Four Graded Questions From the Buddha - How Do You Score? | Ajahn Kovilo

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo - in reference to the Upakkilesa Sutta (MN 128) - frames the "Buddha's Hierarchy of Needs" as a parallel to Maslow's, and speaks about four sequential questions the Buddha would ask his students:
1) “I hope you’re bearing up? I hope you’re keeping going? I hope you’re having no trouble getting food?”
2) “I hope you’re living in harmony, appreciating each other, without quarreling, blending like milk and water, and regarding each other with kindly eyes?”
3) "But I hope you’re living diligently, keen, and resolute?”
4) "But as you live diligently like this, have you achieved any superhuman distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones, a meditation at ease?”
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