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    DN 21 Sakka-pañha: Sakka’s Questions

        DN 21⁰ - (Sakka doesn’t want to disturb Buddha’s jhāna)

            DN 21^0.1 - (fire burning is also called ‘jhāna’)

            DN 21^0.2 - (Sakka convinces musician to pull Buddha out of jhāna retreat with poem)

        DN 21¹ – Pañcasikha-gīta-gāthā: Pañcasikha’s Song

        DN 21² – Sakk’-ūpasaṅkama: The Approach of Sakka

            DN 21^2.0.1 - (Sakka visits Buddha but sees him in ‘samādhi’)

            DN 21^2.0.2 - (Lady requests vistors including Sakka to not disturb Buddha’s meditation)

            DN 21^2.0.3 - (sound of Sakka’s chariot pulls Buddha out of ‘samādhi’)

        DN 21^2.1 – Gopaka-vatthu: The Story of laywoman reborn to higher deva realm than monks

            DN 21^2.1.1 - (scolded by laywoman, deva remember life as monk)

            DN 21^2.1.2 - (Sakka Q1: what fetters bind the gods, humans, demons, dragons? Envy and stinginess )

            DN 21^2.1.3 - (Sakka Q2: what is the source of envy? The liked and disliked )

            DN 21^2.1.4 - (Sakka Q3: what is source of liked and disliked? Desire/chanda )

            DN 21^2.1.5 - (Sakka Q4: what is source of desire? Thought )

            DN 21^2.1.6 - (Sakka Q5: what is source of thought? Identity and proliferation of perceptions )

            DN 21^2.1.7 - (Sakka Q6: how to cease identity and proliferations of perceptions? Meditation on sensations)

        DN 21^2.2 – Vedanā-kammaṭṭhāna: Meditation on sensations

            DN 21^2.2.1 - (two kinds of mental joy – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

            DN 21^2.2.2 - (pīti and pamojja are the mental joy, 2nd jhāna is better than 1st jhāna)

            DN 21^2.2.3 - (two kinds of mental distress – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

            DN 21^2.2.4 - (could be referring to asubha here, 2nd jhāna is better than 1st jhāna)

            DN 21^2.2.5 - (two kinds of equanimous-observation – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

            DN 21^2.2.6 - (upekkha of 2nd jhāna and higher is better than 1st jhāna)

        DN 21^2.3 – Pātimokkha-saṃvara: Restraint in the Monastic Code

            DN 21^2.3.1 - (two kinds of bodily behavior – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

            DN 21^2.3.2 - (two kinds of vocal behavior – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

            DN 21^2.3.3 - (two kinds of search – ones that cause skillful Dharmas to increase, ones that don’t)

        DN 21^2.4 – Indriya-saṃvara: Sense Restraint

            DN 21^2.4.1 - (Buddha explains two kinds of guarding 6 sense doors – in brief)

            DN 21^2.4.2 - (Sakka expands in detail two kinds of guarding 6 sense doors – those that increase skillful Dharmas, those that don’t)

            DN 21^2.4.3 – (do all ascetics and brahmins have the same doctrine, ethics, desires, and attachments?)

            DN 21^2.4.4 – (have all ascetics and brahmins reached the ultimate end?)

            DN 21^2.4.5 – (sakka asked many teachers: Passion, a disease...drags a person to be reborn)

        DN 21^2.5 – Somanassa-paṭilābha-kathā: On Feeling Happy

            DN 21^2.5.1 - (6 reasons Sakka is happy involve stream enterer only having a few more lives left)

            DN 21^2.5.2 - (Sakka gave musician promotion, and 80,000 devas become stream enterers)

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Ajahn Brahm and the time machine: DN 21 B. Sujato's erroneous translation of vitakka & vicara explained.

DN 21 vitakka is first and second jhana context, and definitely means thinking, not Vism. "initial application"

DN 21 vitakka as source of desire/chanda

DN 21 sound of chariot causes buddha to emerge from samadhi

DN 21 hearing sounds in jhāna, samādhi, and paṭisallīnā

DN 21: Let's keep it platonic. Does B. Sujato know the difference between lust (kāma) and friendliness (metta)?

DN 21, MA 134, DA 14: Smoking out the chinese gophers, hearing sound in 4 jhānas, two agama parallels to DN 21

Where are the gophers (cmy on DN 21, AN 10.72, etc.)? Simile explained.