Venerable Rāhulaperson

Seeing that Rāhula's qualities for liberation have matured, the Buddha leads him to the Dark Forest and instructs him to regard the six sense bases and their objects as not-self, not belonging to a self.

When Rāhula asks the Buddha for brief teaching so he may live alone and resolute, the Buddha guides him through the six internal sense bases—eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind—as impermanent, suffering, and not fit to be regarded as self, leading to disenchantment and freedom.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind consciousness as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind contact as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate feelings born of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind contact as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate perceptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate intentions regarding sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate craving for sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate the earth, water, fire, air, space, and consciousness elements as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula to contemplate the six internal sense bases as impermanent, suffering, and not-self—not fit to be regarded as “mine, I am this, my self”—until disenchantment, fading of desire, and liberation arise.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula a repeated formula on impermanence, suffering, and not-self—applying the analysis to sights, consciousness, contact, feeling, perception, intention, craving, elements, and the aggregates across this grouped discourse.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula how to know and see the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness—so that there is no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit internally or externally.

The Buddha teaches Rāhula how to know and see so that the heart is rid of I-making, mine-making, and conceit for this conscious body and externally for all signs, until it is peaceful and well freed by not grasping the five aggregates.

The Buddha teaches on rāhula, applying the analysis of the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness—to insight and release.

The Buddha teaches on rāhula (2nd), applying the analysis of the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness—to insight and release.

The Buddha teaches on the internal and external sense bases regarding advice to rāhula, analyzing the eye, sights, consciousness, contact, and feeling for insight and release.

Verses in the Little Chapter (With Rāhula) on ethical conduct, devotion, and the supreme value of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Saṅgha.

The Buddha teaches on with rāhula, presenting a fourfold teaching for disciples on the path.