These suttas were presented in November 2024.
Dīgha Nikāya
- DN 16 From… Mahāparinibbānasutta: The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment—Bodhipakkhiyadhammā, “And what are those things I have taught from my direct knowledge?”
Majjhima Nikāya
- MN 51 From… Kandarakasutta: With Kandaraka, “How well described by the Buddha are the four kinds of mindfulness meditation!”
- MN 77 From… Mahāsakuludāyisutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin, “I do not expect instruction from my disciples; invariably, it is my disciples who expect instruction from me.”
- MN 78 From… Samaṇamuṇḍikasutta: With Uggāhamāna Samaṇamaṇḍikāputta, “And where do these unskillful behaviors cease without anything left over?”
- MN 151 Piṇḍapātapārisuddhisutta: The Purification of Alms, “What kind of meditation are you usually practicing these days?”
Saṁyutta Nikāya
- SN 35.245 Kiṁsukopamasutta: The Simile of the Parrot Tree, “Suppose a person had never seen a parrot tree.”
- SN 45.1 Avijjāsutta: Ignorance, “True knowledge is the forerunner in the entry upon wholesome states”
- SN 45.16 Paṭhamaparisuddhasutta: Purified (1st), “These eight things don’t arise to be purified, bright, flawless, and rid of corruptions except when a Realized One”
- SN 45.34 Pāraṅgamasutta: Going to the Far Shore, “Few are those among humans who cross to the far shore.”
- SN 46.2 Kāyasutta: The Body, “Bhikkhus, just as this body, sustained by nutriment, subsists in dependence on nutriment and does not subsist without nutriment…”
- SN 46.3 Sīlasutta: Virtue, “On that occasion the bhikkhu develops the enlightenment factor of mindfulness”
- SN 46.6 Kuṇḍaliyasutta: Kuṇḍaliya, “The seven factors of enlightenment, when developed and cultivated, fulfil true knowledge and liberation.”
- SN 46.11 Pāṇa Sutta: Living Beings, “All assume the four postures in dependence on the earth, established on the earth…”
- SN 46.29 Ekadhammasutta: One Thing, “And what are the things that are prone to being fettered?”
- SN 46.48 Ādiccasutta: The Sun, “For a bhikkhu this is the forerunner and precursor of the arising of the seven factors of enlightenment, that is, good friendship.”
- SN 46.53 Aggisutta: Fire, “Suppose, bhikkhus, a man wants to make a small fire flare up.”
- SN 47.8 Sūdasutta: The Cook, “Suppose a foolish, incompetent, unskilful cook were to present a king or a royal minister with various kinds of curries…”
- SN 47.29 Sirivaḍḍhasutta: Sirivaḍḍha, “Well then, householder, you should train thus…”
- SN 48.8 Daṭṭhabbaṁ Sutta: To Be Seen, “Now, where is the faculty of conviction to be seen?”
- SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)
- SN 48.10 Dutiyavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (2nd), “And what is the faculty of faith?”
- SN 48.17 Tatiyavitthārasutta: In Detail (3rd), “If you practice fully you succeed fully. If you practice partially you succeed partially.”
- SN 48.43 Sāketasutta: At Sāketa, “The faculty of faith is the power of faith, and the power of faith is the faculty of faith.”
- SN 48.50 Āpaṇasutta: At Āpaṇa, “You can expect that a faithful noble disciple will live with energy roused up…”
- SN 49.1: Slanting, “How does a mendicant who develops the four right efforts slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?”
- SN 51.11 Pubbasutta: Before, “They understand the minds of other beings and individuals, having comprehended them with their own mind.”
- SN 51.20 Vibhaṅgasutta: Analysis, “When the four bases of psychic power are developed and cultivated they’re very fruitful and beneficial.”
Aṅguttara Nikāya
- AN 4.162 Vitthārasutta: In Detail, “And what’s the painful practice with slow insight?”
- AN 5.16 Punakūṭasutta: Peak (2), “Just as the peak is the chief part of a peaked-roof house…”
- AN 9.63 Sikkhā-dubbalya Sutta: Things That Weaken the Training, “Monks, these five are things that weaken the training.”