Contents

Preface

Part One: The Section with Verses (Sagāthaka Vagga)

Devatā Saṃyutta ('[The Group on] Devas')

Doomed (1. 1. 3.)
Vain Conceits (1. 1. 9)
Difficult (or The Tortoise) (1. 2. 7.)
Samiddhi (1. 2. 10.)
The Arahant (1. 3. 5.)

Devaputta Saṃyutta ('Sons of the Devas')

Tāyana (2.1.8.)
Jantu (2.3.5.)

Kosala Saṃyutta ('At Kosala')

Mallikā (3.1.8)
A Heavy Meal (3.2.3.)

Brāhmaṇa Saṃyutta ('Brahmans')

Dhanañjāni (7.1.1.)
Abuse (7.1.2.)
Sangārava (7.2.11)

Part Two: The Section on Causation (Nidāna-Vagga)

Nidāna Saṃyutta ('Causation')

Gotama, the Great Sage of the Sakyas (SN 12.10)
Kaccāyana (SN 12.15)
The Teacher of Dhamma (SN 12.16)
Naked Kassapa (part) (SN 12.17)
From the 'Ten Powers' Sutta (SN 12.22)
From the Upanisā Sutta (SN 12.23)
Volition (SN 12.38)
Ānanda's Mistake (SN 12.60)

Kassapa Saṃyutta ('About Kassapa')

Contentment (SN 16.1)
Carelessness (SN 16.2)
False Dhamma (SN 16.13)

Labhasakkara Saṃyutta ('Gains and Favors')

The Dung-Beetle (SN 17.5)

Bhikkhu Saṃyutta ('About Monks')

Nanda (SN 21.8)

Part Three: The Section on the Aggregates (Khandha-Vagga)

Khandha Saṃyutta ('The Aggregates')

Grasping and Worry (SN 22.7)
The Burden (SN 22.22)
An Island to Oneself (SN 22.43)
Ways of Regarding (SN 22.47)
Soṇa (or Conceit) (SN 22.49)
Clinging (SN 22.63)
Going Begging (part): A Stern Admonition (SN 22.80)
Tissa the Waverer (part) (SN 22.84)
Anurādha is Caught Out (SN 22.86)
Vakkali (part): Seeing the Dhamma (SN 22.87)
Khemaka (part) (SN 22.89)
The Sotāpanna ('Stream-Winner') (SN 22.109)
The Arahant (SN 22.110)

Part Four: The Section on the Sixfold Sense-Base (Salāyatana Vagga)

Salāyatana Saṃyutta ('The Sixfold Sense-Base')

Migajāla (or Dwelling Alone) (SN 35.63)
Māluṇkyaputta (SN 35.95)
Sāriputta (SN 35.120)
Bhāradvāja Instructs a King (SN 35.127)
Lohicca (SN 35.132)
Verahaccāni (or How to Listen to Dhamma) (SN 35.133)
Kamma (SN 35.145)
Is There a Criterion (SN 35.152)
The Ocean (SN 35.187)
Koṭṭhika (SN 35.191)
Things Productive of Suffering (extracts) (SN 35.203)
The 'What's It' Tree (Kiṃsuka) (SN 35.204)
The Ox (from section entitled 'The Lute') (SN 35.205)
The Six Animals (part) (SN 35.206)

Moggallāna Saṃyutta ('About Moggallāna')

The Signless (SN 40.9)

Citta Saṃyutta ('About the Householder Citta')

Seeing the Sick (Citta) (SN 41.10)

Gāmani Saṃyutta ('About Village Headmen')

Teaching (SN 42.7)

Part Five: The Great Section (Mahā-Vagga)

Magga Saṃyutta ('About the Path')

For All Comers (SN 45.159)
Suffering (SN 45.165)

Bojjhanga Saṃyutta ('About the Factors of Enlightenment')

Fire (or Right and Wrong Times) (SN 46.53)
The Brahma-Vihāras (SN 46.54)
Sangārava (or The Hindrances) (SN 46.55)

Satipaṭṭhāna Saṃyutta ('About Mindfulness')

Mindfulness (from The Nuns' Lodging) (SN 47.10)
Obligation (Pāṭimokkha) (SN 47.46)

Indriya Saṃyutta ('About the Faculties')

The Brahman Uṇṇābha (SN 48.42)
In the Foot (SN 48.54)

Sotapatti Saṃyutta ('About Stream-Winners')

Sarakāni (Who Took to Drink) (SN 55.24)

Sacca Saṃyutta ('About the (Four Noble) Truths')

Wordy Warfare (SN 56.9)
Knowledge (SN 56.22)
The Siṃsapā Leaves (SN 56.31)