How To Construct a Sutta

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2026.03.12 at the Sati Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* The Lesser Discourse on the Destruction of Craving (MN 37) A presentation and discussion of one of the more humorous discourses in the Middle Length Discourses which is also the source for the profound teaching that “Nothing is worth clinging to.” The text is a delight to read and provides a clear perspective on how some of these ancient texts attributed to the Buddha were constructed long after his death. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtu.be/FIpOh5K0t7E. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24496/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License