Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c15.s3.8

v1.c15.s3.8

In the *Mahāsakuludāyisutta* (*Majjhima*, II, pp. 9-22), there is almost a comprehensive scheme of the Buddhist doctrine in its three divisions. First there is the reference to the Sīla-practices the severer form of which,² though approved by Buddha, has been pointed out as optional; it is followed by an exposition of the four *ariyasaccas*, which comprehend in a popular form the Buddhist philosophical teaching (*paññā*), and then by an enumeration of the thirty-seven *bodhipakkhiyas*, the eight *vimokkhas*, the eight *abhibhāyatanas*, ten *kasinas*, four *jhānas*, and the six *abhiññās*, in short, all that is denoted by *citta* or *samādhi*.