Pali audio
A selection of English translations of the suttas from the Pali canon which have been professionally read and recorded.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 371
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
MN 11 The Shorter Discourse on the Lion's Roar
The Buddha declares that only those following his path can genuinely experience the four stages of awakening. This is because, while much is shared with other systems, none of them go so far as to fu…
00:10:39 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
MN 10 Satipatthāna sutta
The Satipaṭṭhāna sutta is a most highly revered sutta setting out mindfulness as the one way to overcome suffering.
The Buddha sets out in clear terms the four contemplations that constitute “esta…
00:34:26 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
MN 9 Right View
In this sutta the Venerable Sāriputta explains how right view can be understood in a number of different ways.
00:42:38 |
Sat 12 Oct 2019
MN 8 Self Effacement
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 con…
00:27:40 |
Wed 09 Oct 2019
MN 7 The Simile of the Cloth
"Dirty stained cloth takes dye badly, like a dirty stained mind takes one to low states of birth full of suffering. New cloth well washed, on the other hand takes dye well, likewise when a pure mind …
00:10:43 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
MN 6 If a Bhikkhu should wish
In this discourse the Buddha teaches how, by keeping the precepts, devotion to internal serenity of mind, meditation, insight and seclusion various wishes can be obtained.
00:12:19 |
Sat 28 Sep 2019
MN 5 Unblemished
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 wheth…
00:18:56 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
MN 4 Fear and Dread
The Buddha describes what it would be like to live in solitude in a remote jungle resting place free from fear and dread.
00:25:00 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
MN 3 Heirs in the Teaching
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 th…
00:14:16 |
Wed 18 Sep 2019
MN 2 All the Taints
Everyone has troubles and difficulties in this life - all the various aspects of dukkha and these troubles the Buddha shows should be dealt with in appropriate ways. A Buddhist who knows the Dhamma …
00:17:36 |
Wed 14 Aug 2019
MN 1 The Root of all Things
In this sutta the Buddha analyses the thinking process of four different types of people, the untaught ordinary person, the Disciple in higher training the Arahant and the Tathagata. The sutta detail…
01:05:23 |
Wed 14 Aug 2019
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