This lesson goes over Pasarasi Sutta, MN 26

1. Q: What are the two types of search? What does each one entail?
2. Q: What realm did the Buddha attain under the guidance of Alara Kalama?
3. Q: Birth in what realm did Udaka Ramaputta’s teaching lead to?
4. Q: Do you agree with the Buddha’s initial decision not to preach?
5. Q: What is the meaning of the lotus metaphor? “I saw that the difference in the growth of beings is like the difference between lotuses born in water and mud. There are lotuses that are always under water; there are those that reach the surface of the water; and there are those that, born in the mud, rise above the surface of the pond, untouched by water or by mud.”
6. Q: What trouble are those who seek what is subject to sorrow in?
7. Q: What are beings who do not seek what is subject to sorrow like?