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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?
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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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Snp 2.8 Dhamma (nāvā) sutta: The Boat
That’s why you should spend time with a good person, intelligent and learned.
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AN 3.67 From Kathāvatthusutta: Topics of Discussion
They’d not persist in finding faults, nor seize on trivial mistakes…
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AN 5.202 Dhammassavanasutta: Listening to the Teaching
There are these five benefits of listening to the teaching.
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AN 3.22 Gilānasutta: Patients
Some people can enter the sure path … but only if they get to see a Realized One
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MN 43 From Mahā Vedalla Sutta: The Greater Set of Questions & Answers
Friend, there are two conditions for the arising of right view…
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AN 9.19 Devatāsutta: A Deity
And so, having fulfilled our duty, free of remorse and regret, we were reborn in a superior realm.
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Thag 5.10 Yasadattattheragāthā: Yasadatta
With fault-finding mind, the dullard listens to the victor’s instruction.
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AN 7.29 Dutiyaparihānisutta: Non-decline for a Lay Follower
These seven things lead to the decline of a lay follower.
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MN 12 From… Mahāsīhanādasutta: The Greater Discourse on the Lion’s Roar—Purification
There are certain recluses and brahmins whose doctrine and view is this: ‘Purification comes about through food.’
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AN 4.33 Sīhasutta: The Lion
Whatever animals hear the lion roaring for the most part are filled with fear, a sense of urgency, and terror.
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MN 108 From Gopakamoggallānasutta: With Gopaka Moggallāna—No Single Bhikkhu
There is no single bhikkhu, brahmin, who possesses in each and every way all those qualities that were possessed by the Blessed One
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AN 5.196 Supina Sutta: Dreams
When the Tathāgata was still just an unawakened bodhisatta, five great dreams appeared to him.
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SN 4.24 Sattavassānubandhasutta: Seven Years of Pursuit
Is it because you are sunk in sorrow that you meditate in the woods?
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MN 85 From… Bodhirājakumārasutta: With Prince Bodhi
Knowing and seeing like this, my mind was freed from the defilements of sensuality, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.
