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Back to SearchAN 8.81 - 8.90 Mindfulness
AN 8.81 Mindfulness and situational awareness are a foundation for developing higher spiritual qualities leading to liberation.
AN 8.82 Venerable Puṇ…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
AN 8.71 - 8.80 On Pairs
AN 8.71 Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes all good qualities that fulfill liberation.
AN 8.72 Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes al…
1 year ago
AN 8.61 - 8.70 Earthquakes
AN 8.61 The Buddha describes eight cases where a mendicant has a desire for material things. Sometimes they fall under the sway of that desire, but s…
1 year ago
AN 8.51 - 8.60 With Gotami
AN 8.51 Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, the Buddha’s foster mother, requests ordination from the Buddha. He declines, until urged to relent by Ānanda. He allows…
1 year ago
AN 8.41 - 8.50 The Sabbath (excludes 8.43,8.45)
AN 8.41 When the sabbath is observed by following the eight precepts, one lives for that day like the perfected ones. Such a sabbath is glorious.
AN 8…
1 year ago
AN 8.31 - 8.40 Giving
AN 8.31 Eight ways of giving a gift.
AN 8.32 This verse on qualities of a good person appears to be a fragment of text, perhaps originally part of the…
1 year ago
AN 8.27 - 8.30 Householders Part 2
AN 8.27 Eight very different kinds of powers.
AN 8.28 Eight powers of a perfected one.
AN 8.29 Eight lost opportunities for spiritual practice.
AN 8.30 …
1 year ago
AN 8.21 - 8.26 Householders Part 1
AN 8.21 The Buddha celebrates the eight amazing qualities of the householder Ugga of Vesālī. Ugga himself speaks of these qualities.
AN 8.22 The Buddh…
1 year ago
AN 8.13 - 8.20 The Great Chapter Part 2
AN 8.13 With eight qualities a royal thoroughbred is worthy of a king. Likewise, with eight qualities a mendicant is worthy.
AN 8.14 Eight flaws in wi…
1 year ago
AN 8.11 - 8.12 The Great Chapter
AN 8.11 The brahmin Verañja rebukes the Buddha for his lack of respect for senior brahmins. He levels a series of criticisms, each of which the Buddh…
1 year, 1 month ago