Simple Suttas

By Justin Merritt

Religion & Spirituality Buddhism

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a podcast on original Buddhism

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Simple Suttas episodes:

04.23.2020
Teaching and Learning
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04.20.2020
Sutta Topics 2
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04.16.2020
Gladness in Meditation
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04.13.2020
Sense Restraint
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04.09.2020
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 2
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04.06.2020
Self
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04.02.2020
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha 1
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03.30.2020
Nibbana 2
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03.26.2020
Illness
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03.23.2020
Truth
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03.16.2020
Teaching and Learning
If you long for a devoted crowd of disciples, it corrupts your heart and makes deep meditation difficult. Respect can be a dart, difficult to remove. -KN Thag 18.1 Sāriputtattheragāthā While this teaching is good and helpful, do not cling...
03.16.2020
Nibbana 1
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03.12.2020
Wisdom 2
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02.28.2020
Understanding
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02.16.2020
Wisdom 1
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02.15.2020
Wisdom 1
You should take time to be alone. If you spend time alone you will come to understand: this is suffering, this is the cause of suffering, this is the end of suffering, this is the way to end suffering. You...
02.10.2020
Kamma
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02.10.2020
Suffering
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02.09.2020
Suffering
If you tie a dog to a post, it will keep running in circles all day. In the same way, a person who hasn’t learned the Dhamma will keep running in circles, obsessed with things, with feelings, with perception, choices,...
02.09.2020
Kamma
Once Vacchagotta the Wanderer said to the Buddha, “I hear that you teach that people should only give alms to you and your monks, nobody else. That giving to others doesn’t make merit. Is that true?” “No, that is not...
02.04.2020
Lust
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02.03.2020
Lust
As a Buddhist monk, I went to a graveyard. There I saw the body of a dead woman, Covered in worms. Although most people would find it disgusting, I was filled with lust. I fled faster than The time it...
01.29.2020
Mindfulness
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01.23.2020
Meditation 5
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01.17.2020
Meditation 4
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01.16.2020
Meditation 4
If you learn to practice self-control over the things you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think, then you will keep your mind pure. When your mind is pure, joy arises. When you are joyful, the body naturally becomes relaxed....
01.11.2020
Meditation 3
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01.10.2020
Meditation 3
Once Ānanda asked the Buddha, “Is it possible to achieve a state of meditation where you no longer experience any physical sensation, any space, any consciousness, nothingness, perception, anything in this world or any other world? And yet still there...
01.05.2020
Meditation 2
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01.04.2020
Meditation 2
What are the five things that are the hallmarks of deep meditation, of jhana? When a spiritual seeker completely withdraws from sense pleasures they enter the first stage of jhana. They are filled with bliss and happiness but are still...
12.30.2019
Meditation 1
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12.29.2019
Meditation 1
I know of nothing that can arouse desire more than a thing of beauty. If you fixate on such a thing without wisdom, your desire will only grow. The best way to overcome desire is to focus your attention on...
12.24.2019
Practice
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12.18.2019
Negative Emotions
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12.12.2019
Loving Kindness
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12.11.2019
Loving Kindness
Hatred never brings an end to hatred. Only by love can it end. This is the truth of ages. -KN Dhammapada 5 All beings fear cruelty. All beings fear death. Knowing that all beings suffer just like you, Never kill...
12.05.2019
Sutta Topics #1
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11.30.2019
Lay Life
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11.29.2019
Lay Life
A follower of the Dhamma should not engage in certain kinds of business. For example, you should not buy or sell weapons, human beings, animals, meat, alcohol, or poison. -AN 5.177 Once Mahānāma, asked the Buddha, “Who is considered a...
11.24.2019
Sleep
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11.18.2019
Desire
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11.17.2019
Desire
A wise person has let go of all forms of identification. They do not think, “I am this” or “I am that.” They do not think, “My body is my true self” or “something immaterial is my true self.” They...
11.11.2019
Death
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11.05.2019
Anger
Over the next few weeks this site will return to its original mission: to provide simple, plain English renderings of the suttas as posts and podcasts. Please let me know if you want more of this kind of content. Anger...
02.02.2017
Dhamma Conversations #3
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01.26.2017
Dhamma Conversations #2
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01.26.2017
Dhamma Conversations #2
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01.19.2017
Dhamma Conversations #1
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01.19.2017
Dhamma Conversations #1
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01.05.2017
Sabbāsavasutta Sutta MN2 #2 of 3
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