c. Khandha Vagga
Samyutta Pali
SN22.x Khanda-samyutta
- On the Khandha ( five aggregates of being )
- [SN22.1] Nakulapita
Sutta - To Nakulapita.
The
Buddha explains to the aging householder Nakulapita how one need not be sick
in mind even though one may be sick in body.
- [SN22.2] Devadaha
Sutta - At Devadaha.
Ven.
Sariputta explains the best way to introduce the Buddha's teachings to
inquisitive, intelligent people.
- [SN22.3] Haliddakani
Sutta - To Haliddakani.
Ven.
Maha Kaccana explains to a householder what it means to live as a monk, free
of society, free of sensual passion, free of yearning, and free of
quarreling.
- [SN22.47] Samanupassana
Sutta - Assumptions.
The Buddha
speaks on the assumptions that underly self-view.
- [SN22.48] Khandha
Sutta - Aggregates.
The Buddha
gives a summary of the teaching on the five aggregates.
- [SN22.53] Upaya
Sutta - Attached.
When passion
for each of the five aggregates is completely abandoned, Awakening
ensues.
- [SN22.56] Parivatta
Sutta - The (Fourfold) Round.
Direct knowledge of the "fourfold round" with respect to the
aggregates (knowledge of the aggregate, of its origination, of its cessation,
and of the path leading to its cessation) leads to Awakening.
- [SN22.57] Sattatthana
Sutta - Seven Bases.
The Buddha
explains how one becomes an arahant through mastery of the seven-fold skill of
analysing the five aggregates.
- [SN22.59] Anattalakkhana
Sutta - The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic.
The Buddha's second discourse, in which he
discusses the principle of anatta (not-self) with the group of five ascetics.
Through in a question-and-answer dialogue with his audience, the Buddha
demonstrates that there can be no abiding self in any of the five aggregates
that we tend to identify as "self." As a result of hearing this discourse, all
five monks attain full Awakening (arahatta).
- [SN22.81] Palileyyaka
Sutta - At Palileyyaka.
Despite
all the teachings he has heard from the Buddha, a monk still wonders how to
bring his meditation practice to a speedy conclusion. The Buddha explains that
it is by understanding that each of the five aggregates is inconstant,
fabricated, and dependently co-arisen.
- [SN22.85] Yamaka
Sutta - To Yamaka.
Ven. Yamaka
claims that when an arahant dies, he/she is utterly annihilated. Ven.
Sariputta pulls him out of this wrong view, and in so doing leads him to
Awakening.
- [SN22.86] Anuradha
Sutta - To Anuradha.
Ven.
Anuradha finds himself obsessing over questions about the fate of an arahant
after death. The Buddha pulls him out of his confused thinking, and suggests
that the only thing truly worth contemplating is suffering and its
cessation.
- [SN22.93] Nadi
Sutta - The River.
The Buddha
explains that a person who incorrectly takes the five aggregates to be "self"
is like a man swept away by a swift river, who grasps in vain at trees and
clumps of grass as he rushes by.
- [SN22.95] Phena
Sutta - Foam.
The Buddha gives
some vivid similes to describe the voidness of the five
aggregates.
- [SN22.99] Gaddula
Sutta - The Leash (1)
- [SN22.100] Gaddula
Sutta - The Leash (2).
Those who
don't penetrate the not-self nature of the five aggregates are doomed to go
round and round in circles, like a dog tied to a post.
- [SN22.101] Nava
Sutta - The Ship.
The Buddha
explains that Awakening comes about not by wishful thinking, but only through
deliberate effort.
- [SN22.121] Upadana
Sutta - Clinging.
What are the
phenomena to which we cling? Answer: each one of the five
aggregates.
- [SN22.122] Silavant
Sutta - Virtuous.
Ven. Sariputta
explains how every meditator -- beginner and arahant, alike -- should
contemplate the five aggregates (khandha).
SN23.x Radha - Ven
Radha
- [SN23.2] Satta
Sutta - A Being.
The Buddha
invokes a dramatic simile to explain how to dismantle one's attachment to the
five aggregates.
SN24.x Ditthi -
View
SN25.x Okkantika -
Recurring
SN26.x Uppada -
Arising
SN27.x Kilesa -
Defilement
- [SN27.1] Cakkhu
Sutta - The Eye.
Why desire
connected with the six senses is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.2] Rupa
Sutta - Forms.
Why desire
connected with the objects of the six senses is worth
abandoning.
- [SN27.3] Viņņana
Sutta - Consciousness.
Why
desire connected with consciousness is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.4] Phassa
Sutta - Contact.
Why desire
connected with contact is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.5] Vedana
Sutta - Feeling.
Why desire
connected with feelings is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.6] Saņņa
Sutta - Perception.
Why desire
connected with perceptions is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.7] Cetana
Sutta - Intention.
Why desire
connected with intentions is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.8] Tanha
Sutta - Craving.
Why desire
connected with craving for sense-objects is worth abandoning.
- [SN27.9] Dhatu
Sutta - Properties.
Why desire
connected with the six dhatu (elements) is worth
abandoning.
- [SN27.10] Khandha
Sutta - Aggregates.
Why desire
connected with the five khanda (aggregates) is worth
abandoning.
SN28.x Sariputta - Ven.
Sariputta
SN29.x Naga - Dragons
SN30.x Supanna -
Garudas
SN31.x Gandhabbakaya - Gandhabba devas.
SN32.x Valahaka - Rain-cloud devas.
SN33.x Vacchagotta - Ven.
Vacchagotta
SN34.x Samadhi - Concentration.