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Five Nikāya collections
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Long Discourses
Dīgha Nikāya
Long-form discourses with broad doctrinal and narrative scope.
Middle Discourses
Majjhima Nikāya
Middle-length teachings ideal for topic-by-topic practice.
Connected Discourses
Saṁyutta Nikāya
Discourses grouped into connected themes, people and practices.
Numbered Discourses
Aṅguttara Nikāya
Teachings organized by numbered sets for quick study.
Minor Collection
Khuddaka Nikāya
A diverse collection including Dhammapada, Sutta Nipāta and Udāna.
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The Root of All Things
Mūlapariyāya Sutta
The Buddha examines how the notion of a permanent self emerges from the process of perception. A wide range of phenomena are considered, embracing both naturalistic and cosmological dimensions. An unawakened person interprets experience in terms of a self, while those more advanced have the same experiences without attachment.
All the Defilements
Sabbāsava Sutta
The diverse problems of the spiritual journey demand a diverse range of responses. Rather than applying the same solution to every problem, the Buddha outlines seven methods of dealing with defilements, each of which works in certain cases.
Heirs in the Teaching
Dhammadāyāda Sutta
Some of the Buddha’s students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sāriputta explains how by following the Buddha’s example we can experience the fruits of the path.
Fear and Dread
Bhayabherava Sutta
The Buddha explains the difficulties of living in the wilderness, and how they are overcome by purity of conduct and meditation. He recounts some of the fears and obstacles he faced during his own practice.
Unblemished
Anaṅgaṇa Sutta
The Buddha’s chief disciples, Sāriputta and Moggallāna, use a simile of a tarnished bowl to illustrate the blemishes of the mind and conduct. They emphasize how the crucial thing is not so much whether there are blemishes, but whether we are aware of them.
One Might Wish
Ākaṅkheyya Sutta
According to the Buddha, careful observance of ethical precepts is the foundation of all higher achievements in the spiritual life.
The Simile of the Cloth
Vattha Sutta
The many different kinds of impurities that defile the mind are compared to a dirty cloth. When the mind is clean we find joy, which leads to states of higher consciousness. Finally, the Buddha rejects the Brahmanical notion that purity comes from bathing in sacred rivers.
Self-Effacement
Sallekha Sutta
The Buddha differentiates between peaceful meditation and spiritual practices that encompass the whole of life. He lists forty-four aspects, which he explains as “effacement”, the wearing away of conceit.
Right View
Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta
Venerable Sāriputta gives a detailed explanation of right view, the first factor of the noble eightfold path. At the prompting of the other mendicants, he approaches the topic from a wide range of perspectives.
Mindfulness Meditation
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
A foundational discourse on the four establishments of mindfulness: body, feelings, mind, and principles.
The Shorter Discourse on the Lion’s Roar
Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta
The Buddha declares that only those following his path can genuinely experience the four stages of awakening. This is because, while much is shared with other systems, none of them go so far as to fully reject all attachment to the idea of a self.
The Longer Discourse on the Lion’s Roar
Mahāsīhanāda Sutta
A disrobed monk, Sunakkhatta, attacks the Buddha’s teaching because it merely leads to the end of suffering. The Buddha counters that this is, in fact, praise, and goes on to enumerate his many profound and powerful achievements.
The Longer Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta
Challenged to show the difference between his teaching and that of other ascetics, the Buddha points out that they speak of letting go, but do not really understand why. He then explains in great detail the suffering that arises from attachment to sensual stimulation.
The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta
A lay person is puzzled at how, despite their long practice, they still have greedy or hateful thoughts. The Buddha explains the importance of absorption meditation for letting go such attachments. But he also criticizes self-mortification, and recounts a previous dialog with Jain ascetics.
Measuring Up
Anumāna Sutta
Venerable Moggallāna raises the topic of admonishment, without which healthy community is not possible. He lists a number of qualities that will encourage others to think it worthwhile to admonish you in a constructive way.
Emotional Barrenness
Cetokhila Sutta
The Buddha explains various ways one can become emotionally cut off from one’s spiritual community.
Jungle Thickets
Vanapattha Sutta
While living in the wilderness is great, not everyone is ready for it. The Buddha encourages meditators to reflect on whether one’s environment is genuinely supporting their meditation practice, and if not, to leave.
The Honey-Cake
Madhupiṇḍika Sutta
Challenged by a brahmin, the Buddha gives an enigmatic response on how conflict arises due to proliferation based on perceptions. Venerable Kaccāna draws out the detailed implications of this in one of the most insightful passages in the entire canon.
Two Kinds of Thought
Dvedhāvitakka Sutta
Recounting his own experiences in developing meditation, the Buddha explains how to understand harmful and harmless thoughts, and how to go beyond thought altogether.
How to Stop Thinking
Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta
In a practical meditation teaching, the Buddha describes five different approaches to stopping thoughts.
The Simile of the Saw
Kakacūpama Sutta
A foundational discourse on patience, difficult speech, and maintaining a mind free from hate.
The Simile of the Snake
Alagaddūpama Sutta
A discourse warning against grasping the teachings wrongly, including the famous simile of the raft.
The Ant-Hill
Vammika Sutta
In a curious discourse laden with evocative imagery, a deity presents a riddle to a mendicant, who seeks an answer from the Buddha.
Prepared Chariots
Rathavinīta Sutta
Venerable Sāriputta seeks a dialog with an esteemed monk, Venerable Puṇṇa Mantāniputta, and they discuss the stages of purification.
Fodder
Nivāpa Sutta
The Buddha compares getting trapped by Māra with a deer getting caught in a snare, illustrating the ever more complex strategies employed by hunter and hunted.
The Noble Search
Pāsarāsi Sutta
This is one of the most important biographical discourses, telling the Buddha’s experiences from leaving home to realizing awakening. Throughout, he was driven by the imperative to fully escape from rebirth and suffering.
The Shorter Elephant’s Footprint Simile
Cūḷahatthipadopama Sutta
The Buddha cautions against swift conclusions about a teacher’s spiritual accomplishments, comparing it to the care a tracker would use when tracking elephants. He presents the full training of a monastic.
The Longer Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint
Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta
Sāriputta gives an elaborate demonstration of how, just as any footprint can fit inside an elephant’s, all the Buddha’s teaching can fit inside the four noble truths. This offers an overall template for organizing the Buddha’s teachings.
The Longer Simile of the Heartwood
Mahāsāropama Sutta
Following the incident with Devadatta, the Buddha cautions the mendicants against becoming complacent with superficial benefits of spiritual life and points to liberation as the true heart of the teaching.
The Shorter Simile of the Heartwood
Cūḷasāropama Sutta
Similar to the previous. After the incident with Devadatta, the Buddha cautions the mendicants against becoming complacent and points to liberation as the true heart of the teaching.
The Shorter Discourse at Gosiṅga
Cūḷagosiṅga Sutta
The Buddha comes across three mendicants practicing diligently and harmoniously, and asks them how they do it. Reluctant to disclose their higher attainments, they explain how they deal with the practical affairs of living together. But when pressed by the Buddha, they reveal their meditation attainments.
The Longer Discourse at Gosiṅga
Mahāgosiṅga Sutta
Several senior mendicants, reveling in the beauty of the night, discuss what kind of practitioner would adorn the park. They take their answers to the Buddha, who praises their answers, but gives his own twist.
The Longer Discourse on the Cowherd
Mahāgopālaka Sutta
For eleven reasons a cowherd is not able to properly look after a herd. The Buddha compares this to the spiritual growth of a mendicant.
The Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd
Cūḷagopālaka Sutta
Drawing parallels with a cowherd guiding his herd across a dangerous river, the Buddha presents the various kinds of enlightened disciples who cross the stream of transmigration.
The Shorter Discourse With Saccaka
Cūḷasaccaka Sutta
Saccaka was a debater, who challenged the Buddha to a contest. Despite his bragging, the Buddha is not at all perturbed at his attacks.
The Longer Discourse With Saccaka
Mahāsaccaka Sutta
In a less confrontational meeting, the Buddha and Saccaka discuss the difference between physical and mental development. The Buddha gives a long account of the various practices he did before awakening, detailing the astonishing lengths he took to mortify the body.
The Shorter Discourse on the Ending of Craving
Cūḷataṇhāsaṅkhaya Sutta
Moggallāna visits the heaven of Sakka, the lord of gods, to see whether he really understands what the Buddha is teaching.
The Longer Discourse on the Ending of Craving
Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhaya Sutta
To counter the wrong view that a self-identical consciousness transmigrates from one life to the next, the Buddha teaches dependent origination, showing that consciousness invariably arises dependent on conditions.
The Longer Discourse at Assapura
Mahāassapura Sutta
The Buddha encourages the mendicants to live up to their name, by actually practicing in a way that meets or exceeds the expectations people have for renunciants.
The Shorter Discourse at Assapura
Cūḷaassapura Sutta
The labels of being a spiritual practitioner don’t just come from external trappings, but from sincere inner change.
The People of Sālā
Sāleyyaka Sutta
The Buddha explains to a group of brahmins the conduct leading to rebirth in higher or lower states, including detailed explanations of the ten core practices which lay people should undertake, and which also form the basis for liberation.
The People of Verañja
Verañjaka Sutta
Similar to the previous. The Buddha explains the conduct leading to rebirth in higher or lower states, including detailed explanations of the ten core practices.
The Great Classification
Mahāvedalla Sutta
A series of questions and answers between Sāriputta and Mahākoṭṭhita, examining various subtle and abstruse aspects of the teachings.
The Shorter Classification
Cūḷavedalla Sutta
The layman Visākha asks the nun Dhammadinnā about various difficult matters, including some of the highest meditation attainments. The Buddha fully endorses her answers.
The Shorter Discourse on Taking Up Practices
Cūḷadhammasamādāna Sutta
The Buddha explains how taking up different practices may have harmful or beneficial results. The memorable simile of the creeper shows how insidious temptations can be.
The Great Discourse on Taking Up Practices
Mahādhammasamādāna Sutta
While we all want to be happy, we often find the opposite happens. The Buddha explains why.
The Inquirer
Vīmaṁsaka Sutta
While some spiritual teachers prefer to remain in obscurity, the Buddha not only encouraged his followers to closely investigate him, but gave them a detailed and demanding method to do so.
The Mendicants of Kosambī
Kosambiya Sutta
Despite the Buddha’s presence, the monks of Kosambī fell into a deep and bitter dispute. The Buddha taught the reluctant monks to develop love and harmony, reminding them of the state of peace that they sought.
On the Invitation of Divinity
Brahmanimantanika Sutta
The Buddha ascends to a high heavenly realm where he engages in a cosmic contest with a powerful divinity, who had fallen into the delusion that he was eternal and all-powerful.
The Rebuke of Māra
Māratajjanīya Sutta
Māra, the trickster and god of death, tried to annoy Moggallāna. He not only failed but was subject to a stern sermon warning of the dangers of attacking the Buddha’s disciples.
With Kandaraka
Kandaraka Sutta
The Buddha discusses mindfulness meditation with lay practitioners. Contrasting the openness of animals with the duplicity of humans, he explains how to practice in a way that causes no harm to oneself or others.
The Man From the City of Aṭṭhaka
Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta
Asked by a householder to teach a path to freedom, Venerable Ānanda explains no less than eleven meditative states that may serve as doors to the deathless.
A Trainee
Sekha Sutta
The Buddha is invited by his family, the Sakyans of Kapilavatthu, to inaugurate a new community hall. He invites Venerable Ānanda to explain in detail the stages of spiritual practice for a lay trainee.
With Potaliya the Householder
Potaliya Sutta
When Potaliya got upset at being referred to as “householder”, the Buddha quizzed him as to the true nature of attachment and renunciation.
With Jīvaka
Jīvaka Sutta
The Buddha’s personal doctor, Jīvaka, hears criticisms of the Buddha’s policy regarding eating meat, and asks him about it.
With Upāli
Upāli Sutta
The Buddha disagrees with a Jain ascetic on the question of whether physical or mental deeds are more important. When he hears of this, the Jain disciple Upāli decides to visit the Buddha and refute him, and proceeds despite all warnings.
The Ascetic Who Behaved Like a Dog
Kukkuravatika Sutta
Some ascetics in ancient India undertook extreme practices, such as a vow to behave like an ox or a dog. The Buddha meets two such individuals, and is reluctantly pressed to reveal the kammic outcomes of such practice.
With Prince Abhaya
Abhayarājakumāra Sutta
The leader of the Jains, Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta, gives his disciple Prince Abhaya a dilemma to pose to the Buddha, supposing that this will show his weakness. Things don’t go quite as planned.
The Many Kinds of Feeling
Bahuvedanīya Sutta
The Buddha resolves a disagreement on the number of kinds of feelings that he taught, pointing out that different ways of teaching are appropriate in different contexts, and should not be a cause of disputes. He goes on to show the importance of pleasure in developing higher meditation.
Unfailing
Apaṇṇaka Sutta
The Buddha teaches a group of uncommitted householders how to use a rational reflection to arrive at practices and principles that are guaranteed to have a good outcome, even if we don’t know all the variables.
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The Great Passing
Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
Mindfulness Meditation
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
The Simile of the Saw
Kakacūpama Sutta
With the Kālāmas of Kesamutta
Kesamutti Sutta
Dhammapada · Pairs
Yamakavagga
Setting the Dhamma Wheel in Motion
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta