Indriya-saṁvara
Teachings on guarding the six sense doors and understanding how contact with sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and thoughts conditions reaction.
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AN 5.55 Mātāputtasutta
This important sutta explains in detail on how a man gets involved with woman and how a woman gets involved with man irrespective of whatever designations they create and how the lust…
MN 62 Maharahulovadasutta
MN 62 Mahārāhulovādasutta is far more than a discourse on mindfulness of breathing. The Buddha gives Rāhula a complete training: seeing the five aggregates and elements without ownership, developing a mind that…
MN39 Mahāassapurasutta
MN 39 presents the Buddha’s gradual training as a cumulative path from hiri-ottappa and purified conduct through sense restraint, moderation, wakefulness, sati-sampajañña, jhāna, and finally the destruction of the āsavas. MN 39…
From Daily Discipline to Samathā, Jhāna and Vipassanā
From Waking to Vipassanā presents meditation as a continuous training rather than an isolated sitting practice. Drawing especially on MN 39, MN 107 and MN 53, it shows how sīla, guarding the…
DN 2 — Sāmaññaphalasutta
Maps the gradual training from sīla and sense restraint through sati-sampajañña, abandonment of the hindrances and jhāna to the destruction of the āsavas.
MN 107 — Gaṇakamoggallānasutta
Presents the Buddha’s gradual training step by step, from sīla and sense restraint through moderation, wakefulness, hindrance abandonment and jhāna toward liberation.
MN 13 — Mahādukkhakkhandhasutta
Explains full understanding of sensuality, form and feeling through three aspects—gratification, danger and escape—rather than through abstract belief or partial analysis.
MN 25 — Nivāpasutta
Uses the hunter-and-bait simile to show how sensuality and heedlessness trap beings, and how restraint, seclusion and deep meditative development lead beyond Māra’s reach.
AN 4.122 — Ūmibhayasutta
Uses waves, crocodiles, whirlpools and sharks to represent four dangers that can overturn a practitioner: wounded pride, attachment to food, sensuality and attraction to the opposite sex.
SN 35.244 — Dukkhadhammasutta
Shows how insight into the five aggregates and the six sense doors changes one’s relationship to sensuality, exposing danger and supporting dispassion and release.
SN 35.239 — Rathopamasutta
Uses the chariot simile to emphasize three foundations of serious practice: guarding the sense doors, moderation in eating and devotion to wakefulness.
Sense Doors – How to understand?
Introduction There are 6 consciousness depending upon the type of the senses. The Buddha does not present a single permanent “mind” that remains unchanged while merely looking through six different windows. What…
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