Specific Suttas

Three fields

"What do you think? Suppose a farmer has three fields: one's good, one's average, and one's poor - bad ground of sand and salt. What do you think? When the farmer wants to plant seeds, where would he plant them first: the good field, the average one, or the poor one?" SN42.7 Khettūpamasutta - The Simile of the Field

Half the spiritual life

“Sir, good friends, companions, and associates are half the spiritual life." "Not so, Ānanda! Not so, Ānanda! Good friends, companions, and associates are the whole of the spiritual life.” SN45.2 Upaḍḍhasutta - Half the Spiritual Life

The monk with dysentery

The Monk with Dysentery - section 23 - and Access to Insight version. It's found in the Theravada Collection on Monastic Law -> Theravada Vinayapitaka -> The Great Division -> Mahavagga -> The Chapter on Robes 8. Civarakkhandhaka

Heirs of their kamma

"Beings are the owners of their kamma, the heirs of their kamma; they have kamma as their origin, kamma as their relative, kamma as their resort; whatever kamma they do, good or bad, they are its heirs." AN10.216 Alternative translation Saṁsappanīyasutta - Creepy Creatures

Be an island unto oneself

"Be an island unto one's own self". DN26 Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta

The taste of salt

“Just as the great ocean has but one taste, the taste of salt, so too, this Dhamma and discipline has but one taste, the taste of liberation." AN 8.19 Pahārādasutta: Pahārāda.

The gift of Dhamma

"The gift of Dhamma surpasses all gifts. The taste of Dhamma surpasses all taste. The delight in Dhamma surpasses all delights. The destruction of cravings conquers all suffering." Dhp 354: Tanha Vagga

Seven kinds of wealth

“Mendicants, there are these seven kinds of wealth. What seven? The wealth of faith, ethics, conscience, prudence, learning, generosity, and wisdom." AN 7.6 Vitthatadhanasutta: Wealth in Detail

When this exists, that comes to be

"When this exists, that comes to be. With the arising (uppada) of this, that arises. When this does not exist, that does not come to be. With the cessation (nirodha) of this, that ceases." SN 12.61 Assutavāsutta - Unlearned

One who sees dependent origination sees the teaching

“One who sees dependent origination sees the teaching. One who sees the teaching sees dependent origination.” MN28 Mahāhatthipadopamasutta - The longer simile of the elephant's footprint

One who sees the Dhamma sees me

"One who sees the Dhamma sees me; one who sees me sees the Dhamma. For in seeing the Dhamma, Vakkali, one sees me; and in seeing me, one sees the Dhamma." SN22.87 Vakkali Sutta

What one frequently thinks about becomes their heart's inclination

"Yaññadeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhu bahulamanuvitakketi anuvicāreti, tathā tathā nati hoti cetaso."

"Whatever a mendicant frequently thinks about and considers becomes their heart's inclination." MN19 Dvedhāvitakkasutta - Two kinds of thought

Teach me the Dhamma in brief

“Well then, mendicant, you should purify the starting point of skilful qualities.

What is the starting point of skilful qualities?

Well purified ethics and correct view.

When your ethics are well purified and your view is correct, you should develop the four kinds of mindfulness meditation in three ways, depending on and grounded on ethics." SN47.3 Bhikkhusutta - A Monk

Sentient beings with little dust in their eyes

"The Buddha saw sentient beings with little dust in their eyes, and some with much dust in their eyes; with keen faculties and with weak faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach. And some of them lived seeing the danger in the fault to do with the next world, while others did not." SN6.1 Brahmāyācanasutta - The appeal of the Divinity

The Dhamma Offering

“Bhikkhus, there are these two kinds of giving: the giving of material things and the giving of the Dhamma. Of these two kinds of giving, this is the foremost, namely, the giving of the Dhamma."  Iti 100 Brāhmaṇadhammayāgasutta - The Dhamma Offering