MN152: Indriyabhavana Sutta - The Development of the Faculties | Ajahn Vayama | 22 April 2007

2023-03-04

Ajahn Vayama discusses sutta 1152 from the Majjhima Nikaya, the collection of middle-length discourses "Indriyabhavana Sutta" - The Development of the Faculties. "A brahmin teacher advocates that purification of the senses consists in simply avoiding seeing and hearing things. The Buddha explains that it is not about avoiding sense experience, but understanding it and learning to not be affected by sense experience.", Sutta Central. Read MN152 on Sutta Central here. Please support the BSWA in ...

Ajahn Vayama discusses sutta 1152 from the Majjhima Nikaya, the collection of middle-length discourses "Indriyabhavana Sutta" - The Development of the Faculties.

"A brahmin teacher advocates that purification of the senses consists in simply avoiding seeing and hearing things. The Buddha explains that it is not about avoiding sense experience, but understanding it and learning to not be affected by sense experience.", Sutta Central.

Read MN152 on Sutta Central here.

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