AN 5.77 - 5.80 A Warrior Part 2
AN 5.77 The dangers of living in a wilderness among wild beasts and so on. AN 5.78 The uncertainties of life may prevent your practice. AN 5.79 When the teachers and leaders of the Saṅgha are not well practiced, their weakness will be passed down the generations. AN 5.80 The Saṅgha may forsake the simple life and indulge in luxuries.
15m Jan 24, 2023
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AN 5.71 - 5.76 A Warrior part 1
AN 5.71 Five meditations lead to freedom. The Buddha supplies five similes, which subtly illustrate five aspects of awakening. AN 5.72 Five meditations lead to freedom. The Buddha supplies five similes, which subtly illustrate five aspects of awakening. AN 5.73 The difference between someone who merely studies the letter of the Dharma, and someone who truly lives by it. AN 5.74 The difference b...
31m Jan 20, 2023
31m
AN 5.61 - 5.70 Perceptions
AN 5.61 Five meditations are very beneficial. AN 5.62 Five meditations lead to the deathless. AN 5.63  Noble growth for a male disciple. AN 5.64 Noble growth for a female disciple. AN 5.65 Qualifications for taking part in a discussion on Dharma. AN 5.66 Qualifications for sharing Dharma. AN 5.67 The four bases of psychic power, together with energy, lead to awakening. AN 5.68 The Buddha develo...
9m Nov 10, 2022
9m
AN 5.51 - 5.60 Hindrances
AN 5.51 The five hindrances weaken wisdom like side-channels weaken a river’s flow. AN 5.52 The five hindrances are entirely unwholesome. AN 5.53 Conditions that help meditation progress smoothly. AN 5.54 Times that are supportive for meditation practice. AN 5.55 A mother and son, though ordained as monk and nun, have sexual relations. The Buddha launches a powerful attack on the dangers of sex...
30m Nov 08, 2022
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AN 5.41 - 5.50 With King Munda
AN 5.41 The legitimate purposes of wealth. AN 5.42 A good person brings many blessings to their family. AN 5.43 You don’t get good things by praying for them, but by how you live. AN 5.44 If you give the best, you get the best. AN 5.45 When offerings are used for deep meditation, the merit multiplies enormously. AN 5.46 Kinds of spiritual success, in brief. AN 5.47 Kinds of spiritual wealth, in...
35m Oct 31, 2022
35m
AN 5.31 - 5.40 With Sumanā
AN 5.31 Princess Sumanā asks the Buddha about the karmic results of generosity, when other qualities are equal. AN 5.32 Princess Cundī asks the Buddha about the best kind of confidence. AN 5.33 Uggaha invites the Buddha for a meal, and asks him to advise his daughters, who about about to be married. AN 5.34 The Buddha teaches General Sīha the benefits which he can see for himself in this life, ...
24m Oct 22, 2022
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AN 5.21 - 5.30 On Five Factors
AN 5.21 If your basic practice is not there, you can’t go higher. AN 5.22 If your basic practice is not there, you can’t go higher. AN 5.23 The hindrances are like the corruptions in gold. AN 5.24 Dharmas starting with morality naturally evolve to freedom. AN 5.25 Right view leads to freedom when supported by five factors. AN 5.26 Occasions when one can experience liberation. AN 5.27 Develop me...
35m Oct 16, 2022
35m
AN 5.11 - 5.20 Powers
AN 5.11 The five powers of a Realized One. AN 5.12 Of the five powers, wisdom is chief. AN 5.13 The five powers in brief. AN 5.14 The five powers explained in detail. AN 5.15 Where to look for the five powers. AN 5.16 Wisdom is the chief of the five powers. AN 5.17 By practicing but not teaching, one practices for one’s own good. AN 5.18 By teaching but not practicing, one practices for the goo...
10m Oct 07, 2022
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AN 5.01 - 5.10 Powers of a Trainee
AN 5.01 Five powers of a trainee. AN 5.02 Five powers of a trainee, explained. AN 5.03 Suffering in this life and the next. AN 5.04 Five qualities determine rebirth. AN 5.05 Reasons to criticize a mendicant who disrobes, or praise one who remains. AN 5.06 Loss of foundational qualities leads to decline. AN 5.07 The Buddha looks after mendicants like a nurse looks after a child until they’ve gro...
13m Oct 01, 2022
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AN 4.274 - 4.783 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed Part 2
Develop insight into stinginess … deceit … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … negligence through the four kinds of mindfulness meditation, the four right efforts, the four bases of psychic power. Develop complete understanding,  … finishing … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of stinginess etc. through the four...
25m Sep 17, 2022
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AN 4.274 - 4.783 Abbreviated Texts beginning with Greed Part 1
Develop insight into greed  hate … delusion … anger … hostility … disdain … contempt … jealousy through the four kinds of mindfulness meditation, the four right efforts, the four bases of psychic power. Develop complete understanding,  … finishing … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of greed etc. through the four kinds of mindfulness meditation,...
23m Sep 17, 2022
23m
AN 4.264 - 4.273 Ways of Performing Deeds
4.264 Killing leads to hell, not killing leads to heaven. 4.265 Stealing leads to hell, not stealing leads to heaven. 4.266 Sexual misconduct leads to hell, not committing sexual misconduct leads to heaven. 4.267 Lying leads to hell, truth leads to heaven. 4.268 Divisive speech leads to hell, harmonious speech leads to heaven. 4.269 Harsh speech leads to hell, harsh speech leads to heaven. 4.27...
8m Sep 13, 2022
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AN 4.254 - 4.263 Insight
4.254 Things that are to be fully known, given up, developed, and realized through insight. 4.255 Noble and ignoble searches. 4.256 How to gather and sustain a community. 4.257 An old monk asks for advice before his retreat. 4.258 Why families lose wealth. 4.259 How a mendicant is like a fine thoroughbred. 4.260 How a mendicant is like a fine thoroughbred. 4.261 Four spiritual powers 4.262 Thin...
14m Sep 11, 2022
14m
AN 4.243 - 4.253 Perils of Offenses
4.243 A bad monk enjoys schism in the Saṅgha. 4.244 A mendicant fears offenses just as someone would fear punishment. 4.245 How training benefits, wisdom oversees, freedom is the heart, and mindfulness is in charge. 4.246 How a corpse, a hedonist, a lion, and a Buddha go to sleep. 4.247 Four people worthy of a pagoda. 4.248 Four things lead to the growth of wisdom. 4.249 Four things helpful for...
15m Sep 10, 2022
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AN 4.232 - 4.242 Deeds
4.232-233 Karma that’s dark, bright, both, and neither. 4.234 A brahmin accuses the Buddha of being an annihilationist. 4.235 Karma that’s dark, bright, both, and neither, explained with the precepts. 4.236 Karma that’s dark, bright, both, and neither, explained with the grave violations and the paths of wholesome deeds. 4.237 Karma that’s dark, bright, both, and neither, explained with the nob...
19m Aug 17, 2022
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AN 4.221 - 4.231 Bad Conduct
6m Aug 14, 2022
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AN 4.211 -4.220 Assembly
AN 4.211 Good people light up an assembly. AN 4.212 Conduct and view determine rebirth. AN 4.213 Conduct and gratitude determine rebirth. AN 4.214 Precepts determine rebirth. AN 4.215 Initial path factors determine rebirth. AN 4.216 Subsequent path factors determine rebirth. AN 4.217 Truth and untruth determine rebirth. AN 4.218 Truth and untruth determine rebirth. AN 4.219 Faith and other qual...
5m Aug 01, 2022
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AN 4.201 - 4.210 A Good Person
AN 4.201 A good person keeps precepts—including avoiding alcohol—for themselves, while a better person encourages others as well. AN 4.202 A good person has faith and other good qualities, while a better person encourages others to develop these. AN 4.203 A good person keeps precepts—including avoiding various kinds of wrong speech—for themselves, while a better person encourages others as well...
16m Jul 15, 2022
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AN 4.198 - 4.200 The Great Chapter Part 3
AN 4.198 Those who torture themselves and others, and those who do not. AN 4.199 The web of craving that wraps around the self. AN 4.200 How love and hate give rise to love and hate; and how one doesn’t fume, ignite, or burn up
27m Jul 11, 2022
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AN 4.194 - 4.197 The Great Chapter Part 2
4.194 Making an effort to be pure in morality, mind, view, and freedom. 4.195 A discussion with a Jain on whether someone with purified understanding can experience the results of bad karma in the next life. 4.196 The practice of self-torture doesn’t purify you internally. 4.197 Queen Mallikā asks about the karmic causes of beauty, wealth, and power.
25m Jul 09, 2022
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AN 4.191 - 4.193 The Great Chapter part 1
AN 4.191 The benefits in the next life of studying Dharma in this life. AN 4.192 Ways of assessing a person’s morality, integrity, resilience, and wisdom. An 4.193 The Buddha is accused of using magic to convert followers.
25m Jul 06, 2022
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AN 4.181 - 4.190 Brahmins
4.181 How a mendicant is like a warrior. 4.182 There are some things no-one can guarantee. 4.183 What we say should never go beyond what we know; but it must also be meanungful. 4.184 Not everyone is afraid to die. 4.185 The Buddha redefines the truths of the brahmins. 4.186 A monk asks a series of questions, which are praised by the Buddha. 4.187 The Buddha explains to Vassakāra how only a goo...
30m Jun 29, 2022
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AN 4.171 - 4.180 Intentions
4.171 Intention and its results. 4.172 Sāriputta realized the four kinds of textual analysis a fortnight after he ordained. 4.173 When the senses end, is there anything left? Or is that just proliferation? 4.174 When the senses end, is there anything left? Or is that just proliferation? 4.175 A “terminator” is someone who has made an end of suffering. But are they defined by knowledge or conduc...
29m Jun 17, 2022
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AN 4.161 - 4.170 Practice
4.161 Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: in brief. 4.162 Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight: in detail. 4.163 Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice w...
24m May 27, 2022
24m
An 4.151 - 4.160 Faculties
4.151 The faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, and convergence. 4.152 The powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, and convergence. 4.153 The powers of wisdom, energy, blamelessness, and inclusiveness. 4.154 The powers of mindfulness, convergence, blamelessness, and inclusiveness. 4.155 The powers of reflection, development, blamelessness, and inclusiveness. 4.156 It’s not easy to measure the ...
16m May 26, 2022
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AN 4.141 - 4.150 Brightness
4.141 The brightness of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. 4.142 The radiance of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. 4.143 The lights of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. 4.144 The shining of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. 4.145 The lamps of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. 4.146 A time for listening to the teaching, a time for discussing the teaching, a time for serenity, and a time for discernmen...
5m May 18, 2022
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AN 4.131 - 4.140 Persons
4.131 People who have given up various fetters. 4.132 Speaking on topic and fluently. 4.133 One who understands immediately, one who understands after detailed explanation, one who needs personal guidance, and one who merely learns by rote. 4.134 Living on the fruit of effort or of past karma. 4.135 The blameworthy, the mostly blameworthy, the slightly blameworthy, and the blameless. 4.136 Fulf...
10m May 13, 2022
10m
AN 4.121 - 4.130 Fears
4.121 The fears of guilt, shame, punishment, and rebirth in a bad place. 4.122 The risks of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks. 4.123 Length of rebirth in various exalted realms. 4.124 Contemplating jhānas with wisdom. 4.125 Rebirth in Brahmā realms from divine abiding meditations. 4.126 Contemplating divine abiding meditations with wisdom. 4.127 The Buddha illuminates even interstellar ...
28m May 11, 2022
28m
AN 4.111 - 4.120 With Kesi
4.111 Guiding people like horses: sometimes, strictly, sometimes gently. And sometimes you have to kill them. 4.112 A mendicant is like a king’s thoroughbred. 4.113 A thoroughbred responds when it sees the goad. So does a mendicant. 4.114 A mendicant is like a king’s elephant. 4.115 Things that are pleasant or unpleasant, harmful or beneficial. 4.116 Don’t neglect good conduct. 4.117 Practice i...
18m May 02, 2022
18m
AN 4.101 - 4.110 Gods of the Clouds
4.101 - 102 Four people similar to clouds. 4.103 Four people similar to pots. 4.104 Four people similar to ponds. 4.105 Four people similar to mangoes. 4.107 Four people similar to mice. 4.108 Four people similar to oxen. 4.109 Four people similar to trees. 4.110 Four people similar to vipers.
21m Apr 28, 2022
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AN 4.91 - 4.100 Demons
4.91 Demons and gods. 4.92 Serenity and discernment. 4.93 Serenity and discernment should be developed. 4.94 To develop serenity and discernment, you should ask experienced practitioners. 4.95-99 Practice to help yourself and others. 4.100 Which is better: appropriate praise and criticism, or equanimity?
20m Apr 13, 2022
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AN 4.81 - 4.90 Confirmed
4.81 Precepts lead to heaven or hell. 4.82 Wrong or right speech leads to heaven or hell. 4.83 Criticizing and praising leads to heaven or hell. 4.84 Valuing defilements above the Dharma leads to hell. 4.85 The dark bound for darkness, the dark bound for light, the light bound for darkness, and the light bound for light. 4.86 One sunk low who sinks lower, one sunk low who rises high, one risen ...
18m Apr 12, 2022
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AN 4.71 - 4.80 Guaranteed
4.71 Unfailing practices: morality, learning, energy, and wisdom. 4.72 Unfailing practices: thoughts of renunciation, good will, and kindness; and right view. 4.73 Speaking well and ill of others. 4.74 The best morality, convergence, wisdom, and freedom. 4.75 The best form, feeling, perception, and state of existence. 4.76 As he lay dying, the Buddha encouraged his disciples to ask any last qu...
13m Mar 27, 2022
13m
AN 4.61 - 4.70 Deeds of Substance
4.61 Four things that are desirable, but hard to get; and how to get them through deeds of substance. 4.62 The happiness of ownership, using wealth, debtlessness, and blamelessness. 4.63 A family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with Brahmā. 4.64 Breaking precepts leads to hell. 4.65 Estimating others based on appearance, voice, austerity, and principle. 4.66...
21m Mar 26, 2022
21m
AN 4.51 - 4.60 Overflowing Merit
4.51 When a mendicant meditates using an offering, merit overflows for the donor. 4.52 When a mendicant has confidence and morality, merit overflows for the donor. 4.53- 4.54 Living with gods and zombies. 4.55 - 4.56 How a married couple can stay together in this life and the next. 4.57 - 4.59 Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength. 4.60 A lay disciple serves the mendicant Saṅgha with robes...
18m Mar 15, 2022
18m
AN 4.41 - 4.50 With Rohitassa
4.41 Developing convergence for pleasure, understanding, mindfulness, and ending defilements. 4.42 Answering questions definitively, analytically, with a counter-question, or setting it aside. 4.43 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching. 4.44 Valuing anger, or denigration, or material possessions, or honor, or valuing the true teaching. 4....
16m Mar 03, 2022
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AN 4.31 - 4.40 Situations
4.31 Living in a suitable region, relying on good people, right determination, and past good karma. 4.32 Inclusiveness through giving, kind speech, taking care, and impartiality. 4.33 A lion’s roar terrifies beasts. The Buddha’s teaching terrifies the gods. 4.34 Confidence in the Buddha, the path, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are the best kinds of confidence. 4.35 A great man as understood by bra...
26m Feb 25, 2022
26m
AN 4.21 - 4.30 At Uruvela
4.21 Who should the Buddha revere? 4.22 What qualifies you as a senior. 4.23 Why the Buddha is called the Realized One. 4.24 The Buddha knows what can be known, and remains poised in the midst of the world. 4.25 This spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint, giving up, fading away, and stopping. 4.26 Mendicants who are deceivers, stubborn, flatterers, frauds, insolent, and scattered: t...
27m Feb 15, 2022
27m
AN 4.11 - 4.20 Walking
15m Feb 09, 2022
15m
AN 4.01 - 4.10 At Bhanda Village
23m Feb 06, 2022
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AN 3.183 - 3.352 Abbreviated texts beginning with Greed
11m Jan 16, 2022
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AN 3.163 - 3.182 Ways of Performing Deeds
5m Jan 13, 2022
5m
AN 3.156 - 3.162 Practice
7m Jan 10, 2022
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AN 3.146 - 3.155 Good Fortune
6m Jan 08, 2022
6m
AN 3.133 - 3.145 A Warrior
21m Jan 07, 2022
21m
AN 3.123 - 3.132 Kusinara
20m Jan 03, 2022
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AN 3.113 - 3.122 Bound for Loss
20m Jan 01, 2022
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AN 3.103 - 3.112 Awakening
13m Dec 28, 2021
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AN 3.92 - 3.102 A Lump of Salt
38m Dec 26, 2021
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AN 3.81 - 3.91 Ascetics
25m Dec 21, 2021
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