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Do you mean diṭṭhirāga?
Maybe AN4.10

:thinking: Yeah, I recall a sutta like that where an interlocutor (a king or nobleman perhaps?) sees the Bhikkhus and says ā€œthey 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 aren’t all enlightened because many monks are attached to views.

Something like that. But I’m not finding it now :sweat_smile:

Sounds a bit promising Bhanthe. Do tell me if you run upon it. :folded_hands:

@Khemarato.bhikkhu

Not exactly what I’m looking for but thank you very much. :saluting_face:

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 you’ve hit right on this one. Thank You loads :grinning_face: @Clarity

Natthime saranang aiyam, buddhome saranang varang

N’atthi me saraṇaṁ aƱƱaṁ
Buddho/Dhammo/Saŋgho me saraṇaṁ varaṁ
Etena sacca-vajjena
Sotthi te [me] hotu sabbadā.

Isn’t 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 :slightly_smiling_face: :folded_hands: :sunflower:

@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 ā€œfrom milk comes curdsā€, I get 8 results: SuttaCentral

Thank you so much @trusolo and @sabbamitta :folded_hands: :folded_hands: :folded_hands: :sparkling_heart:

I am suffering from an acute case of digital skills atrophy! LOL.. which in many ways is great, but also not so great!! :upside_down_face:

@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?

That’s a great sutta!

CIPS > brahmās > arahants should be given to instead > SN6.3

@Viveka Thanks! Will do.

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 this…

The Buddha talks about types of people:

A person with effort achieves a level of concentration, but because of vanity they stray from the Dhamma…

A person without effort achieves a level of concentration, but because of vanity they stray from the Dhamma…

A person with effort achieves a level of concentration, but they don’t become vain and don’t stray from the Dhamma…

The Buddha talks about these types of people, 8 or 7 types of people.

That’s why I think it’s in AN8 or AN7…

I heard this Sutta a few months ago in a study group…

Thanks!

:anjal:

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 they’ve gone forth they generate possessions, honor, and popularity. … Being diligent, they achieve accomplishment in immersion. They’re happy with that, and they’ve got all they wished for. And they glorify themselves and put others down on account of that: ā€˜I’m the one with immersion and unified mind. These other mendicants lack immersion, they have straying minds.’ And so they become indulgent and fall into negligence regarding that accomplishment in immersion. And being negligent they live in suffering.

Hi Dogen…

I don’t think that’s the sutta…

In the study group where we study this sutta, we’re following the AN order, not exactly the suttas, but AN 7 and AN 8 for example, and currently we’re at AN8.80.

It’s been a few weeks, that’s why I said it should be on AN 7 or AN 8…

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 Dhamma…

I think I remembered another part…

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 don’t think that’s the one you mentioned…

I’ll try to contact some people in the group to see if anyone has it written down.

Even so, thank you.

:anjal: