Early Buddhism

The Development of the Faculties

Indriyabhāvanāsutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
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A brahmin teacher advocates that purification of the senses consists in simply avoiding seeing and hearing things. The Buddha explains that it is not about avoiding sense experience, but understanding it and learning to not be affected by sense experience.

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