Discourse
Discourses and teachings — sermons, recorded sayings, and dialogues of instruction.
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SN 12:18 · To Timbarukkha (Timbarukkha Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:18. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:17 · To the Clothless Ascetic (Acela Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:17. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:15 · To Kaccāna Gotta (Kaccānagotta Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:15. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:12 · To Phagguna (Phagguna Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:12. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:11 · Nutriment (Āhāra Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:11. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:10 · About Gotama (Gotama Sutta)
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:10. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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SN 12:2
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Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 12:2. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 152 · The Development of the Faculties (Indriya-bhāvanā Sutta)
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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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MN 149 · The Great Six Sense-Media Discourse (Mahā Saḷāyatanika Sutta)
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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 3:137 · The Orderliness of the Dhamma (Dhamma-niyāma Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:137. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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AN 3:136 · A Friend (Mitta Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:136. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 148 · The Six Sextets (Chachakka Sutta)
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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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MN 147 · The Shorter Exhortation to Rāhula (Cūḷa Rāhulovāda Sutta)
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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 3:133 · Inscriptions (Lekha Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:133. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 146 · Nandaka’s Exhortation (Nandakovāda Sutta)
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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 3:131 · To Anuruddha (Anuruddha Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:131. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 141 · An Analysis of the Truths (Sacca-vibhaṅga Sutta)
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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 3:126 · At Gotamaka Shrine (Gotamaka-cetiya Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:126. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 140 · An Analysis of the Properties (Dhātu-vibhaṅga Sutta)
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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.
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AN 3:124 · At Kusināra (Kusināra Sutta)
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Aṅguttara Nikāya · AN 3:124. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
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