4.0 BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON HEAVENLY REALMS (YOUTH DHAMMA SESSION)

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is the third module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series, focused on our younger audience looking into BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON HEAVENLY REALMS (saggakathaṁ)

This session links with the earlier sessions and confirms the importance of building a foundation of generosity and virtue in order to develop our Path and Practice. The next talk in this series will build on top of this and move us further along.

In this session we look into:

• — What does Buddha mean by sagga?
• — Right View – understanding Kamma and Rebirth
• — What are the 31 Planes of Existence?
• — What is the cause and condition for rebirth in good or bad destination?
• — Stories and other teachings on Heavenly Realms
• — Heavenly Realms in the context of Stream Entry

Suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session:

• — Sammādiṭṭhika Sutta (Iti 71)
• — Paṭhamanānākaraṇa Sutta (AN 4.123)
• — Cūḷasuññata Sutta (MN 121)
• — Āneñja sutta (AN 3.116)
• — Chiggala Sutta (SN 56.48)
• — Sāleyyaka Sutta (MN 41)
• — Niraya Sutta (AN 5.173)
• — Pāṇātipātī Sutta (AN 4.264)
• — Vimānavatthu (Vv)
• — Devata Samyutta (SN 1)
• — Devaputta Samyutta (SN 2)
• — Petavatthu (Pv)
• — BālapaṇḍitaSutta (MN 129)
• — DevadūtaSutta (MN 130)
• — Pesakaradhita Vatthu (Dhp 174)
• — Anāthapiṇḍika Sutta (SN 2.20)
• — Anāthapiṇḍikovāda Sutta(MN 143)
• — Anathapindikaputtakala Vatthu (Dhp 178)
• — Devaloka Sutta (AN 3.18)

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Bohoma pin to the people who have asked about gradual instructions for lay people over the past few months. There have been quite a few, so much merit to you.

A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnb5XGdhsk AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai