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MN 95: With Canki

“Well then, gentlemen, listen to why it’s appropriate for me to go to see the ascetic Gotama, and it’s not appropriate for him to come to see me.…

Kamma

1 _”Cetanāhaṁ, bhikkhave, kammaṁ vadāmi. Cetayitvā kammaṁ karoti, kāyena vācāya manasā.” Oh monks, it is intention that I call kamma.Intentionally someone does an action by body and collects kamma.Intentionally someone speaks and collects kamma.Intentionally someone thinks things with the mind and collects kamma. 2 “Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ nidānasambhavo?”How does kamma form? “Phasso, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ…

Snp 2.1 Ratana Sutta: Jewels Discourse

This sutta was given by the Supreme Buddha when there was a great famine and infestation of dangerous non-human beings in Vesali. Still we chant this sutta for protection today.

AN 5.31 With Princess Sumanā

Learn about the power that giving has in our life, whether we are born the human world, in the heavenly world, or if we become a monk.