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This is a partial index of numerically arranged topics that appear in the suttas available here at Access to Insight.

1. One   

Food:
Khp 4
Quality leading to benefits in this life and the next:
Iti 23
Quality that leads to the development of the five faculties:
SN 48.56
Quality to be abandoned:
Iti 1, Iti 2, Iti 3, Iti 4, Iti 5, Iti 6
Taste:
Ud 5.5
Transgression that leads to evil:
Iti 25
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Ones

2. Two   

Assemblies, kinds of:
AN 2.46
Assistance, kinds of:
Iti 98, Iti 100
Bodily conduct, kinds of:
DN 21
Dhamma discourses given in sequence:
Iti 39
Ease, causes of living with:
Iti 29
Equanimity, kinds of:
DN 21
Extremes:
SN 12.15, SN 56.11, Ud 6.8
Feelings:
SN 36.22
Fermentations (asava), qualities that lead to the ending of:
Iti 37
Fools:
AN 2.21, AN 2.98
Forms, kinds of:
DN 21
Gifts, kinds of:
Iti 98, Iti 100
Grief, kinds of:
DN 21
Guardians:
AN 2.9
Heaven, causes of rebirth in:
Iti 33
Hell, causes of rebirth in:
Iti 32, Iti 48
Joy, kinds of:
DN 21
Mass-donations, kinds of:
Iti 100
Name-and-Form (nama-rupa):
Khp 4
Nibbana, aspects of:
Iti 44
Pains:
SN 36.6
People who slander the Tathagata:
AN 2.23, AN 2.25
Remorse, causes of:
Iti 30
Remorse, causes of no:
Iti 31
Safeguards of the world:
Iti 42
Searches, kinds of:
DN 21, MN 26
Sharing, kinds of:
Iti 98, Iti 100
Stress, causes of:
Iti 28
Thinking, sorts of:
MN 19
Trains of thought that often occur to the Tathagata:
Iti 38
Unbinding property, forms of:
Iti 44
Verbal conduct, kinds of:
DN 21
Views:
MN 11, SN 22.80
Wise persons:
AN 2.21
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Twos

3. Three   

Actions, kinds of:
AN 3.15
Acquisitions of a self:
DN 9
Becoming, kinds of:
SN 12.2
Bliss, kinds of:
Iti 76
Causes for the origination of actions:
AN 3.33
Cleanliness, kinds of:
Iti 66
Cravings:
Iti 58
Dangers that can separate mother and child:
AN 3.62
Defilements:
SN 3.23, AN 3.65
Dhamma, properties of:
AN 3.134
Discussion, topics for:
AN 3.67
Divine sounds:
Iti 82
Dukkha, kinds of:
SN 38.14, SN 45.165
Escape, properties of:
Iti 72
Eyes:
Iti 61
Fabrications, characteristics of:
AN 3.47
Fabrications, kinds of:
SN 12.2, SN 41.6
Faculties:
Iti 62
Falling away of a monk, things that lead to the:
Iti 79
False Dhamma, forms of:
Iti 89
Feeling, kinds of:
DN 15, MN 59, SN 36.19, SN 36.22, Iti 52, Iti 53, Khp 4
Fermentations:
Iti 56, Iti 57
Fires (passion, aversion, delusion):
Iti 93
Fool, qualities of a:
AN 3.2
Gems
 
Good conduct, kinds of:
Iti 65
Governing principles:
AN 3.40
Grounds for meritorious action:
Iti 60
Internal stains/enemies/murderers:
Iti 88
Intoxication, forms of:
AN 3.38
Investigation, modes of:
SN 22.57
Miracles:
DN 11, AN 3.60
Misconduct, kinds of:
Iti 64
Palaces of the Buddha:
AN 3.38
People, types of:
AN 3.22, Iti 75
Persons appearing in the world for the benefit of many:
Iti 84
Properties:
Iti 51
Qualities a successful monk possesses:
Iti 59
Refuges
 
Roots of unskillful action:
AN 3.69, Iti 50
Sagacity, forms of:
AN 3.120, Iti 67
Searches:
Iti 54, Iti 55
Sectarian guilds:
AN 3.61
Sensual pleasures, ways of obtaining:
Iti 95
Sick people, types of:
AN 3.22
Sons and daughters, types of:
Iti 74
Stressfulness, kinds of:
SN 38.14
Supreme objects of confidence:
Iti 90
Teacher:
frames of reference for becoming a good, MN 137; kinds of, DN 12
Themes:
AN 3.100 (xi-xv)
Thoughts, skillful:
Iti 87
Thoughts, unskillful:
Iti 80, Iti 87, SN 22.80
Times:
Iti 63
Trainings:
AN 3.88, AN 3.89
Uposathas:
AN 3.70
Urgent duties of a farming householder:
AN 3.91
Urgent duties of a monk:
AN 3.91
Wise person, qualities of a:
AN 3.2
Worldly and harmful qualities:
SN 3.23
Worthy qualities of a monk:
AN 3.94
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Threes

4. Four   

Amazing qualities of Ananda:
DN 16
Amazing qualities of a universal monarch:
DN 16
Answering questions, ways of:
AN 4.42
Archers:
SN 20.6
Assurances:
AN 3.65
Attainments, specific:
DN 16
Bases of power (iddhi):
SN 51.20, also: "The Four Bases of Power" in The Wings to Awakening
Birthplaces of craving:
Iti 105
Bliss, kinds of:
AN 4.62
Bonds of fellowship, grounds for:
AN 4.32
Born, things that are:
AN 4.200
Brahma-viharas:
AN 3.65
Causes for the body to come into existence:
AN 4.159
Clinging, kinds of:
SN 12.2
Concentration, developments of:
AN 4.41
Courses of action:
AN 4.115
Craving, birthplaces of:
Iti 105
Determinations:
MN 140
Discernment, qualities of a person with great:
AN 4.35
Family losing/preserving its wealth, causes of:
AN 4.255
Fear of death, ways of overcoming:
AN 4.184
Floods:
SN 45.171
Flow, types of individuals who go with or against the:
AN 4.5
Frames of reference:
SN 47.6, SN 47.7, SN 52.10, also: "The Four Frames of Reference" in The Wings to Awakening
Generation, kinds of:
MN 12
Horse-training, methods of:
AN 4.111
Searches:
ignoble, AN 4.252; noble, AN 4.252
Kamma, kinds of:
MN 57, AN 4.235
Noble ones, pairs of:
MN 118, Sn 2.1
Noble Truths:
AN 3.61, SN 56.11, Khp 4
Noble understandings:
AN 4.1
Nothing, things that are next to:
Iti 101
Nutriments:
SN 12.11, SN 12.12, SN 12.64
Obscurations to shining with Dhamma:
AN 4.50
Off-course, ways of straying ~ in one's practice:
AN 4.19
Paths to arahantship:
AN 4.170
People, types of (fettered & unfettered):
MN 66
People, types of (heading for darkness or light):
AN 4.85
People, types of (practicing for oneself & others):
AN 4.95, AN 4.96, AN 4.99
People, types of (practicing the brahma-viharas):
AN 4.125, AN 4.126
People, types of (practicing jhāna):
AN 4.123, AN 4.124
People, types of (tranquillity & insight):
AN 4.94
Perceptions:
AN 10.29
Personal traits that can be gauged by others:
AN 4.192
Persons resembling thunderheads, kinds of:
AN 4.102
Persons worthy of a stupa (burial mound):
DN 16
Perversions of perception:
AN 4.49
Pilgrimage sites (places to make merit):
DN 16
Pleasant abidings in the here and now:
AN 5.179
Practice, modes of:
AN 4.162, AN 4.163, AN 4.164, AN 4.165, AN 10.29
Practices, ways of taking on:
MN 45
Properties (dhatu; earth, liquid, fire, wind):
DN 9, MN 28, MN 33, MN 109, SN 22.56, SN 22.57, SN 35.197, AN 11.18
Qualities that lead one to Nibbana:
AN 4.37
Real things:
SN 56.20
References, great:
DN 16
Right exertions:
"The Four Right Exertions" in The Wings to Awakening
Speech, kinds of right:
Sn 3.3
Stream-entry, factors of:
SN 55.30, SN 55.31, SN 55.32, SN 55.33, AN 10.92
Things not to be disparaged for being young:
SN 3.1
Thoroughbred horses and persons, kinds of:
AN 4.113
Traditions of the Noble Ones:
AN 4.159
Unconjecturables (questions not worth asking):
AN 4.77
Unyokings:
AN 4.10
Vices:
DN 31
Views about the Tathagata after death:
SN 22.86
Warrior, qualities of:
AN 4.181
Wealth and happiness, conditions for:
AN 8.54
Wheels of prosperity:
AN 4.31
Wilderness, qualities required for living in:
AN 4.259
Yokes:
AN 4.10
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Fours

5. Five   

Aggregates:
SN 22.48, SN 22.56, SN 22.85, SN 35.197, Khp 4. See also: "The Five Aggregates" (Study Guide)
Aggregates of one beyond training:
SN 3.24
Attachments:
Dhp 370
Concentration, factors of Noble Right:
AN 5.28
Concentration, realizations arising from immeasurable:
AN 5.27
Consummate, ways of being:
AN 5.130
Destinations:
MN 12
Dreams that appeared to the Buddha:
AN 5.196
Escape, mental qualities leading to:
AN 5.200, AN 6.13
Exertion, factors of:
MN 90, AN 5.53
Exhortations for new monks:
AN 5.114
Faculties:
SN 48.10, SN 48.38, SN 48.39, Dhp 370, also: "The Five Faculties" in The Wings to Awakening
Fear and animosity, forms of:
AN 10.92
Feelings:
SN 36.22
Fetters:
Dhp 370
Future dangers:
AN 5.77, AN 5.78, AN 5.79, AN 5.80
Generosity, fruits of:
AN 5.34
Gifts, great:
AN 8.39
Gifts, timely:
AN 5.36
Giving a meal, things given when:
AN 5.37
Giving, qualities of ~ from a person of integrity:
AN 5.148
Grave deeds:
AN 5.129
Hatred, ways of subduing:
AN 5.161, AN 5.162
Here & now, things that can turn out in two ways in the ~:
MN 101
Hindrances:
SN 3.24, SN 46.51, AN 9.64
Lay-follower, qualities that make one a good/bad:
AN 5.175
Listening to Dhamma, rewards of:
AN 5.202
Loss, kinds of:
AN 5.130
Omens of a deva's imminent death:
Iti 83
Pleasant things that are hard to obtain:
AN 5.43
Possibilities that don't exist during meditation:
AN 5.176
Precepts
 
Questions, motives behind:
AN 5.165
Reflections for a practitioner of mindfulness of breathing:
AN 5.96, AN 5.97, AN 5.98
Respect, things worthy of:
SN 16.13
Rewards a lay person can expect for having conviction:
AN 5.38
Sensuality, strings of:
MN 13, MN 26, MN 59, MN 66, MN 105, MN 122, SN 36.19, SN 47.6, SN 47.7, AN 9.38, AN 9.42
Sick, contemplations to maintain when one is:
AN 5.121
Speech, aspects of suitable:
MN 21
Speech, factors of well-spoken:
AN 5.198
Strengths:
AN 5.2, AN 8.28; also: "The Five Strengths" in The Wings to Awakening
Subjects for frequent recollection:
AN 5.57. See also "Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection" in A Chanting Guide.
Supporting factors for right view:
AN 5.025
Teaching, qualities required for:
AN 5.159
Training, things that weaken the:
AN 9.63
Unshakeable state, qualities that lead to the:
AN 5.95
Virtue, rewards of:
Ud 8.6
Warriors, types of:
AN 5.75
Wealth, benefits to be obtained from:
AN 5.41
Wings to Awakening, prerequisites for:
AN 9.1
Wishes that can never come true:
AN 5.49
Worthy qualities of a king's elephant:
AN 5.139, AN 5.140
Worthy qualities of a monk:
AN 5.139, AN 5.140
Wrong livelihood, types of:
AN 5.177
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Fives

6. Six   

Actions of an arahant:
AN 6.55
Amiability, conditions leading to:
AN 6.12
Calmings:
SN 36.11
Conditions to be remembered:
DN 16
Consciousness, classes of:
MN 137, MN 148, SN 12.2
Contact, classes of:
MN 137, MN 148, SN 12.2
Craving, classes/spheres of:
MN 148, SN 12.2, SN 35.88
Distress, kinds of:
household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Equanimity, kinds of:
household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Feeling, classes of:
MN 148, SN 12.2, SN 22.56, SN 22.57 SN 36.22
Grave deeds:
AN 6.87
Hooks {senses}:
SN 35.189
Joy, kinds of:
household, MN 137; renunciation, MN 137
Obstructions to realizing the Dhamma:
AN 6.86
Perception, kinds of:
AN 6.63
Properties:
MN 140, AN 3.61
Qualities:
required for achieving the cooled state, AN 6.85; to help one realize the Dhamma, AN 6.88
Rewards of stream-entry:
AN 6.97
Sense media:
MN 140, SN 12.2, SN 12.15, SN 12.20, SN 12.23, SN 12.65, AN 3.61, Khp 4; external, MN 137, MN 148, SN 35.197; internal, MN 137, MN 148, SN 35.197.
Sextets:
MN 148
View-positions:
MN 22
Ways to facilitate growth of one's understanding of Dhamma :
AN 6.51
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Sixes

7. Seven   

Awakening, factors for:
DN 16, SN 46.1, SN 46.14, SN 46.51, Khp 4; also: "The Seven Factors for Awakening" in The Wings to Awakening
Bases:
SN 22.57
Consciousness, stations of:
DN 15
Dhamma to last a long time, causes for the:
AN 7.56
Drowsiness, things to shake off:
AN 7.58
Enemy, things pleasing to your:
AN 7.60
Friend, qualities of a:
AN 7.35
Good qualities:
MN 53, DN 16
Obsessions (anusaya):
AN 7.11, AN 7.12
People, types of:
MN 70, AN 7.15
Perceptions:
DN 16, AN 7.46
Qualities that make one worthy of gifts:
AN 7.64
Respect, kinds of ~ that lead to non-decline:
AN 7.31, AN 7.32, AN 7.33, AN 7.34,
Sangha's long-term well-being, conditions for the:
AN 7.21
Sexual attributes not worth attending to:
AN 7.48
Treasures:
AN 7.6, AN 7.7
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Sevens

8. Eight   

Assemblies:
DN 16, MN 12
Dimensions of mental mastery:
AN 10.29
Discernment, causes of:
AN 8.2
Downfall, causes of the ~ of families:
SN 42.9
Earthquakes, causes of:
DN 16
Emancipations:
DN 15
Happiness in this life and the next, causes of:
AN 8.54
Individuals worthy of gifts:
AN 8.59
Lay follower, qualities of a:
AN 8.25
Laziness, excuses for:
AN 8.80
Liberations:
DN 16
Mastery, fields of:
DN 16
Noble Eightfold Path:
SN 12.65, SN 22.56, SN 22.57, SN 35.145, SN 45.2, SN 45.8, SN 47.40, SN 56.11, Khp 4.
Noble ones, types of:
Ud 5.5, Sn 2.1
Personal qualities that keep one in harmony with the Dhamma:
AN 8.53
Precepts
 
Rare qualities in a person of wealth and power:
AN 8.23, AN 8.24
Skillful conduct, rewards of:
AN 8.39
Thoughts of a great person:
AN 8.30
Unruly horses and unruly men:
AN 8.14
Uposatha practices:
AN 8.43, Sn 2.14
Worldly conditions:
AN 8.6
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Eights

9. Nine   

Abodes:
Khp 4
Arahantship, obstructions to:
AN 9.62
Concentration, attainments of:
AN 9.36, AN 9.41, AN 9.43, AN 9.44, AN 9.45
Impossible actions of an arahant:
AN 9.7
Nibbana, ways to describe the pleasure of:
AN 9.34
Openings in the body:
AN 9.15
Perceptions:
AN 9.16
Streams:
Sn 1.11
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Nines

10. Ten   

Actions (unwholesome):
MN 41, MN 136
Actions (wholesome):
MN 41, MN 136
Arahant, qualities of:
Khp 4
Armies of Māra:
Sn 3.2
Benefits of contemplation of the body:
MN 119
Fetters:
AN 10.13
Indeterminates (questions the Buddha refused to answer):
MN 63
Inspiring qualities in a monk:
MN 108
Noble dwellings:
AN 10.20
Perceptions:
AN 10.60
Perfections:
See "The Ten Perfections" (Study Guide)
Precepts
 
Praise, grounds for:
AN 10.70
Protective qualities of mind:
AN 10.17
Recollections:
See "The Ten Recollections" (Study Guide)
Reflections for a monk:
AN 10.48a
Skillful qualities:
MN 78
Totality-dimensions:
AN 10.29
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Tens

11. Eleven   

Benefits of metta (good will):
AN 11.16
Doorways to the Deathless:
MN 52, AN 11.17
Spiritual growth:
obstructions to, MN 33, AN 11.18; supports to, MN 33, AN 11.18
See also:
Anguttara Nikaya, Book of the Elevens

13. Thirteen   

Ascetic practices:
Thag 16.7

18. Eighteen   

Craving-verbalizations:
AN 4.199
Explorations for the intellect:
MN 137, AN 3.61
Feelings:
SN 36.22

20. Twenty   

Factors siding with skillfulness:
MN 117
Factors siding with unskillfulness:
MN 117

31. Thirty-one   

Planes of existence
 

32. Thirty-two   

Parts of the body:
SN 35.127, Khp 3. See also "Contemplation of the Body" in A Chanting Guide.

36. Thirty-six   

Feelings:
SN 36.22
States to which beings are attached (satta-pada):
MN 137
Streams:
Dhp 339

37. Thirty-seven   

Wings to Awakening (bodhipakkhiyadhamma):
The Wings to Awakening

108. One hundred eight   

Craving-verbalizations:
AN 4.199
Feelings:
SN 36.22