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4.121 The fears of guilt, shame, punishment, and rebirth in a bad place.
4.122 The risks of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks.
4.123 Length of rebirth in various exalted realms.
4.124 Contemplating jhānas with wisdom.
4.125 Rebirth in Brahmā realms from divine abiding meditations.
4.126 Contemplating divine abiding meditations with wisdom.
4.127 The Buddha illuminates even interstellar space, so that beings reborn there see each other.
4.128 Even in a world full of attachment, people listen to the Buddha’s teaching.
4.129 Monks, nuns, laywomen, and laymen love to hear Dharma from Ānanda.
4.130 Monks, nuns, laywomen, and laymen love to hear Dharma from Ānanda.

4.111 Guiding people like horses: sometimes, strictly, sometimes gently. And sometimes you have to kill them.
4.112 A mendicant is like a king’s thoroughbred.
4.113 A thoroughbred responds when it sees the goad. So does a mendicant.
4.114 A mendicant is like a king’s elephant.
4.115 Things that are pleasant or unpleasant, harmful or beneficial.
4.116 Don’t neglect good conduct.
4.117 Practice in your own way.
4.118 Four inspiring places to visit.
4.119 The perils of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
4.120 The perils of fire, water, kings, and bandits.

4.101 - 102 Four people similar to clouds.
4.103 Four people similar to pots.
4.104 Four people similar to ponds.
4.105 Four people similar to mangoes.
4.107 Four people similar to mice.
4.108 Four people similar to oxen.
4.109 Four people similar to trees.
4.110 Four people similar to vipers.

4.91 Demons and gods.
4.92 Serenity and discernment.
4.93 Serenity and discernment should be developed.
4.94 To develop serenity and discernment, you should ask experienced practitioners.
4.95-99 Practice to help yourself and others.
4.100 Which is better: appropriate praise and criticism, or equanimity?

4.81 Precepts lead to heaven or hell.
4.82 Wrong or right speech leads to heaven or hell.
4.83 Criticizing and praising leads to heaven or hell.
4.84 Valuing defilements above the Dharma leads to hell.
4.85 The dark bound for darkness, the dark bound for light, the light bound for darkness, and the light bound for light.
4.86 One sunk low who sinks lower, one sunk low who rises high, one risen high who sinks low, and one risen high who rises higher.
4.87 - 4.90 The confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the refined ascetic of ascetics.

4.71 Unfailing practices: morality, learning, energy, and wisdom.
4.72 Unfailing practices: thoughts of renunciation, good will, and kindness; and right view.
4.73 Speaking well and ill of others.
4.74 The best morality, convergence, wisdom, and freedom.
4.75 The best form, feeling, perception, and state of existence.4.76 As he lay dying, the Buddha encouraged his disciples to ask any last questions.
4.77 If you try to think about these things you will go mad or get frustrated.
4.78 Four ways of purifying an offering to a teacher.
4.79 Why for different people the same kind of business undertaking might fail or succeed.
4.80 Ānanda asks the Buddha why females don’t attend council meetings, undertake business, or travel to Persia.

4.61 Four things that are desirable, but hard to get; and how to get them through deeds of substance.
4.62 The happiness of ownership, using wealth, debtlessness, and blamelessness.
4.63 A family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with Brahmā.
4.64 Breaking precepts leads to hell.
4.65 Estimating others based on appearance, voice, austerity, and principle.
4.66 The greedy, the hateful, the delusional, and the conceited.
4.67 Spreading loving-kindness to snakes and other creatures.
4.68 Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.
4.69 The endeavors to restrain, to give up, to develop, and to preserve.
4.70 Corruption of the realm follows corruption of the king.

4.51 When a mendicant meditates using an offering, merit overflows for the donor.
4.52 When a mendicant has confidence and morality, merit overflows for the donor.
4.53- 4.54 Living with gods and zombies.
4.55 - 4.56 How a married couple can stay together in this life and the next.
4.57 - 4.59 Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
4.60 A lay disciple serves the mendicant Saṅgha with robes, alms-food, lodgings, and medicines.

4.41 Developing convergence for pleasure, understanding, mindfulness, and ending defilements.
4.42 Answering questions definitively, analytically, with a counter-question, or setting it aside.
4.43 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
4.44 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching.
4.45 The god Rohitassa tells how he tried to go to the end of the world.
4.46 The Buddha relates the story of Rohitassa.
4.47 The sky and earth and very far apart. What’s further apart?
4.48 The Buddha praises the teaching of the monk Visākha.
4.49 Distortions of perception, mind, and view.
4.50 Four things obscure the sun and moon, so they don’t shine and glow and radiate. And four things corrupt mendicants: alcohol, sex, money, wrong livelihood.

4.31 Living in a suitable region, relying on good people, right determination, and past good karma.
4.32 Inclusiveness through giving, kind speech, taking care, and impartiality.
4.33 A lion’s roar terrifies beasts. The Buddha’s teaching terrifies the gods.
4.34 Confidence in the Buddha, the path, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are the best kinds of confidence.
4.35 A great man as understood by brahmins and by the Buddha.
4.36 The brahmin Doṇa is filled with wonder when he sees the Buddha’s footprints.
4.37 A mendicant who has morality, guards the sense doors, eats in moderation, and is committed to wakefulness can’t decline.
4.38 A mendicant has eliminated idiosyncratic interpretations of the truth, has totally given up searching, has tranquilized bodily activity, and is said to be ‘withdrawn’.
4.39 - 40The Buddha criticizes violent sacrifice, but not non-violent giving.