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Khuddaka Nikāya — The Minor Collection – page 5

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Mil 3.6.9: The Question on Transmigration

Ps 3.6: Treatise on Marvels (Metamorphosis)

Snp 3.6: Sabhiya’s Questions

A sutta dating from early in the Buddha’s teaching career. A wanderer, disappointed in the teachings he has received from other teachers, approaches the Buddha with his questions.

Mil 3.7.1: The Question on the Arising of Memory

Mil 3.7.10: The Question on Long Bones

Mil 3.7.11: The Question on the Cessation of Breathing

Mil 3.7.12: The Question on the Ocean

Mil 3.7.13: The Question on the Ones taste of the Ocean

Mil 3.7.14: The Question on Dividing Small Things

Mil 3.7.15: The Question on Consciousness, Wisdom, and the Soul

Mil 3.7.16: The Question on Differentiating Formless Phenomena

Mil 3.7.2: The Question on Recollecting the Buddha on Deathbed

Mil 3.7.3: The Question on Trying to Eliminate Sorrow

Mil 3.7.4: The Question on How Far Away is Heaven

Mil 3.7.5: The Question on the Speed of Rebirth

Mil 3.7.6: The Question on Factors of Awakening

Mil 3.7.7: The Question on Goodness and Wickedness

Mil 3.7.8: The Question on Intentional and Unintentional Wrongdoing

Mil 3.7.9: The Question on Traveling to Uttarakuru

Ps 3.7: Treatise on Same-Headedness

Snp 3.7: With Sela

Sela the brahman praises the Buddha to see how the latter responds to praise.

Ud 3.7: Sakka’s Heartfelt Saying

A deva-king disguises himself to give alms to Ven. Mahā Kassapa.

Mil 3.8: Milinda and Nāgasensa Reflect on Their Questions and Answers

Ps 3.8: Treatise on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Snp 3.8: The Dart

Death and loss are inevitable, but grief is not.

Ud 3.8: One Who Eats Only Almsfood

The Buddha rebukes monks who are chatting about the agreeable things that one can encounter on almsround.

Snp 3.9: With Vāseṭṭha

Is one worthy of respect because of one’s birth, or because of one’s actions?

Ud 3.9: Professions

More lessons in what monks should and shouldn’t talk about.

Ps 3.10: Treatise on a Schedule

Snp 3.10: To Kokāliya on the Results of Slander

A follower of Devadatta slanders Ven. Sāriputta and Ven. Moggallāna and, after suffering a painful disease, falls into hell. The sutta then gives a graphic description of the sufferings awaiting him there.

Thag 3.10: Sāṭimattiya

Ud 3.10: The World

Shortly after awakening, the Buddha contemplates future rebirth.

Snp 3.11: The Sages Asita and Nālaka

A sutta in two parts. The first part gives an account of events soon after the birth of the Bodhisatta. The second part describes the way of the sage.

Thag 3.11: Upāli

Snp 3.12: Contemplating Pairs

Not all dualities are misleading. This sutta teaches ways to contemplate the duality of the origination and cessation of stress and suffering so as to reach awakening.

Thag 3.12: Uttarapāla

Thag 3.13: Abhibhūta

Thag 3.14: Gotama (2nd)

Thag 3.15: Hārita (2nd)

Thag 3.16: Vimala (2nd)

Bv 4: The History of the Buddha Koṇḍañña

Cnd 4: Concluding Verses of the Way to the Beyond

Cp 4: The Conduct of Mahāsudassana

Iti 4: Anger

Abandon anger, and you’re guaranteed non-return.

Ja 4: The Shorter Tale of the Financier

“With humblest start.” This story was told by the Master about the Elder named Little Wayman, while in Jivaka’s Mango-grove near Rajagaha.

Kp 4: The Boy’s Questions

A list of ten doctrinal factors

Mnd 4: Exposition of the Eight on Purity

Ne 4: Counter-Demonstrative Subsection

Pe 4: IV. Investigation of Threads

Pv 4: Advice to a Daughter

How do we help our departed relatives?

Tha Ap 4: Mahā-Moggallāna

Thi Ap 4: Saṅkamanattā

Vv 4: Fourth Throne Mansion

Arahant Moggallana asks a deva how he received a throne made of beryl gemstones.

Mil 4.1: Eight Places to Avoid When Discussing

Snp 4.1: Sensual Pleasures

The drawbacks of sensual desires.

Thag 4.1: Nāgasamāla

Thig 4.1: Bhaddā Daughter of Kapila

Ud 4.1: With Meghiya

A monk leaves the Buddha to go into solitude, only to find his mind overcome by unskillful thoughts.

Mil 4.2: Eight People Who Spoil a Conversation

Snp 4.2: Eight on the Cave

Those who remain attached to the body, to sensuality, and to their sense of “mine” will have a hard time freeing themselves from fear of death and from further becoming.

Thag 4.2: Bhagu

Ud 4.2: Restless

The need to protect body and mind.

Mil 4.3: Nine People Who Spill Secrets

Snp 4.3: Eight on Malice

Freedom isn’t to be found by boasting of your precepts and practices or by debating your views.

Thag 4.3: Sabhiya

Ud 4.3: The Cowherd

A cowherd is murdered after presenting a meal to the Buddha and the Sangha.

Mil 4.4: Eight Causes for Ripening of Wisdom

Snp 4.4: Eight on the Pure

How to avoid the trap of letting go of one thing only to cling to something more subtle.

Thag 4.4: Nandaka (2nd)

Ud 4.4: The Spirit’s Blow

A spirit gives Ven. Sāriputta a blow on the head.

Mil 4.5: Qualities of a Teacher

Snp 4.5: Eight on the Ultimate

The conceit that comes from clinging to practices or views—even if they’re supreme—is a fetter preventing full freedom.

Thag 4.5: Jambuka

Ud 4.5: A Bull Elephant

The Buddha, hemmed in by his followers, goes into seclusion.

Mil 4.6: Qualities of a Lay Follower

Snp 4.6: Old Age

Life is short. Possessiveness brings grief. Freedom comes from abandoning any sense of “mine.”

Thag 4.6: Senaka

Ud 4.6: The Alms-Gatherer

Ven. Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja meditates.

Snp 4.7: To Tissametteyya on the Dangers of Sex

The drawbacks of falling away from the celibate life.

Thag 4.7: Sambhūta

Ud 4.7: With Sāriputta

Ven. Sāriputta meditates.

Snp 4.8: To Pasūra on Debate

The drawbacks of engaging in debates, for winners and losers alike.

Thag 4.8: Rāhula

Ud 4.8: With Sundarī

Wanderers of other sects kill a woman and blame her murder on the Sangha.

Snp 4.9: With Māgaṇḍiya

Māgandiya offers the Buddha his daughter in marriage. The Buddha refuses and further subdues Māgandiya’s pride by describing a state of peace that Māgandiya doesn’t understand.

Thag 4.9: Candana

Ud 4.9: With Upasena

Ven. Upasena Vaṅgantaputta contemplates: “Fortunate has been my life; fortunate will be my death.”

Snp 4.10: Before the Breakup

How to live at peace.

Thag 4.10: Dhammika

Ud 4.10: The Peacefulness of Sāriputta