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Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - April 09, 2020 14:12 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Nigantha Nataputta, a spiritual teacher and leader of the Niganthas, hatched a plan to embarrass the Buddha. He said to Prince Abhaya, “Prince, I have a plan to make you famous far and wide as the man who showed that Gotama is a fraud. Go to him and ask, ‘Do Awakened Buddhas ever speak … Con...
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - April 02, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI was a spoiled youth. My father had lotus ponds dug for me with lotuses of all colors. My clothes and sandalwood were imported from Kāsī. A servant held a white umbrella over my head day and night to keep from from heat or rain. I had three cottages: one for summer, one for winter, … Continue re...
Nibbana 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 30, 2020 14:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce while staying at Anathapindika’s Forest Park, the Buddha was visited by a beautiful deva whose radiance lit up the forest grove. The deva asked, “How did you ford the raging river?” The Buddha replied, “I did not stop, and I did not struggle .” “But why?” “When I began to stop, I would sink....
Sutta Topics 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 22, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsStand like a guard, vigilantly watching the doors of the 6 senses. When you see something, do not become entranced by it. If you have no control over where you look, you can easily be overwhelmed by unhelpful states of mind. Have self-control over your eyes, your ears, your nose, tongue, body, an...
Teaching and Learning
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 16, 2020 13:39 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you long for a devoted crowd of disciples, it corrupts your heart and makes deep meditation difficult. Respect can be a dart, difficult to remove. -KN Thag 18.1 Sāriputtattheragāthā While this teaching is good and helpful, do not cling to it. Don’t treat it like a precious possession to be gua...
Nibbana 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - March 14, 2020 14:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThere is a place that is uncreated, unborn, and unsupported. If there were not such a place, there would be no escape. -KN Udana 8.4 Catutthanibbana Sutta You cannot reach the end of the world by walking But to achieve the goal of the holy life You must reach the end of the world A … Continue rea...
Wisdom 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 15, 2020 14:43 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsYou should take time to be alone. If you spend time alone you will come to understand: this is suffering, this is the cause of suffering, this is the end of suffering, this is the way to end suffering. You should take time to be alone. If you spend time alone you will come to … Continue reading W...
Suffering
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 09, 2020 14:32 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you tie a dog to a post, it will keep running in circles all day. In the same way, a person who hasn’t learned the Dhamma will keep running in circles, obsessed with things, with feelings, with perception, choices, and consciousness. They are not free! -SN 22.10.99 Gaddulabaddha Sutta There ar...
Kamma
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 09, 2020 14:21 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Vacchagotta the Wanderer said to the Buddha, “I hear that you teach that people should only give alms to you and your monks, nobody else. That giving to others doesn’t make merit. Is that true?” “No, that is not true,” replied the Buddha. “Giving is always a good thing, and anyone that says ...
Lust
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 03, 2020 14:16 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs a Buddhist monk, I went to a graveyard. There I saw the body of a dead woman, Covered in worms. Although most people would find it disgusting, I was filled with lust. I fled faster than The time it takes to cook rice. I went to a quiet place, To practice my mindfulness. I … Continue reading Lust
Meditation 4
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 16, 2020 23:56 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you learn to practice self-control over the things you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think, then you will keep your mind pure. When your mind is pure, joy arises. When you are joyful, the body naturally becomes relaxed. A relaxed body leads to bliss, and bliss leads to samadhi. And for o...
Meditation 3
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 10, 2020 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOnce Ānanda asked the Buddha, “Is it possible to achieve a state of meditation where you no longer experience any physical sensation, any space, any consciousness, nothingness, perception, anything in this world or any other world? And yet still there is still experience?” “Yes,” the Buddha repli...
Meditation 2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 04, 2020 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat are the five things that are the hallmarks of deep meditation, of jhana? When a spiritual seeker completely withdraws from sense pleasures they enter the first stage of jhana. They are filled with bliss and happiness but are still returning again and again to the subject of meditation. Their...
Meditation 1
Simple|Suttas Podcast - December 29, 2019 18:58 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI know of nothing that can arouse desire more than a thing of beauty. If you fixate on such a thing without wisdom, your desire will only grow. The best way to overcome desire is to focus your attention on something ugly rather than the object of your desire. If you can move your attention … Cont...
Loving Kindness
Simple|Suttas Podcast - December 11, 2019 16:40 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHatred never brings an end to hatred. Only by love can it end. This is the truth of ages. -KN Dhammapada 5 All beings fear cruelty. All beings fear death. Knowing that all beings suffer just like you, Never kill or be the cause of killing. All beings fear cruelty. All beings cherish their life. …...
Lay Life
Simple|Suttas Podcast - November 29, 2019 15:22 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsA follower of the Dhamma should not engage in certain kinds of business. For example, you should not buy or sell weapons, human beings, animals, meat, alcohol, or poison. -AN 5.177 Once Mahānāma, asked the Buddha, “Who is considered a Buddhist?” The Buddha replied, “A Buddhist is someone who has ...
Desire
Simple|Suttas Podcast - November 17, 2019 17:32 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsA wise person has let go of all forms of identification. They do not think, “I am this” or “I am that.” They do not think, “My body is my true self” or “something immaterial is my true self.” They do not think, “My true self is that which knows.” They understand that all of … Continue reading Desire
Death
Simple|Suttas Podcast - November 11, 2019 03:42 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe cycle of death and rebirth has no beginning. If you gathered up the bones from one person who lived, died, and was reborn for an eon, the pile would be as big as Mount Vepulla. -SN 15.10 Most people do not truly understand, That one day we will all die. But for those who … Continue reading Death
Anger
Simple|Suttas Podcast - November 05, 2019 03:36 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOver the next few weeks this site will return to its original mission: to provide simple, plain English renderings of the suttas as posts and podcasts. Please let me know if you want more of this kind of content. Anger Some people have a mind like an inflamed sore. They become irritable and becom...
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Dhamma Conversations #3
Simple|Suttas Podcast - February 02, 2017 05:13 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsa podcast on original Buddhism
Dhamma Conversations #2
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 26, 2017 05:12 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsa podcast on original Buddhism
Dhamma Conversations #1
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Sabbāsavasutta Sutta MN2 #2 of 3
Simple|Suttas Podcast - January 05, 2017 05:08 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsa podcast on original Buddhism
Sabbāsavasutta Sutta MN2 Part 1 of 3
Simple|Suttas Podcast - December 30, 2016 05:08 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingshttps://suttacentral.net/en/mn2 http://awake.kiev.ua/dhamma/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/2Majjhima-Nikaya/Majjhima1/002-sabbasava-sutta-e1.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.002.than.html Almost the same as the Asava Sutta in the 6s of the AN, but without knowing and seeing http://awake...
Dependent Origination – Karmic Formations, Consciousness, and Craving (Sense fear!)
Simple|Suttas Podcast - August 28, 2016 03:06 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSN 12.2 – https://suttacentral.net/en/sn12.2 DN 15 Mahānidāna – https://suttacentral.net/en/dn15 MN 9 Sammādiṭṭhi – https://suttacentral.net/en/mn9
Karma and Even More on Dependent Origination
Simple|Suttas Podcast - August 24, 2016 03:04 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsKamma: A Study Guide by Thanissaro Bhikkhu – http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/kamma.html
Drowsiness and More on Dependent Origination
Simple|Suttas Podcast - August 20, 2016 03:04 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLinks suttacentral.net SN 12.2 – https://suttacentral.net/en/sn12.2 Nibbana Sermons – http://lirs.ru/do/sutra/Nibbana_Sermons,Nanananda.pdf SN 12.38 Cetanā 1 – https://suttacentral.net/en/sn12.38
Conversation About Dependent Origination
Simple|Suttas Podcast - August 17, 2016 04:19 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAnother conversation with David Trelles about dhamma. This time we take on Dependent Origination. Again, let me know if you have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss.
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