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  • 2: AN 9.93 - 9.432 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed

    2: AN 9.93 - 9.432 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
    Aug 13 2025
    20 min
  • 1: AN 9.83 - 9.92 Bases of Psychic Power

    1: AN 9.83 - 9.92 Bases of Psychic Power
    Aug 8 2025
    15 min
  • AN 9.73 - 9.82 Right Efforts

    AN 9.73 - 9.82 Right Efforts
    Aug 6 2025
    18 min
  • 7: AN 9.63 - 9.72 Mindfulness Meditation

    7: AN 9.63 - 9.72 Mindfulness Meditation
    Jul 30 2025
    17 min
  • 6: AN 9.52 - 9.62 A Safe Place

    6: AN 9.52 - 9.62 A Safe Place
    Jul 23 2025
    10 min
  • AN 9.42 - 9.51 Similarity

    AN 9.42 - 9.51 Similarity
    Jul 18 2025
    AN 9.42 At Udāyī’s request, Ānanda explains an obscure verse spoken (in SN 2.7) by a deity. The nine progressive meditations are the escape from confinement.
    AN 9.43 The Buddha speaks of a “direct witness’, that is, someone who personally has thorough and proficient experience of the different meditation states.
    AN 9.44 One liberated by wisdom first enters the meditation states, then understands them.
    AN 9.45 One freed both ways is both proficient in and understands the meditation states.
    AN 9.46 The teaching apparent in the present life is experienced provisionally in deep meditation, and completely when the defilements end.
    AN 9.47 - 51 Extinguishment apparent in the present life is experienced provisionally in deep meditation, and completely when the defilements end.
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    16 min
  • AN 9.40 - 9.41 The Great Chapter Part 3

    AN 9.40 - 9.41 The Great Chapter Part 3
    Jul 16 2025
    AN 9.40 A bull elephant, annoyed by living in the herd, goes off by himself. Similarly, a mendicant feeling crowded in a monastery goes off by themselves and happily meditates in seclusion.
    AN 9.41 The householder Tapussa reflects that it is renunciation that distinguishes lay from monastic. The Buddha responds by giving a long account of his practice of absorption before awakening.
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    32 min
  • AN 9.36 - 9.39 The Great Chapter Part 2

    AN 9.36 - 9.39 The Great Chapter Part 2
    Jul 11 2025
    AN 9.36 The ending of defilements happens due to the practice of absorption meditation.
    AN 9.37 Ānanda exclaims how amazing it is that the Buddha has found a way to freedom while still experiencing the world. Questioned by the monk Udāyī, Ānanda recounts a discussion on advanced meditation with the nun Jaṭilagāhiyā.
    AN 9.38 Two brahmin cosmologists ask the Buddha to decide between competing claims as to whether the cosmos is infinite. Rejecting metaphysical claims, the Buddha says that there is no end of the world that can be reached by traveling; but without reaching the end of the world you can’t be free of suffering.
    AN 9.39 In the wars between gods and demons, they find safety only in their own fortress. Similarly, a mendicant finds safety in absorption.
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    26 min