Yellow Robe - A Real Buddhist's Journal

1. DN 8 Mahāsīhanāda Sutta - The Great Lion’s Roar
(Pali Canon/Digha Nikaya)

... this telling the truth, and do they not slander the Lord Gotama with lies? Do they explain the truth about his Dhamma and what pertains to it, or does some fellow-teacher of a different sect deserve to ...

2. DN 9 Poṭṭhapāda Sutta - About Poṭṭhapāda, States of Consciousness
(Pali Canon/Digha Nikaya)

... He, having realized it by his own super-know-ledge, proclaims this world with its devas, māras and Brahmās, its princes and people. He preaches the Dhamma which is lovely in its beginning, lovely in its ...

3. MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - The Simile of the Saw
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... to wholesome states, for that is how you will come to growth, increase, and fulfillment in this Dhamma and Discipline. Suppose there were a big sāla-tree grove near a village or town, and it was choked ...

4. MN 18 Madhupiṇḍika Sutta - The Honeyball
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... For knowing, the Blessed One knows; seeing, he sees; he is vision, he is knowledge, he is the Dhamma, he is the holy one; he is the sayer, the proclaimer, the elucidator of meaning, the giver of the Deathless, ...

5. MN 16 Cetokhila Sutta - The Wilderness in the Heart
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... in this Dhamma and Discipline—that is impossible. 3. "What, bhikkhus, are the five wildernesses in the heart that he has not abandoned? Here a bhikkhu is doubtful, uncertain undecided, and unconfident ...

6. MN 14 Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta - The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... to him, he sat down at one side and said: "Venerable sir, I have long understood the Dhamma taught by the Blessed One thus: 'Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind, hate is an imperfection that ...

7. MN 90 Kaṇṇakatthala Sutta - At Kaṇṇakatthala
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... speak thus say what has been said by the Blessed One, and not misrepresent him with what is contrary to fact? Do they explain in accordance with the Dhamma in such a way that nothing that provides a ground ...

8. MN 89 Dhammacetiya Sutta - Monuments to the Dhamma
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

...  “But, great king, what reason do you see for doing such supreme honor to this body and for showing such friendship?” 10. “Venerable sir, I infer according to Dhamma about the Blessed One: ‘The Blessed ...

9. MN 86 Angulimāla Sutta - On Angulimāla
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... not.” “Oh, at long last this recluse, a venerated sage, Has come to this great forest for my sake. Having heard your stanza teaching me the Dhamma, I will indeed renounce evil forever.” So saying, ...

10. MN 85 Bodhirājakumāra Sutta - To Prince Bodhi
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... happens in one who abides diligent, ardent, and resolute. 43-53. “I considered: ‘This Dhamma that I have attained is profound’...(as Sutta 26, §§19-29)...and the six of us lived on what those two bhikkhus ...

11. MN 84 Madhurā Sutta - At Madhurā
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... Kaccāna! Magnificent, Master Kaccāna! Master Kaccāna has made the Dhamma clear in many ways, as though he were turning upright what had been overthrown, revealing what was hidden, showing the way to one ...

12. MN 83 Makhādeva Sutta - King Makhādeva
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... was a king named Makhādeva. He was a righteous king who ruled by the Dhamma, a great king who was established in the Dhamma. He conducted himself by the Dhamma among brahmins and householders, among town-dwellers ...

13. MN 82 Raṭṭhapāla Sutta - On Raṭṭhapāla
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... its princes and its people, which he has himself realized with direct knowledge. He teaches the Dhamma good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, with the right meaning and phrasing, ...

14. MN 81 Ghaṭīkāra Sutta - Ghaṭīkāra the Potter
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... friend, my close friend. Let the Blessed One teach him the Dhamma.’ “Then the Blessed One Kassapa, accomplished and fully enlightened, instructed, urged, roused, and gladdened Ghaṭīkāra the potter and ...

15. MN 13 Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta - The Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... the full understanding of feelings, and we do so too. What then is the distinction here, friends, what is the variance, what is the difference between the recluse Gotama's teaching of the Dhamma and ours, ...

16. MN 12 Mahāsīhanāda Sutta - The Greater Discourse on the Lion's Roar
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... Dhamma and Discipline. He was making this statement before the Vesālī assembly: "The recluse Gotama does not have any superhuman states, any distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones. ...

17. MN 11 Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta - The Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar
(Pali Canon/Majjhima Nikaya)

... devoid of recluses." What are the four? We have confidence in the Teacher, we have confidence in the Dhamma, we have fulfilled the precepts, and our companions in the Dhamma are dear and agreeable to us ...

18. DN 12 Lohicca Sutta: About Lohicca; Good and Bad Teachers
(Pali Canon/Digha Nikaya)

... it to anyone else, for what can one man do for another?” he would be a source of danger to those good men of good family who, following the Dhamma and discipline taught by the Tathāgata, attain to such ...

19. DN 11 Kevaddha Sutta: About Kevaddha; What Brahma Didn’t Know
(Pali Canon/Digha Nikaya)

... way Naḷāndā would come to have even more faith in the Lord.’ The Lord replied: ‘Kevaddha, this is not the way I teach Dhamma to the monks, by saying: “Go monks, and perform superhuman feats and miracles ...

20. DN 10 Subha Sutta: About Subha; Morality, Concentration, Wisdom
(Pali Canon/Digha Nikaya)

... He preaches the Dhamma which is lovely in its beginning, lovely in its middle, lovely in its ending, in the spirit and in the letter, and displays the fully-perfected and purified holy life. A disciple ...