NOBLE RETIREMENT — PART TWO (livestreamed)

<p><strong>Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.</strong></p> <p>We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 23 April 2023</p> <p>This is one of the Buddha&#39;s most powerful teachings to a lay person on how to develop the path that leads to supramundane or noble retirement (nibbāna)</p> <p>The format for this livestream (Part II) will be: </p> <ol> <li>Overview of the Buddha&#39;s instructions on how to achieve noble retirement entirely and in all ways</li> <li>Understanding the Buddha&#39;s pathway of renunciation and the principles we will apply</li> <li>&quot;Deep dive&quot; into the seven similes of the Buddha to understand the danger in sensual pleasures and link to the eight things</li> <li>Accomplishing the Three Knowledges</li> <li>Buddha&#39;s final question for Potaliya and his response</li> </ol> <p> * To recap the Buddha&#39;s pathway to renunciation - https://bit.ly/3L0A5Vw (video) or https://bit.ly/3oCLdQX (audio)</p> <p>* To recap the three knowledges - https://bit.ly/3ozSEsa (video) or https://bit.ly/3owzSBP (audio) Some of the suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:</p> <ul> <li>— Pahārāda Sutta (AN 8.19)</li> <li>— Mahācattārīsaka Sutta (MN 117)</li> <li>— Saḷāyatanavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 137)</li> <li>— Alagaddūpama Sutta (MN 22)</li> <li>— Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta (MN 14)</li> <li>— Dhatuvibhanga Sutta (MN 140)</li> <li>— Culasunnata Sutta (MN 121)</li> <li>— Āneñjasappāya Sutta (MN 106)</li> <li>— Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63)</li> <li>— Pariyesanā Sutta (AN 4.255)</li> <li>— Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)</li> <li>— Hāliddikāni Sutta (SN 22.3)</li> <li>— Byasana Sutta (AN 5.130)</li> <li>— Girimānanda Sutta (AN 10.60)</li> <li>— Suttādhiṭṭhānatatiyabhūmi (Pe 3)</li> <li>— Dvedhāvitakka Sutta (MN 19) </li> </ul> <p>Bohoma pin (much merit) to those who requested this sutta.</p> <p>To read the Potaliya Sutta (MN 54) - https://bit.ly/3UXVoe</p> <p><strong>The video of this talk has been published to the Sutta Meditati