{"id":9599,"date":"2026-07-26T04:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paliverse.org\/podcasts\/the-discourse-to-po%e1%b9%ad%e1%b9%adhapada-dn9-perception-self-and-the-end-of-clinging\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:02","slug":"the-discourse-to-po%e1%b9%ad%e1%b9%adhapada-dn9-perception-self-and-the-end-of-clinging","status":"publish","type":"pal_podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.paliverse.org\/el\/podcasts\/the-discourse-to-po%e1%b9%ad%e1%b9%adhapada-dn9-perception-self-and-the-end-of-clinging\/","title":{"rendered":"Po\u1e6d\u1e6dhap\u0101da Sutta (DN9): The Discourse to Po\u1e6d\u1e6dhap\u0101da \u2014  Perception, Self, and the End of Clinging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go deeper than you thought possible. What the Buddha actually taught, from the texts that preserved it.<\/p>\n<p>Right now something is appearing to you \u2014 a sound, these words, the feel of where you sit. The tradition calls that simple registering of experience &#8220;perception.&#8221; Can perceiving itself be brought to a stop, deliberately, step by step? And if it can, what does that show about the one who says &#8220;I&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>In the Po\u1e6d\u1e6dhap\u0101da Sutta \u2014 the ninth discourse of the D\u012bgha Nik\u0101ya, the Long Discourses \u2014 a wandering ascetic puts that very question to the Buddha. Four schools had argued over how perception ends: by pure chance, as a soul coming and going, or switched off from outside by powerful men or by gods. The Buddha sets all four aside with the claim the whole discourse rests on \u2014 through training, one perception arises; through training, one perception ceases. He then leads perception up a graded ladder of meditative absorption to its conscious cessation, and, testing each &#8220;self&#8221; his questioner offers and letting it fall, shows why perception cannot be the self at all.<\/p>\n<p>From there the discourse opens onto the great questions the Buddha left undeclared, the four truths he did declare, and a closing image of milk becoming curds and ghee \u2014 where each name holds only for the stage that is present. Self, person: useful words for passing things, to be used freely and clung to by none.<\/p>\n<p>We read it the way the Therav\u0101da tradition always has \u2014 the root text first, then the commentary (A\u1e6d\u1e6dhakath\u0101) and the sub-commentary (\u1e6c\u012bk\u0101), each entering only where it genuinely deepens what came before. Four commentarial observations close the episode, including who Citta really was, and why he went all the way to awakening where Po\u1e6d\u1e6dhap\u0101da stopped at refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full sutta in all three of its traditional layers, and ask your own questions, at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/paliverse.org\">paliverse.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this work is of value to you, you can support it with a donation: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=927TSFF5ZGC38\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=927TSFF5ZGC38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PaliVerse \u2014 The Universe of Wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go deeper than you thought possible. What the Buddha actually taught, from the texts that preserved it.Right now something is appearing to you \u2014 a sound, these words, the feel of where you sit. 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