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Thig 6.6 Mahāpajāpatigotamītherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Mahāpajāpati Gotamī
In the past I was a mother, a child, a father, a brother, and a grandmother.
🏷️saṁsara
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Thig 2.9 Abhayātherīgāthā: Abhayā
The body is fragile, yet ordinary people are attached to it.
🏷️body
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Thag 6.12 Brahmadattattheragāthā: Brahmadatta
When you don’t get angry at an angry person you win a battle hard to win.
🏷️anger
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Thag 14.1 Khadiravaniyarevatattheragāthā: Khadiravaniyarevata
When delusion ends, a monk, like a mountain, doesn’t tremble.
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Thig 6.7 Guttātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Guttā
Sentient beings are misguided by the mind, enjoying the realm of Māra.
🏷️fetters
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Thag 6.3 Mahānāgattheragāthā: Mahānāga
Whoever does have respect for their spiritual companions doesn’t fall away from the true teaching, like a fish in plenty of water.
🏷️respect
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SN 46.38 Anīvaraṇasutta: Without Hindrances
When, bhikkhus, a noble disciple listens to the Dhamma with eager ears…
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AN 6.87 Voropitasutta: A Murderer
Someone with six qualities is unable to enter the sure path … even when listening to the true teaching.
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AN 4.147 Dutiyakālasutta: Times (2nd)
When these four times are rightly developed … they gradually lead to the ending of defilements.
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AN 5.96 Sutadharasutta: Remembering What You’ve Learned
A mendicant cultivating mindfulness of breathing who has these five things will soon penetrate the unshakable.
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AN 5.165 Pañhapucchā Sutta: On Asking Questions
All those who ask questions of another do so from any one of five motivations.
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Dhp 392 From… Brāhmaṇa Vagga: The True Brahmin—Revering the Teacher
Just as a brahmin worships a fire ritual…
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AN 5.26 Vimuttāyatanasutta: Opportunities for Freedom
Mendicants, there are these five opportunities for freedom.
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AN 10.83 Puṇṇiyasutta: With Puṇṇiya
What is the reason why sometimes the Realized One feels inspired to teach, and other times not?
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AN 4.191 Sotānugata Sutta: Followed by Ear
Slow is the arising of his mindfulness, but when mindful, he quickly arrives at distinction.
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MN 48 From… Kosambiyā Sutta: In Kosambī—Proper Listening
I am endowed with the strength of a person consummate in view.
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AN 4.6 Appassutasutta: One of Little Learning
And how is a person one of much learning who is intent on what he has learned?
🏷️learning
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AN 2.42–51 Parisavagga: 47—An assembly educated in fancy talk
They pay attention and apply their minds to understand them, and they think those teachings are worth learning and memorizing.
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MN 33 From… Mahāgopālakasutta: The Longer Discourse on the Cowherd—Knowing the ford
And how does a mendicant not know the ford?
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Thag 2.11 The Verses of Arahant Mahācunda (141-142)
In one who desires to listen to the Dhamma, knowledge of Dhamma increases.
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SN 42.7 Khettūpamasutta: The Simile of the Field
Why exactly do you teach some people thoroughly and others less thoroughly?
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Thag 17.3 From Ānandattheragāthā: Ānanda
You should stay close to a learned person—don’t lose what you’ve learned.
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AN 10.55 From… Parihānasutta: Decline
It is in this way that the Blessed One has said a person is subject to decline.
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AN 5.153 Tatiyasammattaniyāmasutta: Inevitability Regarding the Right Path (3rd)
They don’t listen to the teaching bent only on putting it down.
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