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AN 3.85 Sekkha sutta - Trainee ⭐️ Define trainee—the three trainings
The Buddha defines a trainee as one who trains in higher virtue, higher mind, and higher wisdom.
AN 3.86 Paṭhamasikkhā sutta - Training (First) Trainings mapped to stages of awakening
The Buddha maps the stages of awakening to fulfilling ethical conduct, collectedness, and wisdom.
SN 48.53 Sekhasutta - Trainee ⭐️ How a trainee knows ‘I am a trainee’
The Buddha explains how a trainee and an arahant understand their respective attainments.
MN 152 Indriyabhāvanā sutta - Development of the Faculties Trainee on the path versus mastery over the sense bases
When a young brahmin claims that avoiding sights and sounds constitutes development of the faculties, the Buddha reveals that true cultivation lies in understanding pleasant and unpleasant experiences as constructed and transient through an examination of the six sense bases. He contrasts the trainee, still swayed by agreeable and disagreeable, with the noble one who has attained mastery over perception.
MN 107 Gaṇakamoggallāna sutta - With Gaṇakamoggallāna Instruction for trainees aspiring to the unsurpassed goal
When asked if he teaches a gradual training, gradual practice, and gradual progression, the Buddha details a sequence from virtue and sense restraint to the heights of meditation. Through the analogy of a traveler on the road to a city, he explains that while Nibbāna exists, he is merely one who shows the path. Success depends on the practitioner walking the path provided.
MN 73 Mahāvaccha sutta - Greater Discourse With Vaccha Further Dhamma after trainee knowledge and wisdom
What determines a complete spiritual path? When the wanderer Vacchagotta asks the Buddha to explain wholesome and unwholesome actions, he discovers the remarkable spiritual success spanning the Buddha
ITI 16 Paṭhama sekha sutta - Trainee (First) Wise attention as the chief internal help for a trainee
There is no other single internal factor as helpful as wise attention for a trainee bhikkhu who is aspiring for the highest goal.
ITI 62 Indriya sutta - Mental Faculties Verses on the faculties for one in training
The Buddha describes the three mental faculties - 1) the faculty that senses ‘I will know the unknown,’ 2) the faculty of awakening, and 3) the faculty of one who is awakened.
ITI 102 Āsavakkhaya sutta - Wearing Away of the Taints Trainee practicing toward wearing away of the taints
When one knows and sees the four noble truths, there is the wearing away of the taints.
ITI 79 Parihāna sutta - Decline What leads to decline and non-decline for a trainee
The Buddha describes three things that lead to the decline of a trainee bhikkhu and three things that lead to non-decline.
SN 17.23 Ekaputtaka sutta - Only Young Son Gains and fame as obstacles for a trainee bhikkhu
A laywoman should wish for her son to become like the foremost lay disciples Citta and Hatthaka, and if he goes forth, wish that acquisitions, respect, and popularity not come upon him while he is still a trainee.
SN 17.24 Ekadhītu sutta - Only Daughter Same theme for a trainee bhikkhunī
A laywoman should wish for her daughter to become like the foremost female lay disciples Khujjuttarā and Nandamātā, and if she goes forth, may acquisitions, respect, and popularity not come upon her while she is still a trainee.
DHP 44–59 Puppha vagga - Chapter 4 - Flowers The trainee discerns the path among the flowers
DhammaPada verses 44-59 share on the trainee, nature of the body, what happens to one who dwells with an attached mind, how a sage should wander in village, one who speaks on virtue and wisdom though various similes. The fragrance of virtue is compared to the fragrance of flowers, and the virtue of the noble person is said to spread in all directions.