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Alagaddūpamasutta (The Discourse on the Simile of the Water Snake)
19M/3.2, the second discourse of the Majjhima Nikāya's Opammavagga: the bhikkhu Ariṭṭha holds that the obstructive things do not obstruct, and the Bhagavā teaches the wrongly grasped water snake and the raft, the six grounds for views, not-self in the five collections, and the fruits of the well-proclaimed Dhamma.
Cūḷahatthipadopamasutta (The Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint)
29M/3.7, in the Opammavagga of the Mūlapaṇṇāsa: the brahmin Jāṇussoṇi hears the renunciant Pilotika's reasons for confidence in the Bhagavā and is taught how the simile of the elephant's footprint is completed, by the gradual training to the destruction of the defilements.
Cūḷasuññatasutta (The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness)
311M/3.1, the first discourse of the Majjhima Nikāya's Suññatavagga: āyasmā Ānanda asks the Bhagavā about his dwelling in emptiness, and the Bhagavā teaches the graded emptiness, from the apperception of the forest through the formless bases to the signless focus of the mind and the end of the defilements.
Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta (The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving)
49M/4.8, the eighth discourse of the Majjhima Nikāya's Mahāyamakavagga: the bhikkhu Sāti holds that one and the same consciousness runs on through the round of births, and the Bhagavā corrects him with consciousness arising dependent on conditions, the catechism on dependent origination, the conception and growth of a being, the gradual training and the liberation that is the destruction of craving.
Pāsarāsisutta (The Discourse on the Heap of Traps)
59M/3.6, the sixth discourse of the Majjhima Nikāya's Opammavagga: the Bhagavā tells the bhikkhū of the two quests, the unliberated's and the liberated's, and recounts his own from the going forth to the teaching of the group of five, closing with the deer and the heap of traps.