Sati Center for Buddhist Studies

These chapters have a greater focus on ideas that could arouse in people the inspiration or urgency to practice. We might think of phrases like “warnings of trouble” or “seeing what we try to avoid” or “learning to see differently from conventional ideas of happiness.” They both rouse our energy to “wake up” and inspire us toward the goal of practice.

• Chapter 3–The Mind


• Chapter 10–Violence


• Chapter 11–Old Age


• Chapters 13,14–The World and The Buddha


• Chapter 16–The Dear


• Chapter 17–Anger


• Chapter 18–Corruption


• Chapter 22–Hell


• Chapter 24–Craving