AN 4.21 - 4.30 At Uruvela

Feb 15, 2022, 08:01 AM

4.21 Who should the Buddha revere?
4.22 What qualifies you as a senior.
4.23 Why the Buddha is called the Realized One.
4.24 The Buddha knows what can be known, and remains poised in the midst of the world.
4.25 This spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint, giving up, fading away, and stopping.
4.26 Mendicants who are deceivers, stubborn, flatterers, frauds, insolent, and scattered: they are no mendicants of the Buddha.
4.27 A mendicant should be content with trifles that are easy to get hold of.
4.28 Contentment with any old robe, alms-food, lodgings, and love of meditation: these are ancient traditions of the noble ones.
4.29 Contentment, good will, mindfulness and convergence are basic principles.
4.30 A discussion with some wanderers on the basic principles.