CHANNAVAGGA

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Collections of 'linked' or 'connected' discourses and other related texts.

Palokadhammasutta

SN 35.84

Liable to Wear Out

The Buddha tells Ānanda that in the training of the noble one the “world” consisting of six sense experience is liable to wear out.

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Suññatalokasutta

SN 35.85

The World is Empty

The Buddha tells Ānanda that the “world” consisting of six sense experience is empty because it is empty of self and what belongs to self.

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Saṁkhittadhammasutta

SN 35.86

A Teaching In Brief

Ānanda asks for a teaching to take on retreat. The Buddha teaches him that the senses are impermanent, etc.

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Channasutta

SN 35.87

With Channa

Sāriputta and Mahācunda visit Channa, who is ill. Channa says that he lacks for no care, but is in such great pain that he wishes to take his own life, insisting that he will do so blamelessly. Sāriputta tries to dissuade him...

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Puṇṇasutta

SN 35.88

With Puṇṇa

Venerable Puṇṇa goes to the Buddha and asks for a teaching before he departs to the foreign land of Sunāparanta. The Buddha warns him that folk there are fierce, and questions whether he is ready for such a difficult assignment.

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Bāhiyasutta

SN 35.89

With Bāhiya

Venerable Bāhiya asks for a teaching to take on retreat. The Buddha teaches him that the senses are impermanent, etc.

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Paṭhamaejāsutta

SN 35.90

Turbulence (1st)

Being stirred by craving is painful, so the Realized One lives unstirred, not identifying with any aspect of sense experience.

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Dutiyaejāsutta

SN 35.91

Turbulence (2nd)

Being stirred by craving is painful, so the Realized One lives unstirred, not identifying with any aspect of sense experience, or indeed, with the entire scope of the aggregates, elements, and senses.

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Paṭhamadvayasutta

SN 35.92

A Duality (1st)

The dyad is the interior sense organ with its corresponding exterior sense stimulus.

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Dutiyadvayasutta

SN 35.93

A Duality (2nd)

Consciousness arises from the dyad of the interior sense organ with its corresponding exterior sense stimulus. All these things are conditioned, impermanent, and constantly falling apart.

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