Suttas on Mental Development
Bhāvanā
- SN IV 42.8 Sounding the Conch of Dhamma
- SN III 22.101 The Chisel’s Handle
- MN 118 The Breath as a Reminder
- MN 21 The Analogy of the Saw
- MN 19 Discerning Thoughts into Two
- MN 7 The Analogy of the Cloth
- AN IX 35 Analogy of the Cow
- AN V 28 Fivefold Perfect Samādhi
- SN IV 45.4 The Chariot of Dhamma
- DN 2 The Purpose of the Truth-Seeking Life
Bhāvanā
Teachings on Wholesome Mental Development
Delight in Dhamma
Sukhasomanassa Sutta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mywNWSJlfg Sukha means happiness Somanassa means mental grace or mental joy. The two combined together. Directing the ways in which we delight, in which we find happiness
The Experience of Nibbāna
And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,
collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,
steadiness so sharp and so present,
awareness starts to dissolve,
it breaks down here.
The Beautiful
[One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, accepting what is unfavorable. One then lives,
Awareness in Practice
How is the liberation of the heart by Love developed? Where does it lead to?What is its limit?What is its fruit?What is its culmination? Here monks, (1) One
Viveka as Letting Go
Here it is quite explicit, where the Buddha is going. Because… this is not ant kind of awareness, this is not any kind of development that is properly developed in
Virāga as Calming Down
This calming down, Virāga, is very often translated as ‘dis-passion’. And this is a problem one. Because this tends to be interpreted in a way that one needs