The Ariyapariyesana Sutta is one of the most significant suttas in the Sutta Pitaka. It provides continual guidance on establishing and maintaining an authentic, practical, and effective Dhamma practice…
The Anupada Sutta is similar to the Anapanasati Sutta. Here the Buddha uses Sariputta’s skillful development of Jhana as example…
In the Rahogata Sutta, the Buddha teaches that feelings of pleasure, pain, or ambivalence, when perceived through a mimd rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths will fabricate what is experienced in a way that reaffirms ignorance and continues stress…
Dependent Origination is the Buddha’s teaching on how ignorance of Four Noble Truths results in confusion, delusion, and ongoing suffering -Dukkha…
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. ..
These three forms of stress referred to are rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths and Three Marks Of existence resulting in fabricated (corrupted) wrong views…
In the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches that it is the profound and liberating understanding of the true nature of – Dukkha …
In this sutta, the Buddha teaches his cousin Mahanama that the common manifestation in individual human beings of stress is greed, aversion, and deluded thinking…
The Not-Self Characteristic and The Five Clinging-Aggregates
The Buddha’s Second Discourse…
In the Cula-Saccaka sutta the Buddha is challenged to debate by Saccaka, a follower of Nigantha Nataputta, the local leader of a Jain sect….
The Vipallasa Sutta is a sutta on fabrications. A fabrication is a conclusion formed from false, misrepresented, or incomplete information…
This sutta describers I-making and impermanence. Mara represents the conditioned grasping-after constant self-establishment of a mind conflicted by its own ignorance. ..