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 One - Saddhā, Confidence Is the Necessary Base for Walking the Path
1.4.1: Rohinītherīgāthā, Part One - 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 One - Free from Prattle and Chatter is this Assembly
1.4.8: Karaṇīyamettasuttaṃ, Part One - Pursuing One’s Own Good and the Well-being 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 One - Don't Believe in Tradition, in Hearsay, in Teachers but Your Own Experience, Part One
2.1.2: Kesamuttisuttaṃ, Part Two - Don't Believe in Tradition, in Hearsay, in Teachers but Your Own Experience, Part Two
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 The Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo
3.1.0: Dhammānussati - Recollecting the Qualities of the Dhamma 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, Part One - Avoiding Two Extremes and Pursuing the Middle Path
3.1.4: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ, Part One - An Exposition of the Noble Eightfold Path
3.1.5: Paṭhamaparisuddhasuttaṃ - An Utterly Pure Path for Any Householder to Tread On!
3.1.6: Dutiyaparisuddhasuttaṃ - Walking the Path of Dhamma Uprightly
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: Yamakavaggo - Sārañca sārato ñatvā - Perceiving the Essential
3.2.2: Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ, Part Two: Sammādiṭṭhi - What Is Right View?
3.2.3: Dhammacakkappavattanasuttaṃ, Part Two - The Four Noble Truths Have to Be Fully Realized
3.2.4.1: Saccapabbaṃpabbaṃ, Part One: Dukkhasaccaniddeso - Exposition of the Truth of Suffering
3.2.4.2: Saccapabbaṃpabbaṃ, Part Two: Samudayasaccaniddeso - Exposition of the Truth of the Arising of Suffering
3.2.4.3: Saccapabbaṃpabbaṃ, Part Three: Nirodhasaccaniddeso - Exposition of the Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
3.2.4.4: Saccapabbaṃpabbaṃ, Part Four: Maggasaccaniddeso - Exposition of the Truth of the of the Path
3.2.5: Sammādiṭṭhisuttaṃ - Assuring the Path
3.2.6: Sammādiṭṭhisuttaṃ - Who Is One Safeguarding Right View?
3.2.7: Mahācattārīsakasuttaṃ, Part One - Discerning Wrong View and Developing Right View
3.2.8: Bījavaggo - Neem and Sugarcane
3.2.9: Girimānandasuttaṃ, Part One - What Is Perception of Impermanence?
3.2.10: Anattalakkhaṇasuttaṃ - Characteristics of Not Self
3.2.11: Kathāvatthu - 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, Part Three - 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, Part Two - Discerning Wrong Thoughts and Developing Right Thoughts
3.3.6: Ambalaṭṭhikarāhulovādasuttaṃ, Part One - How to Train Oneself and to Confess Shortcomings to One's Elders
3.3.7: Ambalaṭṭhikarāhulovādasuttaṃ, Part Two - How to Train Oneself and to Confess Shortcomings to One's Elders
3.3.8: Dvedhāvitakkasuttaṃ, Part One - Reducing Wrong Thoughts and Strengthening Right Thoughts
3.3.9: Dvedhāvitakkasuttaṃ, Part Two - Reducing Wrong Thoughts and Strengthening Right Thoughts
3.3.10: Lekhasuttaṃ - Generating Saṅkhāra Like Rock, Earth or Water
3.3.11: Girimānandasuttaṃ, Part Two - 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, Part Four - 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 One
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, Part Five - What Is Right Action?
3.5.2: Cārittaṃ - The Training of Performing and Avoiding
3.5.3: Upālisuttaṃ, Part Two - How to Avoid Wrong Action?
3.5.4: Cundasuttaṃ, Part Two - 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 One
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, Part Six - 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 One
3.6.6: Siṅgālasuttaṃ - The Buddha’s Advice to Laypeople, Part Two
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 Two
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, Part Seven - 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, Part Three - 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, Part Eight - 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, Part Nine - 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 One
3.10.1: Paṭhamabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā anuloma - Part One
3.10.2: Dutiyabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā paṭiloma - Part Two
3.10.3: Tatiyabodhisuttaṃ paṭiccasamuppā anuloma-paṭiloma - Part Three
3.10.4: Paticcasamuppada - Part Four
3.10.5: Paticcasamuppada - Part Five
3.10.6: Abhidhamma - Introduction and Terminology
3.10.7: Paṭṭhānapāli – Mātikā - Classification of the Universe
3.10.8.1: Abhidhamma - Citta, Part One - States of Consciousness
3.10.8.2: Abhidhamma - Citta, Part Two - States of Consciousness
3.10.8.3: Abhidhamma - Cittavīthi - The Process of Cognition
3.10.9.1: Abhidhamma - Cetasikā, Part One - Kāmāvacarakusalaṃ - Mental Concomitants –
3.10.9.2: Abhidhamma - Cetasikā, Part Two - Dvādasa akusalāni cittāni - Mental Concomitants
3.10.10: Abhidhamma - Rūpa - Matter or Material Qualities
3.10.11: Tikapaṭṭhāna - Paccayuddeso or Paṭṭhānamātikā - Description of the Conditions
3.10.12: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Paccayaniddeso - Exposition of the Conditions
3.10.13.1: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Pucchavāro, Part One - Determining Questions
3.10.13.2: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Paṭiccavāro, Part Two - Completing the Section with Answers
3.10.14: Tikapaṭṭhāna - Survey about the Paṭṭhānapāli
3.10.15: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - A comparison between the ‘Day 5 chanting’ and the ‘long Tikapaṭṭhāna’ - a) hetupaccayo - root condition
3.10.16: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - b) ārammaṇa-paccayo – object condition
3.10.17: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - c) adhipati-paccayo – predominance condition
3.10.18: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - d) anantara-paccayo, samanantara-paccayo - preceding and immediately preceding conditions
3.10.19: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - e) sahajāta-paccayo, aññamañña-paccayo - co-arising and mutuality conditions
3.10.20: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - f) nissaya-paccayo, upanissaya-paccayo - support and decisive support conditions
3.10.21: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - g) purejāta-paccayo, pacchājāta-paccayo - prior arising and posterior arising conditions
3.10.22: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - h) āsevana-paccayo - repetition condition
3.10.23: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - i) āhāra-paccayo - nutriment condition
3.10.24: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - j) kamma-paccayo, vipāka-paccayo – kamma and resultant conditions
3.10.25: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - k) indriya-paccayo - faculty condition
3.10.26: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - l) jhāna-paccayo, magga-paccayo - jhāna and path conditions
3.10.27: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - m) sampayutta-paccayo, vippayutta-paccayo - association and dissociation conditions
3.10.28: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - n) atthi-paccayo, natthi-paccayo - presence and absence conditions
3.10.29: Tikapaṭṭhāna – Niddeso and Pañhāvāro, Vibhaṅgavāro - o) vigata-paccayo, avigata-paccayo - disappearance and non-disappearance conditions
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 Well-being