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Kamma

1 _”Cetanāhaṁ, bhikkhave, kammaṁ vadāmi. Cetayitvā kammaṁ karoti, kāyena vācāya manasā.” Oh monks, it is intention that I call kamma.Intentionally someone does an action by body and collects kamma.Intentionally someone speaks and collects kamma.Intentionally someone thinks things with the mind and collects kamma. 2 “Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ nidānasambhavo?”How does kamma form? “Phasso, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ…

Snp 2.1 Ratana Sutta: Jewels Discourse

This sutta was given by the Supreme Buddha when there was a great famine and infestation of dangerous non-human beings in Vesali. Still we chant this sutta for protection today.

AN 5.31 With Princess Sumanā

Learn about the power that giving has in our life, whether we are born the human world, in the heavenly world, or if we become a monk.

AN 7.67 Nagaropama Sutta, The Simile of the Citadel

“Mendicants, when a king’s frontier citadel is well provided with seven essentials and gets four kinds of sustenance when needed, without trouble or difficulty, it is then called a king’s frontier citadel that cannot be overrun by external foes and enemies. With what seven essentials is a citadel well provided? Firstly, a citadel has a pillar…