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2. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 122 The Greater Discourse on Emptiness | Mahā Suññata Sutta
    … But as for talk that is scrupulous, conducive to release of awareness, and leads exclusively to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, calm, direct knowledge, self-awakening, & unbinding—i.e., talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release: It’s for the sake of hearing talk of this sort that it is proper for a disciple … 
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 56 The Teaching to Upāli | Upālivāda Sutta
    … May the Blessed One remember me as a lay follower who has gone to him for refuge, from this day forward, for life.” Then the Blessed One gave a graduated talk to Upāli the householder, i.e., a talk on giving, a talk on virtue, a talk on heaven; he proclaimed the drawbacks of, degradation in, & defilement in sensuality, and the rewards of renunciation … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 86 About Aṅgulimāla | Aṅgulimāla Sutta
    … But how could there be such virtue & restraint in an unvirtuous, evil character?” Now at that time Ven. Aṅgulimāla was sitting not far from the Blessed One. So the Blessed One, pointing with his right arm, said to King Pasenadi Kosala, “That, great king, is Aṅgulimāla.” Then King Pasenadi Kosala was frightened, terrified, his hair standing on end. So the Blessed One, sensing the … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 60 A Safe Bet | Apaṇṇaka Sutta
    … Wherever he goes, he takes only his barest necessities along. “Endowed with this noble aggregate of virtue, he is inwardly sensitive to the pleasure of being blameless. Sense Restraint “On seeing a form with the eye, he does not grasp at any theme or details by which—if he were to dwell without restraint over the faculty of the eye—evil, unskillful qualities such … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 77 The Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin | Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta
    … Which five? “There is the case where my disciples esteem me for my heightened virtue, (thinking,) ‘Gotama the contemplative is virtuous, endowed with the foremost aggregate of virtue.’ This is the first quality for which my disciples honor, respect, revere, & worship me and—honoring & respecting me—remain in dependence on me. “Further, there is the case where my disciples esteem me for my exceeding … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 137 An Analysis of the Six Sense-Media | Saḷāyatana-vibhaṅga Sutta
    … this passage seems related to the passage in AN 3:101, which defines a person of limited mind, prey to the results of past bad actions, as one who is “undeveloped in contemplating the body, undeveloped in virtue, undeveloped in concentration, and undeveloped in discernment; restricted, small-hearted, dwelling with suffering.” As AN 3:101 points out, such a person suffers more intensely from … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 43 The Greater Set of Questions & Answers | Mahā Vedalla Sutta
    … There is the case where right view is assisted by virtue, assisted by learning, assisted by discussion, assisted by tranquility, assisted by insight. Assisted by these five factors, right view has awareness-release as its fruit & reward, and discernment-release as its fruit & reward.” Becoming “Friend, how many kinds of becoming are there?” “Friend, there are these three kinds of becoming: sensual becoming, form … 
9. Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 10 The Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse | Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
    … That is the fetter there.” — SN 35:191 18. “Now, what is the food for the arising of unarisen mindfulness as a factor for awakening, or for the growth & increase of mindfulness… once it has arisen? There are qualities that act as a foothold for mindfulness as a factor for awakening. [According to SN 47:16, these are well-purified virtue & views made straight … 
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