Discourse
MN 87 · From One Who Is Dear (Piyajātika Sutta)
A grieving father's loss teaches that sorrow, lamentation, and pain arise from those who are dear to us.
AN 3:72 · To Channa the Wanderer (Channa Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:72. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
AN 3:70 · Roots (Mūla Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:70. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
AN 3:69 · Sectarians (Titthiya Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:69. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 78 · Muṇḍika the Contemplative (Samaṇa-Muṇḍika Sutta)
Refutation of a wanderer's shallow criteria for skillful conduct, defining true skillfulness as abandoning unwholesome bodily, verbal, and mental action and intention.
MN 77 · The Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin (Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta)
The Buddha sets aside minor ascetic virtues his followers praise and details the deeper qualities, discernment, conduct, and path factors, that truly warrant respect.
AN 3:66 · To the Kālāmas (Kālāma Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:66. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
AN 3:64 · At Venāga (Venāga Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:64. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 74 · To LongNails (Dīghanakha Sutta)
Refutation of the view that nothing is pleasing, non-clinging to feelings and opinions, with Sāriputta gaining insight while merely listening.
AN 3:63 · Dangers (Bhaya Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:63. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 72 · To Vacchagotta on Fire (Aggi-vacchagotta Sutta)
Refusal to answer speculative questions about the cosmos and the self, using the simile of an extinguished fire to explain why they don't apply to a liberated one.
AN 3:62 · Sectarians (Tittha Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:62. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 70 · At Kīṭāgiri (Kīṭāgiri Sutta)
Restraint in eating and the classification of seven types of noble disciples by their degree of release through faith, wisdom, or both.
AN 3:61 · To Saṅgārava (Saṅgārava Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:61. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 69 · About Golissāni (Golissāni Sutta)
Sāriputta sets out the qualities a wilderness-dwelling monk must cultivate to merit the respect due to seclusion.
MN 67 · Near Cātumā (Cātuma Sutta)
The Buddha turns away disorderly monks, then likens perils for one gone forth to waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks: anger, gluttony, sensuality, and lust.
MN 66 · The Quail Simile (Laḍukikopama Sutta)
Renouncing even trifling attachments, likened to a quail snared by a creeper, on the gradual path from sense restraint through the jhānas to release.
MN 64 · The Longer Exhortation to Māluṅkya (Mahā Māluṅkyovāda Sutta)
The five lower fetters, binding beings to the sensual realm, and the path of jhāna and insight that uproots them for non-return.
AN 3:50 · Ardency (Ātappa Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:50. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 63 · The Shorter Exhortation to Māluṅkya (Cūḷa Māluṅkyovāda Sutta)
The simile of the poisoned arrow shows why speculative questions about the cosmos and the self are irrelevant to ending suffering.