References – MN 83: About King Maghadeva 
Sutta / Majjhima Nikāya / MN 83: Maghadevasutta

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“What is hasituppāda citta—consciousness producing mirth—that is the Buddha’s smile?” Answered by Ajahn Pasanno. [Humor ] [Buddha/Biography] // [Teaching Dhamma]

Suttas: MN 81; MN 83; AN 5.180: Examples of the Buddha’s smile.

Sutta: MN 12.58: “You might think that the jujube fruit was bigger in those days...” [Ascetic practices]

Sutta: SN 17.5: A dung beetle gloats about his pile. [Gain and loss] [Fame and disrepute] [Similes] [Monastic life]

Thanksgiving Retreat 2011, Session 3, Excerpt 9