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When a misguided monk clings to the idea of an unchanging consciousness that “wanders through rebirths,” the Buddha corrects him, revealing the truth of dependent co-arising. Consciousness, like fire, arises only through conditions. Tracing the cycle of existence from the four nutriments and conception to the snare of sensory reaction, he shows the way to the complete exhaustion of craving.

The Buddha travels to the Brahmā world to correct Baka the Brahmā’s delusion of eternal existence.

Confronted by the native spirit Sūciloma, the Blessed One answers a question on the origins of passion, hatred, and discontent.

The young deity Kakudha asks whether the Buddha delights or sorrows. The Buddha shows that delight and distress arise together, and that a bhikkhu free of both has crossed over entanglement in the world.

The Buddha shares verses on the great heroes who wander freely, taintless, boldly roaring their lion’s roar.

What is the conduit to existence and its cessation?

The venerable Udaya approaches the Buddha with questions about liberation through final knowledge, the fettering of the world, and how to live mindfully for consciousness to cease.

One who delights in work, talk, sleep, company, bonding, and mental proliferation faces a bad death, remaining bound to personal existence.

One who delights in work, talk, sleep, company, bonding, and mental proliferation faces a passing full of regret and remains bound to personal existence.

Observing the body in and of itself requires giving up six traits: delight in work, talking, sleeping, company, unguarded senses, and immoderation in eating. Abandoning these makes one capable of success.

The Buddha explains the distinction between the uninstructed ordinary person and the learned disciple of the Noble Ones regarding the eight worldly conditions.

The Buddha describes how he knows of the release, liberation and independence for living beings.

The Buddha explains that whoever delights in the five aggregates, delights in suffering and is not freed from suffering.

A concise teaching on angst and its root.

By radically attending to the impermanence of the five aggregates, a bhikkhu becomes disenchanted; with delight and passion worn away, the mind is well liberated.

By radically attending to the impermanence of the six sense bases, a bhikkhu becomes disenchanted; with delight and passion worn away, the mind is well liberated.

By radically attending to the impermanence of the external sense bases, a bhikkhu becomes disenchanted; with delight and passion worn away, the mind is well liberated.

By what is the world held bound? What is its means of locomotion? By the abandoning of what, is every bond cut?

Likening consciousness to a sunbeam entering through a window and becoming established on a wall or on the ground, the Buddha reveals how a future renewed existence comes to be through lust, delight, and craving.

The venerable Posāla asks the Buddha how to guide a meditator who has transcended all perception of form and is established in the sphere of Nothingness.