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1. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 42:7 Teaching | Desanā Sutta
    … Having sown it there, he would sow it in the middling field. Having sown it there, he might sow it in the poor field—sandy, salty, with bad soil—or he might not. Why is that? It would at least go toward cattle fodder.” “In the same way, headman, like the excellent field are the monks & nuns to me. I teach them the Dhamma … 
2. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 46:4 Clothes | Vattha Sutta
    … Whichever set of clothes he might want to wear during the middle of the day, he would wear that set of clothes during the middle of the day. Whichever set of clothes he might want to wear during the late afternoon, he would wear that set of clothes during the late afternoon. “In the same way, whichever factor for awakening among these seven factors … 
3. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 35:200 The Log | Dārukkhandha Sutta
    … Why is that? Because the current of the river Ganges tends to the ocean, tilts to the ocean, inclines to the ocean. “In the same way, monks, if you don’t veer toward the near shore, don’t veer toward the far shore, don’t sink in the middle, don’t get washed up on high ground, don’t get snared by human beings … 
4. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 3:19 Heirless (1) | Aputtaka Sutta
    … Then King Pasenadi Kosala went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him, “Well now, great king, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” “Just now, lord, a money-lending householder died in … 
5. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 3:25 The Simile of the Mountains | Pabbatopama Sutta
    … Then King Pasenadi Kosala went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him: “Well now, great king, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” “Just now, lord, I was engaged in the sort of royal … 
6. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 3:20 Heirless (2) | Aputtaka Sutta
    … Then King Pasenadi Kosala went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, sat to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him, “Well now, great king, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” “Just now, lord, a money-lending householder died in … 
7. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 56:11 Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion | Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
    … Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathāgata—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. “And what is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that—producing vision, producing knowledge—leads to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding? Precisely this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech … 
8. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:35 From Ignorance as a Requisite Condition | Avijjāpaccaya Sutta
    … Avoiding these two extremes, he simply drops the question and focuses attention on what is directly perceivable—the way one factor in dependent co-arising functions as a prerequisite for the next. To focus on what might or might not lie behind these factors would be to tie oneself up in speculations about what, by definition, can never be experienced. But by focusing on … 
9. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 1:7 Unpenetrated | Appaṭividitā 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. The word sāmañña—“evenness,” the quality of being in tune—also means the quality of being a contemplative: The true contemplative is always in tune with what is … 
10. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 3:22 Grandmother | Ayyikā Sutta
     … It’s astounding—how well it was said by the Blessed One: ‘All beings are subject to death, have death as their end, have not gone beyond death.’” “That’s the way it is, great king. That’s the way it is. All beings are subject to death, have death as their end, have not gone beyond death. Just as all a potter’s … 
11. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 15:10 Person | Puggala Sutta
     … Vulture’s Peak, a secluded rock outcrop in the middle of the ring, was a spot frequented by the Buddha.
12. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:46 A Certain Brahman | Aññatara Sutta
     … Avoiding both of these extremes, the Tathāgata teaches the Dhamma via the middle: “From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. “From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness. “From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. “From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media. “From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact. “From contact as … 
13. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:48 The Cosmologist | Lokāyatika Sutta
     … Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering.” “Magnificent, Master Gotama! Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has Master Gotama—through … 
14. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:18 To Timbarukkha | Timbarukkha Sutta
     … Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathāgata teaches the Dhamma via the middle: From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness. From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media. From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact. From contact as a … 
15. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:15 To Kaccāna Gotta | Kaccānagotta Sutta
     … It is in this way that all fabricated dhammas are abandoned and unbinding can be fully realized. Other suttas discussing this level of right view include AN 7:58, AN 10:93, and Ud 1:10, * * * Staying near Sāvatthī … Then Ven. Kaccāna Gotta went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he … 
16. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 35:206 The Six Animals | Chappāṇa Sutta
     … In the same way, there is the case where a certain monk, having gone to a village or to the wilderness, meets up with someone who upbraids him: ‘This venerable one, acting in this way, undertaking practices in this way, is a thorn of impurity in this village.’ Knowing this person to be a thorn, one should understand restraint and lack of restraint. “And … 
17. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 4:25 Māra’s Daughters | Māradhītu Sutta
     … Why don’t we each assume the form of a hundred women who have borne one child … a hundred women who have borne two children … a hundred middle-aged women … a hundred older women?” So Māra’s daughters—Craving, Discontent, & Passion—having each assumed the form of a hundred older women, went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, said to him, “We serve … 
18. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 22:90 To Channa | Channa Sutta
     … he was to be left to his own ways without anyone to teach or correct him. According to Cv XI, news of this punishment so shocked Ven. Channa that he fainted. He then went off into seclusion and practiced diligently to the point of attaining arahantship. As Ven. Ānanda later told him, his attainment nullified the punishment. This sutta tells a different version of … 
19. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 12:17 To the Clothless Ascetic | Acela Sutta
     … This circles around annihilationism.2 Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathāgata teaches the Dhamma via the middle: From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness. From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media. From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes … 
20. Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 22:80 Almsgoers | Piṇḍolya Sutta
     … good family has gone forth in this way, he is covetous, with strong passion for sensual desires, with a mind of ill will, of corrupt resolves, his mindfulness muddled, unalert, unconcentrated, his mind distracted, loose in his sense faculties. Just as a log from a funeral pyre, burning at both ends, smeared with excrement in the middle, fills no use as timber either in … 
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