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| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| MEDITATION AND NIRVANA. | ||
| Introductory Discourse | 280 | |
| § 57. | The Way of Purity | 285 |
| 58. | Concentration | 288 |
| 59. | The Thirty-one Grades of Being | 289 |
| 60. | The Forty Subjects of Meditation | 291 |
| 61. | The Earth-kasina | 293 |
| 62. | Beauty is but Skin-deep | 297 |
| 63. | The Conversion of Animals | 301 |
| 64. | Love for Animals | 302 |
| 65. | The Six High Powers | 303 |
| 66. | Spiritual Law in the Natural World | 306 |
| 67. | Going Further and Faring Worse | 308 |
| 68. | Sāriputta and the Two Demons | 313 |
| 69. | World-cycles | 315 |
| 70. | Wisdom | 330 |
| 71. | The Summum Bonum | 331 |
| 72. | Māra as Plowman | 349 |
| 73. | The Fire-sermon | 351 |
| 74. | The Four Intent Contemplations | 353 |
| 75. | The Attainment of the Paths | 376 |
| 76. | Nirvana to be attained at Death | 380 |
| 77. | The Attainment of Nirvana by Godhika | 380 |
| 78. | The Trance of Cessation | 383 |
| 79. | The Attainment of Nirvana | 389 |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| THE ORDER. | ||
| Introductory Discourse | 392 | |
| § 80. | Conduct | 393 |
| 81. | The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies | 393 |
| 82. | The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest | 401 |
| 83. | The Buddhist Confession of Priests | 402 |
| 84. | The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses | 411 |
| 85. | Residence during the Rainy Season | 414 |
| 86. | The Mendicant Ideal | 417 |
| 87. | The Value of Training in Religion | 420 |
| 88. | The colorless Life | 421 |
| 89. | Can the Saint suffer? | 429 |
| 90. | The Body is an open Sore | 423 |
