AN 8.118 - 8.147 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
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AN 8.91 - 8.117 Untitled Discourses with Various Laywomen
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AN 8.81 - 8.90 Mindfulness
AN 8.81 Mindfulness and situational awareness are a foundation for developing higher spiritual qualities leading to liberation.
AN 8.82 Venerable Puṇṇiya asks the Buddha why he sometimes feels like teaching and other times doesn’t.
AN 8.83 The root of all things, and other factors that apply to all things.
AN 8.84 The Buddha teaches how to be a success as a master thief. Unusually, this discourse has no “spiritual” counterpart, so it sounds like the Buddha just giving a lesson in thievery!
AN 8.85 Different titles for the Buddha.
AN 8.86 When the householders of Icchānaṅgala make a racket in the monastery, the Buddha asks his attendant Nāgita what is going on. The Buddha speaks strongly of his dislike for material gains, and his love of seclusion.
AN 8.87 Eight reasons the Saṅgha may overturn the bowl against a lay follower.
AN 8.88 Eight reasons the lay followers may declare no confidence or confidence regarding a mendicant.
AN 8.89 Eight reasons the lay followers may enjoin an act of reconciliation on a mendicant, or relax said act.
AN 8.90 Eight things a mendicant charged with aggravated misconduct must observe.
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AN 8.71 - 8.80 On Pairs
AN 8.71 Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes all good qualities that fulfill liberation.
AN 8.72 Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes all good qualities that fulfill liberation.
AN 8.73 Various mendicants practice mindfulness of death, but do so inadequately. The Buddha explains how to do so with proper urgency,
AN 8.74 A mendicant should reflect each night on the dangers that lie around them, and practice mindfulness of death with urgency to give up the unwholesome.
AN 8.75 Eight accomplishments, both worldly and spiritual.
AN 8.76 Eight accomplishments, both worldly and spiritual, in detail.
AN 8.77 Sāriputta describes eight cases where a mendicant has a desire for material things. Sometimes they fall under the sway of that desire, but sometimes they rise above it.
AN 8.78 Eight sets of qualities pertain to benefiting oneself and others, explained by Sāriputta.
AN 8.79 Eight conditions for the decline or success of a trainee mendicant.
AN 8.80 Eight grounds for laziness, and the corresponding eight grounds for energy.
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AN 8.61 - 8.70 Earthquakes
AN 8.61 The Buddha describes eight cases where a mendicant has a desire for material things. Sometimes they fall under the sway of that desire, but sometimes they rise above it.
AN 8.62 Eight sets of qualities pertain to benefiting oneself and others.
AN 8.63 A monk asks for teachings before going on retreat, but the Buddha rebukes him, as he has not practiced sincerely. Nevertheless, he persists, and the Buddha teaches him meditation in detail.
AN 8.64 At Gayā, the Buddha describes his meditation before awakening. He was able to see lights and forms, converse with gods, and understand the deeds that made them gods.
AN 8.65 Eight dimensions of meditative mastery, based on the vision of certain shapes and colors.
AN 8.66 Eight meditative liberations, based on the vision of forms and the attainment of the formless.
AN 8.67 Eight kinds of ignoble statement that misrepresent the truth.
AN 8.68 Eight kinds of noble statement that convey the truth.
AN 8.69 Eight kinds of assemblies: aristocrats, brahmins, householders, ascetics, and various deities. The Buddha has visited each of these in disguise.
AN 8.70 When the Buddha gives up his life-force, an earthquake is felt. The Buddha explains to Ānanda the eight causes of earthquakes.
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