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Joshua Tree
5 6-Mar-10
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MN
20 The Removal of
Distracting Thoughts - Vitakkasaṇṭhāna
Sutta
Five
methods of removing
distracting thoughts are
presented, but the last
four
may have been added by
Brahmins some time after
the time of the Buddha.
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MN
20 Joshua Tree
5
7-Mar-10
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MN 111 One by One as They Occurred - Anupada
Sutta
The Buddha describes
Ven. Sāriputta’s
attainment to
arahantship as it
occurred through the
four jhānas. Of all the
discourses in this text
(MN), this provides the
most detailed account of
the progression through
the jhānas.
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MN 111
Joshua Tree 5
8-Mar-10
Day 3 |
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MN 10 The Foundations of
Mindfulness - Satipaṭṭhāna
Sutta
This is
the most important
discourse by the Buddha
on the training of
mindfulness meditation,
with particular
attention given to
developing insight. The
Buddha
begins by declaring that
the four foundations of
mindfulness are the
direct
path leading to the
realization of Nibbāna.
He then gives detailed
instructions on the four
foundations: the
contemplation of the
body, feelings,
mind, and mind objects.
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MN 10
Joshua Tree 5 9-Mar-10 Day
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MN 38 The Greater
Discourse on the
Destruction of Craving
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Mahātaṇhāsankhaya
Sutta
This is
an important discourse
on dependent origination
and the destruction of
craving. After
reprimanding the bhikkhu
Sāti about the view he
was
proclaiming—that the
same consciousness runs
through the round of
rebirths—the Buddha explains from
every angle the correct
way to view dependent
origination, showing how
all phenomena of
existence arise and
cease through
conditions.
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MN 38
Joshua Tree 5
10-Mar-10 Day
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MN 148
The Six Sets of Six
- Chachakka Sutta
A
profound and penetrating
discourse on the
contemplation of all the
factors of
sense experience as not
self.
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MN 148
Joshua Tree 5 11-Mar-10
Day 6
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MN
21
The
Simile of the Saw
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Kakacūpama Sutta
This discourse is a
challenging and relevant
training on how to
develop compassion,
lovingkindness,
equanimity and patience
even when we are
physically attacked or
fatally wounded by
someone.
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MN 21, 8-Fold
Path Joshua
Tree 5 12-Mar-10
Day 7 101
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MN 53
The Disciple in Higher Training - Sekha Sutta
Ven. Ānanda gives a
discourse at the
Buddha’s request on the
fifteen factors involved
in higher training for a
disciple who has entered
upon the way.
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MN 53
Joshua Tree 5
13-Mar-10 Day
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MN 106
The Way to the
Imperturbable - Āneñjasappāya Sutta
The Buddha explains the
approaches to various
levels of higher
meditative states
culminating in Nibbāna.
He points out how one
can get caught in
clinging at any of these
levels. The
imperturbable refers to
the 4th jhāna and the
1st two immaterial
states.
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MN
106 Joshua
Tree 5 14-Mar-10
Day 9 77 min, MP4 - 135 MB
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DN 15 The Great
Discourse on Origination
- Mahānidāna
Sutta
Ananda is rebuked for
saying the law of
dependent origination is
‘as clear as clear’ to
him. The Buddha explains
it in reverse order
first, but going back
only to mind-and-body
and consciousness (that
is, factors 4 and 3 of
the usual list of 12)
and also omitting the
six sense-bases (No 5).
The exposition ends with
a reference to the seven
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15 Joshua Tree
5 15-Mar-10 Day
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MN 44
The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Cūḷavedalla Sutta
This discourse is a discussion between bhikkhuni Dhammadinnā and her former
husband, the lay follower Visākha. It includes many excellent points on identity,
feelings (vedanā), cessation and Nibbāna,
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44 Joshua Tree
5 16-Mar-10 Day
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MN
121 The Shorter
Discourse on Voidness -
Cūḷasuññata
Sutta
The Buddha
explains to Ven. Ānanda what it means to abide in voidness, or “the genuine,
undistorted, pure descent into voidness.”
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MN 121
Joshua Tree 5
17-Mar-10 Day
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MN 95
With Canki -
Canki Sutta
The
Buddha shows the
difference between
preserving the truth
(out of faith),
discovering the truth
(out of direct
experience
through practice),
and the arrival at truth.
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MN 95
Joshua Tree 5
18-Mar-10 Day
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MN
21
The
Simile of the Saw
-
Kakacūpama Sutta
This discourse is a
challenging and relevant
training on how to
develop compassion,
lovingkindness,
equanimity and patience
even when we are
physically attacked or
fatally wounded by
someone.
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MN 152 The Development of the Faculties - Indriyabhāvanā Sutta
This is a useful
discourse on the supreme
development of the five
sense faculties.
Essentially, the Buddha
describes how to control
the mind’s reactivity to
agreeable, disagreeable
and indifferent
formations so that one
can be established in
equanimity. The
discourse contains many
very good similes.
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MN 21, MN 152 Joshua
Tree 5 19-Mar-10 Day
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