Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
In this session, we look at a question that has been asked from one of our younger audience:  
“We were taught at the temple, how the Lord Buddha spent the 7 weeks after Buddha’s enlightenment. I want to be very clear in my mind that this is not a myth. What mental powers and/or physical powers did he use? Does getting up after every 7 days have any significance? I have been told by my Achchi that Buddha had 73 special mental powers and 32 special physical features (specially that he had 40 teeth).”  
To answer this question, we look at the Buddha's words on this period and some other relevant suttas that help us to understand the Buddha's deep meditations (including the attainment of cessation or nirodhasamāpatti), as well as his special knowledges, marks and abilities.  
Some of the suttas mentioned in this segment: 

— Bodhivagga (Ud 1) 
— Tapussa Sutta (AN 9.41) 
— Sattadhātu Sutta (SN 14.11) 
— Cūḷavedalla Sutta (MN 44) 
— Mahāvedalla Sutta (MN 44) 
— Patisambhidamagga (Ps 1) 
— Sāmaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) 
— Mahāsīhanāda Sutta (MN 12) 
— Lakkhaṇa Sutta (DN 30) 
— Brahmāyu Sutta (MN 91)  

Bohoma pin to the young person and their grandmother for asking this question.  
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Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai.

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