JARĀVAGGA

Collections of Linked Discourses

Collections of 'linked' or 'connected' discourses and other related texts.

Jarādhammasutta

SN 48.41
Old Age

When Ānanda sees the Buddha’s sense faculties fading, the Buddha speaks on the decrepitude of old age, including verses.

Uṇṇābhabrāhmaṇasutta

SN 48.42
The Brahmin Uṇṇābha

The brahmin Uṇṇābha points out that the five physical sense faculties do not share a common domain, so where do they come together? In the mind. Uṇṇābha pursues the teaching all the way to Nibbāna.

Sāketasutta

SN 48.43
At Sāketa

The Buddha discusses the five faculties and the five powers. They are like a river that flows around a central island. From one point of view they can be considered different, but from another they are just the same stream.

Pubbakoṭṭhakasutta

SN 48.44
At the Eastern Gate

Sāriputta does not rely on faith in saying that the five faculties lead to the deathless, for he has seen this for himself.

Paṭhamapubbārāmasutta

SN 48.45
At the Eastern Monastery (1st)

Having developed wisdom a mendicant may declare their awakening, as wisdom fulfills the other faculties.

Dutiyapubbārāmasutta

SN 48.46
At the Eastern Monastery (2nd)

Having developed wisdom and immersion a mendicant may declare their awakening.

Tatiyapubbārāmasutta

SN 48.47
At the Eastern Monastery (3rd)

Having developed energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom a mendicant may declare their awakening.

Catutthapubbārāmasutta

SN 48.48
At the Eastern Monastery (4th)

Having developed faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom a mendicant may declare their awakening.

Piṇḍolabhāradvājasutta

SN 48.49
About Bhāradvāja the Alms-Gatherer

Having developed mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom the mendicant Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja declared his awakening.

Āpaṇasutta

SN 48.50
At Āpaṇa

The Buddha asks Sāriputta whether a noble disciple doubts the Buddha. Not only does he have faith, replies Sāriputta, but the other faculties each come to be developed in turn.