FIVE SUBJECTS TO FREQUENTLY CONTEMPLATE (livestreamed)

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 16 April 2023

The format for this livestream: (1) Quick overview of the Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhāna Sutta (AN 5.57) and why the Buddha encourages these five subjects for frequent contemplation:

• — ‘I am subject to old age; I am not exempt from old age.’
• — ‘I am subject to illness; I am not exempt from illness.’
• — ‘I am subject to death; I am not exempt from death.’
• — ‘I must be parted and separated from everyone and everything dear and agreeable to me.’
• — ‘I am the owner of my kamma, the heir of my kamma; I have kamma as my origin, kamma as my relative, kamma as my resort; I will be the heir of whatever kamma, good or bad, that I do.’

(2) Review of the five subjects with explanation and short meditations on each Some of the suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:

• — Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
• — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 9)
• — Devadūta Sutta (AN 3.36)
• — Jarādhamma Sutta (SN 48.41)
• — Ādittapariyāya Sutta (SN 35.28)
• — Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)
• — Girimananda Sutta (AN 10.60)
• — Cunda Sutta (Ud 8.5)
• — Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (DN 16)
• — Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (MN 9)
• — Pesakāradhītāvatthu (Dhp 174)
• — Nibbedhika Sutta (AN 6.63)
• — Kisāgotamīvatthu (Dhp 114)
• — Paṭācārātherīvatthu (Dhp 113)
• — Visākhāvatthu (Dhp 213)
• — Assu Sutta (SN 15.3)
• — Tayojanapabbajitavatthu (Dhp 209-211)
• — Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117)
• — Adhammacariyā Sutta (AN 10.220)
• — Saṁsappanīya Sutta (AN 10.216
• — Cūḷakammavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 135)
• — Duccaritavipāka Sutta (AN 8.40)
• — Pariyesanā Sutta (AN 4.255)

To read the Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhāna Sutta (AN 5.57) - https://bit.ly/42PhZ0K

The video of this talk has been published to the Sutta Meditation YouTube channel - https://bit.ly/3KxZ2ao

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

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