These suttas were presented in June 2023.

Dīgha Nikāya

• DN 8 From… Mahāsīhanādasutta: The Lion’s Roar to the Naked Ascetic Kassapa “Only the ascetic Gotama’s words are timely, true, and meaningful, in line with the teaching and training.”

Majjhima Nikāya

• MN 44 From… Cūḷavedallasutta: The Shorter Classification “But ma’am, is the noble eightfold path conditioned or unconditioned?”
• MN 117 Mahācattārīsakasutta: The Great Forty “Therein, bhikkhus, right view comes first.”
• MN 126 Bhūmijasutta: With Bhūmija “And so it is for any ascetics and brahmins who have right view … Because that’s a rational way to win the fruit”
• MN 149 Mahāsaḷāyatanikasutta: The Great Discourse on the Six Sense Fields “The view of such a person is right view. Their intention is right intention, their effort is right effort, their mindfulness is right mindfulness, and their immersion is right immersion.”

Saṁyutta Nikāya

• SN 14.28 Aṭṭhaṅgikasutta: The Eightfold Path “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element”
• SN 45.4 Jāṇussoṇibrāhmaṇasutta: Regarding the Brahmin Jāṇussoṇi “These are all terms for the noble eightfold path: ‘vehicle of Brahmā’, or else ‘vehicle of truth’, or else ‘supreme victory in battle’”
• SN 45.2 Upaḍḍhasutta: Half the Holy Life “And how, Ānanda, does a bhikkhu who has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path?”
• SN 45.5 Kimatthiyasutta: For What Purpose? “For what purpose, friends, is the holy life lived under the ascetic Gotama?”
• SN 45.8 Vibhaṅgasutta: Analysis “Bhikkhus, I will teach you the Noble Eightfold Path and I will analyse it for you.”
• SN 45.9 Sūkasutta: The Spike “Bhikkhus, suppose a spike of rice or a spike of barley were rightly directed and were pressed upon by the hand or the foot.”
• SN 45.27 Kumbhasutta: Pots “And what’s the stand for the mind? It is simply this noble eightfold path…”
• SN 45.150 Bījasutta: Seeds “…based upon virtue, established upon virtue, a bhikkhu develops and cultivates the Noble Eightfold Path, and thereby he attains to growth, increase, and expansion in wholesome states.”
• SN 45.155 Ākāsasutta: The Sky “Bhikkhus, just as various winds blow in the sky—easterly winds, westerly winds, northerly winds, southerly winds, dusty winds and dustless winds, cold winds and hot winds, gentle winds and strong winds”
• SN 45.160 Nadīsutta: A River “Please, mister, why let these ocher robes torment you? Why follow the practice of shaving your head and carrying an alms bowl?”
• SN 45.161 From… Esanāsutta: Searches “The noble eightfold path should be developed to directly know these three searches”

Aṅguttara Nikāya

• AN 2.125–126: Two Conditions “Monks, there are these two conditions for the arising of right view.”
• AN 3.62 Bhayasutta: Perils “There is a path, bhikkhus, there is a way that leads to the abandoning and overcoming of these three perils…”
• AN 4.13 Padhānasutta: Striving “Bhikkhus, there are these four right strivings.”
• AN 4.205 Aṭṭhaṅgikasutta: Eightfold “Mendicants, I will teach you a bad person and a worse person, a good person and a better person.”
• AN 5.25 Anuggahitasutta: Assisted “When right view is assisted by these five factors, it has liberation of mind as its fruit, liberation of mind as its fruit and benefit;”
• AN 5.119 Micchāvācāsutta: Wrong Speech “A nun with five qualities is raised up to heaven.”
• AN 8.13 Assājānīyasutta: Thoroughbred “So too, bhikkhus, possessing eight qualities, a bhikkhu is worthy of gifts … an unsurpassed field of merit for the world.”
• AN 10.104 Bīja Sutta: The Seed “…then whatever bodily deeds he undertakes in line with that view, … all lead to what is disagreeable…”
• AN 10.105 Vijjāsutta: Knowledge “Mendicants, ignorance precedes the attainment of unskillful qualities, with lack of conscience and prudence following along.”
• AN 10.117 Saṅgāravasutta: With Saṅgārava “Wrong view is the near shore, brahmin, and right view is the far shore.”
• AN 10.121 Pubbaṅgamasutta: Forerunner “In the same way right view is the forerunner and precursor of skillful qualities.”

Dhammapada

• Dhp 273-276 From… Magga Vagga: The Path “Of all paths, the Noble Eight Fold Path is the best.”
• Dhp 316-319 From… Chapter 22 Niraya Vagga: Hell “Ashamed of what’s not shameful, not ashamed of what is, beings adopting wrong views go to a bad destination.”

Theragāthā

• Thag 1.35 Sāmaññakānittheragāthā: Sāmaññakāni “Seeking happiness, they find it through this practice.”