Do you mean diį¹į¹hirÄga?
Maybe AN4.10
Yeah, I recall a sutta like that where an interlocutor (a king or nobleman perhaps?) sees the Bhikkhus and says āthey must be enlightened!ā and the Buddha asks why and he says because they eat one meal and so on. And the Buddha says that they arenāt all enlightened because many monks are attached to views.
Something like that. But Iām not finding it now ![]()
Sounds a bit promising Bhanthe. Do tell me if you run upon it. ![]()
Not exactly what Iām looking for but thank you very much. ![]()
It seems to somewhat related to AN 2.37, not exactly same words are used but the theme of discussion is in there.
Wow. I think youāve hit right on this one. Thank You loads
@Clarity
Natthime saranang aiyam, buddhome saranang varang
Nāatthi me saraį¹aį¹ aƱƱaį¹
Buddho/Dhammo/SaÅgho me saraį¹aį¹ varaį¹
Etena sacca-vajjena
Sotthi te [me] hotu sabbadÄ.
Isnāt in the suttas. It is from later Buddhist tradition
Thanks Bhanteji,
I appreciate, Namo Buddhay.
Greetings,
I wonder if someone with better search or memory skills might be able to help me find a sutta that uses the simile of milk, curds, butter, ghee and skimmings of ghee.
I am awaye of this one that is on the reading faithfully index AN10.91 SuttaCentral
But I believe that it is also in another sutta, that I have not been able to locate again.
Any help most gratefully appreciated
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@Viveka
SN 34.1, SN 34.2, SN 34.55, have that simile.
DN 9 has it too.
If I search SuttaCentral for the phrase āfrom milk comes curdsā, I get 8 results: SuttaCentral
Thank you so much @trusolo and @sabbamitta
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I am suffering from an acute case of digital skills atrophy! LOL.. which in many ways is great, but also not so great!! ![]()
@Snowbird Maybe those other 7 suttas can be included in the RF reference index under milk
The one I was looking for was from DN9.
I remember a Sutta that goes something like this: a brahmin woman looks forward to make an offering to Brahma, while not knowing that her son who had gone forth was residing in the area, who was also an arahant. Deciding to let her know, Brahma informs her of this, and tells her to give the offering to her son.
Does anyone know this Sutta?
Thank you Venerable.
Hi friends!
I am looking for a Sutta where the Buddha says that a monk can attain Samadhi effortlessly or by chance, and can lose that concentration by becoming vain because of it.
I think this sutta is in AN 8 or AN 7.
The story of the Sutta is more or less like thisā¦
The Buddha talks about types of people:
A person with effort achieves a level of concentration, but because of vanity they stray from the Dhammaā¦
A person without effort achieves a level of concentration, but because of vanity they stray from the Dhammaā¦
A person with effort achieves a level of concentration, but they donāt become vain and donāt stray from the Dhammaā¦
The Buddha talks about these types of people, 8 or 7 types of people.
Thatās why I think itās in AN8 or AN7ā¦
I heard this Sutta a few months ago in a study groupā¦
Thanks!
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Not in AN, but MN 29 might be it:
Next, take a gentleman who has gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness ⦠When theyāve gone forth they generate possessions, honor, and popularity. ⦠Being diligent, they achieve accomplishment in immersion. Theyāre happy with that, and theyāve got all they wished for. And they glorify themselves and put others down on account of that: āIām the one with immersion and unified mind. These other mendicants lack immersion, they have straying minds.ā And so they become indulgent and fall into negligence regarding that accomplishment in immersion. And being negligent they live in suffering.
Hi Dogenā¦
I donāt think thatās the suttaā¦
In the study group where we study this sutta, weāre following the AN order, not exactly the suttas, but AN 7 and AN 8 for example, and currently weāre at AN8.80.
Itās been a few weeks, thatās why I said it should be on AN 7 or AN 8ā¦
Reading the sutta you mentioned, I think the only things I remember the Buddha citing were that the monk reached a level of concentration or not, became vain or not, and distanced himself or not from the Dhammaā¦
I think I remembered another partā¦
Buddha says that a person strives to reach a level of concentration but fails, then becomes disappointed and distances themselves from the Dhamma.
So I donāt think thatās the one you mentionedā¦
Iāll try to contact some people in the group to see if anyone has it written down.
Even so, thank you.
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