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Ven. Panadure Chandaratana Thero conducted a 5 days long residential retreat in early June 2019 at Mitirigala Nissaranavanaya Monastery. The retreat was based on Samana Brahmana Sutta.
There are many Suttas of this same name in Sutta Pitaka. This selected Sutta is from Khuddhaka Nikaya, Itivuttaka Pali, Chathushka Nipata. This is short and yet an important Sutta of Lord Buddha. In this Sutta the Lord Buddha clearly describe as to who is a monk or a Brahmin by stating that a monk or a Brahmin should know and understand the four Noble Truths.
There’s a current vacuum of good explanations of Suttas from Khuddhaka Nikaya in English. In fact it’s difficult to find a good translation of Samana Brahmana Sutta in English.
These Dhamma sermons and the Q&A sessions are invaluable as they explain the Four Noble Truths from a very practical perspective while aligning the explanations towards the development of the Path of Nibbana through Vipassana. The discussions and the discourses are specially valuable to those advancing Yogis and aspiring teachers of Vipassana.
As such it is highly recommended to translate this whole series to English language and present it to ”English only” Yogis/Yoginis in easily distributed forms such as MOBI, EPUB and PDF e-book formats.
Please click the following link to listen to a 5 minutes description of the Sutta given by Ven. Panadure Chandaratana Thero.
සමණබ්රාහ්මණ සූත්රය ගැන කෙටි හැඳින්වීමක්
Please click the following link to reach the text of the Sutta in Pali and Sinhala from thripitakaya.org;
සමණබ්රාහ්මණ සූත්රය
The missing section of few minutes in the final day’s Q&A session towards the end is now included! We have now uploaded the complete file.
How to Download or Directly Listen to the audio files.
To download: You could download the file by right clicking on the file link and then selecting “save as” from the drop down menu. Save the file into a pre designated folder to listen on multiple occasions. This is the best way to save your internet allocation.
To listen directly: Please left click on the link to listen directly. Once the link is clicked, you will be directed to a separate page containing the talk. Usually the file starts to play in that window. If it doesn’t you could highlight the browser window and click ‘reload this page’. It will start to play.
- 01. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Q&A 01_03-06-2019
- 02. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Dhamma Talk 01_03-06-2019
- 03. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Q&A 02_04-06-2019
- 04. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Dhamma Talk 02_04-06-2019
- 05. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Q&A 03_05-06-2019
- 06. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Dhamma Talk 03_05-06-2019
- 07. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Q&A 04_06-06-2019
- 08. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Dhamma Talk 04_06-06-2019
- 09. RET 212 Samana Brahmana Sutta_Q&A 05_07-06-2019 (Final Discussion)
Completed.