Words of the Buddha
Read the suttas of the Pāli canon in parallel Pāli and English — from memorable verses to the long discourses.
Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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Latest Discourses
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When five kings headed by King Pasenadi of Kosala cannot agree on which of the five cords of sensual pleasure is foremost, they ask the Buddha, who explains that the foremost is determined by what is personally pleasing to each individual.
Five pairs of unwholesome qualities and their wholesome opposites are contrasted as unwholesome or wholesome, blameworthy or blameless, yielding suffering or happiness, resulting in suffering or happiness, and afflictive or non-afflictive.
Five pairs of unwholesome qualities and their wholesome opposites are examined across five outcomes: living in suffering or contentment, a trainee bhikkhu’s decline or non-decline, and destinations after death.
After his student Uttara shadows the Buddha for seven months to verify his thirty-two marks and mindful conduct, the 120-year-old brahmin Brahmāyu meets the Teacher, attains stream-entry, and dies a non-returner.
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