Snp 5.1 - Ajita

 B: The world is enveloped by ignorance. Because of wrongly directed desire and heedlessness it is not known as it really is. Longing is where we get stuck. The great fear is dukkha.
 B: Mindfulness obstructs and restricts the streams of dukkha; by wisdom they are cut off.
 B: Mind-and-body completely cease with the cessation of consciousness.
 B: The practice is not craving for sensual pleasures, with a mind that is pure, tranquil, and mindful.
 [re cessation of consciousness - see DN 11 -- Viññāṇa literally means "divided knowing"]
 [see also SN 12.31]

Snp 5.2 - Tissametteyya

 Q: Who has succeeded on the spiritual path?
 A: Those leading the spiritual life among sensual pleasures, rid of craving, ever mindful
 [see also AN 6.61]

Snp 5.3 - Puṇṇaka

 Q: Why do people perform sacrifices?
 A: Hope of escaping old age and death
 Q: Does it work?
 A: No
 Q: What does work?
 A: Wisdom, Calm, Freedom from greed, hatred & delusion

 [see also AN 3.32 and AN 4.41 ]

Snp 5.4 - Mettagū

 Q: What is the source of dukkha?
 A: Creating an attachment
 Q: How do the wise cross the flood  [of dukkha]
 A: Expel delight and dogmatism; uproot consciousness; forego becoming

 [re cessation of consciousness - see DN 11 & SN 22.53 -- Viññana literally means "divided knowing"]

Snp 5.5 - Dhotaka

 Q: Teach me
 A: Be keen, alert, mindful
 Q: Release me from my doubts
 A: I cannot release anyone from their doubts
 Q: Teach me the principle of seclusion
 A: Everything is a snare, don't crave for becoming this or that

Snp 5.6 - Upasīva

 Q: Tell me an object (of meditation), supported by which I may cross over this flood
 A: Having regard for no-thingness, possessing mindfulness, supported by (the belief) “it does not exist,” then abandon sensual pleasures, abstain from (wrong) conversations, look for the destruction of craving
 Q: Would one who has done this, remain in this state?
 A: Yes
 Q: What can we say about the consciousness of one in that state who then dies?
 A: The question is invalid, nothing can be said.  [see MN 72 - "To Vacchagotta on Fire"]

 [no-thingness = atammayatā (non-concocting; non-fashioning)]
 [no-thingness is not the State of Nothingness (Jhana 7)]
 [from K.R. Norman: The Buddha is referring to the no-thingness of atammayatā (non-concocting; non-fashioning) but Upasiva (in 1072), and Alexander Wynne in "The Origin of Buddhist Meditation" (in his summary of 1071-72), thinks he is referring to the Realm of Nothingness (the 7th Jhana) (Norman, The Group of Discourses (Sutta-Nipāta) - 2001:412)]
 [the Niddesa (ancient commentary) makes the same mistake in regarding no-thingness as 7th Jhana)]

Snp 5.7 - Nanda

 Q: Is someone a sage because of their knowledge, or because of their way of life?
 A: Not knowledge, sages live far from crowds, untroubled, with no need for hope
 Q: Do those who live self-controlled cross over birth & old age?
 A: No, not necessarily
 Q: Then who has crossed over birth & old age?
 A: Those who have fully understood craving, and are free of defilements

Snp 5.8 - Hemaka

 Q: Explain to me the teaching that destroys craving, so that one who lives mindfully may cross over clinging in the world.
 A: The removal of desire and lust for what is seen, heard, thought, or cognized; for anything liked or disliked

Snp 5.9 - Todeyya

 Q: In whom sensual pleasures do not dwell and for whom there is no craving, and who has crossed over doubts -- of what kind is their liberation?
 A: That is their liberation
 Q: Are they free of hope; Do they possess wisdom?
 A: They are free of hope; They possess wisdom

 [when I 1st met Ruth Dennison, she had a bumper sticker on her car that said, "I feel so much better now that I've given up all hope."]

Snp 5.10 - Kappa

 Q: Tell me an island as the terrifying flood arises
 A: Having nothing, taking nothing: this is the matchless island

Snp 5.11 - Jatukaṇṇī

 Q: Tell me the state of peace, so that I may understand the giving up of birth and old age
 A: Dispel sensual desire, see renunciation as sanctuary; don't hanker after the past, future, or present; get rid of greed

Snp 5.12 - Bhadrāvudha

 Q:  [unclear!] Please teach Dhamma
 A: Dispel all craving for attachments

Snp 5.13 - Udaya

 Q: Proclaim the release through understanding, the destruction of ignorance
 A: abandon both desire and depression, dispel sloth, ward off perplexities. investigate mental phenomena, then purify by equanimity and mindfulness
 Q: What is the world’s fetter?
 A: Delight (nandi)
 Q: What is its doubt?
 A: Thinking
 Q: Abandon what to reach Nibbana?
 A: Abandon craving; do not take pleasure in vedana; live mindfully - thus consciousness ceases

 [re cessation of consciousness - see DN 11 & SN 22.53 -- Viññana literally means "divided knowing"]
 [see also AN 3.33]

Snp 5.14 - Posala

 Q: For one who perceives the disappearance of form, entirely given up the body  [entirely considers the body as a trifling thing?], sees no-thing at all, how should one like that be guided?
 A: Knowing the origin of no-thingness and that delight is a fetter, one then sees the matter clearly. That is the knowledge of reality for that one.

 [this is a very cryptic sutta!]
 [again, I don't think Jhana 7 is being referenced here]

Snp 5.15 - Mogharāja

 Q: How should you look upon the world so the King of Death won’t see you?
 A: Look upon the world as empty, ever mindful. Uproot the view of self, then King of Death won’t see you.

 [the Deathless is a synonym for Nibbana]
 [see SN 35.85 ("the world is empty of self and of what belongs to self")]

Snp 5.16 - Piṅgiya

 Q: Teach me the Dhamma so that I may abandon birth and decay.
 A: Be diligent and give up form so there is no further becoming.
 Q: (same as above)
 A: Be diligent and give up craving so there is no further becoming.