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

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! (This new lesson will be posted soon!)

3.1 Which is the Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo

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)

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 for the Time of only One Finger’s-snap

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