The Single Quality For Awakening - Atthakanagara Sutta - September 19, 2020

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We will resume our Dhammapada Structered Study on Tuesday. My Saturday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Atthakanagara Sutta. Here Ananda teaches he single quality of Jhana, a well-concentrated mind, supporting awakened Right View is established through wholehearted engagement with the Eightfold Path.

“As concentration (Jhana) deepens their mind is unbound, spacious, free of the confining yoke of ignorance. They are imbued with unlimited goodwill, with compassion, with empathetic joy, their mind resting in equanimity…"

 

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Atthakanagara Sutta

 

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