the development of the faculties
Indriyabhāvanā Sutta
Majjhima Nikāya 152 of 152
Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato
Read by: Roland Kitchen
Description
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.