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A selection of English translations of the suttas from the Pali canon which have been professionally read and recorded.

religion & spirituality buddhism

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24:01

AN 8.81 - 8.90 Mindfulness

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2025/04/04

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

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44:55

AN 8.71 - 8.80 On Pairs

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2025/03/28

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

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39:41

AN 8.61 - 8.70 Earthquakes

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2025/03/25

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

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38:22

AN 8.51 - 8.60 With Gotami

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2025/03/22

AN 8.51 Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, the Buddha’s foster mother, requests ordination from the Buddha. He declines, until urged to relent by Ānanda. He allows Mahāpajāpatī to go forth on eight conditions.AN 8.52 With eight qualities a monk may be appointed to teach the nuns. AN 8.53 Mahāpajāpatī wishes to go on retreat, so the Buddha teaches her eight principles that summarize the Dhamma in brief. AN 8.54 Dīghajāṇu of the Koliyans asks the Buddha to teach in a way suitable for lay people who enjoy life. The

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35:07

AN 8.41 - 8.50 The Sabbath (excludes 8.43,8.45)

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2025/03/20

AN 8.41 When the sabbath is observed by following the eight precepts, one lives for that day like the perfected ones. Such a sabbath is glorious. AN 8.42 When the sabbath is observed by following the eight precepts, one lives for that day like the perfected ones. The benefits are explained at length. AN 8.44 The Buddha teaches the layman Vāseṭṭha that when the sabbath is observed by following the eight precepts, one lives for that day like the perfected ones. Vāseṭṭha exclaims that such a practice

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22:13

AN 8.31 - 8.40 Giving

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2025/03/15

AN 8.31 Eight ways of giving a gift. AN 8.32 This verse on qualities of a good person appears to be a fragment of text, perhaps originally part of the previous sutta. AN 8.33 Eight grounds for giving. AN 8.34 The rewards of giving are compared to fields of different qualities. AN 8.35 When giving, if you expect a certain result in the next life, you can get it, if the conditions are right. AN 8.36 The good deeds of giving, ethics, and meditation lead to good rebirths, depending on the level to which

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21:54

AN 8.27 - 8.30 Householders Part 2

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2025/03/11

AN 8.27 Eight very different kinds of powers.AN 8.28 Eight powers of a perfected one. AN 8.29 Eight lost opportunities for spiritual practice. AN 8.30 Venerable Anuruddha reflects that the teachings is for someone who is of few wishes, content, secluded, energetic, mindful, peaceful, and wise. To these seven thoughts, the Buddha adds an eighth: the teaching is for those who delight in non-proliferation. Practicing in line with these eight thoughts of a great man, Venerable Anuruddha achieves

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23:54

AN 8.21 - 8.26 Householders Part 1

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2025/03/07

AN 8.21 The Buddha celebrates the eight amazing qualities of the householder Ugga of Vesālī. Ugga himself speaks of these qualities.AN 8.22 The Buddha celebrates the eight amazing qualities of the householder Ugga of Hatthigāma. Ugga himself speaks of these qualities. AN 8.23The Buddha celebrates the seven amazing qualities of the householder Hatthaka of Āḷavī. When he hears of this, Hatthaka is anxious to know that no lay people were present. Learning of this, the Buddha adds humility as an eight

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25:48

AN 8.13 - 8.20 The Great Chapter Part 2

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2025/03/04

AN 8.13 With eight qualities a royal thoroughbred is worthy of a king. Likewise, with eight qualities a mendicant is worthy.AN 8.14 Eight flaws in wild horses, similar to eight flaws in mendicants. AN 8.15 Eight different kinds of stain. AN 8.16 A mendicant with eight qualities is worthy of being sent on a mission. AN 8.17 A woman imprisons a man in eight ways. AN 8.18 A man imprisons a woman in eight ways. AN 8.19 Demons delight in the ocean for eight reasons, and likewise the mendicants delight

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27:54

AN 8.11 - 8.12 The Great Chapter

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2025/02/28

AN 8.11 The brahmin Verañja rebukes the Buddha for his lack of respect for senior brahmins. He levels a series of criticisms, each of which the Buddha deflects by redefining terms. The Buddha affirms that his claim to superiority is because he was the first to achieve awakening.AN 8.12 General Sīha, a prominent disciple of the Jains, visits the Buddha against the wishes of Mahāvīra, the Jain leader. He challenges the Buddha by bringing up the various ways that people criticize him. Convinced by the

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36:53

AN 8.01 - 8.10 Love

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2025/02/25

AN 8.01 The eight benefits of practicing the meditation on love. AN 8.02 Eight conditions that lead to the arising of wisdom, its growth and perfection. AN 8.03 - 04 Due to eight qualities, a mendicant is displeasing to their fellow monastics, but with the opposite qualities is pleasing AN 8.05 The eight worldly conditions in brief: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain. AN 8.06 The eight worldly conditions in detail: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and

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25:34

AN 7.615 - 7.1124 Abbreviated Texts beginning with Greed

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2025/01/10

AN 7.615 Develop insight into greed through the awakening factors.AN 7.616 Develop insight into greed through seven perceptions starting with impermanence. AN 7.617 Develop insight into greed through seven perceptions starting with ugliness. AN 7.618 - 7.1124 Develop complete understanding, etc., of greed.

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35:37

AN 7.95 - 7.614 Worthy of Offerings

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2025/01/08

AN 7.95 Seven people worthy of offerings due to observing impermanence in the eye. AN 7.96 - 7.614 Seven people worthy of offerings due to observing suffering, etc., in the eye, etc.

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5:19

AN 7.85 - 7.94 On Ascetics

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2025/01/06

AN 7.85 A mendicant destroys seven defilements. AN 7.86 An ascetic destroys seven defilements. AN 7.87 A brahmin initiate destroys seven defilements. AN 7.88 A scholar destroys seven defilements. AN 7.89 A bathed initiate destroys seven defilements. AN 7.90 A knowledge master destroys seven defilements. AN 7.91 A noble-one destroys seven defilements AN 7.92 A perfected one destroys seven defilements. AN 7.93 Seven bad qualities starting with faithlessness. AN 7.94 Seven good qualities starting with

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10:49

AN 7.75 - 7.84 On the Monastic Law

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2024/12/03

AN 7.75 - 7.78An expert in monastic conduct has seven qualities.AN 7.79 - 82 An expert in monastic conduct shines with seven qualities. AN 7.83 The Buddha teaches the Vinaya expert Upāli a short summary of the teaching. AN 7.84 Seven principles for settling issues and disputes that have arisen in the community.

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27:21

DN 16 Mahaparanibbana sutta Part 6

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2024/12/02

The longest of all discourses, this extended narrative tells of the events surrounding the Buddha’s death. Full of vivid and moving details, it is an ideal entry point into knowing the Buddha as a person, and understanding how the Buddhist community coped with his passing.

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36:41

AN 7.69 - 7.74 the Great Chapter Part 2

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2024/05/10

AN 7.69 The blossoming of the Shady Orchid Tree delights the gods of the Thirty-Three, and in the same way, the renunciation of a Buddhist ascetic is delightful.AN 7.70 Sāriputta reflects on what a mendicant should revere in order to develop the wholesome. He reports to the Buddha that these things are indeed found in himself. AN 7.71 Liberation doesn’t happen because you wish for it, but because you develop the path. AN 7.72 It would be better for a monk to embrace a blazing fire than to lie with

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33:09

AN 7.65 - 7.68 The Great Chapter Part 1

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2024/05/03

AN 7.65 A sense of conscience is the foundation that leads step by step to liberation.AN 7.66 A rare discourse on cosmic evolution. The Buddha describes the successive appearance of seven suns and how even the earth will be burned up. AN 7.67 When a king’s fortress is well supplied with seven things and has four kinds of food supplies it is impregnable. Similarly, a noble disciple with seven qualities and the four absorptions is impregnable. AN 7.68 A mendicant who has seven qualities is worthy,

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23:23

AN 7.59 - 7.64 Undeclared Points Part 2

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2024/05/01

AN 7.59 Venerable Kimbila asks the Buddha the reasons for the long-lasting of Buddhism after the Buddha’s demise. AN 7.60 Qualities required for arahantship. AN 7.61 Before his awakening, Moggallāna is struggling with sleepiness in meditation. The Buddha visits him and gives seven ways to dispel drowsiness, and other important teachings. AN 7.62 The incalculable benefits of merit that last for many aeons. AN 7.63 Anāthapiṇḍika’s home was in an uproar due to the badly behaved Sujātā, newly wedded to

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27:36

AN 7.54 - 7.58 Undeclared Points Part 1

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2024/03/22

AN 7.54 The Buddha explains why a noble disciple has no doubt when it comes to the unexplained points.AN 7.55 Seven kinds of rebirth for non-returners, as well as extinguishment by not grasping. AN 7.56 Two gods come to the Buddha on Vulture’s Peak and declare that the nuns are liberated. Moggallāna interrogates one of the deities on what he means, and the Buddha adds further explanation. AN 7.57 The Buddha explains the benefits of giving that are visible in the present life, and one that is only

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