This chapter consists of short discourses that explore singular concepts or principles central to the Buddha's teachings. Each sutta in this collection highlights a single factor or quality, such as mindfulness, collectedness, or ethical conduct. These concise teachings offer foundational insights into the Dhamma, emphasizing the importance of individual qualities that contribute to the path of spiritual development. The "Book of Ones" serves as an essential resource for understanding the core elements of the Buddha's teachings in a straightforward and accessible format.
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 arousing energy and the consequences of having many desires, few desires, dissatisfaction, contentment, (careless) attention, |wise::careful, mindful| attention, lack of clear comprehension, clear |comprehension::attentiveness|, and bad friendship.
The Buddha explains the importance of good friendship, the consequences of habitual engagement in unwholesome and wholesome qualities, wise and unwise 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, laziness and arousing of energy, having many desires and having few wishes, discontentment and contentment, unwise and wise attention, wrong and right view, full awareness and lack of it, bad and good friendship.
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 true 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, discipline, spoken or uttered, practiced, and prescribed by the Tathāgata.
The Buddha describes the unique qualities of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the perfectly Awakened One.
Short teachings on the impossibility of certain events, actions, or outcomes.
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 shares qualities that inspire confidence in the spiritual life.
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.