You can also read them in reverse chronological order.
Majjhima Nikāya
- MN 65 From… Bhaddālisutta: With Bhaddāli “What is the reason why there used to be fewer training rules but more enlightened mendicants?”
- MN 107 Gaṇakamoggallānasutta: With Moggallāna the Accountant “First of all he’d make it get used to wearing the bit.”
Saṁyutta Nikāya
- SN 20.8 Kaliṅgarasutta: Wood Blocks “These days the mendicants live using wood blocks as pillows, and they meditate diligently and keenly.”
Aṅguttara Nikāya
- AN 2.39: Good and Bad Mendicants “At a time when kings are strong, bandits are weak.”
- AN 2.64: “There are, mendicants, these two kinds of happiness.”
- AN 3.86 Paṭhamasikkhāsutta: Training (1st) “Take the case of a mendicant who has fulfilled their ethics, but has limited immersion and wisdom.”
- AN 3.99 Potthakasutta: Jute “Jute canvas is ugly, unpleasant to touch, and worthless whether it’s new, worn in, or worn out.”
- AN 3.133 Yodhājīvasutta: A Warrior “And how is a mendicant a marksman?”
- AN 4.25 Brahmacariyasutta: The Spiritual Life “Bhikkhus, this spiritual life is not lived for the sake of deceiving people and cajoling them”
- AN 4.245 Sikkhānisaṁsasutta: The Benefits of Training “This spiritual life is lived with training as its benefit, with wisdom as its overseer, with freedom as its core, and with mindfulness as its ruler.”
- AN 5.80 Anāgata-bhayāni Sutta: Future Dangers “These five future dangers, unarisen at present, will arise in the future”
- AN 5.104 Samaṇasukhumālasutta: An Exquisite Ascetic of Ascetics “A mendicant with five qualities is an exquisite ascetic of ascetics”
- AN 5.111 Kulūpakasutta: Visiting Families “A mendicant with five qualities who visits families is unlikable and unlovable”
- AN 5.114 Andhakavinda Sutta: At Andhakavinda “Ānanda, the new monks…should be encouraged, exhorted, and established in these five things.”
- AN 5.128 Samaṇasukhasutta: An Ascetic’s Happiness “There are these five kinds of suffering for an ascetic.”
- AN 5.235 Anukampasutta: A Compassionate Mendicant “A resident mendicant with five qualities shows compassion to the lay people.”
- 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.”
- AN 10.48 Dasa Dhamma Sutta: Ten Things “There are these ten things that a person gone forth should reflect on often”
- AN 10.71 Ākaṅkhasutta: One Might Wish “Live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code.”
- AN 10.88 Akkosakasutta: An Abuser “They don’t achieve the unachieved.”
Dhammapada
- Dhp 311–314 from Niriya Vagga: Hell “If something’s to be done, then work at it firmly”
- Dhp 375 From… Bhikkhuvagga: Mendicants “This is the very start of the path…”
Udāna
- Ud 2.10 Bhaddiyasutta: With Bhaddiya “Oh, what bliss! Oh, what bliss!”
Itivuttaka
- Iti 105 Taṇhuppādasutta: Arousing Craving “A person companioned by craving wanders on the long journey”
Sutta Nipāta
- Snp 2.6 Kapilasutta: A Righteous Life “A righteous life, a spiritual life, they call this the supreme treasure.”
- Snp 4.7 Tissametteyyasutta: With Tissametteyya “People tied to sensual pleasures envy them: the isolated, wandering sage”
Theragāthā
- Thag 1.36 Kumāputtattheragāthā: Kumāputta “This is the ascetic life for one who has nothing.”
- Thag 3.11: The Verses of Arahant Upāli (249-251) “A newly ordained monk … should live in the midst of monks.”
- Thag 10.6 Vaṅgantaputtaupasenattheragāthā: Upasena son of Vaṅgantā “They should be content even with coarse food”
Therīgāthā
- Thig 1.18 Saṁghātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Saṅghā “I left behind the house and went forth.”