Venerable Bounnao

08/17/2025

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08/04/2025

The Buddha's wordsDevadattasutta AN 4.68 https://suttacentral.net/an4.68At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left. There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta:“Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devad...

06/30/2025

Develop Concentration

The Buddha's wordsSamādhisutta SN 56.1 https://suttacentral.net/sn56.1 At Savatthi. “Bhikkhus, develop concentration. A bhikkhu who is concentrated understands things as they really are.“And what does he understand as it really is? He understands as it really is: ‘This is suffering.’ He und...

05/02/2025

Bo***ge

“By what is the world held in bo***ge?
What is its means of travelling about?
What is it that one must forsake
To cut off all bo***ge?”

“The world is held in bo***ge by delight;
Thought is its means of travelling about.
Craving is what one must forsake
To cut off all bo***ge.”

BandhanasuttaSN 1.65
https://suttacentral.net/sn1.65

01/22/2025

The Buddha's wordsBahukārasutta Iti 107 https://suttacentral.net/iti107This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.“Mendicants, brahmins and householders are very helpful to you, as they provide you with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. ...

01/14/2025

The Buddha's wordsPañcaverabhayasutta SN 12.41 https://suttacentral.net/sn12.41At Savatthī. Then the householder Anathapiṇḍika approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, and sat down to one side. The Blessed One then said to him:“Householder, when five fearful animosities have subsided ...

12/05/2024

The Buddha's wordsNagarasutta SN 12.65 https://suttacentral.net/sn12.65At Savatthī. “Bhikkhus, before my enlightenment, while I was still a bodhisatta, not yet fully enlightened, it occurred to me: ‘Alas, this world has fallen into trouble, in that it is born, ages, and dies, it passes away and...

11/22/2024

The Buddha's wordsĀgantukasutta SN 45.159 https://suttacentral.net/sn45.159Photo by Stock Birken on Unsplash“Bhikkhus, suppose there is a guest house. People come from the east, west, north, and south and lodge there; khattiyas, brahmins, vessas, and suddas come and lodge there. So too, when a bh...

11/15/2024

The Buddha's WordsBāhiyasuttaSN 47.15 https://suttacentral.net/sn47.15 Photo by form PxHereAt Savatthi. Then the Venerable Bahiya approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him:“Venerable sir, it would be good if the Blessed One would teach me the Dhamma in ...

11/02/2024

The Buddha's wordsສັງຍຸຕຕະນິກາຍ ມະຫາວາຣະວັຄ ພາສາໄທ ສະບັບຫລວງ ໑໙/໓໙໔/໑໕໙໙Photo by Anna Jiménez Calaf on Unsplashສມັຍໜຶ່ງ ພຣະຜູ້ມີພຣະພາຄປະທັບຢູ່....

09/09/2024

The Buddha's wordsPaṭhamagelaññasutta SN 36.7 https://suttacentral.net/sn36.7On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Vesalī in the Great Wood in the Hall with the Peaked Roof. Then, in the evening, the Blessed One emerged from seclusion and went to the sick ward, where he sat down in th...

08/17/2024

Misconduct

This was said by the Lord …

“Bhikkhus, there are these three kinds of misconduct. What are the three? Misconduct by body, misconduct by speech, and misconduct by mind. These are the three.”

Having performed misconduct
By body, misconduct by speech,
Misconduct by mind, and whatever else
Is reckoned a fault—

Not having done a good deed
And done much that is bad—
When his body perishes
That foolish one is reborn in hell.

Duccaritasutta Iti 64
https://suttacentral.net/iti64
Translated by John D. Ireland