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The Buddha sets up a framework on things to be cultivated or avoided, and Venerable Sāriputta volunteers to elaborate.
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MN 113 A Good Person
The Buddha explains that a truly good person does not disparage others or feel superior because of their attainment.
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MN 112 The Sixfold Purification
If someone claims to be awakened, their claim should be interrogated with a detailed series of detailed questions. Only if they can answer them clear…
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MN 111 One by One
The Buddha describes in technical detail the process of insight of Venerable Sāriputta. Many ideas and terms in this text anticipate the Abhidhamma
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MN 110 The Shorter Discourse on the Full-Moon Night
A good person is able to understand a bad person, but not vice versa.
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MN 109 The Longer Discourse on the Full-Moon Night
On a lovely full moon night, one of the mendicants presents the Buddha with a series of questions that go to the heart of the teaching. But when he h…
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MN 108 With Moggallāna the Guardian
Amid rising military tensions after the Buddha’s death, Venerable Ānanda is questioned about how the Saṅgha planned to continue in their teacher’s ab…
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MN 107 With Moggallāna the Accountant
The Buddha compares the training of an accountant with the step by step spiritual path of his followers. But even with such a well explained path, th…
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MN 106 Conducive to the Imperturbable
Beginning with profound meditation absorption, the Buddha goes on to deeper and deeper levels, showing how insight on this basis leads to the detachi…
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MN 105 With Sunakkhatta
Not all of those who claim to be awakened are genuine. The Buddha teaches how true spiritual progress depends on an irreversible letting go of the fo…
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