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Gihi Sutta | Sutta for Householder, Anguttara Nikaya AN 5.179

Then the householder Anāthapiṇḍika, escorted by around five hundred lay followers, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. Atha kho anāthapiṇḍiko gahapati pañcamattehi upāsakasatehi parivuto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ nisīdi. Then the Buddha said to Venerable Sāriputta: Atha kho bhagavā āyasmantaṃ sāriputtaṃ āmantesi: “You should know this, Sāriputta, about those white-clothed laypeople whose actions are restrained in the five precepts, and who get four blissful meditations in the present life belonging to the higher mind when they want, without trouble or difficulty. They may, if they wish, declare of themselves: “yaṃ kañci, sāriputta, jāneyyātha gihiṃ odātavasanaṃ pañcasu sikkhāpadesu saṃvutakammantaṃ catunnaṃ ābhicetasikānaṃ diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārānaṃ nikāmalābhiṃ akicchalābhiṃ akasiralābhiṃ, so ākaṅkhamāno attanāva attānaṃ byākareyya: ‘I’ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I’ve f...

Nalanda Sutta | Sutta at Nalanda - Samyutta Nikaya SN 47.12

Sutta for foolish people may have confusion or doubt regarding the Tathagata Ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā nālandāyaṃ viharati pāvārikambavane. Atha kho āyasmā sāriputto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ nisīdi. Ekamantaṃ nisinno kho āyasmā sāriputto bhagavantaṃ etadavoca: On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Nalanda in Pavarika’s Mango Grove. Then the Venerable Sāriputta approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: “evaṃpasanno ahaṃ, bhante, bhagavati. Na cāhu, na ca bhavissati, na cetarahi vijjati añño samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā bhagavatā bhiyyobhiññataro, yadidaṃ—sambodhiyan”ti. “Venerable sir, I have such confidence in the Blessed One that I believe there has not been nor ever will be nor exists at present another ascetic or brahmin more knowledgeable than the Blessed One with respect to enlightenment.” “Uḷārā kho tyāyaṃ, sāriputta, āsabhī vācā bhāsitā, ekaṃso gahito, sīhanādo nadito: ‘evaṃpas...

MahaTanhaSankhaya Sutta | Great Sutta of Ending Emotional Reaction - Majjhima Nikaya MN 38

Buddha don't want people to have perspective about karma, only know that law of karma is exist for existential hence we avoid bad deeds. We born from one life to another due to conditions and not knowing dependent of origination ( Pattica Samuppada) . So I have heard. evaṃ me sutaṃ At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. Now on that occasion a pernicious/wrong perspective had arisen in a bhikkhu named Sāti, son of a fisherman, thus: Tena kho pana samayena sātissa nāma bhikkhuno kevaṭṭaputtassa evarūpaṃ pāpakaṃ diṭṭhigataṃ uppannaṃ hoti: “As I understand the Buddha's teachings, it is this same  awareness (soul)  that roams and transmigrates, not another.” “tathāhaṃ bhagavatā dhammaṃ desitaṃ ājānāmi yathā tadevidaṃ viññāṇaṃ sandhāvati saṃsarati anaññan”ti. Several bhikkhus heard about this. Assosuṃ kho sambahulā bhikkhū: a Bhikkhu called Sāti, the fish...