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I’m aware that there is a sutta which informs of three kinds of conceit, basically I am so great, I am so worthless, I am just as equal as everyone else.
Are there any other suttas where the Buddha specifically addresses pride directly?
Did he offer any mantras or meditation practices specifically as an antidote to this flaw, in the same targeted manner that e.g. there are the asubha practices?
There should be plenty of suttas specifically for the phrase you are referring to and Search should pop up a few. A comprehensive treatment of the issue is in MN8.
snp 4:14
snp 2:13
etc may also be useful.
There are many suttas in which conceit and pride are addressed directly or indirectly. Identical, opposing, or related concepts include arrogance, respect, reverance, veneration, and humility.
Index.readingfaithfully.org has entries for most of these concepts and is a great resource.
Here are some suttas about some of these concepts, screenshotted from my notes.
When they had done so, they said to the Blessed One: “Lord, we are proud Sakyans. This Vacāli the barber has long attended on us. Let the Blessed One give him the going forth first so that we can pay homage to him and rise up for him and give him reverential salutation and honour. Thus the Sakyan pride will be humbled in us Sakyans.” Then the Blessed One gave the going forth first to Vacāli the barber and afterwards to the Sakyan princes.
Vin. Cv. 7:1; cf. Ud. 2:10
Anything can become the reason for the arising of conceit and pride so the escape from wholesome states regarding morality could be applied generally:
And where do these wholesome habits cease without remainder? Their cessation is stated: here a bhikkhu is virtuous, but he does not identify with his virtue, and he understands as it actually is that deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom where these wholesome habits cease without remainder.
MN 77
Vacāli? Isn’t it upāli?
Yes, it is mistake, the copied text wasn’t clear and I “corrected” it wrongly, hard to say why. As a chess teacher I quite often had in mind knight but said bishop and children had to correct me.
Today I stumbled across a sutta which spoke very nicely to the theme of humility. It is spoken of here as integrity.
AN 4.73 - Sappurisa Sutta: A Person of Integrity
Now, a person endowed with these four qualities can be known as ‘a person of integrity.’ Which four?
There is the case where a person of integrity, when asked, does not reveal another person’s bad points, to say nothing of when unasked. Furthermore, when asked, when pressed with questions, he is one who speaks of another person’s bad points not in full, not in detail, with omissions, holding back. Of this person you may know, ‘This venerable one is a person of integrity.’
Then again, a person of integrity, when unasked, reveals another person’s good points, to say nothing of when asked. Furthermore, when asked, when pressed with questions, he is one who speaks of another person’s good points in full & in detail, without omissions, without holding back. Of this person you may know, ‘This venerable one is a person of integrity.’
Then again, a person of integrity, when unasked, reveals his own bad points, to say nothing of when asked. Furthermore, when asked, when pressed with questions, he is one who speaks of his own bad points in full & in detail, without omissions, without holding back. Of this person you may know, ‘This venerable one is a person of integrity.’
"Then again, a person of integrity, when asked, does not reveal his own good points, to say nothing of when unasked. Furthermore, when asked, when pressed with questions, he is one who speaks of his own good points not in full, not in detail, with omissions, holding back. Of this person you may know, ‘This venerable one is a person of integrity.’
