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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 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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