Suttas Given To Lay People that mention Knowledge & Vision

25 Suttas ***

DN 2 [DN I 47-86] Samaññaphala (Fruits of the Homeless Life): to King Ajatasattu of Magadha – the fruits, visible here and now (in this life) of the life of renunciation, plus the higher benefits and true liberation.
DN 3 [DN I 87-110] Ambattha (To Ambattha: Pride Humbled): to the brahmin Ambattha, a pupil of Pokharasati – the 'thirty-two marks of a great man', humbling of arrogance.
DN 4 [DN I 111-126] Sonadanda (To Sonadanda: Qualities of a True brahmin): to the brahmin Sonadanda – the qualities of a true brahmin: wisdom and morality.
DN 5 [DN I 127-149] Kutadanta (To Kutadanta: A Bloodless Sacrifice): to the brahmin Kutadanta – sacrifices more profitable than the slaughter of animals.
DN 6 [DN I 150-158] Mahali (To Mahali: Heavenly Sights, Soul and Body): to Otthaddha Mahali, the Licchavi ruler – one-sided samadhi and useless questions.
DN 10 [DN I 204-210] Subha (To Subha: Morality, Concentration, Wisdom): Ven. Ananda to the brahmin youth Subha – the noble path, morality, concentration, wisdom.
DN 11 [DN I 211-223] Kevaddha [Kevatta] (To Kevaddha: What Brahma Didn't Know): to the brahmin Kevaddha [Kevatta] – what Brahma didn't know: where the four great elements cease without remainder.
DN 12 [DN I 224-234] Lohicca (To Lohicca: Good and Bad Teachers): to the brahmin Lohicca – the difference between good and bad teachers.
MN 14 [MN I 91-95] Culadukkhakkhandha (The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering): to the Sakyan Mahanama – the understanding of the sensual pleasures.
MN 30 [MN I 198-205] Culasaropama (The Shorter Discourse on the Heartwood Simile): to the brahmin Pingalakoccha – the proper goal of the holy life is unshakeable deliverance of mind.
MN 85 [MN II 91-97] Bodhirajakumara (To Prince Bodhi): to Prince Bodhi – refuting the claim that pleasure is to be obtained through pain; five factors of striving: a bhikkhu has faith, good health, integrity, energy, and wisdom.
MN 91 [MN II 133-146] Brahmayu (To Brahmayu): to the old brahmin Brahmayu and his disciple Uttara – the 32 marks of a great man; and a graduated discourse on the Dhamma.
MN 99 [MN II 196-209] Subha (To Subha): to the young brahmin student Subha, Toddeyya's son – comparison of the benefits of the householder's path and that of the renunciate.
MN 100 [MN II 209-213] Sangarava (To Sangarava): to the brahmin student Sangarava – the basis for teaching the fundamentals of the holy life.
SN 3.24 <135> [SN I 98-100 <219-224>] Issattha (Archery): to King Pasenadi – giving is of great fruit to one who has abandoned five factors (hindrances) and possesses five factors (virtue, concentration, wisdom, liberation, knowledge and vision).
SN 41.9 [SN IV 300-302] Acelakassapa (The Naked Ascetic Kassapa): the householder Citta to the naked ascetic Kassapa – superhuman distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones.
SN 42.12 [SN IV 330-340] Rasiya (Rasiya): to the headman Rasiya – on the middle way; the grounds for praising or censuring one who enjoys sensual pleasures; the grounds for praising or censuring one who lives a rough life; the three kinds of wearing away.
SN 46.56  [SN V 126-128] Abhaya (Abhaya): to Prince Abhaya – five hindrances as cause for lack of knowledge and vision; seven factors of enlightenment as cause for knowledge and vision.
AN 3.74 [AN I 220-222] Nigantha (The Nigantha): Ven. Ananda to the Licchavis Abhaya and Panditakumaraka – three ways of purification of morality, concentration, and wisdom, as opposed to the purification preached by the niganthas.
AN 7.50 <7.47> [AN IV 54-56] Methuna (Sexual Intercourse): to the brahmin Janussoni – seven actions that blemish the celibate life.
AN 9.38 [AN IV 428-432] Lokayatika brahmana (The Brahmin Cosmologists): to two brahmin cosmologists – reaching the end of the world through the nine attainments of absorption (four jhanas, four formless attainments, and the cessation of perception and feeling).
AN 9.41 [AN IV 438-448] Tapussagahapati (The Householder Tapussa): to the householder Tapussa, via Ven. Ananda – the advantages of renunciation through reaching the nine attainments of absorption.
AN 10.26 [AN V 46-48] Kali (Kali): Mahakaccana to the female lay follower Kali of Kuraraghara – ten kasina attainments.
AN 10.30 [AN V 65-70] Dutiyakosala (Kosala 2): King Pasenadi of Kosala to the Buddha – ten praises of the Buddha.
DN 2 [DN I 47-86] Samaññaphala (Fruits of the Homeless Life): to King Ajatasattu of Magadha – the fruits, visible here and now (in this life) of the life of renunciation, plus the higher benefits and true liberation.


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