Beyond the Shore

Readings from the Pali Canon

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Upajjahattha Sutta: Subjects for Contemplation (AN 5.57)

The Buddha suggests that we often reflect on specific "facts of life" if we desire to birth the factors leading to the same awakening he experienced.

Oct 29, 2011•6 min

Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking (MN 19)

The Buddha outlines how through dividing his mental processes into the categories of skillful and unskillful he was able to give rise to a state of mental calm conducive to concentration (jhana). From this place he was able to progressively refine this concentrated state until he was able to direct his awareness to unmediated knowledge of his past lives (origination), the principles of action and reaction (kamma) and the path of practice (dhamma) leading to freedom from this inherently stressful...

Oct 29, 2011•17 min

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