HOW DO WE DEVELOP NOBLE RIGHT CONCENTRATION WITH THE EIGHTFOLD PATH? (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on BINARA POYA (10 September 2022) via zoom, on "HOW DO WE DEVELOP NOBLE RIGHT CONCENTRATION WITH THE EIGHTFOLD PATH?"

We examine the Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117), which is an important teaching of the Buddha on how the Noble Eightfold Path works, how we activate and develop it to fulfilment.

**Please note - we are examining this teaching from the Buddha with the aspiration for the supramundane development of the Noble Eightfold Path**

In this Dhamma session, we cover:

• Quick recap of the Four Noble Truths (including arising and passing away, the stages and insights and wrong/right paths)
• Intro to the Noble Eightfold Path - Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117) and what is important about this teaching
• “Deep Dive” into how the Noble Eightfold Path works, how we activate and develop it, how the path factors support noble right concentration and leads to right knowledge and right liberation
• Understanding the Great Forty

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

• — Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
• — Pariññeyya Sutta (SN 56.29)
• — Arahanta Sutta (SN 56.24)
• — Āvijjā Sutta (SN 56.17)
• — Vijjā Sutta (SN 56.18)
• — Dvayatānupassana Sutta (Sn 3.12)
• — Gavampati Sutta (SN 56.30)
• — Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
• — Pariññeyya Sutta (SN 56.29)
• — Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)
• — Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)
• — Vijjā Sutta (AN 10.105)
• — Vipattisampadā Sutta (AN 3.117)
• — Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (MN 9)
• — Saḷāyatanavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 137)
• — Pamadavihari Sutta (SN 35.97)
• — Samadhi-bhavana Sutta (SN 22.5)
• — Pīti Sutta (AN 5.176)
• — Dhatuvibhanga Sutta (MN 140)
• — Culasunnata Sutta (MN 121)
• — Duccaritavipākasutta (AN 8.40)
• — Vaṇijjā Sutta (AN 5.177)
• — Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8)

An electronic copy of the slide for the "Three states that run together" from the Mahācattārīsaka Sutta and the "wisdom path of renunciation based on Saḷāyatanavibhaṅga Sutta " as discussed in this Dhamma Session will be posted (and pinned) to the Sutta Meditation Series Telegram channel (https://t.me/suttameditationseries)

Bohoma pin (much merit) to the person who requested this sutta asking the question on noble right concentration.

The video of this talk has been published to the Sutta Meditation YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dX_1b1AMCw

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

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