Defines mind that is: contracted; distracted; exaulted; unexaulted; surpassed; unsurpassed; liberated.

Meaning of Tathagata, Tathagata’s power

Defines Lion’s roar
The Tathāgata's power to see other’s past lifetimes:

Story - the Buddha ends a feud between two women who kept killing each other in past lives.

The Tathāgata's power of understanding the ways leading to all destinations.
Story – Ascetic who acted like a dog thinking that it would lead to enlightenment.

The Tathāgata's power of understanding how beings have different inclinations.
Story of a couple who called the Buddha, “son”
Story of Brahmin monk who became arahat, who still called everybody “lowborn” and changed herbs to rabbit turds.
Residual inclinations can make it difficult to tell if someone is truly an arahat.

The Tathāgata's power of understanding how beings have different inclinations.Personality types.
Assigning living quarters and almsround areas to balance monks’ personality types.
Story of snakes in living quarters.

Explains: “…the Tathāgata understands as it actually is the defilement, the cleansing, and the emergence in regard to the jhānas, liberations, collectednesses, and attainments.”

Recalling past lifetimes.

Dependent Origination, impersonal nature of process

Two ways of teaching: Suffering or the Cessation of Suffering
Bhante’s teacher

The eight assemblies.
talks about heavenly realms, how long they last

Four Kinds of Generation

Five Destinations
Importance of being with the dying, their visions, how their final thoughts influence rebirth, how to help with this, how to communicate with the comatose.

Story of lady butcher in Burma

Buddhist tradition of gift giving and sharing merit on anniversary of beloved one’s death.
 

Story of Anuruddha and the cakes

Talking about karma, seeing it for yourself
Story about monk who was became the best friend of the daughter he had in his previous life time.
It’s easier to teach country folk than city folk