...the fully awakened Buddha has taught these four summaries of the teaching for recitation....
What four?
‘The world is unstable and swept away.’ This is the first summary.
‘The world has no shelter and no savior.’ This is the second summary.
‘The world has no owner—you must leave it all behind and pass on.’ This is the third summary.
‘The world is wanting, insatiable, the slave of craving.’ This is the fourth summary.
MN 82 Raṭṭhapāla sutta

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Here is a 17-min recorded audio-only Guided meditation, from an in-person event at TIMS, to an audience (17MB .mp3):
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/audio/2023/02/17/Dhamma_Talk_audio_013.html

Topics: meditation on space, beginning generally with the body and the breath, but then expanding to encompass larger and larger volumes of space, including the area behind oneself

Suttas referenced: MN 127, verse 5; AN 6.26

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Dhamma Talk Audio 13: Guided Meditation on the Space Element - TIMS, Taiping, Malaysia

Here is a 17-min recorded audio-only Guided meditation, from an in-person event at TIMS, to an audience. (17MB .mp3). Topics: meditation on space, beginning generally with the body and the breath, but then expanding to encompass larger and larger volumes of space, including the area behind oneself

Ajahn Subharo

The second book about the life of the Buddha is by Ajahn Thanissaro, *Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha Compiled from the Pāli Canon.* It's available as a free #Epub, #Kindle, and PDF book. You can also request a free print copy from his monastery.

https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html#NobleWarrior

Again, these books draw material from the #Suttas and a bit from the #Vinaya, not from the commentaries or other legends.

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