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AN 4.60 Gihisāmīcisutta: The Layperson’s Proper Practice
For them both by day and night merit always increases
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Vv 5.11 Dutiya Nāga Sutta: Second Elephant Mansion
What kind of meritorious actions did you do when you were in the human world?
🏷️precepts
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Snp 2.4 Maṅgalasutta: Blessings
Caring for mother and father, kindness to children and partners, and unstressful work: this is the highest blessing.
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AN 5.174 Verasutta: Threats
Householder, unless these five dangers and threats are given up, one is said to be unethical, and is reborn in hell. What five?
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MN 137 From… Saḷāyatanavibhaṅgasutta: The Analysis of the Six Sense Fields
There are six kinds of lay happiness and six kinds of renunciate happiness.
🏷️lay life
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AN 8.70 From… Bhūmicālasutta: Earthquakes
I shall not become fully extinguished until my spiritual path is successful and prosperous, extensive, popular, widespread…
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DN 31 From… Siṅgālasutta: Advice to Sigālaka—Good Friends
You can recognize a good-hearted friend who’s a helper on four grounds.
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SN 7.10 Bahudhītarasutta: Many Daughters
This ascetic mustn’t have rats in a vacant barn dancing merrily…
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Snp 2.14 From… Dhammikasutta: With Dhammika
Now I shall tell you the householder’s duty, doing which one becomes a good disciple.
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AN 1.248-257 Foremost Laymen
The foremost of my laymen in first going for refuge are the merchants Tapussa and Bhallika.
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SN 17.24 Ekadhītusutta: An Only Daughter
‘My darling, please be like the laywomen Khujjuttarā and Veḷukaṇṭakī, Nanda’s mother.’
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SN 45.24 Dutiyapaṭipadāsutta: The Way (2)
Bhikkhus, whether for a layperson or one gone forth, I do not praise the wrong way.
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MN 71 From… Tevijjavacchasutta: To Vacchagotta on the Three Knowledges
But are there any laypeople who, without giving up the fetter of lay life, go to heaven when the body breaks up?
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SN 7.19 Mātuposakasutta: The Brahmin Who Provided for His Mother
Master Gotama, I seek alms by legitimate means, which I use to provide for my mother and father.
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AN 4.62 Ānaṇyasutta: Freedom From Debt
Householder, there are these four kinds of happiness that may be achieved by a layperson who enjoys sensual pleasures
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AN 8.54 Dīghajāṇusutta: With Dīghajāṇu
Sir, we are laypeople who enjoy sensual pleasures and living at home with our children.
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AN 1.258-267 Foremost Laywomen
The foremost of my laywomen in first going for refuge is Sujātā the general’s daughter.
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AN 5.176 Pīti Sutta: Rapture
‘Let’s periodically enter & remain in seclusion & rapture.’ That’s how you should train yourself.
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AN 5.76 From… Dutiyayodhājīvasutta: Warriors (2nd)
Reverends, I am overcome with lust, mired in lust. I am unable to keep up the spiritual life.
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MN 66 From… Laḍukikopama Sutta: The Quail Simile
Suppose a quail were snared by a rotting creeper…
🏷️fetters
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MN 106 From… Āneñjasappāyasutta: Conducive to the Imperturbable
Mendicants, sensual pleasures are impermanent, hollow, false, and deceptive, made by illusion, cooed over by fools.
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Dhp 334-336 From… Taṇhā Vagga: Craving
The craving of a person who lives negligently spreads like a creeping vine.
🏷️craving
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Thag 16.4 Raṭṭhapāla
Sensual pleasures—variegated, enticing, sweet—in various ways disturb the mind.
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AN 6.50 Indriyasaṁvarasutta: Sense Restraint
Suppose there was a tree that lacked branches and foliage.
