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AN 3.99 Potthakasutta: Jute
Jute canvas is ugly, unpleasant to touch, and worthless whether it’s new, worn in, or worn out.
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Snp 4.7 Tissametteyyasutta: With Tissametteyya
People tied to sensual pleasures envy them: the isolated, wandering sage
🏷️celibacy
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Thag 10.6 Vaṅgantaputtaupasenattheragāthā: Upasena son of Vaṅgantā
They should be content even with coarse food
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AN 5.111 Kulūpakasutta: Visiting Families
A mendicant with five qualities who visits families is unlikable and unlovable
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Snp 2.6 Kapilasutta: A Righteous Life
A righteous life, a spiritual life, they call this the supreme treasure.
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Iti 105 Taṇhuppādasutta: Arousing Craving
A person companioned by craving wanders on the long journey
🏷️craving
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AN 5.235 Anukampasutta: A Compassionate Mendicant
A resident mendicant with five qualities shows compassion to the lay people.
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AN 5.104 Samaṇasukhumālasutta: An Exquisite Ascetic of Ascetics
A mendicant with five qualities is an exquisite ascetic of ascetics
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MN 65 From… Bhaddālisutta: With Bhaddāli
What is the reason why there used to be fewer training rules but more enlightened mendicants?
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AN 10.31 Upālisutta: Upāli
It is on these ten grounds that the Tathāgata has prescribed the training rules for his disciples and recited the Pātimokkha.
🏷️Vinaya
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DN 31 From… Siṅgālasutta: Advice to Sigālaka—Drawbacks of Laziness
There are these six drawbacks of habitual laziness.
🏷️laziness
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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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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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AN 10.30 Dutiyakosalasutta: Kosala (2)
But, great king, what reasons do you have for showing such supreme honor to this body and displaying such an offering of loving-kindness?
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AN 9.30 Āghātapaṭivinayasutta: Getting Rid of Resentment
‘They harmed me, but what can I possibly do?’
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SN 46.51 From… Āhārasutta: Nutriment
And what, bhikkhus, is the nutriment for the arising of unarisen ill will…
🏷️ill will
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AN 9.25 Paññāsutta: Consolidated by Wisdom
I understand: “Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is no return to any state of existence.”
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SN 55.22 Mahānāma Sutta: To Mahānāma (2)
Suppose a tree were leaning toward the east, slanting toward the east, inclining toward the east.
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SN 55.17 Dutiya Mittāmacca Sutta: Friends 2
Monks, you have friends, relatives and family members who you have sympathy for.
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AN 6.19 From… Paṭhamamaraṇassatisutta: Mindfulness of Death (1st)
So you should train like this: ‘… We will keenly develop mindfulness of death for the ending of defilements.’
🏷️death
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Iti 83 Pañcapubbanimittasutta: The Five Prognostic Signs
Bhikkhus, when a deva is due to pass away from a company of devas, five prognostic signs appear
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AN 5.181 Āraññikasutta: Wilderness Dwellers
“Mendicants, there are these five kinds of wilderness dwellers. What five? A person may be wilderness dweller because of stupidity and folly. Or because of wicked desires, being naturally full of desires. Or because of madness and mental disorder. Or because it is praised by the Buddhas and their disciples. Or for the sake of…
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AN 4.95 Chavālātasutta: A Firebrand
“Mendicants, these four people are found in the world. What four? One who practices to benefit neither themselves nor others; one who practices to benefit others, but not themselves; one who practices to benefit themselves, but not others; and one who practices to benefit both themselves and others. Suppose there was a firebrand for lighting…
