NAVAPURĀŅAVAGGA

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Kammanirodhasutta

SN 35.146

The Cessation of Deeds

The six interior sense fields are not yours, but are old kamma, generated by choices in past lives. This is explained in terms of the four noble truths.

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Aniccanibbānasappāyasutta

SN 35.147

The Impermanent as Conducive to Extinguishment

The way suitable for realizing extinguishment is to contemplate the process of sense experience as impermanent.

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Dukkhanibbānasappāyasutta

SN 35.148

The Suffering as Conducive to Extinguishment

The way suitable for realizing extinguishment is to contemplate the process of sense experience as suffering.

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Anattanibbānasappāyasutta

SN 35.149

Not-Self as Conducive to Extinguishment

The way suitable for realizing extinguishment is to contemplate the process of sense experience as not-self.

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Nibbānasappāyapaṭipadāsutta

SN 35.150

A Practice Conducive to Extinguishment

The way suitable for realizing extinguishment is to contemplate the process of sense experience as impermanent, suffering, and not-self.

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Antevāsikasutta

SN 35.151

A Resident Pupil

One with no “student” and no “teacher” dwells in happiness. Here the Buddha plays with the Pali words such that “student” means “one who dwells within” and “teacher” means “one who assails”.

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Kimatthiyabrahmacariyasutta

SN 35.152

What’s the Purpose of the Spiritual Life?

If anyone asks why we live the holy life, it is for the ending of suffering.

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Atthinukhopariyāyasutta

SN 35.153

Is There a Method?

How is it that a mendicant can declare their awakening? By understanding whether any desire arises from sense stimuli.

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Indriyasampannasutta

SN 35.154

Endowed With Faculties

One is accomplished in the sense faculties by being freed from attachment to them.

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Dhammakathikapucchasutta

SN 35.155

A Dhamma Speaker

A speaker on the Dhamma is someone who teaches for letting go of the senses.

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