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MN 105
To Sunakkhatta -
Sunakkhatta Sutta
The Buddha discusses
with Sunakkhatta the
problem of someone
overestimating his or
her level of attainment.
He is basically saying
that if one really knows
the cause of bondage
(which is craving), then
one would not do things
that arouse one’s mind
toward any object of
attachment. There are
those who say they are
intent only on Nibbāna
but their actions are
not congruent with their
statement. This is a
very good basic
prescription from the
Surgeon (the Buddha),
which is essentially the
heart of the teaching on
how to heal the wound of
suffering.
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MN 105
Joshua Tree Retreat 4 13-Mar-09 |
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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
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MN 107
To Ganaka Moggallana
- Gaṇakamoggallāna
Sutta
Gaṇaka
Moggallāna asks the
Buddha to describe the
gradual training in this Dharma
and Discipline. Then the
Buddha gives a good
simile on why some disciples reach the
goal and some do not.
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MN 107
Seattle Retreat,
27-Mar-07
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79 min, 13.4 MB |
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MN 109
The Greater Discourse on
the Fullmoon Night-
Mahāpuṇṇama Sutta
In a large gathering of
disciples, one who is a
teacher of many students
asks the Buddha
questions in the hope
that it will help to
refine his students’
understanding of
not-self, primarily by
exploring the emptiness
of the five aggregates. |
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MN 109
DSMC
28-Nov-08 |
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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
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04-Mar-08 |
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108 min 32.7 MB |
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MN 112 The Sixfold Purity - Chabbisodhana Sutta
If someone claims to
have attained final
knowledge, the Buddha
expounds on how that
person should be
questioned, and on what
the nature of his or her
answer should be. The
discourse includes an
in-depth description of
the Buddha’s liberated
mind, thereby showing
every possible way that
clinging can arise and
be extinguished.
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MN 112
DSMC 13-Sep-08 |
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64 min, 18.1 MB |
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MN 113
The True Man - Sappurisa Sutta
The Buddha distinguishes
the character of an
“untrue man” and a “true
man.”
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MN 113 DSMC
01-Jun-09
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66 min, 18.6 MB |
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MN 115 The
Many Kinds of Elements
- Bahudhātukka Sutta
The Buddha expounds in
detail the elements, the
six sense bases,
dependent origination,
and the kinds of
situations that are
possible and impossible
in the world (for one
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MN 115
Summer-03 |
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43 min, 9.5 MB |
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MN 117 The
Great Forty - Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
The Buddha defines the
factors of the Noble
Eightfold Path and
explains their
interrelationships. One
interesting aspect of
this discourse is that
it clearly shows the
Noble Eightfold Path as
a way to practice not
only for ordinary
persons, but also for
those who have already
entered the stream.
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MN 117
Joshua Tree Retreat 4
Day 9 09-Mar-09
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72 min, 20.5 MB |
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MN 118 Mindfulness of Breathing
- Ānāpānasati
Sutta
A very important
discourse explaining
mindfulness of breathing
and how it relates to
the four foundations of
mindfulness, to the
seven enlightenment
factors, and to true
knowledge and
deliverance. |
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MN 118 undated |
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115 min, 37.0 MB |
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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
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60 min, 13.6 MB |
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60 min, 284 MB |
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MN 122 The Greater
Discourse on Voidness - Mahāsuññata Sutta
Seeing that the bhikkhus
were growing fond of
socializing, the Buddha
stresses the importance
of seclusion: to enter
and abide in voidness
internally and
externally if one wants
to obtain, without
difficulty, the bliss of
enlightenment.
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MN 122
DSMC Aug-07 Retreat,
24-Aug-07
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MN
128 Imperfections -
Upakkilesa
Sutta
This discourse has two parts. In the first, there is more information about living in
concord, arising from the dispute at Kosambī (as in MN48). It includes a famous
series of stanzas about living with non-hatred.
In the second, the Buddha
discusses the various impediments to meditative progress.
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MN 128
DSMC 16-Sep-08 |
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MN 133
Mahākaccānabhaddekaratta
Sutta -
Mahā Kaccāna and a
Single Excellent Night
A summary and exposition
on a verse about how one
revives the past, puts
hope in the future and
gets embroiled in the
present, and how not to
do this. The Buddha
emphasizes the need for
present effort in seeing
things as they are. The
Buddha gives the
teaching in brief. After
he leaves for his
dwelling, Mahā Kaccāna
analyzes the verse by
way of the twelve sense
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MN 133
Anaheim Retreat 1 04-Dec-09
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MN
135 The Shorter
Exposition of Action - Cūḷakammavibhaṅga
Sutta
The Buddha explains how karma accounts for one’s fortune or misfortune. He
names the results of specific actions. |
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135
Anaheim Retreat 1 03-Dec-09
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99 min, 22.4 MB |
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MN 138 The
Exposition of a Summary
- Saccavibhaṅga Sutta
In this discourse,
Ven. Mahā Kaccāna
answers questions about
what it means for
consciousness to be
scattered and distracted
externally, what it
means for the mind to be
stuck, what it means for
consciousness to be
agitated due to
clinging, and how to end
these difficulties. This
is a useful discourse. |
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MN 138 27-Mar-02 |
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71 min 20.1 MB |
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MN 140
The
Exposition of the
Elements - Dhātuvibhanga
Sutta
This is a profound and
touching account of the
Buddha’s meeting with
Pukkusāti (a former
king), who had gone
forth but had never met
the Buddha. The Buddha
could tell he was ripe
for awakening, so he
gave him a private
teaching without
Pukkusāti’s knowing he
was the Buddha.
Primarily, the discourse
is about four
foundations: wisdom,
truth, relinquishment
and peace. It also
includes a great deal on
feeling (vedanā). The
last section is about
mental conceiving. When
Pukkusāti went out to
look for a proper robe
and bowl for his
ordination, he was
killed by a cow and
reborn in the Avihā
heaven as a nonreturner. |
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MN 140 DSMC
26-Jan-09
Sister Khema
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MN 141 The
Exposition of the Truths
- Saccavibhanga Sutta
Ven. Sāriputta gives a
fairly detailed summary
of the Four Noble
Truths. There is a more
detailed analysis in the
Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta
in the Dīgha Nikāya (DN
22.18).
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MN 141 DSMC 17-Aug-08
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80 min, 22.8 MB |
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MN 141 DSMC 03-Apr-06
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MN 143
Advice to
Anāthapiṇḍika -
Anāthapiṇḍikovāda Sutta
The householder
Anāthapiṇḍika is on his
deathbed and calls for
Ven. Sāriputta, in whom
he has full confidence.
The venerable gives him
a sermon on nonclinging
in order to release him
from his pain.
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MN 143 DSMC 14-Jul-08
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96 min, 27.4 MB |
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145
Advice to Puṇṇā
-
Puṇṇovāda Sutta
This is a brief
discourse and teaching
by the Buddha to
Puṇṇā,
who decides to live
among the fierce people
of a remote territory.
The Buddha tests his
attitude toward those
who may harm him, and
Puṇṇā demonstrates the
strength of his
understanding. |
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DSMC 01-Jul-08
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MN 146 Advice from Nandaka -
Nandakovāda Sutta
Ven. Nandaka gives the
bhikkhunis a discourse
on impermanence. This is
a standard discourse on
this topic, with
emphasis on the
impermanence of
feelings.
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MN 146
DSMC Aug-07 Retreat,
19-Aug-07 |
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MN 146 23-Jul-03
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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
Retreat 3
07-Mar-08 |
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68 min 20.7 MB |
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MN 149 The Great Sixfold Base -
Mahāsaḷāyatanika Sutta
This brief discourse is
a complete, clear, and
direct discourse
explaining the cause of
suffering and its end.
If one has wrong view
about the six sense
bases (not seeing things
as they actually are
with wisdom, which
implies not seeing the
three characteristics),
then this leads to more
suffering and the
continuation of being.
If one has right view,
this leads to
liberation. |
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21-Nov-05 |
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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 152
DSMC
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MN 152
DSMC
Oct-06 Retreat,
07-Oct-06
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