MN 013 Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta: The Great Mass of Stress

MN 013 Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta: The Great Mass of Stress
Translator:  Thanissaro Bhikkhu,  sutta text
Read by frank_k,  26min 13s  18.0MB Download
recorded on June 14, 2011 licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 , sutta text ©2005 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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"Monks, when the wanderers of other persuasions say this, they are to be told, 'What, friends, with regard to sensuality, is the allure, what the drawback, what the escape? What, with regard to forms, is the allure, what the drawback, what the escape? What, with regard to feelings, is the allure, what the drawback, what the escape?' When asked this, they will not manage an answer and, what is more, will get themselves into trouble. Why is that? Because it lies outside their range. Monks, in this world with its devas, maras, and brahmas, in this people with its contemplatives & priests, its royalty & commonfolk, I do not see anyone who can satisfy the mind with an answer to these questions, aside from a Tathagata, a Tathagata's disciples, or someone who has heard it from them. (excerpt from MN 13 translated by Than.)

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MN 009 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta: The Discourse on Right View

MN 009 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta: The Discourse on Right View
Translator: Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi,  sutta text 
Read by frank_k,  38min 12s  35.0 MB Download
recorded on may 16,  2011 licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 , sutta text © Buddhist Publication Society

The Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta, the Discourse on Right View, is the ninth sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya, the Collection of Middle Length Discourses. Its expositor is the Venerable Sāriputta Thera, the Buddha’s chief disciple and the foremost of the Master’s bhikkhu disciples in the exercise of the faculty of wisdom. The Buddha declared that, next to himself, it was the Venerable Sāriputta who excelled in turning the incomparable Wheel of the Dhamma, in expounding in depth and in detail the Four Noble Truths realized with the attainment of enlightenment. In the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta the great disciple bears ample testimony to the Buddha’s words of praise, bequeathing upon us a discourse that has served as a primer of Buddhist doctrine for generations of monks in the monasteries of South and Southeast Asia. (1st paragraph of Intro by B.Bodhi in wheel booklet 377  )

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MN 011 Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on the Lion’s Roar

MN 011 Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on the Lion’s Roar
Translator: Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi,  sutta text (2)  
Read by frank_k,  16min 26s  15.0 MB Download
recorded on may 24, 2011 licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 , sutta text ©1993 BPS

Among the hordes of animals that roam the wild, whether the jungle, the mountains or the plain, the lion is universally recognised to be their chief. The living embodiment of self-possessed power, he is the most regal in manner and deportment, the mightiest, the foremost with respect to speed, courage and dominion. The expression of the lion’s supremacy is its roar—a roar which reduces to silence the cries, howls, bellows, shrieks, barks and growls of lesser creatures. When the lion steps forth from his den and sounds his roar, all the other animals stop and listen. On such an occasion none dares even to sound its own cry, let alone to come into the open and challenge the fearless, unsurpassable roar of the golden-maned king of beasts...  (from B.Bodhi's intro in wheel booklet 390-391

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KN Thig 06.0133-0138 [6.2] Vasitthi: Vasitthi the Madwoman

KN Thig 06.0133-0138 [6.2] Vasitthi: Vasitthi the Madwoman
Translator:  Thanissaro Bhikkhu,  sutta text
Read by  Bhikkhuni Su,  1min 46s  1.6MB Download
recorded in July 2011 licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 , sutta text ©1995 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

A mother conquers her grief over her son's death.

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MN 002 Sabbāsava: All the Fermentations

MN 002  Sabbāsava: All the Fermentations
Translator:  Thanissaro Bhikkhu,  sutta text
Read by frank_k,  17min 0s  15.5 MB Download
recorded on april 17, 2011 licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 , sutta text ©1997 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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MN 003 Dhammadāyāda:The Discourse on Heirs to the Dharma

MN 003  Dhammadāyāda:The Discourse on Heirs to the Dharma
Translator:  Piya Tan,  sutta text
Read by frank_k,  18min 44s  17.1 MB Download

In this sutta, the Buddha asks his disciples to be his heirs in the Dhamma, not heirs to material things. He cites an interesting example of 2 monks, one who eats the Buddha's leftover meal (material heir), and the one who declines the leftover food and goes hungry for the day (heir in dhamma practice). The 2nd monk is praised.  

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