http://dharmastudy.org finding our way through the Buddha's words Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dharmastudy.org/suttas-2/dighajanu/comment-page-1/#comment-417 Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 5: Finding and Following the Truth Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:18:16 +0000 http://www.dharmastudy.net/suttas/dighajanu/#comment-417 [...] The Dighajanu Sutta is the one that was to have been the subject for Session 4; in it, the Buddha gives a Dhamma to a wealthy, commercially successful, and pretty self-satisfied householder—a Dhamma that will lead to his continued success in the world and to the realization of the fruits of that success, but which also leads naturally into a path of behavior that will insure his happiness and spiritual well-being now and in the future. I’ve posted a commentary on the Dighajanu Sutta, calling out the elements in it that I think are particularly important to our emerging understanding of the Buddha’s Teachings. [...] [...] The Dighajanu Sutta is the one that was to have been the subject for Session 4; in it, the Buddha gives a Dhamma to a wealthy, commercially successful, and pretty self-satisfied householder—a Dhamma that will lead to his continued success in the world and to the realization of the fruits of that success, but which also leads naturally into a path of behavior that will insure his happiness and spiritual well-being now and in the future. I’ve posted a commentary on the Dighajanu Sutta, calling out the elements in it that I think are particularly important to our emerging understanding of the Buddha’s Teachings. [...]

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