Majjhima Nikaya (MN 1: part 5, 2016.06.18) Bhikkhu Bodhi

1 Mūlapariyāya Sutta: The Root of All Things. The Buddha analyses the cognitive processes of four types of individuals-the untaught ordinary person, the disciple in higher training, the arahant, and the Tathāgata. This is one of the deepest and most difficult suttas in the Pali Canon, and it is therefore suggested that the earnest student read it only in a cursory manner on a first reading of the Majjhima Nikāya, returning to it for an in-depth study after completing the entire collection.
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[@angorham5153]

Oh dear! [ ] still very much delighted in Bhante's words!! :D
Thank you for your teaching Bhante! Sadhu sadhu sadhu!

[@yongjiean9980]

Although the present discourse says nothing about the background of the monks listening to it, the Commentary states that before their ordination they were brahmans, and that even after their ordination they continued to interpret the Buddha’s teachings in light of their previous training, which may well have been proto-Sāṅkhya. If this is so, then the Buddha’s opening lines -“I will teach you the sequence of the root of all phenomena”-would have them prepared to hear his contribution to their line of thinking. And, in fact, the list of topics he covers reads like a Buddhist Sāṅkhya. Paralleling the classical Sāṅkhya, it contains 24 items, begins with the physical world (here, the four physical properties), and leads back through ever more refined & inclusive levels of being & experience, culminating with the ultimate Buddhist concept: unbinding (nibbāna). In the pattern of Sāṅkhya thought, unbinding would thus be the ultimate “root” or ground of being immanent in all things and out of which they all emanate.

[@NewEarth25]

Thank you Bhante for that clarification on Lotus Sutta, that it was five hundred mistaken monks who left and not 500 Arahants. Wonder if this where the Bodhisattva path diverged from Arahants?