where can i find buddha's teaching targeted to lay people?

Peace2012ca

I'm interested in attaining happiness in this life. I am not so much concerned about future life or nibbana.

Which suttas can I look at to increase my pleasure and satisfication in the current life? Can someone provide a list of suttas devoted to lay individuals?

Metta,

Dakini

Ask @Jason He posted some links recently to the Buddha's teachings for householders/lay followers.

Dakini

Here's something to get you going:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel294.html

DaltheJigsaw

I would also like some good suttas/links. Can you find that link for us Dakini?

Jason

Try here for starters.

DaltheJigsaw

Try here for starters.

Thank You!

bodhipunk

I had a thread on this very topic almost a year ago.

DaltheJigsaw

I had a thread on this very topic almost a year ago.

Thanks!

Peace2012ca

Thanks Jason and Dakini . Much appreciated.

Yes, I do remember the suttas on wealth. Thank you for providing them. I was eager to learn more

Dakini

Leon just found and posted a lecture by the Buddha on wealth. It's a good one.

shanyin

I would look up the four noble truths.

Try getting a daily practice going.

Do you have any vipassana retreat centers near you?

Jeffrey

Lotus born. The story is that everybody loved him as a boy. Then he was playing on a roof and he dislodged a stone which hit somebody on the head and killed them. Everybody was then against him and he learned from that that peoples thoughts were dependently originated.

I believe that even simply looking at his picture can remove obstacles: inner, outer, and secret.

(( the Tibetan tradition has other Buddha's than Shakyamuni. I just wanted to share the bounty and diversity. Smorgasboard!!))

weighted

Try here for starters.

Thanks for this, @Jason.

And for the picture, @Jeffrey.

Sile

There really is something about that statue. I've always found it unusual (in a good and fascinating way).

Here's the mantra if anyone would like it:

Om a hung benzra guru pema siddhi hung