Saṃyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses – page 18
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SN 55.63: Widespread Wisdom
SN 55.64: Abundant Wisdom
SN 55.65: Deep Wisdom
SN 55.66: Extraordinary Wisdom
SN 55.67: Vast Wisdom
SN 55.68: Much Wisdom
SN 55.69: Fast Wisdom
SN 55.70: Light Wisdom
SN 55.71: Laughing Wisdom
SN 55.72: Swift Wisdom
SN 55.73: Sharp Wisdom
SN 55.74: Penetrating Wisdom
SN 56.1: Immersion
Mendicants should develop immersion so as to understand the four noble truths: suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.
SN 56.2: Retreat
Mendicants should develop seclusion so as to understand the four noble truths.
SN 56.3: A Gentleman (1st)
Members of good families go forth to understand the four noble truths.
SN 56.4: A Gentleman (2nd)
Members of good families go forth to penetrate the four noble truths.
SN 56.5: Ascetics and Brahmins (1st)
True ascetics understand the four noble truths.
SN 56.6: Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)
True ascetics become awakened through understanding the four noble truths.
SN 56.7: Thoughts
Don’t think bad thoughts. Instead, think of the four noble truths.
SN 56.8: Thought
Don’t think in useless ways. Instead, reflect on the four noble truths.
SN 56.9: Arguments
Don’t argue. Instead, converse on the four noble truths.
SN 56.10: Low Talk
Don’t gossip. Instead, talk about the four noble truths.
SN 56.11: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
The Buddha's FIRST discourse. The Middle Way and the Four Noble Truths.
SN 56.11: Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma
The famous first discourse, taught at Varanasi to the group of five ascetics. It begins by rejecting the extremes of asceticism and indulgence and recommends the middle way of the eightfold path. Then it defines the four noble truths and analyzes them in twelve aspects. It ends with Venerable Kondañña becoming the first person apart from the Buddha to realize the Dhamma.
SN 56.12: The Realized Ones
All Realized Ones understand the four noble truths in their twelve aspects.
SN 56.13: Aggregates
The four noble truths are defined, with the five aggregates under the truth of suffering.
SN 56.14: Interior Sense Fields
The four noble truths are defined, with the six sense fields under the truth of suffering.
SN 56.15: Remembering (1st)
The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.
SN 56.16: Remembering (2nd)
The Buddha asks the mendicants how they remember the four noble truths.
SN 56.17: Ignorance
Ignorance is not knowing the four noble truths.
SN 56.18: Knowledge
Understanding is knowing the four noble truths.
SN 56.19: Expressions
Each of the four noble truths has innumerable implications.
SN 56.20: Real
Each of the four noble truths is real, not otherwise.
SN 56.21: At the Village of Koṭi (1st)
It is because of not understanding the four noble truths that both the Buddha and others have wandered for so long in transmigration. With verses.
SN 56.22: At the Village of Koṭi (2nd)
True ascetics understand the four noble truths. With verses.
SN 56.23: The Fully Awakened Buddha
The Realized One is called the Buddha because he understands the four noble truths.
SN 56.24: The Perfected Ones
All Buddhas become awakened through the four noble truths.
SN 56.25: The Ending of Defilements
Only by knowing and seeing the four noble truths are the defilements ended.
SN 56.26: Friends
You should encourage your friends in the four noble truths.
SN 56.27: Real
The four noble truths is real, not otherwise, that is why they are noble.
SN 56.28: The World
In this world, the Realized One is the noble one, that is why the four truths are noble.
SN 56.29: Should Be Completely Understood
The first truth is to be understood; the second is to be given up; the third is to be realized; and the fourth is to be developed.
SN 56.30: With Gavampati
Some mendicants are discussing whether the four truths are necessarily seen together. Venerable Gavampati asserts that he has learned it from the Buddha that they are: if you see one, you see them all.
SN 56.31: In a Rosewood Forest
In a siṁsapā grove, the Buddha holds up a handful of leaves, and compares it to all the leaves in the forest. So too, he has taught the four noble truths, which is only a fraction of what he knows.
SN 56.32: Acacia Leaves
Just as it’s impossible to keep water in a basket of pine needles, it’s impossible to end suffering without penetrating the four noble truths.
SN 56.33: A Stick
Beings who have not seen the four noble truths roam on from one birth to another, like a stick thrown end to end.
SN 56.34: Clothes
Even more than if your clothes are on fire, you should make an effort to understand the four noble truths.
SN 56.35: A Hundred Spears
Even more than if you’re being tortured with spikes, you should make an effort to understand the four noble truths.
SN 56.36: Living Creatures
The small creatures in the ocean are greater in number than all the foliage in the jungles of India. Still, your rebirths are more than this.
SN 56.37: The Simile of the Sun (1st)
As the dawn precedes the sunrise, right view precedes the penetration of the four noble truths.
SN 56.38: The Simile of the Sun (2nd)
As long as there are no sun and moon, the world is in darkness. So too, as long as the Realized One has not arisen and declared the four noble truths, the world is in darkness.
SN 56.39: Indra’s pillar
One who has not seen the four noble truths is as feeble as a tuft of cotton wool, while one who has seen them is like a deep-rooted pillar.
SN 56.40: Looking For a Debate
No-one can refute you if you are well grounded in the four noble truths.
SN 56.41: Speculation About the World
The Buddha tells the curious tale of a man who sat by a lotus pond to speculate about the world, and saw an army enter a lotus stalk. He thought he was going mad. The Buddha said that no, the army was real. Nevertheless, you should not speculate about such things, but should reflect on the four noble truths.
SN 56.42: A Cliff
The Buddha takes the mendicants to a steep precipice, and points out that those who do not understand the four noble truths fall into a still deeper precipice.
SN 56.43: The Great Scorching
The Buddha speaks of a hell called the great inferno, and points out that those who do not understand the four noble truths fall into a still fiercer inferno.
SN 56.44: A Bungalow
Just as it’s impossible to climb the upper floor without building the lower floors first, it’s impossible to end suffering without penetrating the four noble truths.
SN 56.45: Splitting Hairs
Ānanda sees Licchavi youths shoot arrows through keyholes. But seeing the four noble truths is even harder.
SN 56.46: Darkness
Interstellar space is dark and empty; but not seeing the four noble truths is even worse.
SN 56.47: A Yoke With a Hole (1st)
A blind turtle would put its head through a yoke with a hole in it floating in the ocean sooner than someone in the lower realms would be reborn as a human.
SN 56.48: A Yoke With a Hole (2nd)
A blind turtle would put its head through a yoke with a hole in it floating in the ocean sooner than someone in the lower realms would be reborn as a human.
SN 56.49: Sineru, King of Mountains (1st)
As seven bits of gravel are smaller than Mount Sineru, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.50: Sineru, King of Mountains (2nd)
As seven bits of gravel are smaller than Mount Sineru, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.51: A Fingernail
As a bit of dirt under a nail compared to the whole earth, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.52: A Lotus Pond
As a drop of water on a blade of grass compared to a massive dam, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.53: Where the Waters Join Together (1st)
As a few drops of water compared to the confluence of great rivers, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.54: Where the Waters Join Together (2nd)
As a few drops of water compared to confluence of the great rivers, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.55: The Earth (1st)
As a few jujube seeds compared to the great earth, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.56: The Earth (2nd)
As a few jujube seeds compared to the great earth, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.57: The Ocean (1st)
As a few drops of water compared to the ocean, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.58: The Ocean (2nd)
As a few drops of water compared to the ocean, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.59: A Mountain (1st)
As seven bits of gravel are smaller than the Himalayas, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.
SN 56.60: A Mountain (2nd)
As seven bits of gravel are smaller than the Himalayas, so is the suffering remaining to one who has seen the four noble truths.