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DN1: Brahmajala Sutta - Part 7 | Ajahn Brahmali | 22-05-2022

Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 7. 

Read DN1 here on Sutta Central. 

"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.

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MN3: Heirs in Dhamma - Dhammadayada Sutta | Ajahn Hasapanna | 8 May 2022

Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 3 of the Majjhima Nikaya: the Dhammadayada Sutta, “Heirs in Dhamma”.

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"Some of the Buddha’s students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sāriputta explains how by following the Buddha’s example we can experience the fruits of the path," Sutta Central.

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DN1: Brahmajala Sutta - Part 6 | Ajahn Brahmali | 24-04-2022

Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 6. 

Read DN1 here on Sutta Central. 

"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.

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MN20: Vitakkasaṇṭhānasutta - The Removal of Distracting Thoughts | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 10 April 2022

Ajahn Brahmavamso discusses sutta 20 of the Majjhima Nikaya: Vitakkasaṇṭhānasutta - The Removal of Distracting Thoughts. 

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“Their mind becomes stilled internally; it settles, unifies, and becomes immersed in samādhi. This is called a mendicant who is a master of the ways of thought. They’ll think what they want to think, and they won’t think what they don’t want to think. They’ve cut off craving, untied the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit have made an end of suffering”, Sutta Central.

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MN25: Nivapa Sutta - The Bait | Ajahn Hasapanna | 23 January 2022

Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 25 from the Majjhima Nikaya: The Nivapa Sutta – The Bait.

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"The Buddha compares getting trapped by Māra with a deer getting caught in a snare, illustrating the ever more complex strategies employed by hunter and hunted," Sutta Central.

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DN1: Brahmajala Sutta - Part 5 | Ajahn Brahmali | 09-01-2022

Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 5. 

Read DN1 here on Sutta Central. 

"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.

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Udana 5.4: Kumāraka Sutta - A lesson to young boys | Ajahn Sujato | 26-01-2014

Ajahn Sujato discusses sutta 5.4 from the Udana in the Khuddakanikāya Nikaya - The Collection of Minor Discourses.
"A lesson to young boys: If you don’t want to suffer from pain, don’t inflict pain on other beings." Sutta Central. 

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DN1: Brahmajala Sutta - Part 4 | Ajahn Brahmali | 14-11-2021

Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 4. 

Read DN1 here on Sutta Central. 

"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.

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AN4.61 Pattakamma Sutta - Worthy Deeds | Ajahn Diravamso | 14 June 2009

Ajahn Diravamso discusses sutta 61 from the Anguttara Nikaya The Book of the Fours: Pattakamma Sutta - Worthy Deeds.

"Four things that are desirable, but hard to get; and how to get them through deeds of substance.", Sutta Central.

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A Lump of Foam, By Way of Six Sense Bases, Empty Is the World, The Two Nibbana Elements | Ajahn Appicchato | 22 December 2013

Ajahn Appicchato discusses several Suttas from the book "In The Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi. 

The Suttas referenced by the topics discussed by Ajhan can also be found in Sutta Central using the following links. 

Lump of foam 
Handful of Leaves 
Empty is the World 
The Two Nibbāna Elements 

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SN12 Nidana Samyutta Suttas | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 10-03-2013

Ajahn Brahm discusses from SN12 Nidana-samyutta. Click here to read the English translation on Access to Insight

12.11(1) Ahara Sutta (Fuel or Nutriment) 

12.12(2) Moliyaphagguna Sutta 

12.3(3) Patipada Sutta - The Two Ways 

12.15(5) Kaccanagotta Sutta 

12.16(6) Dhammakathika Sutta - A Speaker of the Dhamma 

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MN139 Aranavibhanga Sutta - Non Conflict | Ajahn Brahm | 11 July 2021

Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 139 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Aranavibhanga Sutta, "Non Conflict" - the Middle Length Sayings.

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"Achieving peace is no simple matter. The Buddha explains how to avoid conflict through contentment, right speech, understanding pleasure, and not insisting on local conventions.", Sutta Central.

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MN17 Vanapattha Sutta & MN114 Sevitabbasevitabba Sutta | Ajahn Brahmali | 13-01-2013

Ajahn Brahmali discusses two suttas from the Majjhima Nikaya: MN114 Sevitabbasevitabba Sutta, "Jungle Thickets" and MN17 Vanapattha Sutta, "What Should and Should Not Be Cultivated". 

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MN128 Upakkilesa Sutta - Imperfections | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 27 June 2021

Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 128 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Upakkilesa Sutta, "Imperfections". Read MN128 on Sutta Central here.

"A second discourse set at the quarrel of Kosambi, this depicts the Buddha, having failed to achieve reconciliation between the disputing mendicants, leaving the monastery. He spends time in the wilderness before encountering an inspiring community of practicing monks. There he discusses in detail obstacles to meditation that he encountered before awakening", Sutta Central.

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MN41 Saleyyaka Sutta - The Brahmans of Sala | Ajahn Brahmali | 22 July 2012

Ajahn Brahmali discusses the 41^st sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya: Saleyyaka Sutta, “The People of Sala” or “The Brahmans of Sala”.

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 “The Buddha explains to a group of brahmins the conduct leading to rebirth in higher or lower states, including detailed explanations of the ten core practices which lay people should undertake, and which also form the basis for liberation,” Sutta Central.

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MN68 Nalakapana Sutta - At Nalakapana | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 13 June 2021

Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 68 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Nalakapana Sutta, "At Nalakapana". Read MN68 on Sutta Central here.

"Those who practice do so not because they are failures, but because they aspire to higher freedom. When he speaks of the attainments of disciples, the Buddha does so in order to inspire", Sutta Central.

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SN12.2 Vibhaṅga Sutta SN12.10 Gotama Sutta | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 10-02-2013

Ajahn Brahm discusses from sutta 12, Nidana Samyutta, in the Samyutta Nikaya.

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Click here to read SN12.10

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DN19 Mahāgovinda Sutta - The Great Steward | Ajahn Appichato | 8 July 2012

Ajahn Appichato discusses the 19th sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Mahāgovinda Sutta, “The Great Steward.”

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 "A minor deity informs the Buddha of the conversations and business of the gods," Sutta Central.

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MN16 Cetokhila Sutta - The Wilderness in the Heart | Ajahn Hasapanna | 27 May 2012

Ajahn Hasapanna discusses the 16^th sutta from the Majjhima Nikaya: Cetokhila Sutta, “Emotional Barrenness” or “Discourse on Mental Barrenness” or “The Wilderness in the Heart.”

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“The Buddha explains various ways one can become emotionally cut off from one’s spiritual community,” Sutta Central.

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MN70 Kitagiri Sutta - At Kitagiri | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 9 December 2012

Ajahn Brahm discusses the 70th sutta from the Majjhima Nikaya; the Kitagiri Sutta - At Kitagiri. 

Read MN70 here on Sutta Central.

"A third discourse that presents the health benefits of eating in one part of the day, and the reluctance of some mendicants to follow this," Sutta Central. 

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