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1. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:30 Upside Down | Avakujja Sutta
    … Having gotten up from that seat, he doesn’t attend to the beginning of that talk, doesn’t attend to the middle, doesn’t attend to the end. Just as when a pot is turned upside down, water poured there runs off and doesn’t stay; in the same way, there is the case where a person, having gone to a monastery, often listens … 
2. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:100 Bark-fiber Cloth | Potthaka Sutta
    … A piece of Kāsi cloth of middle standing is beautiful, smooth to the touch, and of great value. An old piece of Kāsi cloth is beautiful, smooth to the touch, and of great value. People use an old piece of Kāsi cloth as a wrapping for gems or they keep it in a scented chest. “In the same way, monks, when a new monk … 
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:51 Obstacles | Āvaraṇa Sutta
    … would open channels leading away from it on both sides, so that the current in the middle of the river would be dispersed, diffused, & dissipated; it wouldn’t go far, its current wouldn’t be swift, and it wouldn’t carry everything with it. In the same way, when a monk has not abandoned these five obstacles, hindrances that overwhelm awareness and weaken discernment … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 4:95 The Firebrand | Chalāvāta Sutta
    … The one who practices for his/her own benefit and for that of others. “Just as a firebrand from a funeral pyre—burning at both ends, covered with excrement in the middle—is used as fuel neither in a village nor in the wilderness: I tell you that this is a simile for the individual who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:7 By Sensuality | Kāmesu Sutta
    … Inferior sensual pleasures, middling sensual pleasures, and superior sensual pleasures are all simply reckoned as ‘sensual pleasures.’ “It’s just as if a stupid baby boy, lying on its back, might—through the heedlessness of his nurse—take a stick or a piece of gravel into its mouth. The nurse would attend to him right away. Attending to him right away, she would take … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:59 Gone Forth | Pabbajita Sutta
    … This image would have special resonances with the Buddha's teaching on the middle way. It also adds meaning to the term samaṇa—monk or contemplative—which the texts frequently mention as being derived from sama. See also MN 97.↩︎ 3. Loka: The term “world” here should be understood in line with the definition given in SN 35:82.↩︎ 4. See also SN 12 … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:30 To Nāgita | Nāgita Sutta
    … He makes known—having realized it through direct knowledge—this world with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & commonfolk; he explains the Dhamma admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end; he expounds the holy life both in its particulars & in its essence, entirely perfect, surpassingly pure. It is good to see such a … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 6:60 On Citta | Citta Sutta
    … Citta Hatthisārīputta interrupted in the middle of their talk. Then Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita said to him, “Don’t interrupt in the middle of the talk while the elder monks are discussing higher Dhamma. Wait until the end of the talk.” When this was said, the monks who were Ven. Citta Hatthisārīputta’s companions said to Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita, “May Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita not rebuke … 
9. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 6:42 To Nāgita | Nāgita Sutta
    … He makes known—having realized it through direct knowledge—this world with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & commonfolk; he explains the Dhamma admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end; he expounds the holy life both in its particulars & in its essence, entirely perfect, surpassingly pure. It is good to see such a … 
10. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:94 About Vajjiya | Vajjiya Sutta
     … Then Vajjiya Māhita the householder left Campā in the middle of the day to see the Blessed One, but then the thought occurred to him, “Now is not the right time to see the Blessed One, for he is in seclusion. And it is not the right time to see the mind-developing monks, for they too are in seclusion. Why don’t I … 
11. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:93 Views | Diṭṭhi Sutta
     … Then Anāthapiṇḍika the householder left Sāvatthī in the middle of the day to see the Blessed One, but the thought then occurred to him, “Now is not the right time to see the Blessed One, for he is in seclusion. And it is not the right time to see the mind-developing monks, for they are in seclusion. What if I were to visit … 
12. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 8:103 Honor | Yasa Sutta
     … He makes known—having realized it through direct knowledge—this world with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & commonfolk; he explains the Dhamma admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end; he expounds the holy life both in its particulars & in its essence, entirely perfect, surpassingly pure. It is good to see such a … 
13. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:71 The Roots of the Uposatha | Mūluposatha Sutta
     … Now at that time—it being the uposatha day—Visākhā, Migāra’s mother, went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As she was sitting there the Blessed One said to her, “Well now, Visākhā, why are you coming in the middle of the day?” “Today I am observing … 
14. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:64 At Venāga | At Venāga Sutta
     … He makes known—having realized it through direct knowledge—this world with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its rulers & commonfolk; he explains the Dhamma admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end; he expounds the holy life both in its particulars & in its essence, entirely perfect, surpassingly pure. It is good to see such a … 
15. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:166 Cessation | Nirodha Sutta
     … The way in which this sutta raises a number of questions about the cessation of perception and feeling and its relationship to awakening but then leaves them unanswered has a parallel in AN 9:36. That sutta details how the various concentration attainments up through the dimension of nothingness can be used as a basis for the ending of the effluents. Beyond that point … 
16. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 7:63 The Fortress | Nagara Sutta
     … for the protection of those within and to ward off those without; in the same way, the disciple of the noble ones has heard much, has retained what he has heard, has stored what he has heard. Whatever teachings are admirable in the beginning, admirable in the middle, admirable in the end, that—in their meaning & expression—proclaim the holy life that is entirely … 
17. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 3:66 To the Kālāmas | Kālāma Sutta
     … The ability to question and test one’s beliefs in an appropriate way is called appropriate attention. The ability to recognize and chose wise people as mentors is called having admirable friends. According to Iti 16–17, these are, respectively, the most important internal and external factors for attaining the goal of the practice. For further thoughts on how to test a belief in … 
18. Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 10:99 To Upāli | Upāli Sutta
     … Why is that? Because his small body doesn’t find a footing in the depth. “In the same way, whoever would say, ‘I, without having gained concentration, will spend time in isolated wilderness & forest lodgings,’ of him it can be expected that he will sink to the bottom or float away. “Imagine, Upāli, a stupid baby boy, lying on his back, playing with his … 
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