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AN 10.71 If a mendicant wishes to attain spiritual heights, they should begin by practicing the code of training rules. AN 10.72 When the Buddha receives noisy visitors, several monks withdraw to a nearby forest to meditate. The Buddha praises them, saying that noise is a thorn to absorption. AN 10.73 Ten desirable things that are hard to get. AN 10.74 Ten aspects of prosperity. AN 10.75 The femal...

AN 10.63 Those who have certainty in the Buddha may realize the final goal in this life or the next. AN 10.64 Stream-enterers may realize the final goal in this life or the next. AN 10.65 Sāriputta explains to the wanderer Sāmaṇḍakāni that rebirth is suffering, freedom from rebirth is happiness. AN 10.66 Sāriputta explains to the wanderer Sāmaṇḍakāni that dissatisfaction is suffering, enjoyment is...

AN 10.61 Even though ignorance has no discernible first point, it still has a cause. AN 10.62 Even though craving has no discernible first point, it still has a cause.

10.51 The Buddha teaches that, if you can’t read anyone else’s mind, read your own by regular self-reflection. 10.52 Sāriputta teaches that, if you can’t read anyone else’s mind, read your own by regular self-reflection. 10.53 The Buddha doesn’t praise stagnation in wholesome qualities, let alone decline. 10.54 The Buddha teaches that, if you can’t read anyone else’s mind, read your own by regular...

10.41 Ten reasons for disputes in the Saṅgha. 10.42 Ten roots for disputes in the Saṅgha. 10.43 Ten roots for disputes in the Saṅgha. 10.44 A mendicant who wishes to admonish another should first reflect on five things in themselves and establish a further five. 10.45 Ten dangers for a monk who enters a royal harem. 10.46 The Sakyans say that they don’t always observe the eight precepts on the sab...

AN 10.31 The Buddha teaches Venerable Upāli the ten reasons for establishing the training rules. AN 10.32 Ten reasons for suspending the recitation of the code of conduct. AN 10.33 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to be appointed to judge a dispute. AN 10.34 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to give ordination. AN 10.35 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to give dependence. AN 10.36 Te...

AN 10.28 Some lay people ask the nun from Kajaṅgalā regarding the ten “Great Questions”. Though she has not heard this teaching herself, she explains from her own understanding, and is praised by the Buddha. AN 10.29 Starting with a comparison with the King of Kosala, the Buddha teaches a series of ten advanced teachings. He culminates by affirming that he teaches the full understanding of sensual...

AN 10.25 Ten universal dimensions of meditation, or kasiṇas. AN 10.26 The female lay follower Kāḷī of Kuraraghara in Avantī asks Venerable Mahākaccāna about a verse spoken by the Buddha in “The Maidens’ Questions” (SN 4.25). He replies in terms of the ten universal dimensions of meditation. AN 10.27 Some wanderers claim to teach the direct knowledge of all things, just like the Buddha. However the...

AN 10.21 Like a lion, a Realized One roars his preeminence based on ten powers. AN 10.22 The Buddha claims to be assured regarding the various different doctrinal hypotheses, based on the ten powers. AN 10.23 Some things are to be given by body, others by speech, and still others by wisdom. AN 10.24 Venerable Mahācunda teaches that, though a mendicant might claim to be free of greed, hate, and del...

AN 10.11 Five factors that a mendicant should have, and five factors of a lodging that they should occupy. AN 10.12 A mendicant should abandon the five hindrances and possess the five factors of the adept. AN 10.13 Five lower and five higher fetters. AN 10.14 Five kinds of emotional barrenness and five emotional shackles. AN 10.15 Diligence is the foremost of all good qualities. AN 10.16 Ten perso...

AN 10.01 The purpose of ethics, leading step by step to liberation. AN 10.02 There’s no need to make a wish to get enlightened; it happens naturally when the conditions are there. AN 10.03 The Buddha teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present. AN 10.04 Sāriputta teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethi...

AN 9.42 At Udāyī’s request, Ānanda explains an obscure verse spoken (in SN 2.7) by a deity. The nine progressive meditations are the escape from confinement. AN 9.43 The Buddha speaks of a “direct witness’, that is, someone who personally has thorough and proficient experience of the different meditation states. AN 9.44 One liberated by wisdom first enters the meditation states, then understands t...

AN 9.40 A bull elephant, annoyed by living in the herd, goes off by himself. Similarly, a mendicant feeling crowded in a monastery goes off by themselves and happily meditates in seclusion. AN 9.41 The householder Tapussa reflects that it is renunciation that distinguishes lay from monastic. The Buddha responds by giving a long account of his practice of absorption before awakening.

AN 9.36 The ending of defilements happens due to the practice of absorption meditation. AN 9.37 Ānanda exclaims how amazing it is that the Buddha has found a way to freedom while still experiencing the world. Questioned by the monk Udāyī, Ānanda recounts a discussion on advanced meditation with the nun Jaṭilagāhiyā. AN 9.38 Two brahmin cosmologists ask the Buddha to decide between competing claims...

AN 9.32 Nine progressive meditation states. AN 9.33 Nine progressive meditation states, explained in detail. AN 9.34 Sāriputta declares that extinguishment is bliss, precisely because nothing is felt there. He explains this apparent paradox with reference to the nine progressive meditations. AN 9.35 Just as a foolish cow can get in trouble wandering the mountains, a foolish mendicant can get lost...

AN 9.21 A comparison of the people of India, of Uttarakuru, and of the heaven of the Thirty-Three. AN 9.22 Nine kinds of horses are compared with nine kinds of monks. AN 9.23 Nine things that are rooted in craving. AN 9.24 Nine realms into which sentient beings may be reborn. AN 9.25 Nine reflections by which a mendicant knows their mind has wisdom. AN 9.26 Venerables Candikāputta and Sāriputta di...

AN 9.11 After the rains season, Sāriputta takes leave of the Buddha. Another monk falsely accuses Sāriputta of hitting him before leaving. The Buddha calls Sāriputta to answer the accusation. Before the Saṅgha, Sāriputta denies it, uttering a powerful statement of spiritual prowess. AN 9.12 Sāriputta visits some wanderers, who claim that only perfected ones are free from bad rebirth. Sāriputta has...

AN 9.01 Beginning with good friendship, the Buddha teaches nine things that give rise to the qualities that lead to awakening. AN 9.02 The things that a mendicant relies on as supports in spiritual practice. AN 9.03 Venerable Meghiya, while attending on the Buddha, wants to go off and meditate in a forest alone. The Buddha discourages him, but he goes anyway. When his meditation doesn’t go well, h...