Suttas Given To Lay People that mention Jhānas

57 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 9	[DN I 178-203] Potthapada (To Potthapada: States of Consciousness):	to the wanderer Potthapada, and later to Citta the elephant trainer's son – on states of consciousness and unanswerable questions; parable of the most beautiful girl in the country.
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.
DN 16	[DN II 72-168] Mahaparinibbana (The Great Passing: The Buddha's Last Days):	to various parties, including: to the brahmin Vassakara – seven principles for preventing decline of a community; to the householders of Pataligama – five perils of bad morality; to Ambapali the courtesan – on general Dhamma; to Pukkusa the Malla – the claim of the Buddha's followers concerning states of samadhi.
DN 28	[DN III 99-116] Sampasadaniya (Serene Faith):	to Ven. Sariputta – on the course leading to unsurpassed supreme enlightenment –Schäfer writes: '… at the end of the discourse the Buddhas tells Sariputta that it should always be told to householders…'.
MN 4	[MN I 16-24] Bhayabherava (Fear and Dread):	to the brahmin Janussoni – the qualities a monk needs in order to live alone in the forest.
MN 27	[MN I 175-184] Culahatthipadopama (The Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint):	to the brahmin Janussoni – explanation of how a disciple arrives at complete certainty of the truth of the doctrine.
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 44	[MN I 299-305] Culavedalla (The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers):	the bhikkhuni Dhammadinna to the householder Visakha – on identity view, its origin, cessation, and the way leading to the cessation of identity view.
MN 51	[MN I 339-349] Kandaraka (To Kandaraka):	to the wanderer Kandaraka and Pessa the elephant driver's son – accomplishments in concentration and the four establishments of mindfulness, plus four kinds of persons in the world.
MN 52	[MN I 349-353] Atthakanagara (The Man from Atthakanagara):	Ven. Ananda to the householder Dasama from Atthakanagara – eleven 'doors to the deathless'.
MN 53	[MN I 353-359] Sekha (The Disciple in Higher Training):	Ven. Ananda to the householder Mahanama and the Sakyans of Kapilavatthu – the path of sila, samadhi, and pañña to be followed by an aspirant to higher knowledge.
MN 56	[MN I 371-387] Upali (To Upali):	to the householder Upali, a wealthy lay disciple of Nigantha Nataputta – his conversion from supporting the Jains; volition and mental action more productive of resultant effects than physical and vocal action.
MN 59	[MN I 396-400] Bahuvedaniya (The Many Kinds of Feeling):	Ven. Udayi to the carpenter Pañcakanga, and then the Buddha to Ven. Ananda – on the Dhamma being taught through different methods of exposition: e.g., two, three, five, six, eighteen, thirty-six and 108 kinds of feeling; and on the successively higher levels of happy feeling.
MN 60	[MN I 400-413] Apannaka (The Incontrovertible Teaching):	to the brahmin householders of Sala – the wrong views of sectarians contrasted with the right views of the Buddha; the disadvantages and advantages of both.
MN 78	[MN II 22-29] Samanamandika (Samanamandikaputta):	to the carpenter Pañcakanga – how one attains to the supreme attainment through wholesome habits and intentions.
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 86	[MN II 97-105] Angulimala (On Angulimala):	to the bandit Angulimala – his conversion and attainment of arahantship.
MN 94	[MN II 157-163] Ghotamukha (To Ghotamukha):	Ven. Udena to the brahmin Ghotamukha – the renunciant life; four kinds of persons engaged in ascetic practice.
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.
MN 107	[MN III 1-7] Ganaka Moggallana (To Ganaka Moggallana):	to the brahmin Ganaka Moggallana – the detailed steps of training in the practice.
MN 108	[MN III 7-15] Gopaka Moggallana (To Gopaka Moggallana):	Ven. Ananda to the brahmins Gopaka Moggallana and Vassakara, the chief minister of Maghada – how the Sangha maintains its integrity and unity following the Buddha's parinibbana.
MN 125	[MN III 128-61] Dantabhumi (The Grade of the Tamed):	to the novice Aciravata – on how Prince Jayasena could not hope to achieve such dhammas as concentration and jhana since he was a layperson and lived surrounded by sensual pleasures; the simile of the tamed and the wild elephant.
MN 127	[MN III 144-152] Anuruddha (Anuruddha):	Ven. Anuruddha to the householder Pañcakanga, the carpenter – the difference between immeasurable deliverance of mind (through practice of the brahmaviharas) and exalted deliverance of mind (through kasina meditation).
MN 152	[MN III 298-302] Indriyabhavana (The Development of the Faculties):	to the brahmin student Uttara (briefly); then to Ven. Ananda (in detail) – the difference between the control of the senses practised by an arahant and that practised by one still under training.
SN 35.132	[SN IV 116-121] Lohicca (Lohicca):	Ven. Mahakaccana to the brahmin Lohicca and his brahmin youth students – on guarding the sense doors as the true path for attaining Brahma.
SN 36.19	[SN IV 223-228] Pañcakanga (Pañcakanga):	Ven. Udayi to the carpenter Pañcakanga, and then the Buddha to Ven. Ananda – on the Dhamma being taught through different methods of exposition: e.g., two, three, five, six, eighteen, thirty-six and 108 kinds of feeling; and on the successively higher levels of happy feeling.
SN 41.8	[SN IV 297-300] Niganthanataputta (Nigantha Nataputta):	the householder Citta to Nigantha Nataputta – direct experience of the jhanas as opposed to mere faith in them.
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.
AN 3.58	[AN I 163-166] Tikanna (Tikanna):	to the brahmin Tikanna – the threefold knowledge in the discipline of the Noble One.
AN 3.59	[AN I 166-168] Janussoni (Janussoni):	to the brahmin Janussoni – the threefold knowledge in the discipline of the Noble One.
AN 3.63	[AN I 180-185] Venagapura (Venagapura):	to the brahmin householder Vacchagotta and other brahmin householders of Venagapura – the celestial high and luxurious bed, the divine high and luxurious bed, and the noble high and luxurious bed.
AN 3.73	[AN I 219-220] Mahanamasakka (Mahanama the Sakyan):	Ven. Ananda to the Sakyan Mahanama – a noble disciple should be accomplished in morality, concentration, and wisdom.
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 4.35	[AN II 35-37] Vassakara (Vassakara):	to the brahmin Vassakara – four qualities of a great man of great wisdom: one is practising for the welfare of many, has mastery of the mind, gains at will the four jhanas, and is liberated.
AN 4.194	[AN II 194-196] Sapugiya [Samugiya] (Sapuga):	Ven. Ananda to the Byagghapajjas, a number of young Koliyans from Sapuga – four factors of exertion for purification: purity of virtuous behaviour, purity of mind, purity of view, purity of liberation.
AN 5.192	[AN III 223-230] Dona (Dona):	to the brahmin Dona – five kinds of brahmin.
AN 7.53	<7.50> [AN IV 63-67] Nandamata (Nandamata):	Sariputta to the female lay follower Velukantaki Nandamata – seven marvellous qualities.
AN 8.11	[AN IV 172-179] Verañja (Verañja):	to a brahmin of Verañja – on why the Buddha is preeminent among men.
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.
AN 11.16	<11.17> [AN V 342-347] Atthakanagara (The Man from Atthakanagara):	Ven. Ananda to the householder Dasama of Atthakanagara – eleven ways in which a bhikkhu attains the unsurpassed security from bondage (four jhanas, four brahmaviharas, three formless jhanas).
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 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 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 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 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.
Snp 3.5	(vv. 487-509) [Snp 86-91] Magha (Magha):	to the young brahmin Magha – on generosity and merit, and the best recipients of giving.

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