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SN 12:18 · To Timbarukkha (Timbarukkha Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:18 · To Timbarukkha (Timbarukkha Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:18. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:17 · To the Clothless Ascetic (Acela Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:17 · To the Clothless Ascetic (Acela Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:17. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:15 · To Kaccāna Gotta (Kaccānagotta Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:15 · To Kaccāna Gotta (Kaccānagotta Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:15. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:12 · To Phagguna (Phagguna Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:12 · To Phagguna (Phagguna Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:12. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:11 · Nutriment (Āhāra Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:11 · Nutriment (Āhāra Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:11. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:10 · About Gotama (Gotama Sutta)
Buddhism

SN 12:10 · About Gotama (Gotama Sutta)

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:10. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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SN 12:2
Buddhism

SN 12:2

Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:2. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 152 · The Development of the Faculties (Indriya-bhāvanā Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:137 · The Orderliness of the Dhamma (Dhamma-niyāma Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:137 · The Orderliness of the Dhamma (Dhamma-niyāma Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:137. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 149 · The Great Six Sense-Media Discourse (Mahā Saḷāyatanika Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:136 · A Friend (Mitta Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:136 · A Friend (Mitta Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:136. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 148 · The Six Sextets (Chachakka Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:133 · Inscriptions (Lekha Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:133 · Inscriptions (Lekha Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:133. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 147 · The Shorter Exhortation to Rāhula (Cūḷa Rāhulovāda Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:131 · To Anuruddha (Anuruddha Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:131 · To Anuruddha (Anuruddha Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:131. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 146 · Nandaka’s Exhortation (Nandakovāda Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:126 · At Gotamaka Shrine (Gotamaka-cetiya Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:126 · At Gotamaka Shrine (Gotamaka-cetiya Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:126. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 141 · An Analysis of the Truths (Sacca-vibhaṅga Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

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AN 3:124 · At Kusināra (Kusināra Sutta)
Buddhism

AN 3:124 · At Kusināra (Kusināra Sutta)

Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:124. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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MN 140 · An Analysis of the Properties (Dhātu-vibhaṅga Sutta)
Buddhism

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.

Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) · · 14 min read
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