Dear Tenphel, Ardavarz and friends,

according to Theravada traditional account, these were the first three sermons of the Buddha.

1. Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (at Isipatana, Varanasi)
2. Anattalakkhana Sutta (at Isipatana, Varanasi)
3. Adittapariyaya Sutta (at Gayasisa, Gaya)

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/wheel017.html

In Dhammacakkappavattana, the Buddha's maiden sermon, we learnt about the Middle Way, the Four Noble Truths, and the underlying theme of Dependent Origination.

In Anattalakkhana, his second sermon, the Buddha discussed non-self (anatta), impermanence (anicca). Together with dukkha - the Buddhist philosophical view of existence - from the first sutta, the doctrine of the trio of characteristics, tilakkhana is now complete.

The third, Adittapariyaya, was considered by T. S. Eliot to be highly significant, just like the Sermon of the Mount in the Bible. I do not know what Eliot meant by making such comparisons. However, this sermon marks a historic moment in the Buddha's ministry and the Sangha movement, just as the first sermon marks the beginning of the Sangha.

metta,
Yong Peng.

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What would be the other two suttas from Samyutta?