Aṅguttara Nikāya — The Numerical Discourses – page 2
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AN 3.51: Two Brahmins (1st)
You can begin to practice even late in life: advice to elderly brahmins.
AN 3.52: Two Brahmins (2nd)
You can begin to practice even late in life: advice to elderly brahmins.
AN 3.53: A Certain Brahmin
How is the teaching realizable in this very life?
AN 3.54: A Wanderer
How is the teaching realizable in this very life?
AN 3.55: Extinguished
How is extinguishment realizable in this very life?
AN 3.56: Falling Apart
Why has the world become depopulated?
AN 3.57: With Vacchagotta
The Buddha is accused of soliciting gifts for his community only.
AN 3.58: With Tikaṇṇa
A master of Vedic knowledge in the brahmanical system and in the Buddha’s.
AN 3.59: With Jānussoṇi
A master of Vedic knowledge in the brahmanical system and in the Buddha’s.
AN 3.60: With Saṅgārava
A brahmin argues that a sacrifice is less selfish than the mendicant’s life. And the king’s men are deploring the decline in psychic abilities among the Saṅgha.
AN 3.61: Sectarian Tenets
The beliefs that everything is caused by past karma, by a creator God, or by chance all lead to inaction. The Buddha teaches dependent origination.
AN 3.62: Perils
Perils that tear mothers and children apart.
AN 3.63: At Venāgapura
The high and luxurious beds that the Buddha uses.
AN 3.64: With Sarabha
A recently disrobed monk boasts of knowing everything about the Buddha’s teaching.
AN 3.65: To the Kālāmas
"Do not believe through tradition, scripture, teacher's authority… Observe: what is wholesome, practise; what is unwholesome, abandon."
AN 3.65: With the Kālāmas of Kesamutta
How to navigate among different spiritual opinions.
AN 3.66: With Sāḷha and His Friend
How to navigate among different spiritual opinions.
AN 3.67: Topics of Discussion
Assessing whether someone is fit to hold a discussion.
AN 3.68: Followers of Other Paths
The differences between greed, hate, and delusion.
AN 3.69: Unskillful Roots
Unwholesome roots create unwholesome actions, and lead to suffering.
AN 3.70: Sabbath
The uposatha observance day of the cowherds, the Jains, and the Buddha.
AN 3.71: With Channa
Why should we give up greed, hate, and delusion?
AN 3.72: A Disciple of the Ājīvakas
Who has good teaching and practice?
AN 3.73: With Mahānāma the Sakyan
Does convergence come first, or knowledge?
AN 3.74: Jains
Do we purify ourselves by wearing out old karma?
AN 3.75: Support
How to encourage and support those close to you.
AN 3.76: Continued Existence (1st)
How consciousness, karma, and craving create and sustain future lives.
AN 3.77: Continued Existence (2nd)
How consciousness, karma, and craving create and sustain future lives, with an emphasis on intention.
AN 3.78: Precepts and Observances
Not all spiritual paths are of equal value.
AN 3.79: Fragrances
Some fragrances spread even against the wind.
AN 3.80: Lesser
Ānanda gets the Buddha to talk about the scale of the universe.
AN 3.81: Ascetics
The duties of an ascetic.
AN 3.82: The Donkey
A donkey tries to moo like a cow. It doesn’t end well.
AN 3.83: Fields
The duties of a farmer are like those of a mendicant.
AN 3.84: A Vajji
What to do if you can’t keep all the rules.
AN 3.85: A Trainee
What exactly is a “trainee”?
AN 3.86: Training (1st)
Even spiritually advanced people can break minor rules.
AN 3.87: Training (2nd)
Even spiritually advanced people can break minor rules.
AN 3.88: Training (3rd)
Even spiritually advanced people can break minor rules.
AN 3.89: Three Trainings (1st)
The three trainings explained, to seeing the truths.
AN 3.90: Three Trainings (2nd)
The three trainings explained, to perfection.
AN 3.91: At Paṅkadhā
A monk is critical of the Buddha, but later feels remorse.
AN 3.92: Urgent
Neither a farmer or a mendicant makes their work bear fruit any faster just by wishing for it.
AN 3.93: Seclusion
Seclusion as depicted in other paths and by the Buddha.
AN 3.94: Springtime
The clarity of stream-entry is like a cloudless spring sky.
AN 3.95: Assemblies
Assemblies that are the best, or divided, or harmonious. A harmonious assembly lead the mind to happiness and stillness.
AN 3.96: The Thoroughbred (1st)
A mendicant is beautiful, strong, and fast like a thoroughbred horse: to seeing the truths.
AN 3.97: The Thoroughbred (2nd)
A mendicant is beautiful, strong, and fast like a thoroughbred horse: to non-return.
AN 3.98: The Thoroughbred (3rd)
A mendicant is beautiful, strong, and fast like a thoroughbred horse: to perfection.
AN 3.99: Jute
A bad mendicant is ugly and rough like jute canvas.
AN 3.100: A Lump of Salt
If deeds were experienced exactly as performed, there could be no spiritual practice.
AN 3.101: A Panner
Meditation is like purifying gold. A meditator should progressively eliminate more refined corruptions.
AN 3.102: Basis
Meditation is like purifying gold. A meditator should focus on different aspects at different times in order to proceed smoothly.
AN 3.103: Before Awakening
Before awakening, Siddhattha reflected on gratification, danger and escape in the world.
AN 3.104: Gratification (1st)
The Buddha became awakened by understanding gratification, danger and escape.
AN 3.105: Gratification (2nd)
Gratification, danger and escape are essential to both binding and freeing.
AN 3.106: Ascetics and Brahmins
Real ascetics understand gratification, danger and escape.
AN 3.107: Wailing
Song, dance, and laughter.
AN 3.108: Satisfaction
Indulgences never satisfy.
AN 3.109: Unprotected
Protecting your mind is like protecting a house.
AN 3.110: Fallen
A simile of a collapsing house.
AN 3.111: Sources (1st)
Sources of deeds: greed, hate, and delusion.
AN 3.112: Sources (2nd)
Sources of deeds: past, present, future.
AN 3.113: Bound for Loss
Hypocrisy leads to downfall.
AN 3.114: Rare
Three people hard to find.
AN 3.115: Immeasurable
People who are easy to measure, hard to measure, and immeasurable.
AN 3.116: Imperturbable
Rebirth in the formless realms, for ordinary people and for disciples of the Buddha.
AN 3.117: Failures and Accomplishments
Failure or success in morality, mind, and view.
AN 3.118: Sure-bet Dice
Failure or success in morality, mind, and view is like loaded dice.
AN 3.119: Action
Failure or success in action, livelihood, and view.
AN 3.120: Purity (1st)
Purity of body, speech, and mind.
AN 3.121: Purity (2nd)
Purity of body, speech, and mind, with understanding the five hindrances.
AN 3.122: Sagacity
Sagacity of body, speech, and mind.
AN 3.123: At Kusinārā
What a mendicant thinks about the food they’re offered.
AN 3.124: Arguments
When mendicants fight, the Buddha doesn’t like it.
AN 3.125: The Gotamaka Shrine
The Buddha teaches a simple but powerful message: his teaching is from personal experience, and it works.
AN 3.126: Bharaṇḍu Kālāma
The Buddha discusses different kinds of teachers while staying at a hermitage near his home town of Kapilavatthu.
AN 3.127: With Hatthaka
A god from the Pure Abodes visits the Buddha, and complains about how busy he is.
AN 3.128: Bitter
The Buddha helps a monk in distress by teaching of “bitterness”, “rotting flesh”, and “flies”.
AN 3.129: With Anuruddha (1st)
Anuruddha asks the Buddha what leads women to bad rebirth.
AN 3.130: With Anuruddha (2nd)
Anuruddha complains of not being awakened.
AN 3.131: Under Cover
Three things shine in the open: the moon, the sun, and the teachings of the Buddha.
AN 3.132: Etchings
A line drawn in stone, sand, or water.
AN 3.133: A Warrior
Three ways a mendicant is like a king’s warrior.
AN 3.134: Assemblies
Educated in fancy talk, in questioning, or to the fullest extent.
AN 3.135: A Friend
A good friend does what’s hard.
AN 3.136: Arising
Impermanence, suffering, and not-self are natural laws discovered by the Buddha.
AN 3.137: A Hair Blanket
The teacher called Makkhali is the worst of all, like a hair blanket.
AN 3.138: Accomplishment
Success in faith, morality, and wisdom.
AN 3.139: Growth
Growth in faith, morality, and wisdom.
AN 3.140: A Wild Colt
Training people is like training wild horses.
AN 3.141: Excellent Horses
Training people is like training good horses.
AN 3.142: The Thoroughbred
Training people is like training thoroughbred horses.
AN 3.143: At the Peacocks’ Feeding Ground (1st)
The ultimate end, the ultimate sanctuary, the ultimate spiritual life, the ultimate goal: the three trainings.
AN 3.144: At the Peacocks’ Feeding Ground (2nd)
The ultimate end, the ultimate sanctuary, the ultimate spiritual life, the ultimate goal: the three wonders.
AN 3.145: At the Peacocks’ Feeding Ground (3rd)
The ultimate end, the ultimate sanctuary, the ultimate spiritual life, the ultimate goal: view, knowledge, freedom.
AN 3.146: Unskillful
Wholesome and unwholesome deeds determine rebirth.
AN 3.147: Blameworthy
Blameless and blameworthy deeds determine rebirth.
AN 3.148: Unethical
Ethical and unethical deeds determine rebirth.
AN 3.149: Impure
Pure and impure deeds determine rebirth.