VENERABLE NĀRADA MAHĀTHERA

CHAPTER 33 NIBBĀNA “Nibbāna is bliss supreme.” — DHAMMAPADA Nibbāna is the summum bonum of Buddhism. However clearly and descriptively one may

CHAPTER 34 CHARACTERISTICS OF NIBBĀNA “What is Nibbāna, friend? The destruction of lust, the destruction of hatred, the destruction of

CHAPTER 35 THE WAY TO NIBBĀNA (1) “This Middle Path leads to tranquillity, realization, enlightenment and Nibbāna.” — DHAMMACAKKA SUTTA

CHAPTER 36 THE WAY TO NIBBĀNA (II) MEDITATION “One way to acquire gain, another that leads to Nibbāna. — DHAMMAPADA

CHAPTER 37 NĪVARANA OR HINDRANCES “There are these five corruptions of the heart, tainted by which the heart is neither soft,

CHAPTER 38 THE WAY TO NIBBĀNA (III) Transcient are all conditioned things, Sorrowful are all conditioned things, Soulless are all

CHAPTER 39 THE STATE OF AN ARAHANT “Though little he recites the Sacred Texts, but acts in accordance with the

CHAPTER 40 THE BODHISATTA IDEAL “This body of flesh and blood I bear Just for the world’s good and welfare.”

CHAPTER 41 PĀRAMĪ – PERFECTIONS “Work for the welfare of others.” — SUTTA NIPĀTA There are ten transcendental virtues, which, in Pāli, are

CHAPTER 42 BRAHMAVIHĀRA – THE SUBLIME STATES “Rare is birth as a human being. Hard is the life of mortals.”

CHAPTER 43 EIGHT WORLDLY CONDITIONS Vicissitudes of Life (Atthalokadhamma) This ill-balanced world is not absolutely rosy. Nor is it totally

CHAPTER 44 THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE Who? Whence? Whither? Why? What? are some important problems that affect all humanity. 1) Who