Buddham Dhammam

Satisutta

SN 47.2

Mindful

At Ambapālī’s mango grove, the Buddha teaches the mendicants about the four kinds of mindfulness meditation and the practice of situational awareness.

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Bhikkhusutta

SN 47.3

A Monk

When a mendicant asks for a teaching to take on retreat, the Buddha issues an unexpected rebuke. Evidently the mendicant had been badly behaved; but now, he insists, he is sincere. The Buddha relents, and teaches the four kinds...

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Sālasutta

SN 47.4

At Sālā

Newly ordained mendicants <em>should</em> practice the four kinds of mindfulness meditation; trainees <em>are</em> practicing them, and perfected ones have perfected the practice.

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Akusalarāsisutta

SN 47.5

A Heap of the Unskillful

The four kinds of mindfulness meditation are a complete heap of what is skillful.

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Sakuṇagghisutta

SN 47.6

A Hawk

The parable of the quail and the hawk. When the quail ventured outside her ancestral territory, she became vulnerable. And what is a mendicant’s ancestral territory? The four kinds of mindfulness meditation.

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Makkaṭasutta

SN 47.7

A Monkey

The parable of the foolish monkey who gets trapped in tar when it ventures outside its ancestral territory. And what is a mendicant’s ancestral territory? The four kinds of mindfulness meditation.

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Sūdasutta

SN 47.8

Cooks

The parable of the cook. They present different kinds of dishes to the king, and observe which the king likes. In the same way, a mendicant observes why their meditation succeeds or fails. When the four kinds of mindfulness...

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Gilānasutta

SN 47.9

Sick

The Buddha decides to spend his final rains retreat at Vesālī in Beluvagāmaka. During the retreat he becomes very ill, but later recovers. Ānanda wonders who will guide the Saṅgha when the Buddha dies, but the Buddha says they...

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Bhikkhunupassayasutta

SN 47.10

The Nuns’ Quarters

When Ānanda visits the nuns’s quarters they tell him that their meditation is prospering to higher and higher levels. Ānanda reporrts the good news to the Buddha, who speaks of two ways of developing the four kinds of mindfulness...

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