The Chapter on Benefits

Collections of Numbered Discourses

Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.

Kimatthiyasutta

AN 10.1

What’s the Purpose?

The purpose of ethics, leading step by step to liberation.

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Cetanākaraṇīyasutta

AN 10.2

Making a Wish

There’s no need to make a wish to get enlightened; it happens naturally when the conditions are there.

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Paṭhamaupanisasutta

AN 10.3

Vital Conditions (1st)

The Buddha teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present.

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Dutiyaupanisasutta

AN 10.4

Vital Conditions (2nd)

Sāriputta teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present.

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Tatiyaupanisasutta

AN 10.5

Vital Conditions (3rd)

Ānanda teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present.

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Samādhisutta

AN 10.6

Immersion

Ānanda asks the Buddha about a mysterious state of immersion in meditation where there is no normal perception, yet one is still conscious.

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Sāriputtasutta

AN 10.7

Sāriputta

Ānanda asks Sāriputta about a mysterious state of immersion in meditation where there is no normal perception, yet one is still conscious. Sāriputta confirms that there is, and claims to have attained it.

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Jhānasutta

AN 10.8

Inspiring All Around: the Absorptions

Ten factors, beginning with faith, that a mendicant should fulfill.

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Santavimokkhasutta

AN 10.9

Inspiring All Around: the Peaceful Liberations

Ten factors, beginning with faith, that a mendicant should fulfill.

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Inspiring All Around: the Three Knowledges

AN 10.10

Inspiring All Around: the Three Knowledges

Ten factors, beginning with faith, that a mendicant should fulfill.

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