April 10, 2026 Day 2 MN 3 Maha-Assapura Sutta 9 Apr9-19 Metta Retreat Bhante tells some wonderful stories about a cat and other analogies to make points about the mind and its ability to wander off the object.

Maha-Assapura Sutta The Buddha encourages the monks to live up to their name, by actually practicing in a way that meets or exceeds the expectations people have for renunciants.

Where: Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center https://www.dhammasukha.org

Apr 26, 2026 MN 9 Sammaditthi Sutta What perspective is needed to view the world?

A lesson on Dependent Origination

Short Instructions for Metta Meditation

Apr 5, 2026 MN 8 Effacement - Sallekha Sutta How to use the 8 fold path to purify the mind-What is Conceit? The Buddha differentiates between peaceful meditation and spiritual practices that encompass the whole of life. He lists forty-four aspects, which he explains as “effacement”, the wearing away of conceit.

March 29, 2026 MN7 Vatthupama Sutta -The Simile of the Cloth

The many different kinds of impurities that defile the mind are compared to a dirty cloth. When the mind is clean we find joy, which leads to states of higher consciousness. Finally, the Buddha rejects the Brahmanical notion that purity comes from bathing in sacred rivers.

Mar 1, 2026 Dhammadāyādasutta "Heirs in Dhamma"

Some of the Buddha’s students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sāriputta explains how by following the Buddha’s example we can experience the fruits of the path.

Feb 22, 2026 MN 2 All the Taints

Also called "All The Taints" (Bhikkhu Bodhi) This sutta explains the seven ways to remove the taints by seeing, restraining, using, enduing, avoiding, removing, and by developing.

Mar 15, 2026 Anangana Sutta Without Blemishes

The Buddha’s chief disciples, Sāriputta and Moggallāna, use a simile of a tarnished bowl to illustrate the blemishes of the mind and conduct. They emphasize how the crucial thing is not so much whether there are blemishes, but whether we are aware of them.