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AN 6.50 Indriyasaṁvarasutta: Sense Restraint
Suppose there was a tree that lacked branches and foliage.
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MN 145 From… Puṇṇovādasutta: Advice to Puṇṇa
There are sights known by the eye that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.
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Ud 7.4 Kāmesu Satta Sutta: Attached to Sensual Pleasures (2)
On that occasion, most of the people in Sāvatthī were excessively attached to sensual pleasures.
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Snp 4.1 Kāmasutta: Sensual Pleasures
If a mortal desires sensual pleasure and their desire succeeds, they definitely become elated, having got what they want.
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AN 5.200 From… Nissāraṇīyasutta: Elements of Escape
This is how the escape from sensual pleasures is explained.
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MN 54 From… Potaliyasutta: With Potaliya the Householder
Gnawing on such a fleshless skeleton, would that dog still get rid of its hunger?
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MN 75 From… Māgaṇḍiyasutta: With Māgaṇḍiya
In the same way, sensual pleasures of the past, future, and present are painful to touch, fiercely burning and scorching.
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SN 46.51 From… Āhārasutta: Nourishing
I will teach you what fuels and what starves the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors.
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MN 146 From… Nandakovādasutta: Advice from Nandaka
Suppose a deft butcher or their apprentice was to kill a cow and carve it with a sharp meat cleaver.
🏷️greed
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Iti 109 Nadīsotasutta: The River Current
“Suppose, bhikkhus, a man was being borne along by the current of a river that seemed pleasant and agreeable.
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Snp 4.2 Guhaṭṭhakasutta: Eight on the Cave
Trapped in a cave, thickly overspread, sunk in delusion they stay.
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SN 47.7 Makkaṭasutta: A Monkey
But a foolish and reckless monkey goes up to the tar and grabs it with a hand.
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SN 46.55 From… Saṅgāravasutta: With Saṅgārava—Sensual Desire
Suppose there was a bowl of water that was mixed with dye such as red lac, turmeric, indigo, or rose madder.
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MN 125 From… Dantabhūmisutta: The Level of the Tamed
My friend, what do you see, standing there at the peak?
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Thig 13.5 Subhākammāradhītutherīgāthā: Subhā, the Smith’s Daughter
My family, why do you urge me on to pleasures, as if you were my enemies?
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AN 10.105 Vijjāsutta: Knowledge
Ignorance precedes the attainment of unskillful qualities, with lack of conscience and prudence following along.
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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.
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Thag 1.35 Sāmaññakānittheragāthā: Sāmaññakāni
Seeking happiness, they find it through this practice.
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SN 45.2 Upaḍḍhasutta: Half the Holy Life
When a bhikkhu has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path
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MN 44 From… Cūḷavedallasutta: The Shorter Classification
But ma’am, is the noble eightfold path conditioned or unconditioned?
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SN 45.4 Jāṇussoṇibrāhmaṇasutta: Regarding the Brahmin Jāṇussoṇi
Wow! That’s a Brahmā vehicle! It’s a vehicle fit for Brahmā!
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SN 14.28 Aṭṭhaṅgikasutta: The Eightfold Path
Sentient beings come together and converge because of an element
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AN 10.117 Saṅgāravasutta: With Saṅgārava
Master Gotama, what is the near shore? And what is the far shore?
