Concerning Meditation Practice experience
A clear concise description of what is experienced during meditation is each of the Four Jhanas and then the Four Arupa Jhanas:
How did Sariputta progress through the different levels of meditation to achieve his goal of Nibanna? What occurred? See clearly each state as they appeared, one by one, in each jhana level as Sariputta goes through them. Discover for yourself each immaterial realm by clear description, and the end result.
MN#111 One by One as They Occurred - The Anupada Sutta
Concerning the students Ego Identification:
To assist with the realization of "Anatta" ( The realization that reality is an impersonal process ! )
MN#146 Advice From Nandaka - Nandakovada Sutta
MN#147 Shorter Discourse of Advise to Rahula - Cularahulovada Sutta
MN#148 Six Sets of Six - Chachakka
Sutta
This sutta read aloud in it's
entirety by Bhante Vimalaramsi:
MN#148
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MN#148 BB-Feb-06
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MN#149 Great Six-fold Base - Mahaslayatanika Sutta
Dependent Origination
Coming to understand Dependent Origination in it's direct relationship to the meditation practice and assisting with the understanding of the root of suffering and how one can accomplish the destruction of craving and clinging thus reaching the cessation of suffering.
MN#37 The Shorter Discourse on
the Destruction of Craving - Culatanhasankhaya Sutta
MN#38 The Greater Discourse on
the Destruction of Craving - Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta
MN#28 The Greater Discourse on
the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint
- Mahahatthipadopama Sutta
SN#51
Thorough Investigation (section of: Suffering (or the Tree) - Nidanavaggasamyutta)
Sutta translations (C) Bhikkhu Bodhi 1995,
2001. All sections of the suttas are Reprinted from The Middle Length
Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya or ©
Bhikkhu Bodhi 2000, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A
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