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Visuddhimagga Talks by Venerable Sayādaw U Sīlānanda

01A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Introduction to The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

Part I. Virtue

01B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter I. Description of Virtue (Continue)

02A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - What are the benefits of virtue? How many kinds of virtue are there?
02B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Kinds of virtue (Continue)

03A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Kinds of virtue (Continue)
03B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Kinds of virtue (Continue)

04A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Kinds of virtue (Continue)
04B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - What is the defiling of it? What is the cleansing of it?

05A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter II. Description of The Ascetic Practices
05B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Ascetic Practices (Continue)

06A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Ascetic Practices (Continue)
06B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Ascetic Practices (Continue)

Part II. Concentration

07A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter III. Description of Concentration
07B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The 10 Impediments (Continue)

08A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Temperaments
08B_Vissudhimagga.mp3 - Concentration (Continue)

09A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter IV. Description of Concentration - Earth Kasiṇa
09B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Continue)

10A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The First Jhāna (pg 144)
10B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Continue)

11A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Second Jhāna (pg 161), Third Jhāna (pg 165)
11B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Equanimity as a feeling (pg 167), Forth Jhāna (pg 171)

12A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter V. The Remaining Kasiṇas (pg 177)
12B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter VI. Foulness as a Meditation Subject (pg 185)

13A Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter VII. Six Recollections (pg 204), Arahanta (end at pg 210)
13B Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Fully Enlightened (pg 210), the world of location (end at pg 221)

*** missing part: (page 221 - Incomparable leader of men to be tamed, till page 240 - end of Recollection of the Saṅgha) ***

15A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Recollection of Virtue (pg 240)
15B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter VIII. Other Recollections (pg 247)

16A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Concept (pg 256 - footnote), Mindfulness Occupied with the Body
16B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Mindfulness Occupied with the Body (Continue)

17A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Tenfold Skill in Giving Attention (pg 263)
17B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The 32 Aspects in Detail - Heart (pg 275)

18A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Mindfulness of Breathing (pg 285 - 292 footnote)
18B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Mindfulness of Breathing (pg 292 footnote - 299)

19A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Method of Development (pg 299 - 306)
19B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Method of Development (pg 306 - 311)

20A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Word Commentary Continued - Third Tetrad (pg 311)
20B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Conclusion (pg 315), End of Chapter VIII (pg 320)

21A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter IX. The Divine Abidings (pg 321)
21B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Loving kindness (End at pg 340)

22A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Breaking Down of the Barriers (pg 332), Near and Far Enemies (pg 345)
22B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Near and Far Enemies (pg 345), End of Chapter IX (pg 353)

23A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter X. The Immaterial States (pg 354)
23B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 24) He enters upon and dwells.... (pg 360)

24A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XI. Perception of Repulsiveness in Nutriment (pg 372)
24B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 26) When a bhikkhu .... (pg 379 - 396)

25A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 84) With Characteristics in Brief (pg 396 - 401)
25B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 102) Great alteration (pg 401), Chapter XII. The Supernormal Powers (pg 409)

26A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 45) Ten kinds of success (pg 420), until (Para 68) (pg 427)
26B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - until (Para 118) (pg 439)

27A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 119) Even as far as the Brahma world ... (pg 439), Chapter XIII. Divine Ear Element (pg 446)
27B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 2) it is 'ear element'...(pg 446), end at (Para 24) (pg 454)

28A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 28) Herein, one birth... (pg 455), Buddhist Cosmology, end at (Para 72) (pg 464)
28B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - begin at (Para 73) (pg 465), end of Chapter XIII (pg 478)

Part III - Understanding
Description of the soil in which understanding grows

29A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XIV. Description of the aggregates (pg 479), end at (pg 488)
29B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - begin at (Para 30) (pg 488), (Para 60) Heart-basis (pg 497)

30A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 61) Bodily intimation... (pg 497), end at (Para 80) (pg 506)
30B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont Para 80) (pg 506), end at (Para 124) (pg 518)

31A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - The Feeling Aggregate (Para 125) (pg 518), Energy (Para 137) (pg 523)
31B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont Para 137) Energy (pg 523), end at (Para 184) (pg 535)

32A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 185) Classification of 5 Aggregate (pg 535), end at (Para 205) (pg 540)
32B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont pg 540), Chapter XV. Description of the Bases (pg 547), end at (pg 552)

33A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 17) Description of the Elements (pg 552), end of Chapter XV (pg 558)
33B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XVI. Description of the Faculties and Truths (pg 559), end at (Para 31) (pg 567)

34A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 32) The Truth of Suffering (pg 567), end at (Para 64) (pg 577)
34B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 65) The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering (pg 577), end at (Para 74) (pg 581)

35A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 75) The Truth of the Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (pg 582), end at (Para 95) (pg 589)
35B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont Para 95) ...the three aggregates (pg 589), Chapter XVII. Dependent Origination (pg 592)

36A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XVII. Dependent Origination (pg 592), end at (Para 43) (pg 603)
36B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont Para 43) (pg 603), end at (Para 80) Decisive support condition (pg 615)

37A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 101) How Ignorance is a Condition for Formations (pg 622), end at (Para 126) The Occurrence of Resultant Consciousness (pg 628)
37B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont Para 126) (pg 628), end at (Para 180) (pg 643)

38A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 186) Mentality-Materiality (pg 644), end at Contact (pg 653)
38B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (cont) Contact (pg 653), end of Chapter XVII (pg 678)

39A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XVIII. Description of Purification of View (pg 679), end at (Para 13) Definition Based on the Aggregates (pg 683)
39B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 14) Brief definition based on the four primaries (pg 684), end at (Para 8) (pg 694)

40A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XIX. Description of Purification by Overcoming Doubt (pg 693), end at (Para 15) (pg 697)
40B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 16) Another fourfold classification of kamma.... (pg 698), end at (Para 19) (pg 711)

41A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XX (pg 704), end at (pg 718)
41B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 718)Temperature-born Materiality (pg 718), end at (pg 728)

42A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 76) The Immaterial Septad (pg 728), end at (Para 99) (pg 737)
42B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 100) (pg 737), end of Chapter XX (pg 744)

43A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - Chapter XXI. Description of Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Way (pg 745), end at (Para 28) (pg 753)
43B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 29) Knowledge of Appearance as Terror (pg 753), end at (pg 765)

44A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 53) Discerning Formation as Void (pg 762)
44B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 73) (pg 768), end at (Para 127) (pg 782)

45A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 128) Conformity Knowledge (pg 782), end at (Para 16) (pg 789)
45B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 17) (pg 789), end at (Para 47) (pg 798)

46A_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 47) (pg 798), end at (Para 80) (pg 805)
46B_Visuddhimagga.mp3 - (Para 81) (pg 805), end at (Para 99) (pg 810)

*** The last missing part ***

~~~ (Para 104) The Four Functions Described Separately (Pg 811) ~ till end of Chapter XXII (Para 129) (pg 818)

~~~ Chapter XXIII Description of the benefits in developing understanding (pg 819) ~ till end of Chapter XXIII (pg 835)

~~~ Conclusion of The Path of Purification (pg 836) ~ (pg 838)

The End