{"id":9603,"date":"2026-07-26T04:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paliverse.org\/podcasts\/subha-sutta-dn10-the-discourse-to-subha-there-is-still-more-to-be-done\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:02","slug":"subha-sutta-dn10-the-discourse-to-subha-there-is-still-more-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"pal_podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.paliverse.org\/el\/podcasts\/subha-sutta-dn10-the-discourse-to-subha-there-is-still-more-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Subha Sutta (DN10): The Discourse to Subha \u2014 There is Still More to Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddha has died, and his passing is recent. A young brahmin named S\u00fabha, in the city on business, sends word to \u0100nanda \u2014 the attendant who stayed closest to the Teacher through his life \u2014 and asks to see him. When \u0100nanda comes, S\u00fabha puts a single, carefully framed question: of everything the Buddha taught, what did he praise above all others, and what did he actually establish people in?<\/p>\n<p>What follows is the whole of the path, set out intact by a disciple after the Teacher himself is gone. \u0100nanda gathers all that the Buddha taught into three bodies \u2014 morality, concentration, and wisdom \u2014 and unfolds each in turn. Through the first two runs a single recurring line that quietly governs the entire discourse: each training is complete in itself, lacking nothing, and yet there is still more to be done. Only when \u0100nanda reaches the end of wisdom does that line finally change.<\/p>\n<p>This episode follows that line from beginning to end. We move through the three trainings as the discourse presents them: the blameless ease of a life lived cleanly, the guarded senses and the progressive stillness of the meditative absorptions, and the clear seeing that wisdom turns the gathered mind toward. We then draw on the commentary and sub-commentary to open what the root text leaves unspoken \u2014 who S\u00fabha was and why he came, and why, in this teaching, even a complete morality is not yet the heartwood of the path.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath all of it lies a question you will recognise from your own experience. Again and again you arrive somewhere that feels complete, and everything in you says you can stop here. The discourse offers a way to tell the difference between a resting place and the destination.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the Discourse to S\u00fabha in all three of its traditional layers \u2014 root text, commentary, and sub-commentary \u2014 at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/paliverse.org\">paliverse.org<\/a>, where you can also ask your own questions and receive answers drawn from the Canon and its commentaries.<\/p>\n<p>The PaliVerse Project \u2014 go deeper than you thought possible. What the Buddha actually taught, from the texts that preserved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddha has died, and his passing is recent. A young brahmin named S\u00fabha, in the city on business, sends word to \u0100nanda \u2014 the attendant who stayed closest to the Teacher through his life \u2014 and asks to see him. 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