Articles by Buddha Sutra
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Consciousness – Viññana Sutta
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5 Jun 2023
Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness… Nose-consciousness… Tongue-consciousness… Body-consciousness… Intellect-consciousness are inconstant, changeable, alterable.
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A God Consults the Buddha
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15 May 2023
Sakka’s Questions (Sakkapanha Sutta)
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Yodhajiva Sutta – The Warrior (Parts 1 and 2)
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10 Apr 2023
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five?
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To the Brahmin Sela: Sela Sutta
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20 Mar 2023
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was touring the country of Anguttaraapa with a large community of Bhikkhus, about one thousand two hundred and fifty and entered a hamlet named Aapana. The matted hair ascetic Keniya heard “The good recluse Gotama, son of the Saakyas touring the country of Anguttaraapa.”
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The Warrior (1 and 2): Yodhajiva Sutta
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13 Feb 2023
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five?
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16 Jan 2023
“Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness… Nose-consciousness… Tongue-consciousness… Body-consciousness… Intellect-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable.”
→ read full articleThe Warrior –> Yodhajiva Sutta (1 and 2)
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5 Dec 2022
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five? In the same way, monks, there are these five warrior-like individuals who can be found existing among the monks. Which five?”
→ read full articleThe Guest House –> Agara Sutta
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7 Nov 2022
In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.
→ read full articleThe Lion’s Roar on the Turning of the Wheel –> Cakkavattisihananda Sutta
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24 Oct 2022
Monks, be islands unto yourselves, be a refuge unto yourselves with no other refuge. And how does a monk dwell on an island unto himself, as a refuge unto himself with no other refuge, with Dhamma as his island, with the Dhamma as his refuge, with no other refuge?
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Fallen on Hard Times –> Duggata Sutta
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10 Oct 2022
“From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.”
→ read full articlePride Humbled –>Ambattha Sutta
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19 Sep 2022
Thus have I heard. Once the lord was touring Kosala with a large number of monks, some five hundred, and he came to a Kosalan Brahmin village called Icchanankala. And he stayed in the dense jungle of Icchanankala. At that time the Brahmin Pokkharasati was living at Ukkhattha, a populous place.
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The Classification of Solitude –> Aranavibhangasuttam
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5 Sep 2022
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anathapindika in Jeta’s grove in Savatthi. The Blessed One addressed the Bhikkhus from there. ‘Bhikkhus, I will teach the Classification of solitude listen carefully and attentively.’
→ read full articleThe Simile of the Snake ~ Alagagadduupama Sutta
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22 Aug 2022
Thus I heard: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery. At that time to a Bhikkhu, a vulture trainer in his previous birth, this evil view had arisen. As I know the Teaching of the Blessed One, to one who pursues those impedimental things declared as impediments are not suitable impediments.
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Subduing Hatred (Aghatapativinaya Sutta)
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4 Jul 2022
“These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely. Which five?
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Atthasatapariyaya Sutta: One Hundred Eight Feelings
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30 May 2022
“I shall show you, O monks, a way of Dhamma presentation by which there are one hundred and eight feelings. Hence listen to me.
→ read full articleAttadanda Sutta – The Training
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11 Apr 2022
Violence breeds misery; look at people quarreling. I will relate the emotion agitating me. Having seen people struggling and contending with each other like fish in a small amount of water, fear entered me.
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Anana Sutta – Debtlessness
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28 Mar 2022
There are these four kinds of bliss that can be attained in the proper season, on the proper occasions, by a householder enjoying the pleasures of the senses. Which four?
→ read full articleTears – Assu Sutta
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7 Mar 2022
From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.
→ read full articleDahara Sutta – Young
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14 Feb 2022
“There are these four things, great king, that shouldn’t be despised and disparaged for being young. Which four?
→ read full articleThe Simile of the Snake – Alagagadduupama Sutta
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20 Dec 2021
Thus I heard: At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anathapindika in Jeta’s grove in Savatthi. At that time to a Bhikkhu named Arittha, a vulture trainer in his previous birth, this evil view had arisen.
→ read full articleAnubuddha Sutta – Understanding
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15 Nov 2021
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the Vajjians at Bhanda Village. There he addressed the monks, “Monks!”
→ read full articleAdiya Sutta – Benefits to Be Obtained from Wealth
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4 Oct 2021
Then Anathapindika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him: “There are these five benefits that can be obtained from wealth. Which five?
→ read full articleChappana Sutta – The Six Animals
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13 Sep 2021
Suppose that a man, wounded and festering, were to go into a swampy jungle. Its sharp-bladed grasses would pierce his feet; its thorns would scratch his festering sores. And so, from that cause, he would experience an even greater measure of pain and unhappiness.
→ read full articleÁnanda Sutta (On Self, No Self, and Not-self)
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9 Aug 2021
“Now then, Venerable Gotama, is there a self?”
When this was said, the Blessed One was silent.
“Then is there no self?”
A second time, the Blessed One was silent.
Then Vacchagotta the wanderer got up from his seat and left.
Atthakarana Sutta –> In Judgment
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26 Jul 2021
At Savatthi. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: “Just now, lord, as I was sitting in judgment… (read on)
→ read full articleAnubuddha Sutta – Understanding
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28 Jun 2021
The Blessed One said: “It’s because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered and transmigrated on such a long, long time, you and I. Which four?
→ read full articleAbhaya Sutta – Fearless
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31 May 2021
Then Janussoni the Brahman went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him. After an exchange of friendly greetings and courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: “I am of the view and opinion that there is no one who, subject to death, is not afraid or in terror of death.”
→ read full articleAnubuddha Sutta – Understanding
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5 Apr 2021
The Blessed One said:
“It’s because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered and transmigrated on such a long, long time, you and I. Which four?
The Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya Sutta)
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25 Jan 2021
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Varanasi in Gaya, at Gaya Head, with 1,000 monks. There he addressed the monks:
→ read full articleCaatuma Sutta: The Discourse at Catuma
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4 Jan 2021
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was living in the Aamalaki forest in Catuma. At that time about five hundred Bhikkhus had come to Catuma headed by venerable Shariputra and venerable Moggallana to see the Blessed One. While exchanging friendly greetings, arranging beddings, putting away bowls and robes, they made much noise. The Blessed One addressed venerable Ánanda:
→ read full articleAkankha Sutta –> Wishes
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30 Nov 2020
[1] “If a monk would wish, ‘May I be dear and pleasing to my fellows in the holy life, respected by and inspiring to them,’ then he should be one who brings the precepts to perfection, who is committed to mental calm, who does not neglect jhana, who is endowed with insight, and who frequents empty dwellings.”
→ read full articleAssu Sutta – Tears
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9 Nov 2020
At Savatthi. There the Blessed One said: “From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.
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7 Sep 2020
Now, at that time Pokkharasati had a pupil, the youth Ambattha, who was a student of the Vedas, who knew the mantras, perfected in the Three Vedas, a skilled expounder of the rules and rituals, the lore of sounds and meanings and, fifthly, oral tradition, complete in philosophy and the marks of a great man, admitted and accepted by his master in the Three Vedas with the words, “What I know, you know; what you know, I know.”
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Agara Sutta – The Guest House
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27 Jul 2020
“In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south.
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