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Source: Buddhist Door: GlossaryThere are eleven kinds of good roots: 1. faith 2. shame 3. remorse 4. absence of greed 5. absence of hatred 6. absence of stupidity 7. vigor 8. transquility 9. non laxity 10. non harming 11. renunciation These are eleven good Dharmas of the fifty one Dharmas belonging to the heart.See also (Relevant definitions)
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 12 - The Dharma is like good medicine (bhaiṣajya) < [Chapter XXXVI - The eight recollections (anusmṛti or anussati)]
II.4. The Dharma is independent of time (akālika) < [II. Recollection of the Dharma (dharmānusmṛti)]
IV.3. The position of morality among the Path members < [IV. Recollection of the moralities (śīlānusmṛti)]
The Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
Chapter IX - The Names of Buddhas
Chapter X - The Conditions and Comparative Merit and Virtue of Giving
Saptakoṭibuddhamātṛ Cundī Dhāraṇī Sūtra
Mahāprajñāpāramitā Mañjuśrīparivarta Sūtra
A Manual of Abhidhamma (by Nārada Thera)
Beautiful Consciousness of the Sensuous Sphere < [Chapter I - Different Types of Consciousness]
Fourfold Kamma < [Chapter V - Process Freed Section]
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (by Charles Luk)