- 1. Sn 1.10: Alavaka Sutta — Discourse to Alavaka/To the Alavaka Yakkha
- (Sutta Nipata)
- ... cross? How is ocean's[2]existence crossed? How is one's suffering quelled? How is one purified? [The Buddha:] 4. By faith are currents crossed; By diligence is the ocean crossed; By effort is one's ...
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- 2. Sn 1.4: Kasi Bharadvaja Sutta — To the Plowing Bharadvaja/Discourse to Bharadvaja, the Farmer
- (Sutta Nipata)
- ... yoke, takes me, without turning back, to where, having gone, one doesn't grieve. That's how my plowing is plowed. It has as its fruit the deathless. Having plowed this plowing one is unyoked from all suffering ...
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- 3. Sn 1.3: Khaggavisana Sutta — A Rhinoceros
- (Sutta Nipata)
- ... "This is a bondage, a baited hook. There's little happiness here, next to no satisfaction, all the more suffering & pain." Knowing this, circumspect, wander alone like a rhinoceros. Shattering fetters, ...
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- 4. Sn 1.2: Dhaniya Sutta — Dhaniya the Cattleman
- (Sutta Nipata)
- ... you be our teacher, Great Sage. My wife & I are compliant. Let's follow the holy life under the One Well-gone. Gone to the far shore of aging & death, let's put an end to suffering & stress." ...
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- 5. Iti 50-99
- (Itivuttaka)
- ... off craving, destroyed the fetters, and who — from the right breaking-through of conceit — has put an end to suffering & stress." Whoever sees pleasure as stress, sees pain as an arrow, sees peaceful ...
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- 6. Iti 28-49
- (Itivuttaka)
- ... in mind, whether by day or by night, he lives in suffering & stress. § 29. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Endowed with two things, a monk lives ...
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- 7. Iti 1-27
- (Itivuttaka)
- ... attains the ending of stress. Notes 1.Appropriate attention (yoniso manasikara) is the ability to focus attention on questions that lead to the end of suffering. MN 2 lists the following questions ...
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- 8. Ud 8.8: Visākhā Sutta — Visākhā
- (Udana)
- ... a hundred dear ones have a hundred sufferings. Those who have ninety dear ones have ninety sufferings. Those who have eighty... seventy... sixty... fifty... forty... thirty... twenty... ten... nine... ...
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- 9. Ud 6.1: Āyusama-osajjana Sutta — Relinquishment of the Life Force
- (Udana)
- ... of where it gains release from all suffering and stress.5.In other words, the Buddha relinquished the will to live longer. It was this relinquishment that led to his total Unbinding three months later.6.Reading ...
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- 10. Ud 4.4: Juñha Sutta — Moonlit
- (Udana)
- ... this, from where can there come to him suffering & stress?[1] Note 1. A variant of this verse is attributed to Ven. Khitaka at Thag 2.36 (verses 191-192 in the PTS edition): Whose mind, standing ...
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- 11. Ud 3.1: Kamma Sutta — Former Action/Action
- (Udana)
- ... legs crossed, his body held erect, enduring fierce pains, sharp & severe, that were the result of old kamma — mindful, alert, without suffering. The Blessed One saw him sitting not far away, his legs ...
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- 12. Ud 2.9: Visākhā Sutta — Visākhā
- (Udana)
- ... had wished." Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: All subjection to others is painful. All independence is bliss. What is held in common brings suffering, ...
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- 13. Ud 2.8: Suppavāsā Sutta — Suppavāsā
- (Udana)
- ... in difficult labor. She — touched by fierce, sharp pains — endured them with three thoughts: "How rightly self-awakened is the Blessed One who, abandoning this sort of suffering, teaches the Dhamma! How ...
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- 14. Ud 2.6: Gabbhini Sutta — The Pregnant Woman
- (Udana)
- ... but, on returning home, was unable to bring it up or pass it down. So he rolled back & forth, suffering from fierce pains, sharp & severe. Then early in the morning the Blessed One adjusted his ...
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- 15. Ud 2.5: Upāsaka Sutta — The Lay Follower
- (Udana)
- ... suffering, one who has something, a person bound in body with people. See also: Dhp 200, 221, 396, 421. ...
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- 16. Ud 1.3: Bodhi Sutta — The Bodhi Tree (3)/Awakening (3)
- (Udana)
- ... come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of suffering & stress. Now from the remainderless fading and cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From ...
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- 17. Ud 1.2: Bodhi Sutta — The Bodhi Tree (2)/Awakening (2)
- (Udana)
- ... is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress. Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: As phenomena grow clear to the brahman — ardent, ...
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- 18. Ud 1.1: Bodhi Sutta — The Bodhi Tree (1)/Awakening (1)
- (Udana)
- ... From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of suffering & stress.[3] ...
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- 19. Bhikkhunī Pāṭimokkha (rules for female monks)
- (Vinaya Pitaka)
- ... the holy life in their company.' Take delight, lady. The Dhamma is well-expounded. Follow the holy life for the right ending of suffering." And should that bhikkhunī, thus admonished by the bhikkhunīs, ...
- Created on 13 October 2012
- 20. Dhp XXVI - Brahmanavagga: The Holy Man
- (Dhammapada)
- ... 390. Nothing is better for a holy man than when he holds his mind back from what is endearing. To the extent the intent to harm wears away, to that extent does suffering subside. 391. He who does no ...
- Created on 30 August 2012