Discourse
MN 62 · The Greater Exhortation to Rāhula (Mahā Rāhulovāda Sutta)
Rāhula is taught the five aggregates as not-self, meditation on the elements after the model of earth, and mindfulness of breathing.
AN 3:47 · Fabricated (Saṅkhata Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:47. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 61 · The Exhortation to Rāhula at Mango Stone (Ambalaṭṭhikā Rāhulovāda Sutta)
Rāhula is taught to reflect before, during, and after every action on whether it causes harm, using truthfulness as the measure of a contemplative.
MN 60 · A Safe Bet (Apaṇṇaka Sutta)
A pragmatic wager for holding right view over annihilationism, reasoning that virtuous kamma and rebirth are the safer bet regardless of certainty.
MN 59 · Many Things to Be Felt (Bahuvedanīya Sutta)
A taxonomy of feeling, from two to over a hundred varieties, and how jhāna pleasure surpasses sensual pleasure without being feared.
MN 58 · To Prince Abhaya (Abhaya Rāja-kumāra Sutta)
Criteria governing what the Buddha will and won't say: whether a statement is true, beneficial, and timely, whether pleasing or not.
MN 55 · To Jīvaka (Jīvaka Sutta)
Rules on eating meat: it is blameless unless seen, heard, or suspected to have been killed specifically for the eater.
MN 54 · To Potaliya (Excerpt) (Potaliya Sutta)
Renunciation of sensual pleasure through similes of a bone, meat, a grass torch, a pit of coals, and a borrowed loan.
MN 52 · To the Man from Aṭṭhakanagara (Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta)
Ānanda names eleven doors to the deathless, each reached through a jhāna or formless attainment seen with insight as impermanent and empty.
AN 3:24 · Great Benefactors (Bahukāra Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:24. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 51 · To Kandaraka (Kandaraka Sutta)
Four types of ascetic practice are classified by self-mortification and mortifying others, with the full training of a rightly practicing monk.
AN 3:22 · Sick People (Gilāna Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:22. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
AN 3:20 · The Shopkeeper (Pāpaṇika Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:20. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 48 · In Kosambī (Kosambiyā Sutta)
Six qualities for harmony among quarreling monks, and the four factors of stream-entry realized through direct knowledge of dependent origination.
AN 3:15 · The Chariot Maker (Pacetana Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:15. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 45 · The Shorter Discourse on Taking on Practices (Cūḷa Dhammasamādāna Sutta)
Four ways of undertaking practices, classed by whether they are pleasant or painful now and yield pleasure or pain later, favoring present hardship for future good.
AN 3:10 · Impurities (Mala Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:10. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 44 · The Shorter Set of Questions & Answers (Cūḷa Vedalla Sutta)
The nun Dhammadinnā explains self-identification, the clinging-aggregates, the eightfold path, and the nature of concentration and feeling to the layman Visākha.
AN 3:5 · Inappropriately (Ayoniso Sutta)
Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:5. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
MN 43 · The Greater Set of Questions & Answers (Mahā Vedalla Sutta)
Sāriputta answers Mahā Koṭṭhita's detailed questions on discernment, consciousness, and feeling, and how these mental factors are bound together.