Table of Contents

Exploring the Sacred, Ancient Path
in the Original Words of the Buddha
Chapter One:
1: So Fortunate Who Encounters
1.1.0: Bahujanahitasuttaṃ - For the Benefit of Many
1.2: Dullabho - So Rare!
1.2.0: Dullabho - So Rare!
1.2.1: Ekapuggalavaggo - The One Person
1.2.2: Puggalavaggo - The Two Rare Individuals
1.2.3: Dullabhasuttaṃ - Difficult to Encounter
1.2.4: Pātubhāvasuttaṃ - Rare Manifestations
1.2.5: Brahmajālasuttavaṇṇanā - So Rare!
1.2.6: Dutiyachiggaḷayugasuttaṃ - The Second Simile of the Turtle
1.3: Appakā te manussesu - So Few Out of Many Humans
1.3.0: Appakā te manussesu - So Few Out of Many Humans
1.3.1: Saṅgāravasuttaṃ - The Questions of Saṅgāravo
1.3.2: Orimatīrasuttaṃ - The Hither and the Further Shore
1.3.3: Pāraṅgamasuttaṃ - The Going Beyond
1.3.4: Catutthavaggo - The Few and the Many
1.3.5: Maṇḍūkadevaputtavimānavatthu - The Frog Transforms into a Deva
1.3.6: Tamotamasuttaṃ - From Darkness or Brightness to Brightness or Darkness
1.3.7: Hirīsuttaṃ - By Sense of Shame
1.3.8: Caṅkamasuttaṃ - Bound Together by Inclinations
1.3.9: Saṅghabhedasuttaṃ - The Schism in the Saṅgha
1.4: tena me samaṇā piyā - That Is Why the Samaṇās Are Dear to Me
1.4.0: Cūḷahatthipadopamasuttaṃ (part 1) - Saddhā, Confidence Is the Necessary Base for Walking the Path
1.4.1: Rohinītherīgāthā (part 1) - That Is Why They Are So Dear to Me
1.4.2: Vandana: Esa Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho - Inspiration Gained through the Ariyan Disciples
1.4.3: Dhajaggasuttaṃ - Verses for Protection
1.4.4: Sekhasuttaṃ - Seven Befitting Qualities of an Ariyan Disciple
1.4.5: Araññasuttaṃ - Serene Dwelling in the Forest
1.4.6: Cūḷagosiṅgasuttaṃ - Like Milk and Water Dwelling in Harmony
1.4.7: Ānāpānassatisuttaṃ (part 1) - Free from Prattle and Chatter is this Assembly
1.4.8: Karaṇīyamettasuttaṃ (part 1) - Pursuing One’s Own Good and the Wellbeing of Others
1.4.9: Ratanasuttaṃ - Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Saṅgha
1.4.10: Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ - Pointing Out the Way to One Who Is Lost
Chapter Two:
2.1: Kutikasuttaṃ – A Beneficial Path for One and All
2.1.0: Kutikasuttaṃ - Leaving Behind All Bondages
2.1.1: Kesamuttisuttaṃ (part 1) - Don't Believe in Tradition, in Hearsay, in Teachers but Your Own Experience (part 1)
2.1.2: Kesamuttisuttaṃ (part 2) - Don't Believe in Tradition, in Hearsay, in Teachers but Your Own Experience (part 2)
2.1.3: Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhānasuttaṃ - Born of One's own Kamma
2.1.4: Paṭhama-asappurisasuttaṃ - About an Unworthy Person
2.1.5: Sevitabbasuttaṃ - What One Should Associate With?
2.1.6: Cintīsuttaṃ - The Characteristics of Foolish and of Wise People
2.1.7: Paṭhamapaṭipadāsuttaṃ - How to Walk the Path Correctly
2.1.8: Dutiyapaṭipadāsuttaṃ - Why One Ought to Walk the Path Correctly
2.1.9: Paṭhamasāmaññasuttaṃ - About Being a Sāmañña and the Fruits Thereof
2.1.10: Dutiyasāmaññasuttaṃ - The Purpose of Being a Sāmañña
2.1.11: Paṭhamabrahmannasuttaṃ & Dutiyabrahmaññasuttaṃ - About Being a Brahmañña and the Fruits Thereof & The Purpose of Being a Brahmañña
2.1.12: Paṭhamabrahmacariyasuttaṃ & Dutiyabrahmacariyasuttaṃ - Leading a Holy Life and the Fruits Thereof & The Purpose of the Holy Life
2.1.13: Arakasuttaṃ - Make the Best Use of This Short Life.
2.1.14: Yo ca vassasataṃ jīve - And One who Lives a Hundred Years
2.1.15: Phussattheragāthā - ‘2500 Years Are Over!’ The Clock of Vipassana Has Struck! Make Use of this Rare Opportunity!
Chapter Three:
3.1 Which Is the Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo
3.1.0: Dhammānussati - The Universal Dhamma, a Path for One and All, so Well Explained
3.1.1: Buddhāna - The Teaching of the Buddhas
3.1.2: Sīsapāvanasuttaṃ - Like a Handful of Leaves
3.1.3: Dhammacakkappavattanasuttaṃ-1 - Avoiding Two Extremes and Pursuing the Middle Path
3.1.4: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-1 - What Is the Eightfold Noble Path?
3.1.5: Paṭhamaparisuddhasuttaṃ-1 - Perfectly Pure-1
3.1.6: Dutiyaparisuddhasuttaṃ-2 - Perfectly Pure-2
3.1.7: Jāṇussoṇibrāhmaṇasuttaṃ - The Maggayāna, the Vehicle of the Path That Is Produced from Within
3.1.8: Upaḍḍhasuttaṃ - The Importance of a Kalyāṇamitta
3.2: Sammādiṭṭhi - Right View
3.2.0: Samuddakasuttaṃ - Sown Is the Seed
3.2.1: Sammādiṭṭhi - Intro. to Sammādiṭṭhi (Yamakavaggo- Seeing the Essence)
3.2.2: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-2 - What Is Right View?
3.2.3: Dhammacakkappavattanasuttaṃ-2 - The Four Noble Truths Have to Be Fully Realized
3.2.4: Sammādiṭṭhisuttaṃ - Assuring the Path
3.2.5: Sammādiṭṭhisuttaṃ - Who Is One holding Right View?
3.2.6: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ - Discerning Wrong View and Developing Right View
3.2.7: Bījavaggo - Neem and Sugarcane
3.2.8: Girimānandasuttaṃ-1 - What Is Perception of Impermanence?
3.2.9: Anattalakkhaṇasuttaṃ - Understanding Non I
3.2.10: Kathavatthu - Refuting Wrong Doctrines
3.3: Sammāsaṅkappo - Right Thoughts: Mind Precedes All Phenomena
3.3.0: Sammāsaṅkappo - Right Thoughts: Mind Precedes All Phenomena
3.3.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-3 - What Is Right Thought (Sammāsaṅkappo)?
3.3.2: Āghātavatthusuttaṃ - Ill Will Arising
3.3.3: Vitakkasuttaṃ - Thoughts to Avoid and to Engage In
3.3.4: Cintasuttaṃ - Thoughts to be Avoided and to Be Performed
3.3.5: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ - Discerning Wrong Thought and Developing Right Thought
3.3.6: Ambalaṭṭhikarāhulovādasuttaṃ - How to Train Oneself and to Confess Shortcomings to One's Elders (part 1)
3.3.7: Ambalaṭṭhikarāhulovādasuttaṃ - How to Train Oneself and to Confess Shortcomings To
3.3.8: Dvedhāvitakkasuttaṃ - Reducing Wrong Thoughts and Strengthening Right Thoughts (part 1)
3.3.9: Dvedhāvitakkasuttaṃ - Reducing Wrong Thoughts and Strengthening Right Thoughts (part 2)
3.3.10: Lekhasuttaṃ - Generating Saṅkhāra Like Rock, Earth or Water
3.3.11: Girimānandasuttaṃ-2 - What Is Perception of Rejection?
3.3.12: Piyatarasuttaṃ - Who Is Dearer Than Oneself?
3.4: Sammāvācā - Right Speech
3.4.1: Pupphavaggo - Words Like Those of a Flower
3.4.2.: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-4 - What Is Sammāvācā (Right Speech)?
3.4.3: Vācāsuttaṃ - What Are the Characteristics of Blameless Speech?
3.4.4: Musāvādasuttaṃ - The Consequences of Wrong Speech
3.4.5: Upālisuttaṃ - How to Conduct Oneself Correctly in Right Speech?
3.4.6: Cundasuttaṃ - About Speech That Should Be Avoided and That Should Be Performed (part 1)
3.4.7: Tiracchānakathāsuttaṃ - Avoiding Idle Chatter?
3.4.8: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ - Discerning Wrong Speech and Developing Right Speech
3.4.9: Kosambiyasuttaṃ - Quarrel Breeds Disharmony
3.4.10: Vivādasuttaṃ - How Quarrel Arises
3.4.11: Pavāraṇābhedā - Invitation to Openness!
3.4.12: Pañhabyākaraṇasuttaṃ - How Questions Should Get Answered?
3.4.13: Udāyīsuttaṃ - How Dhamma Should Be Taught?
3.4.14: Buddhānussatikathā - sugato - Which Speech Does a Buddha Utter?
3.4.15: Buddha-apadānaṃ - Buddha's Instruction
3.5: Sammākammanto - Right Actions
3.5.0: Sammākammanto - Right Actions- Introduction
3.5.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-5 - What Is Right Action?
3.5.2: Cārittaṃ - The Training of Performing and Avoiding
3.5.3: Upālisuttaṃ-2 - How to Avoid Wrong Action?
3.5.4: Cundasuttaṃ-2 - How to Conduct Oneself Correctly in Right Action?
3.5.5: Potaliyasuttaṃ - Pāṇātipātaṃ pahāya pāṇātipātā paṭivirato - How to Abandon the Destruction of Life?
3.5.6: Daṇḍasuttaṃ - Why Never Beat with a Stick?
3.5.7: Rūpādivaggo - The One Thing That Upsets the Mind
3.5.8: Methunasuttaṃ - How to Live a Real Celibate Life?
3.5.9: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ - Discerning Wrong Action and Developing Right Action
3.5.10: Cūḷakammavibhaṅgasuttaṃ: - The Result of Unwholesome and Wholesome Actions (part 1)
3.5.11: Aṅkurapetavatthu - Not Even Harming a Tree
3.6: Sammā-ājīvo - Right Livelihood
3.6.0: Sammā-ājīvo - Dhammikasuttaṃ– Introduction to Right Livelihood
3.6.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-6 - What Is Right Livelihood?
3.6.2.: Vaṇijjāsuttaṃ - Five Kind of Trades to Be Avoided
3.6.3: Parābhavasuttaṃ - The Causes of Downfall
3.6.4: Kumārakasuttaṃ - Result of Ignorance
3.6.5: Siṅgālasuttaṃ - The Buddha’s Advice to Laypeople (part 1)
3.6.6: Siṅgālasuttaṃ - The Buddha’s Advice to Laypeople (part 2)
3.6.7: Dīghajāṇusuttaṃ - Earning One’s Bread Honestly by the Sweat of One’s Brow
3.6.8: Maṅgālasuttaṃ - the Householder Wholesome Blessings
3.6.9: Cūḷakammavibhaṅgasuttaṃ - The Result of Unwholesome and Wholesome Actions (part 2)
3.6.10: Sīlānisaṃsakathā - What Are the Benefits of a Virtuous Life?
3.6.11: Paṭhamasamajīvīsuttaṃ - How a Couple Can Meet Again for Many Lives?
3.6.12: Cakkavattisuttaṃ - The Duties of a Righteous King
3.6.13: Sārandadasuttaṃ - How to Live in Harmony and True Democracy?
3.6.14: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ - Discerning Wrong Livelihood and Developing Right
3.6.15: Sīlappabhedakathā - Easy to Fall Prey to Breakage of Sīla
3.7: Sammāvāyāmo - Right Effort
3.7.0: Sīlalakkhaṇapañho - Proceeding Further on the Path - the Wholesome Base of Sīla Is Only a Precondition
3.7.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-7 - What Is Right Effort?
3.7.2: Ālasāyanuyoge - Beware of the Dangers of Idleness by Keeping Up Unyielding Energy!
3.7.3: Saṃvarasuttaṃ - Avoiding Unwholesome and Maintaining the Wholesome
3.7.4: Indriyabhāvanāsutta - Mastering the Sense-faculties
3.7.5: Akammaniyavaggo & Adantavaggo - Mastering the Mind
3.7.6: Indriyasaṃvarasīlaṃ - Maintaining One’s Object of Meditation Unobstructed!
3.7.7: Cundasuttaṃ-3 - Purifying Oneself by Training One`s Mind properly
3.7.8: Nīvaraṇapabbaṃ - Mastering the Hindrances
3.7.9: Ānāpānassatisutta - Satta Bojjhaṅge - Satta Bojjhaṅge – Perfecting the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
3.7.10: Soṇakoḷivisavatthu - Balanced Endeavour Should Resemble Strings of a Veeṇa Properly Tuned
3.7.11: Upaññātasuttaṃ - ‘Let My Efforts be Maintained until I Have Attained What Is Attainable!’ - About Strong Determination
3.7.12: Assājānīyasuttaṃ - Eight Extolled Virtues that Qualify a Follower of the Path - Working in a Balanced Way!
3.8: Sammāsati - Right Awareness
3.8.0: Samādhisuttaṃ - The Entire Teaching in One Verse!
3.8.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-8 - What Is Sammāsati - Right Awareness? - A concern Expressed!
3.8.2: Satisuttaṃ - Remaining Sato and Sampajāno
3.8.3: Ekadhammasuttaṃ - The Value of Ānāpānassati and the Fruits Gained Thereof
3.8.4: Ānāpānassatisuttaṃ cont. - How Does the Full Cultivation of Ānāpānassati Nurture Full Development of the Four Satipaṭṭhāna?
3.8.5: Kāyagatāsativaggo - The Many Benefits Derived from the Bodily Awareness
3.8.6: Manasikārakosallaṃ - Proficiency in Maintaining Proper Attention in a Skillful Way
3.8.7: Vedanānupassanā - The Particular Importance of Vedanā
3.8.8: Paṭhamaākāsasuttaṃ & Agārasuttaṃ - Realizing Vedanā Results in Going Beyond: Saṅkhyaṃ nopeti vedagū
3.8.9: Pahānasuttaṃ - How Are the Sensations Related to rāga, paṭighā and avijjā?
3.8.10: Pātālasuttaṃ– - How to Endure Negative Experiences and Realise Proper Comprehension of Dukkha?
3.8.11: Sallasuttaṃ - The Distinction, the Contrast and the Difference between a Puthujjano and an Ariyasāvako
3.8.12: Cittānupassanā - The Observation of Mind – Understanding Its Character
3.8.13: Dhammānupassanā āyatanapabbaṃ - Understanding the Contents of the Mind - The Section on the Sense Spheres
3.8.14: Dutiyagelaññasuttaṃ - Allow the Time to Ripen- Kālaṃ āgameyya!
3.8.15: Chachakkasuttaṃ - The Dependent Arising of Vedanā and Its Crucial Importance on the Path of Deliverance
3.8.16: Mahāparinibbānasuttaṃ, Veḷuvagāmavassūpagamanaṃ, - Be an Island within Yourselves (attadīpā viharatha attasaraṇā)
(Lessons under preparation to be released later)
3.9: Sammāsamādhi - Right Concentration
3.9.0: Cūḷahatthipadopamasuttaṃ, part two - Walking the Path to the End based on Enlightened Saddhā
3.9.1: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ-9 - What, Bhikkhus, Is Right Concentration
3.9.2: Samādhisuttaṃ - Noble Right Concentration Equipped with Its Means and Accessories
3.9.3: Samādhisuttaṃ - How to Develop Samādhi
3.9.4: Samādhisuttaṃ - Understanding Things Clearly As They Really Are
3.9.5: Samādhibhāvanāsuttaṃ - How Concentration Gets Developed
3.9.6: Soṇakoḷivisavatthu cont. - As a Rock Is Never Moved
3.9.7: Kāyagatāsatisutta - Similes in Regards to Entering and Dwelling in Jhānic Absorptions
3.9.8: Mahākassapattheragāthā - Meditating in Natures Calm
3.10: Paticcasamuppada and the Tikapatthana
3.10.0 : Saṅghāṭikaṇṇasuttaṃ – yo paṭiccasamuppādaṃ passati so dhammaṃ passati - part 1
3.10.1 : Paṭhamabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā anuloma - part 1
3.10.2: Dutiyabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā paṭiloma - part 2
3.10.3: Tatiyabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā anuloma-paṭiloma - part 3
3.10.4: Paticcasamuppada - part 4
3.10.5: Paticcasamuppada - part 5
3.10.6 : Abhidhamma - Introduction and Terminology
3.10.7 : Paṭṭhānapāli – Mātikā - Classification of the Universe
3.10.8 : Abhidhamma - citta: Mental States
3.10.9 : Abhidhamma - cetasika: Mental Concomitants
3.10.10: Abhidhamma - rupa: Matter
3.10.11: Tikapaṭṭhāna - Paccayuddeso or Paṭṭhānamātikā
3.10.12: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Paccayaniddeso - Explanation of the Condition
3.10.13: Part One: - Tikapaṭṭhāna - Pucchavāro: Determining questions
3.10.13: Part Two: - Tikapaṭṭhāna - Paṭiccavāro: Giving replies
3.10.14: Tikapaṭṭhāna - Survey about the Paṭṭhānapāli
3.10.15: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - a) hetupaccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna’
3.10.16: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - b) ārammaṇa-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.17: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - c) adhipati-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.18: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - d) anantara-paccayo, samanantara-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.19: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - e) sahajāta-paccayo, aññamañña-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.20: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - f) nissaya-paccayo, upanissaya-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.21: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - g) purejāta-paccayo, pacchājāta-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.22: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - h) āsevana-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.23: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - i) āhāra-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.24: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - j) kamma-paccayo, vipāka-paccayo – A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.25: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - k) indriya-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.26: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - l) jhāna-paccayo, magga-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.27: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - m) sampayutta-paccayo, vippayutta-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.28: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - n) atthi-paccayo, natthi-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
3.10.29: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - o) vigata-paccayo, avigata-paccayo - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna chanting’
Chapter Four:
4.1 Enabeling Generosity, Compassion and Goodwill
4.1.1: Attavaggo - You Are Your Own Master
4.2: Dāna
4.2.1: Dānasuttaṃ - Do Not Miss the Opportunity to Give Dāna!
4.2.2: Dānavatthusuttaṃ - Reasons for Giving Dāna
4.2.3: Aṅkurapetavatthu - Giving with the Proper Attitude and Proper Measure
4.2.4: Paṭhamadānasuttaṃ - Ways of Giving Dāna
4.2.5: Asappurisadānasuttaṃ - How Giving Should not Be Performed and How It Should Be Performed?
4.2.6: Sappurisadānasuttaṃ - The Giving of a Noble Person
4.2.7: Sappurisadānasuttaṃ - Gifts from a Noble Person
4.2.8: Kāladānasuttaṃ - Knowing the Appropriate Time to Give Dāna
4.2.9: Dānānisaṃsasuttaṃ - The Benefits Derived from Giving Dāna
4.2.10: Sīhasenāpatisuttaṃ - Trust Only Your Own Experience
4.2.11: Dānamahapphalasuttaṃ - The Different Results of the Same Donation Depend on the Intention
4.2.12: Samacittavaggo - The Gift of Parenthood
4.3: Mettā
4.3.1: Sayampi kkhahetuttamiti - You Are Yourself the Cause of Pain
4.3.2: Ahirājasuttaṃ - If Metta Was Practised
4.3.3: Mettāsuttaṃ - Eight Advantages of Practicing Metta
4.3.4: Mettāsuttaṃ - The Eleven Advantages of Practicing Metta
4.3.5: Accharāsaṅghātavaggo - If Metta Is Practised within the Snap of a Finger
4.3.6: Mettābhāvanāsuttaṃ - Applied Metta Surpasses All
4.3.7: Ettha mettāsahagatenāti mettāya samannāgatena - How One Should Dwell Suffused with Mettā
4.3.8: Karaṇīyametta Suttaṃ cont. - How Mettā Should Be Practiced
4.3.9: Maṅgala-āsiṃsanā - An Ancient Wishing for Wellbeing