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Dīgha Nikāya
DN 16 From… Mahāparinibbānasutta: The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment—Such Is Ethics “Such is ethics, such is immersion, such is wisdom. When immersion is imbued with ethics it’s very fruitful and beneficial.”DN 16 From Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ: The Discourse about the Great Emancipation—The Four Places “There are these four places that can be seen, that produce enthusiasm, Ānanda, for a faithful man of good family.”DN 16 From Mahāparinibbānasutta: The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment—Subhadda’s Question “Subhadda, in whatever teaching and training the noble eightfold path is not found, there is no true ascetic found, no second ascetic, no third ascetic, and no fourth ascetic.”
Majjhima Nikāya
MN 12 From Mahāsīhanādasutta: The Longer Discourse on the Lion’s Roar—A Spiritual Path “I used to be a self-mortifier, the ultimate self-mortifier.”MN 12 Mahāsīhanādasutta: The Greater Discourse on the Lion’s Roar “Sāriputta, there are certain recluses and brahmins whose doctrine and view is this: ‘Purification comes about through food.’”MN 26 From Ariyapariyesanāsutta: The Noble Search—Seeking the Unborn “Suppose that, being myself subject to birth, having understood the danger in what is subject to birth, I seek the unborn supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna.”MN 26 From Ariyapariyesanāsutta: The Noble Search—Meeting Upaka “I have no teacher, and one like me Exists nowhere in all the world With all its gods, because I have No person for my counterpart.”MN 85 From… Bodhirājakumārasutta: With Prince Bodhi “And so I recollected my many kinds of past lives, with features and details.”MN 92 From Selasutta: With Sela ““I am a king, Sela, the supreme king of the teaching.”MN 108 From Gopakamoggallānasutta: With Gopaka Moggallāna—No Single Bhikkhu “For the Blessed One was the arouser of the unarisen path, the producer of the unproduced path, the declarer of the undeclared path; he was the knower of the path, the finder of the path, the one skilled in the path.”MN 123 From Acchariyaabbhutasutta: Incredible and Amazing—Proclamation “I am the foremost in the world! I am the eldest in the world! I am the first in the world! This is my last rebirth. Now there are no more future lives.”MN 123 From Acchariyaabbhutasutta: Incredible and Amazing—Birth “When the being intent on awakening emerges from his mother’s womb, then… an immeasurable, magnificent light appears, surpassing the glory of the gods.”
Saṁyutta Nikāya
SN 4.24 Sattavassānubandhasutta: Seven Years of Pursuit “Is it because you are sunk in sorrow That you meditate in the woods?”SN 6.1 Ayācana Sutta The Discourse on Brahmā’s Request “Therefore if I were to teach the Dhamma and if others would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me, and that would be troublesome for me.”SN 6.15 Parinibbānasutta: Final Extinguishment “For even a Teacher such as this, unrivaled in the world, the Realized One, attained to power, the Buddha became fully extinguished.”SN 22.58 Sammāsambuddhasutta: The Fully Awakened Buddha “Mendicants, a Realized One, a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha is freed by not grasping, due to disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding form.”SN 44.1 From Khemāsutta: Khemā Therī’s Wisdom “How is it, Noble Lady, does the Realised One exist after death?”SN 56.11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion “There are these two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has gone forth.”
Aṅguttara Nikāya
AN 1.170 from Ekapuggalavagga: One Person “One person, mendicants, arises in the world for the welfare and happiness of the people, out of compassion for the world…”AN 3.39 Sukhumālasutta: A Delicate Lifestyle “My lifestyle was delicate, mendicants, most delicate, extremely delicate.”AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening “I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world? What’s the drawback? What’s the escape?’”AN 4.33 Sīhasutta: The Lion “So too, bhikkhus, when the Tathāgata arises in the world, … the Enlightened One, the Blessed One, he teaches the Dhamma thus…”AN 4.127 Paṭhamatathāgataacchariyasutta: Incredible Things About the Realized One (1st) “When the being intent on awakening passes away from the host of Joyful Gods, he’s conceived in his mother’s womb, mindful and aware.”AN 5.196 Supina Sutta: Dreams “When the Tathāgata—worthy & rightly self-awakened—was still just an unawakened bodhisatta, five great dreams appeared to him.”
Dhammapada
Udāna
Itivuttaka
Iti 84 Bahujanahitasutta: For the Welfare of the People “Three people, mendicants, arise in the world for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.”Iti 100 Brāhmaṇadhammayāgasutta: The Dhamma-offering “Bhikkhus, I am a brahmin, ever accessible to entreaties, open-handed, one bearing his last body, an unsurpassed physician and surgeon.”Itv 112 Loka Sutta: The World “Monks, the world has been fully understood by the Tathāgata; the Tathāgata is detached from the world.”
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