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In Middle Length Discourses (Majjhima Nikāya)
The Buddha outlines a progressive training guideline for the bhikkhus to undertake in order to be recognized as ascetics and brahmins. The Buddha also describes the abandonment of the five hindrances, the four |jhānas::::jah-naas|, and the three knowledges using similes.
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.
In Connected Discourses (Saṁyutta Nikāya)
Which things should a virtuous bhikkhu radically attend to? Venerable Sāriputta explains how a bhikkhu at each stage of awakening should radically attend to the five aggregates that are subject to clinging.
The Buddha compares a meditator to a royal cook. Just as a foolish cook ignores a king’s preferences and goes unrewarded, an unskillful meditator fails to grasp their mind’s theme and does not gain the benefits of meditation.
The Buddha explains the urgency of understanding the Four Noble Truths to end suffering with a simile of extinguishing a fire on one’s clothes or head.
In Numerical Discourses (Aṅguttara Nikāya)
Short teachings on the benefits of cultivating mindfulness of the body.
The Buddha explains four developments of collectedness that, when cultivated and frequently practiced, lead to 1) a pleasant abiding in the here and now, 2) the attainment of knowledge and vision, 3) radical comprehension, and 4) the wearing away of the taints.
The Buddha explains how to cultivate recollection of death so that it is of great fruit and great benefit, and leads to the deathless.
The Buddha uses the simile of checking one’s reflection in a mirror to explain how to comprehend one’s own mind. He details how to constantly review mental states and apply urgent effort to abandon harmful qualities while developing wholesome ones.
While a first point of ignorance is not discerned, it can be discerned that ignorance has a supporting condition. The Buddha explains the nutriments for ignorance and the nutriments for true knowledge and liberation, along with how they are fulfilled.