Sunday Peace Time : Illuminated Texts 14 The Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (Redux)

Dhamma talk and meditation studio-recorded by Phra Nicholas Thanissaro at DIMC Azusa CA and broadcast on 15 December 2024.

Subjects covered:
1. Sutta Background
Sources
Sutta name meaning
Interlocutors
Place names
2. Overview of Sutta structure
3. Backstory
4. Avoiding Two extremes of practice
sensual indulgence
self-mortification
5. The Middle Way (Eightfold Path)
Initial level
at higher levels
6. The four noble truths
suffering
origin of suffering
cessation of suffering
path to the cessation of suffering
7. 30 minutes meditation
8. Seeing & Knowing: Three Cycles & Twelve Components
9. Outcome of the teaching
10. Why Kondañña became enlightened first
11. Issues arising from the sutta
Siddhartha’s special ability to be awakened to suffering
the compassion of the Buddha to teaching others
why the Buddha’s teaching was a spiritual breakthrough
the Middle Way in the understanding of the Great Abbot of Wat Paknam

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