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1. Sutta Nipāta Sn 1:12 The Sage
    … 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 concordant and in tune—also means the quality of being a contemplative. The true contemplative is always in tune with … 
2. Sutta Nipāta Sn 1:8 Goodwill
    … Whatever beings there may be, weak or strong, without exception, long, large, middling, short, subtle, gross, seen & unseen, living near & far away, born or seeking birth: May all beings be happy at heart. Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or, through anger or resistance-perception, wish for another to suffer. As a mother would risk her life to protect her child … 
3. Sutta Nipāta Sn 4:14 Quickly
    … Touched by contact in various ways, he shouldn’t keep theorizing about self. Stilled right within, a monk shouldn’t seek peace from another, from anything else. For one stilled right within, there’s nothing embraced, so how rejected?2 As in the middle of the sea it is still, with no waves upwelling, so the monk—unperturbed, still— should not swell himself anywhere … 
4. Sutta Nipāta Sn 3:7 Sela
    … 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 … 
5. Sutta Nipāta Sn 3:4 Sundarika Bhāradvāja
    … Truth, Dhamma, restraint, the holy life, attainment of Brahmā dependent on the middle: Pay homage to those who’ve become truly straightened: That, I call a man in the flow of the Dhamma. After hearing these verses, Sundarika asks for Acceptance into the Saṅgha, and the sutta concludes in the same way as the account given here. 9. This is a play on words … 
6. Sutta Nipāta Sn 3:6 Sabhiya
    … He is called awakened.”6 Then Sabhiya the wanderer—delighting in and approving of the Blessed One’s words—gratified, joyful, exultant, enraptured & happy, asked the Blessed One a further question: “Having attained what is one said to be a brahman? In what way is one a contemplative, and how is one ‘washed’? How is one called a nāga? Answer, Blessed One, when I … 
7. Sutta Nipāta Sn Introduction
    … Several of the classic Upaniṣads—such as the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Chāndogya, and Kāṭha Upaniṣads—accepted the possibility of life after death, although they differed among themselves as to how one’s actions might affect the way in which one was reborn. The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, for instance, taught that actions played a role in the post mortem fate of only middling and lower beings. Brahmans with … 
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