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

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15:42

AN 10.31 - 10.40 With Upali

Pali audio ·

2025/09/17

AN 10.31 The Buddha teaches Venerable Upāli the ten reasons for establishing the training rules.AN 10.32 Ten reasons for suspending the recitation of the code of conduct. AN 10.33 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to be appointed to judge a dispute. AN 10.34 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to give ordination. AN 10.35 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to give dependence. AN 10.36 Ten qualities a mendicant should have to be attended by a novice. AN 10.37 Ten reasons for schism in the

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27:35

AN 10.28 - 10.30 The Great Chapter Part 3

Pali audio ·

2025/09/12

AN 10.28 Some lay people ask the nun from Kajaṅgalā regarding the ten “Great Questions”. Though she has not heard this teaching herself, she explains from her own understanding, and is praised by the Buddha.AN 10.29 Starting with a comparison with the King of Kosala, the Buddha teaches a series of ten advanced teachings. He culminates by affirming that he teaches the full understanding of sensual pleasures, forms, and feelings. AN 10.30 King Pasenadi returns victorious from battle and immediately

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15:05

AN 10.25 - 10.27 The Great Chapter Part 2

Pali audio ·

2025/09/07

AN 10.25 Ten universal dimensions of meditation, or kasiṇas. AN 10.26 The female lay follower Kāḷī of Kuraraghara in Avantī asks Venerable Mahākaccāna about a verse spoken by the Buddha in “The Maidens’ Questions” (SN 4.25). He replies in terms of the ten universal dimensions of meditation. AN 10.27 Some wanderers claim to teach the direct knowledge of all things, just like the Buddha. However the Buddha disputes this by presenting ten “Great Questions” that they cannot answer.

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26:56

AN 10.21 - 10.24 The Great Chapter Part 1

Pali audio ·

2025/08/31

AN 10.21 Like a lion, a Realized One roars his preeminence based on ten powers.AN 10.22 The Buddha claims to be assured regarding the various different doctrinal hypotheses, based on the ten powers. AN 10.23 Some things are to be given by body, others by speech, and still others by wisdom. AN 10.24 Venerable Mahācunda teaches that, though a mendicant might claim to be free of greed, hate, and delusion, this is not always the case.

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33:08

AN 10.11 - 10.20 A Protector

Pali audio ·

2025/08/27

AN 10.11 Five factors that a mendicant should have, and five factors of a lodging that they should occupy. AN 10.12 A mendicant should abandon the five hindrances and possess the five factors of the adept. AN 10.13 Five lower and five higher fetters. AN 10.14 Five kinds of emotional barrenness and five emotional shackles. AN 10.15 Diligence is the foremost of all good qualities. AN 10.16 Ten persons who are worthy. AN 10.17 Ten qualities that serve as protector. AN 10.18 Ten qualities that serve as

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18:09

AN 10.01 - 10.10 Benefits

Pali audio ·

2025/08/20

AN 10.01 The purpose of ethics, leading step by step to liberation.AN 10.02 There’s no need to make a wish to get enlightened; it happens naturally when the conditions are there. AN 10.03 The Buddha teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present. AN 10.04 Sāriputta teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows when ethics is present. AN 10.05 Ānanda teaches how, like a tree that grows due to its leaves, liberation follows

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20:18

2: AN 9.93 - 9.432 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with...

Pali audio ·

2025/08/13

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15:03

1: AN 9.83 - 9.92 Bases of Psychic Power

Pali audio ·

2025/08/08

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18:25

AN 9.73 - 9.82 Right Efforts

Pali audio ·

2025/08/06

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17:14

7: AN 9.63 - 9.72 Mindfulness Meditation

Pali audio ·

2025/07/30

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9:46

6: AN 9.52 - 9.62 A Safe Place

Pali audio ·

2025/07/23

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16:18

AN 9.42 - 9.51 Similarity

Pali audio ·

2025/07/18

AN 9.42 At Udāyī’s request, Ānanda explains an obscure verse spoken (in SN 2.7) by a deity. The nine progressive meditations are the escape from confinement.AN 9.43 The Buddha speaks of a “direct witness’, that is, someone who personally has thorough and proficient experience of the different meditation states. AN 9.44 One liberated by wisdom first enters the meditation states, then understands them. AN 9.45 One freed both ways is both proficient in and understands the meditation states. AN 9.46

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31:30

AN 9.40 - 9.41 The Great Chapter Part 3

Pali audio ·

2025/07/16

AN 9.40 A bull elephant, annoyed by living in the herd, goes off by himself. Similarly, a mendicant feeling crowded in a monastery goes off by themselves and happily meditates in seclusion.AN 9.41 The householder Tapussa reflects that it is renunciation that distinguishes lay from monastic. The Buddha responds by giving a long account of his practice of absorption before awakening.

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25:46

AN 9.36 - 9.39 The Great Chapter Part 2

Pali audio ·

2025/07/11

AN 9.36 The ending of defilements happens due to the practice of absorption meditation.AN 9.37 Ānanda exclaims how amazing it is that the Buddha has found a way to freedom while still experiencing the world. Questioned by the monk Udāyī, Ānanda recounts a discussion on advanced meditation with the nun Jaṭilagāhiyā. AN 9.38 Two brahmin cosmologists ask the Buddha to decide between competing claims as to whether the cosmos is infinite. Rejecting metaphysical claims, the Buddha says that there is no

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30:03

AN 9.32 - 9.35 The Great Chapter Part 1

Pali audio ·

2025/07/09

AN 9.32 Nine progressive meditation states.AN 9.33 Nine progressive meditation states, explained in detail. AN 9.34 Sāriputta declares that extinguishment is bliss, precisely because nothing is felt there. He explains this apparent paradox with reference to the nine progressive meditations. AN 9.35 Just as a foolish cow can get in trouble wandering the mountains, a foolish mendicant can get lost practicing absorption if they do it wrongly.

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30:48

2: AN 9.21 - 9.31 Abode of Sentient Beings

Pali audio ·

2025/07/04

AN 9.21 A comparison of the people of India, of Uttarakuru, and of the heaven of the Thirty-Three.AN 9.22 Nine kinds of horses are compared with nine kinds of monks. AN 9.23 Nine things that are rooted in craving. AN 9.24 Nine realms into which sentient beings may be reborn. AN 9.25 Nine reflections by which a mendicant knows their mind has wisdom. AN 9.26 Venerables Candikāputta and Sāriputta differ in their interpretation of a teaching proposed by the notorious schismatic Devadatta. AN 9.27 A

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33:35

1: AN 9.11 - 9.20 The Lion's Roar

Pali audio ·

2025/07/02

AN 9.11 After the rains season, Sāriputta takes leave of the Buddha. Another monk falsely accuses Sāriputta of hitting him before leaving. The Buddha calls Sāriputta to answer the accusation. Before the Saṅgha, Sāriputta denies it, uttering a powerful statement of spiritual prowess.AN 9.12 Sāriputta visits some wanderers, who claim that only perfected ones are free from bad rebirth. Sāriputta has no opinion on this, but asks the Buddha, who replies that even stream-enterers are freed from lower

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40:50

AN 9.01 - 9.10 Awakening

Pali audio ·

2025/06/27

AN 9.01 Beginning with good friendship, the Buddha teaches nine things that give rise to the qualities that lead to awakening.AN 9.02 The things that a mendicant relies on as supports in spiritual practice. AN 9.03 Venerable Meghiya, while attending on the Buddha, wants to go off and meditate in a forest alone. The Buddha discourages him, but he goes anyway. When his meditation doesn’t go well, he returns chastened to the Buddha, who teaches him about the benefits of good companions and other

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4:16

AN 8.118 - 8.147 Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed

Pali audio ·

2025/04/18

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1:12

AN 8.91 - 8.117 Untitled Discourses with Various...

Pali audio ·

2025/04/11

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