ENERGETIC - Sekha-patipada Sutta (MN53) - Developing this accomplishment

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is one part of a study program that delves into the Sekha-pāṭipada Sutta (MN53) – Venerable Ānanda’s Discourse on the Trainee’s Mode of Progress, which has been broken into different episodes.

This study program began in October 2020 with a specific meditation group and is still ongoing.

This episode looks at how we can develop the accomplishment of ENERGETIC (āraddhavīriyo or ACTIVE EFFORT), as one of the 15 accomplishments in conduct (caraṇasampanno).

We examine:

• — the explanations provided by Venerable Ānanda in the Sekha-pāṭipada Sutta (MN53)
• — the Nagaropama Sutta (AN7.67) to help us understand the next 7 good qualities to be developed
• — other useful suttas to give us additional help to understand the teaching — where the bar is set for the 'adept' and how to develop this quality as trainees towards the goal
• — practical tips for progress, taking into account responsibilities and challenges of lay life
• — role model(s) who are praised by the Buddha for their accomplishment in this conduct
• — connections with other aspects or qualities of the path and practice

**Additional talks that go with this Dhamma talk (as mentioned in the session):

• — Venerable Soṇa Koḷivisa as a role model - EPISODE 132 (https://bit.ly/3Cp9vzJ)
• — The Story of Tissa Thera , the Idle One - EPISODE 131 (https://bit.ly/3Co4BDc)
• — The Story of Mahakala Thera - EPISODE 86 (https://bit.ly/3132gzD)

Some of the suttas referenced directly or indirectly in this session:

• — Nagaropama Sutta (AN 7.67)
• — Padhāna Sutta (AN 4.13)
• — Vibhaṅga Sutta (SN 45.8)
• — Suddhika Sutta (SN 7.7)
• — Sikkha Sutta (AN 9.73)
• — Cara Sutta (AN 4.11), (Iti 110)
• — Sīla Sutta (AN 4.12)
• — Sampannasīla Sutta (Iti 111)
• — Ghaṭa Sutta (SN 21.3)
• — Kīṭāgiri Sutta (MN 70)
• — Jiṇṇa Sutta (SN 16.5)
• — Soṇa Sutta (AN 6.55)
• — Mahākāḷattheravatthu (Dhp 7-8)
• — Padhanakammika tissattheravatthu (Dhp 280)
• — Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117)
• — Vitthata Sutta (AN 5.2)
• — Paṭhama-vibhaṅga Sutta (SN 48.9)
• — Āhāra Sutta (SN 46.51)
• — Chandasamādhi Sutta (SN 51.13)
• — Tayodhamma Sutta (AN 10.76)
• — Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61)
• — Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33), Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)
• — Sacitta Sutta (AN 10.51)

To read the whole Sekha-pāṭipada Sutta (MN53) – https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN53.html and the Nagaropama Sutta (AN7.67) - https://suttacentral.net/an7.67/en/sujato

**An electronic copy of the diagram summarising the "Trainee's Mode of Progress" and the "Simile of the Fortress" have been posted (and pinned) to the Sutta Meditation Series Telegram channel.

To access the video with presentation slides, you can go to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTnTcS45eYE AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai