SN35.x Salayatana-samyutta - On the six senses

• [SN 35.28] Adittapariyaya Sutta - The Fire Sermon
  Several months after his Awakening, the Buddha delivers this sermon to an audience of 1,000 fire-worshipping ascetics. In his characteristically brilliant teaching style, the Buddha uses a metaphor that quickly penetrates to the heart of the audience -- in this case, the metaphor of fire. Upon hearing this sermon, the entire audience attains full Awakening (arahatta).
• [SN35.63] Migajala Sutta - To Migajala.
  Why is true solitude so hard to find? The Buddha explains why, no matter where you go, some of your most annoying companions always seem to be tagging along.
• [SN 35.69] Upasena Sutta- Upasena.
  Ven. Upasena, mortally wounded by a venomous snake, remains perfectly composed as he utters his dying words to Ven. Sariputta, and reveals that he has thoroughly freed himself from any identification with the body.
• [SN 35.82] Loka Sutta - The World.
  The Buddha explains how all things in the world share one inevitable and unfortunate characteristic. Do you want to remain bound to a world like this?
• [SN 35.85] Suñña Sutta - Empty.
  The Buddha explains to Ven. Ananda in what way the world is devoid of anything that can rightly be called "self".
• [SN 35.88] Punna Sutta - To Punna.
  What would you do with your mind while you're being beaten and stabbed? In this sutta the Buddha instructs Punna on abandoning delight in the six senses. The Buddha then quizzes Punna, to see if his patience and self-control are sufficiently developed to dwell in Sunaparanta, a place reknowned for its fierce inhabitants.
• [SN 35.99] Samadhi Sutta - Concentration.
  The Buddha recommends concentration practice as a way to develop discernment of the inconstancy of the six sense doors.
• [SN 35.101] Na Tumhaka Sutta - Not Yours.
  Do you usually think of "grass" or "leaves" as being "you"? Of course not. In the same way, the sense of "self" cannot be found anywhere within the realm of the senses.
• [SN 35.115] Marapasa Sutta - Mara's Power.
  The Buddha explains that once one completely frees oneself from chasing after sense pleasures, one is then finally out of reach of Mara, the embodiment of evil.
• [SN35.127] Bharadvaja Sutta - About Bharadvaja.
  Ven. Pindola Bharadvaja explains to a king the various tools one can use to help maintain one's resolve towards celibacy.
• [SN 35.145] Kamma Sutta - Action.
  The Buddha explains how "old" kamma (the actions we performed in the past) and "new" kamma (the actions we perform in the present) are both experienced in the present.
• [SN 35.191] Kotthita Sutta - To Kotthita.
  Ven. Sariputta explains to Ven. Maha Kotthita that our problem lies neither in the senses themselves nor in the objects to which the senses cling; rather, suffering comes from the desire and passion that arises in dependence on both.
• [SN 35.199] Kumma Sutta - The Turtle.
  If we guard the senses wisely, as a turtle guards against attack by withdrawing into the safety of its shell, we are safely out of Mara's reach.
• [Sn35.204] Kimsuka Sutta - The Riddle Tree.
  The Buddha explains how tranquillity (samatha) and insight (vipassana) function together as a "swift pair of messengers" to guide the meditator onwards to Nibbana.
• [SN35.205] Vina Sutta - The Lute.
  The heart of insight (vipassana): When you take apart a lute in search of its music, what do you find? When you take apart the five aggregates in search of "self," what do you find?
• [SN 35.206] Chappana Sutta - The Six Animals.
  The Buddha explains how training one's own mind is like keeping six unruly animals tied together on a leash.
• [SN35.207] Yavakalapi Sutta - The Sheaf of Barley.
  This sutta, if perhaps a bit disjointed, offers some fine similes to illustrate the mind's tendency to create suffering for itself.

Sn36.x Vedana - Feeling

• [SN36.1] Samadhi Sutta - Concentration
  How an understanding of the nature of feelings leads to Nibbana.
• [SN36.2] Sukha Sutta - Happiness
  How an understanding of the nature of feelings leads to the ending of passion.
• [Sn36.3] Pahana Sutta - Giving up
  True freedom is found by abandoning the mind's underlying habitual tendencies (anusaya).
• [SN 36.4] Patala Sutta -- The Bottomless Chasm.
  The Buddha teaches that by meeting intense physical pain with mindfulness, we can spare ourselves from falling headlong into the bottomless pit of anguish and distress.
• [SN36.5] Datthabba Sutta - To Be Known
  Behind even the happiest and most pleasant of feelings lurks a persistent pain that can, with correct practice, be overcome.
• [SN 36.6] Sallatha Sutta -- The Arrow.
  When shot by the arrow of physical pain, an unwise person makes matters worse by piling mental anguish on top of it, just as if he had been shot by two arrows. A wise person feels the sting of one arrow alone.
• [SN 36.7] Gelañña Sutta -- The Sick Ward (1)
  The Buddha visits a sick ward, and offers advice to the monks on how to approach death with mindfulness.
• [SN 36.8] Gelañña Sutta -- At the Sick Room (2)
  (This sutta is identical to the previous one, except that it states that the feeling of pleasure, etc., is dependent on contact rather than dependent on the body.)
• [SN36.10] Phassamulaka Sutta - Rooted in Sense-impression.
  How sense-impression gives rise to feeling.
• [SN36.11] Rahogata Sutta - Alone
  The Buddha explains how the practice of jhana leads to progressive stages of cessation and stillness. Only when the defilements are finally extinguished, however, is true peace and stillness achieved.
• [SN36.12] Akasa Sutta - In the Sky (1)
  Feelings rise and fall, like winds blowing across the skies.
• [SN36.13] Akasa Sutta - In the Sky (2).
  [This sutta repeats the prose section of the preceding sutta, without the verse.]
• [SN36.14] Agara Sutta - The Guest House
  Feelings come and go, like house-guests.
• [SN36.15] Santaka Sutta - To Ananda (1)
  The Buddha explains to Ven. Ananda the origin of, danger in, and escape from feeling.
• [SN36.16] Santaka Sutta - To Ananda (2).
  In this sutta the Buddha puts to Ven. Ananda the same questions as in the preceding sutta, and answers them in the same way.
• [SN36.17] Atthaka Sutta - Eightfold (1).
• [SN36.18] Atthaka Sutta - Eightfold (2).
  In these suttas the same questions and answers found in SN36.15 are repeated in the case of "many monks."
• [SN36.19] Pañcakanga Sutta - Carpenter Fivetools.
  The Buddha describes the many kinds of happiness that can be experienced through sustained practice. Which kind of happiness do you seek? [The text of this sutta is identical to that of MN 59.]
• [SN36.20] Bhikkhu Sutta - Monks.
  This text, addressed to some bhikkhus, repeats the main part of the preceding sutta, without its introductory section.
• [SN36.21] Moliyasivaka Sutta - To Sivaka
  Are all of one's present experiences attributable to one's past actions (kamma)? The Buddha explains that those who so claim are probably not speaking from their direct experience. (Note that he is not saying that some factors -- e.g., the weather, accidents, etc. -- operate outside the law of kamma!)
• [SN36.22] Atthasatapariyaya Sutta - One Hundred Eight Feelings
  An enumeration of the 108 kinds of feeling. (Hint: 3x6x6=108.)
• [SN36.23] Bhikkhu Sutta - To a Monk
• [SN36.24] Pubbe Sutta - Knowledge of the Past
• [SN36.25] Ñana Sutta - Knowledge
• [SN36.26] Sambahulabhikkhu Sutta - To Sambahula
• [SN36.27] Samanabrahmana Sutta - Contemplatives and Brahmins (1)
• [SN36.28] Samanabrahmana Sutta - Contemplatives and Brahmins (2)
• [SN36.29] Samanabrahmana Sutta - Contemplatives and Brahmins (3)
  [These suttas repeat paragraphs 3-4 of SN XXXXVI.15; only the interlocutors differ.]
• [SN36.30] Suddhikavedana Sutta - Purified of Feeling.
  [Contains only an enumeration of the three kinds of feeling.]
• [SN36.31] Niramisa Sutta - Unworldly
  The Buddha describes the various grades of happiness and freedom -- from the worldly to the transcendent -- that are available to us all.

SN37.x Matugama - Destinies of women.
SN38.x Jambhukhadaka - Jambhukhadaka the wanderer.

• [SN38.14] Dukkha Sutta - Stress.
  Ven. Sariputta describes three kinds of stress (dukkha) and how they are to be fully comprehended.

• [SN41.3] Isidatta Sutta - About Isidatta.
  What is the origin of self-view? The touching story of Ven. Isidatta, a wise young forestmonk, who declines his elders' invitation to become a Dhamma teacher, and instead quietly slips off into the forest and disappears.
• [SN41.10] Gilana Sutta - Sick (Citta the Householder's Last Hours).
  Citta, on his deathbed, delivers an inspiring teaching on generosity to his friends, his family, and a gathering of devas.

• [SN42.2] Talaputa Sutta - Talaputa the Actor.
  Comedians and actors take heed: making people laugh may not always be a particularly commendable occupation, as Talaputa learns.
• [SN42.3] Yodhajiva Sutta - To Yodhajiva (The Warrior).
  The Buddha cautions a soldier against expecting a favorable rebirth because of his battlefield heroics.
• [SN42.6] Paccha-bhumika Sutta - [Brahmins] of the Western Land.
  The Buddha explains how the principles of kamma and rebirth are as inviolable as the law of gravity. Choose your actions with care, lest you sink like a stone!
•  [SN42.8] Sankha Sutta - The Conch Trumpet.
  The Buddha clarifies a crucial point about kamma: although you can never undo a past misdeed, there are ways you can mitigate its inevitable harmful results.
• [SN42.11] Gandhabhaka Sutta - To Gandhabhaka.
  Why do we experience suffering and stress? Using simple analogies, the Buddha offers a clear and penetrating answer.

SN44.x Avyakata - Not designated.

• [SN 44.10] Ananda Sutta - To Ananda
  Why the Buddha did not take a position on the question of whether or not there is a self.