Collections of Minor Discourses
Collections of sutta texts outside the four main collections.
The Buddha, soon after awakening, contemplates specific conditionality and dependent co-arising.
A brahmin who recites the mystic syllable huṁ asks the Buddha who is the true brahmin.
The Buddha redefines the term "brahmin" to mean anyone, regardless of birth, who is awakened.
Ven. Mahā Kassapa chooses to go for alms among the poor rather than among the devas.
An awakened person has gone beyond fear.
A monk's former wife tries to use their child to lure him back into the lay life.
The mind is cleansed and purified, not by ablutions, but by truth and rectitude.
The ascetic Bāhiya becomes an arahant after receiving a brief teaching about adding nothing to sensory experience.
