Discourse
SN 12:18 · To Timbarukkha (Timbarukkha Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:18. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:17 · To the Clothless Ascetic (Acela Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:17. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:15 · To Kaccāna Gotta (Kaccānagotta Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:15. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:12 · To Phagguna (Phagguna Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:12. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:11 · Nutriment (Āhāra Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:11. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:10 · About Gotama (Gotama Sutta)
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:10. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
SN 12:2
Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:2. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 152 · The Development of the Faculties (Indriya-bhāvanā Sutta)
True development of the senses—equanimous awareness amid the pleasant and unpleasant—contrasted with a brahman's teaching of simply not seeing or hearing.
AN 3:137 · The Orderliness of the Dhamma (Dhamma-niyāma Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:137. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 149 · The Great Six Sense-Media Discourse (Mahā Saḷāyatanika Sutta)
How not knowing the six senses as they truly are breeds clinging and suffering, while knowing them fosters dispassion and release via the eightfold path.
AN 3:136 · A Friend (Mitta Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:136. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 148 · The Six Sextets (Chachakka Sutta)
The six sextets—internal and external sense media, the six consciousnesses, contacts, feelings, and cravings—analyzed to uproot the view of self.
AN 3:133 · Inscriptions (Lekha Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:133. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 147 · The Shorter Exhortation to Rāhula (Cūḷa Rāhulovāda Sutta)
The Buddha's guidance leading Rāhula to full awakening by showing that the aggregates and six sense bases are all impermanent and not-self.
AN 3:131 · To Anuruddha (Anuruddha Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:131. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 146 · Nandaka’s Exhortation (Nandakovāda Sutta)
Nandaka's teaching to five hundred nuns on the impermanence of the six senses and the seven factors of awakening.
AN 3:126 · At Gotamaka Shrine (Gotamaka-cetiya Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:126. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 141 · An Analysis of the Truths (Sacca-vibhaṅga Sutta)
Sāriputta's exposition of the four noble truths first set forth at Isipatana: stress, its origin, its cessation, and the path to its end.
AN 3:124 · At Kusināra (Kusināra Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:124. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 140 · An Analysis of the Properties (Dhātu-vibhaṅga Sutta)
The six properties—earth, water, fire, wind, space, and consciousness—as the basis of a person, taught to the wanderer Pukkusāti in a potter's shed.