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This is a Full Dhamma Session on the Pamādavihārī Sutta (SN 35.97) - SAFEGUARDING THE MIND BY DWELLING WITH VIGILANCE. It was delivered on full moon poya (uposatha) on 4 July 2020 via Zoom to a meditation group.
(*The audio has been edited to try to remove some of the background disturbances, however, please do your best to bear with the background sounds as we encountered some difficulties recording this during covid restrictions)
In this Dhamma session, we:
- — examined the translation of pamāda and appamāda
- — looked at an overview to the Pamādavihārī Sutta (SN 35.97)
- — investigated what happens when we are negligent and what happens when we are vigilant
- — highlighted the importance of putting a "security guard" in place to guard the sense doors
- — went over the insight pathways
- — contemplated negligence vs vigilance for each of the sense faculties
Some of the suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:
- — Pamādādivagga (AN 1.82-83)
- — Dutiyapamādādivagga (AN 1.115)
- — Aparihāniya Sutta (AN 4.37)
- — Uddhacca Sutta (AN 6.116)
- — Sāmāvatīvatthu (Dhp 21)
- — Mala Sutta (AN 8.15)
- — Sambahulabhikkhuvatthu (Dhp 368-376)
- — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- — Tayodhamma Sutta (AN 10.76)
- — Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61)
- — Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8)
- — Kummopama Sutta (SN 35.240)
- — Nibbedhika Sutta (AN 6.63)
- — Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23)
- — Bhayabherava Sutta (MN 4)
- — Nivāpa Sutta (MN 25)
- — Nandiyasakka Sutta (SN 55.40)
- — Patiṭṭhita Sutta (SN 48.56)
- — Rukkha Sutta (SN 45.152)
To read the whole Pamādavihārī Sutta: https://suttacentral.net/sn35.97/en/bodhi
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A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GPBDSg-0A
