Buddham Dhammam

Mālukyaputtasutta

SN 35.95

Māluṅkyaputta

Venerable Māluṅkyaputta asks for a teaching to take on retreat. The Buddha wonders how to teach an old monk like him, then questions him on his desire for sense experience that has been or might be, and encourages him to simply...

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Parihānadhammasutta

SN 35.96

Liable to Decline

When a mendicant tolerates evil thoughts that arise from the senses, they are liable to decline. If they don’t tolerate them, they’re not liable to decline. When such thoughts not longer arise, they have mastered the senses.

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Pamādavihārīsutta

SN 35.97

One Who Lives Negligently

When a mendicant lives without restraint regarding the senses, they are negligent. If they have restraint, they are diligent.

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Saṁvarasutta

SN 35.98

Restraint

Non-restraint is delighting in the senses, restraint is not delighting in them.

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Samādhisutta

SN 35.99

Immersion

Develop meditative immersion so as to truly understand the process of sense experience.

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Paṭisallānasutta

SN 35.100

Retreat

Develop seclusion so as to truly understand the process of sense experience.

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Paṭhamanatumhākasutta

SN 35.101

It’s Not Yours (1st)

Let go of what is not yours: the process of sense experience. You wouldn’t be upset if someone took the grass and sticks from the monastery grounds, so why worry over the aggregates?

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Dutiyanatumhākasutta

SN 35.102

It’s Not Yours (2nd)

Let go of what is not yours: the process of sense experience.

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Udakasutta

SN 35.103

About Uddaka

The Buddha’s former teacher Uddaka Rāmaputta claimed to be a knowledge master, a universal victor, who had excised the tumor. But a true knowledge master understands the senses, a victor is freed from them, and excising the tumor...

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