Collections of Minor Discourses
Collections of sutta texts outside the four main collections.
A brahman teacher sends his students to the Buddha to see if the latter is truly awakened.
A brahman questions the Buddha about mindfulness, discernment, and the cessation of name-and-form.
Who in the world is truly contented, truly free, truly a great person?
Birth and aging can be overcome, not through sacrificial rituals, but through training the mind to go beyond perturbation.
How does one cross the flood of birth and old age, sorrow and grief?
How can one become freed of all doubt?
What support should one hold on to in order to cross over the flood of craving? Can an awakened person be described?
Who deserves to be called a sage? Who has crossed over birth and aging?
How do you cross over entanglements in the world?
How to recognize an emancipated person.
What is the island above the flood of the great danger of birth?
How does one abandon birth and aging?
Bhadrāvudha asks the Buddha: How did you come to know the Dhamma?
How to reach unbinding and bring consciousness to a halt.
How to develop insight after mastering the perception of nothingness.
How should one view the world so as to escape the king of Death?
Alarmed by the deterioration of his aging body, Piṅgiya asks the Buddha how to conquer birth and decay.
The questions and events are summarized.
Piṅgiya, after becoming a non-returner, explains to his former teacher his devotion to the Buddha.
