A discourse comparing the way different winds blow in the sky to how diverse feelings arise in the body.

A discourse in which Ānanda questions the Buddha on the three kinds of feeling and the Noble Eightfold Path as the way to their cessation.

A discourse similar to the foregoing, adding Ānanda’s declaration that the monks regard the Buddha as their guide.

A discourse teaching Ānanda how mindfulness of breathing develops the four foundations of mindfulness and, in turn, the seven factors of enlightenment leading to knowledge and release.

A discourse teaching that Arahants attain the highest state among all forms of becoming through right insight into mental formations.

A discourse repeating the same teaching as an earlier Assāda Sutta on the satisfaction, danger, and escape from feeling.

A discourse similar to another in the same series concerning a monk’s questions to the Buddha.

A discourse on developing mindfulness of respiration together with the seven factors of enlightenment.

A set of three discourses taught at the Giñjakāvasatha answering Ānanda’s questions on the rebirths of disciples who had died at Ñātika, including the Mirror of the Dhamma.

Two discourses recounting a visit paid to the Buddha by the devaputta Kassapa.

A discourse in which the Buddha reassures Mahānāma the Sakyan, worried about a sudden death in a crowded street, using the simile of a jar of ghee that floats free when broken underwater.

A discourse teaching that true recluses and brahmins are those who understand the arising, cessation, satisfaction, danger, and escape from the three kinds of feeling.

A discourse teaching that recluses and brahmins who fully understand the five controlling faculties are worthy of honour.

A discourse similar to the foregoing but concerning the six sense faculties.

A discourse similar to the foregoing but treating the controlling faculties from a different angle.

A discourse on the results attained by recluses and brahmins who develop the four bases of success.

A discourse teaching that recluses and brahmins gain the highest wisdom through understanding the Four Noble Truths, paired with a related group of suttas on knowing decay, birth, and the factors of dependent origination.

A discourse teaching that for one with understanding, the suffering already ended is vastly greater than what remains, likening it to a comparison with the ocean.

Two discourses analysing the five controlling faculties in detail.

Three discourses analysing the five faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sorrow, and equanimity.