The Sutta Weekly

We need to act our talk. In this discourse, we see Venerable Mogallana bringing Sakka, the heavenly king, back to his senses. Link to the sutta: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN37.html

In the MN 36, the Buddha teaches and answers to the questions of the skeptic Saccaka. He elucidates the right concepts of development of mind and body; his spiritual journey into homelessness and his unwavering persistence to not allow feelings of pleasure and pain take over his mind; the jhanas and the three knowledges; what is the real delusion. Impressed, in the end, Saccaka praises the Buddha.

A sophist takes the Buddha to debate, hoping to outwit him, whereas he is the one losing in the end. Link to the discourse: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN35.html

In this MN:33, the Buddha speaks of the qualities that make up a good and not good monk. Link to the sutta: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN33.html

The Buddha converses with venerables Anuruddha, Nandiya and Kimbila regarding their progress and is very impressed by them. My email: sankalpachakma@gmail.com

Similar to MN:29, the Buddha once again recounts to us about the pitfalls along the path. My email btw: sankalpachakma@gmail.com

In this discourse, the Buddha warns us of not getting astray during our practice of the Dharma.

In this episode, I attempt to explain the MN: 28. As per my understanding, it elaborates on the five aggregates and why clinging to them causes us suffering.

The Buddha tells us about the ‘footprints’ which lead us to the ultimate truth, that until we reach the real destination, we must not totally believe in the ‘footprints’. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN27.html

In this discourse, the Buddha talks of two kinds of ‘searches’: ignoble and noble. Also, he mentions his own spiritual journey and speaks of the drawbacks of falling for the strings of sensuality. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN26.html

In the MN 25, the Buddha uses the analogy of a poison-grass sower to show how we might be derailed from the right path and make mistakes. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN25.html Twitter: @thesuttaweekly

This sutta highlights the point that the sole purpose of Buddhism is to end our suffering, not anything else. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN24.html

In this sutta, the Buddha reminds us strongly of the dangers of grasping his teachings wrongly. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN22.html

In this sutta, the Buddha reiterates to us to practice kindness and compassion even when other people are being bad to us. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN21.html

In this sutta, the Buddha gives us tips to drive the unskilful away. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN20.html

The Buddha sorts thinking into two types - thinking imbued with sensuality, ill will and harmfulness, and thinking imbued with renunciation, non-ill will and harmlessness. We must follow the latter and abandon the former for the benefit of us and the world.

In this sutta, the Buddha talks about papañca, the mental tendencies that erupt into outer violence.

In this sutta, the Buddha talks about the importance of experiencing meditative bliss in order to escape sensuality, the drawbacks of sensuality, and also the futility of practising asceticism.

In this sutta, the Buddha speaks about the allure, drawbacks and escape from sensuality, forms and feeling. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN13.html

In this sutta, the Buddha speaks of his various faculties that rightly make him the Tathagata. His teachings aren’t hammered out of logical reasoning but from direct penetration of the ultimate truths. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN12.html

In the MN 11, the Buddha highlights the importance of perfectly comprehending clinging, for failing to understand it leads us to the unskilful views of either becoming of non-becoming. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN11.html

A very important discourse in which the Buddha provides us instructions on how to practice mindfulness. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN10.html

In this sutta, Venerable Sariputta explains the different aspects of right view. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN9.html

In this discourse, the Buddha speaks about the importance of doing away with the defilements. https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN7.html

In this sutta, the Buddha lists the importance and merits of maintaining the precepts. Although, the precepts in discussion are those for the monks, patimokhha, I think, the Buddha also indirectly tells us lay folks of the advantages of following our five precepts. References: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN6.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pāṭimokkha https://tricycle.org/magazine/th...