twelve Ayatanas
4. Seven Bojjhangas, and
5. Four Ariya Saccas
The Five Nivarana or Hindrances of the way to
liberation
1. faith: saddha
2. energy: viriya
3. mindfulness: sati
4. concentration: samadhi
5. wisdom: panna
Five Aggregates(Khandhas):
1. Kondanna,
2. Vappa,
3. Bhaddiya,
4. Mahanama and
5. Assaji.
1. Matricide,
2. Patricide,
3. The murder of an Arahant,
4. The wounding of a Buddha and
5. The creation of a Schism (splitting) in the Bhikkhu
Samgha
.
The Five Veras (Enemies )
1. Floods
2. Fire(Conflagrations)
3. Bad Ruler
4. Thieves
5. Bad sons and daughters who are unworthy heirs
Five Indriyas :
(Factors or faculties of Enlightenment)
1. faith (saddha);
2. energy (viriya);
3. mindfulness (sati);
4. concentration (samadhi);
5. wisdom (panna).
SIXFOLD DHAMMAS
1. Catumaharajika
2. Tavatimsa
3. Yama
4. Tusita
5. Nimmanarati
6. Paranimmita-vasavati
SEVENFOLD DHAMMAS
Seven Anusayas(Latent Defilements)
EIGHTFOLD DHAMMAS
Eight Constituents of the Path, Eightfold Path,
Noble Ariya Atthangika Magga, (magganga)
1. Sanjiva
2. Kalasutta
3. Sanghata
4. Roruva
5. Maharoruva
6. Tapana
7. Mahatapana
8. Avici
NINEFOLD DHAMMAS
Nine benefits of Satipatthana Practice
mental piuification;
overcoming of sorrow (soka);
overcoming of lamentation (parideva);
overcoming of physical pain (kayika dukkha);
overcoming of grief (domanassa);
overcoming of defilements (kilesa);
detachment (viveka);
freedom (pamokkha);
liberation (vimokkha).
TENFOLD DHAMMAS
Ten Akusala Kammapathas
: Paths to evil or demerit
3 bodily actions:
1. Killing
2. Stealing
3. Commiting Adultery and taking Intoxicants
4 verbal actions:
1. Telling lies
2. Setting one against others (slandering)
3. Using rough and abusive words (rude speech)
4. Indulging in unbeneficial speech
3 mental actions:
3 bodily actions:
1. avoidance of Killing
2. avoidance of Stealing
3. avoidance of unlawful sexual intercourse
4 verbal actions:
1. avoidance of lying
2. avoidance of slandering
3. avoidance of rude speech
4. avoidance of unbeneficial speech
3 mental actions:
1. right views
2. good-will
3. unselfishness,
1. greed , lobha;
2. hatred, dosa;
3. bewilderment, moha;
4. conceit, mana;
5. wrong view, ditthi;
6. doubt, vicikiccha;
7. mental torpor, thina;
8. restlessness, uddhacca;
9. shamelessness (to do evil), ahirika; and
10. not fearing (to do evil), anottappa.
ELEVENFOLD DHAMMAS
Eleven Advantages of Metta Bhavana
TWELVEOLD DHAMMAS
Twelve kinds of Bhikkhu
THIRTEEN-FOLD DHAMMAS
13 dhutangas or strict observances
EIGHTEEN-FOLD DHAMMAS
18 physical and mental elements that constitute the
process of perception
REFERENCES
"DHAMMA RATANA", Vol. 1, Ashin Kundalabhivamsa,
1998