The Phena Sutta – Emptiness and The Five Clinging-Aggregates
The Phena Sutta is another sutta on emptiness as the Buddha uses the term. In this sutta he teaches the emptiness of The Five Clinging Aggregates and the emptiness of creating self-identities by clinging to fleeting objects, events, views and ideas…
Chavalata Sutta – Profound Right View: Wisdom and Compassion
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The Assutava Sutta is another simple and direct sutta on Dependent Origination that also references the Five Clinging Aggregates…
Shunyata – Three Discourses on Emptiness
Shunyata – Three Discourses on Emptiness is an article on the Buddha’s teachings on emptiness. I will cite three suttas where the Buddha teaches the meaning and application of emptiness, shunyata (Pali: Sunnata)…
Right View: Understanding Five Clinging-Aggregates
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In the Nidana Sutta, the Buddha focuses on recognizing and abandoning the Three Defilements of greed, aversion, and deluded thinking. All three of the defilements are rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths and the resulting ongoing self-referential “I-making”…
Vatthupama Sutta – Of Stained and Pure Cloth
In the Vatthupama Sutta, the Buddha uses the simile of a dirty or clean cloth to teach the importance of abandoning magical, mystical, and fabricated views …
Five Factors Of Concentration – The Samadhanga Sutta
The Samadhanga Sutta is another sutta on the proper use of the singular method of meditation as an awakened human being teaches – to engage with Jhana meditation to increase concentration…
A Noble Dhamma Practice – A Structured Study
The Bhaddekaratta Sutta – Mindfulness of What Is Occurring
The Bhaddekaratta Sutta teaches the importance of being mindfully present of life as life unfolds. The title of this Sutta means an auspicious day…
An Admirable Sangha – Upaddha Sutta
The Upaddha Sutta provides guidance on an underlying theme running throughout the Buddha’s Dhamma – wise associations.
Right Speech And True Compassion – Abhaya Sutta
Right Speech is always compassionate speech as it is speech informed by the wisdom of Four Noble Truths developed through the Eightfold Path…
Dhamma-Viharin Sutta – Dwelling In The Dhamma
In the Dhamma-Viharin Sutta, the Buddha is teaching that engaging with the Dhamma through intellectual study alone will not develop cessation of craving after and clinging to views ignorant of Four Noble Truths, and the confusion and suffering that follows…
Magga-Vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of the Path
Friends, I will now give you a detailed analysis of the Noble Eightfold Path. Listen mindfully. This is the Noble Eightfold Path…
Three Trainings For Liberation – The Sikkha Sutta
The Sikh Sutta teaches the the Eightfold Path is a path that incorporates the three aspects or trainings necessary for becoming Rightly Self-Awakened as the Buddha instructs. The Eightfold Path is a training in developing heightened virtue, heightened concentration, and heightened wisdom…
Anupada Sutta – Ending Fabrications One After Another
The Anupada Sutta is similar to the Anapanasati Sutta. Here the Buddha uses Sariputta’s skillful development of Jhana as example…
Avarana and Bahiya Suttas – Hindrances To Refined Mindfulness
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In the Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta, one of the Buddha’s chief disciple, Sariputta presents a complete analysis of the Four Noble Truths including a simple and direct explanation of the Eightfold Path…
Simsapa Sutta A Handful Of Leaves
“This is what I teach. I teach these things because they are related to my Dhamma and they support the principles of a life integrated with the Eightfold Path. These things that I teach lead directly to disenchantment, to dispassion…
Jhana Meditation – A Structured Study of The Buddha’s Meditation
Nibbana Sutta – Unbinding From Ignorance
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Rather than avoid responsibility for these hindrances through modern “dharma” practices, the Buddha taught the why and how of applying the Dhamma in specific direct, skillful, and highly effective Eightfold Path. I..
Nothing Personal – A Buddha’s Analysis Of Self – Dhatu-Vibhanga Sutta
This most profound sutta relieves the fear and aversion that arises from the desire for continued self-establishment in impermanent objects, events, views, and ideas fabricated from ignorance of Four Noble Truths. ..