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…Notice the suttas DON'T begin with 'Thus have I heard FROM ĀNANDA', just 'Thus have I heard'. Later prose authors could have been referring to the oral tradition in general, and made up the story of Ānanda's reciting the entire Canon, in order to legitimise the very long texts they wrote.

#buddhism #sutta #sutra #ananda #poetry #prose #canonisation #canonization #oraltradition #linguistics #legitimisation #legitimisation

…Notice the suttas DON'T begin with 'Thus have I heard FROM ĀNANDA', just 'Thus have I heard'. Later prose authors could have been referring to the oral tradition in general, and made up the story of Ānanda's reciting the entire Canon, in order to legitimise the very long texts they wrote.

#buddhism #sutta #sutra #ananda #poetry #prose #canonisation #canonization #oraltradition #linguistics #legitimisation #legitimisation

…The many long suttas, lists, and miracles, in the Pāli Canon, were probably composed, based on the early poetry and oral tradition, by a group of prose authors, sooner or later after Buddha's final passing, who were institutionalising Buddhism to compete with Hinduism, Jainism, Ājīvika, etc.

#buddhism #sutta #sutra #miracles #hinduism #jainism #ajivika #poetry #prose #institution

…Compared to the prose suttas, those poems present Buddha as a more human, ascetic, solitary sage (muni) who abandons ALL views; who doesn't study under Āḷāra and Uddaka; doesn't do a life-long lecture tour; skips the arūpajhāna level of neither-perception-nor-nonperception; and other interesting differences. Give them a read.

#buddhism #asceticism #canon #sutta #suttapitaka #sutra #sutrapitaka #archaeology #archeology #poetry

…Compared to the prose suttas, those poems present Buddha as a more human, ascetic, solitary sage (muni) who abandons ALL views; who doesn't study under Āḷāra and Uddaka; doesn't do a life-long lecture tour; skips the arūpajhāna level of neither-perception-nor-nonperception; and other interesting differences. Give them a read.

#buddhism #asceticism #canon #sutta #suttapitaka #sutra #sutrapitaka #archaeology #archeology #poetry

Let go of the past,
let go of the future,
let go of the present, and
cross over to the farther shore of existence.

With mind wholly liberated,
you shall come no more to birth and death.
~Dhammapada 348

#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #sutta

Dhamma Sharing with Ayya Brahmavara:

The Bottomless Abyss | How the Buddha Taught Us to Work with Painful Feelings (SN 36.4)

https://youtu.be/ERhMY5sQ3Kw?si=kQtgJiGj6dV2yn4O

#AyyaBrahmavara #Theravada #Dharma #Bhikkhuni #meditation #Buddhism #Buddhist #Sutta #Dhamma #feelings

Dhamma Sharing with Ayya Brahmavara:

The Bottomless Abyss | How the Buddha Taught Us to Work with Painful Feelings (SN 36.4)

https://youtu.be/ERhMY5sQ3Kw?si=kQtgJiGj6dV2yn4O

#AyyaBrahmavara #Theravada #Dharma #Bhikkhuni #meditation #Buddhism #Buddhist #Sutta #Dhamma #feelings

The Karaniya Metta Sutta is said to be of the discourses containing the complete Buddhist path.

#metta #sutta #Buddhism #dhamma #happiness #completepath

The Karaniya Metta Sutta is said to be of the discourses containing the complete Buddhist path.

#metta #sutta #Buddhism #dhamma #happiness #completepath

This is the most authentic and correctly chanted version of the Karaṇīyamettā Sutta I've heard, by Sri Lankan Bhante Uparatana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkhftRWKXs
#buddhism #sutra #sutta #srilanka #theravada #metta #chant

Ajahn Candā: "How To Illuminate A Forest? Mahagosinga Sutta (MN 32)" Sutta Discussion

https://youtu.be/rwfpRR0gvZU?si=9MWsJs1ESlbmY7k8

#Buddhist #sutta #AjahnCanda #Terava #Buddhism #AnukampaBhikkhuniProject

Ajahn Candā: "How To Illuminate A Forest? Mahagosinga Sutta (MN 32)" Sutta Discussion

https://youtu.be/rwfpRR0gvZU?si=9MWsJs1ESlbmY7k8

#Buddhist #sutta #AjahnCanda #Terava #Buddhism #AnukampaBhikkhuniProject

“This is what the Buddha was referring to when he said: ‘The world is wanting, insatiable, the slave of craving.’ And it was after knowing and seeing and hearing this that I went forth from the lay life to homelessness.”
MN82 #budddhism #dharma #sutta #nokings

Dhammapalooza with Bhikkhu Jayasara has just started 🙏🏼💗

https://www.youtube.com/live/7rcERr09wik?feature=shared
#Dhamma #Buddhist #buddhism #meditation #sutta #chanting #BhikkhuJayasara #BhanteJ

Dhammapalooza with Bhikkhu Jayasara has just started 🙏🏼💗

https://www.youtube.com/live/7rcERr09wik?feature=shared
#Dhamma #Buddhist #buddhism #meditation #sutta #chanting #BhikkhuJayasara #BhanteJ

I find this track very helpful - like a weighted blanked, except made of sound 🥰

'Itipi so' chant/mantra - pali buddhist chant + ambient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVHiM3CHFY #sutta #sutra #Buddhist #chant #Buddhism #chanting #neurodivergent #meditation #AmbientMusic #ADHD #ADHDer #actuallyADHD

Dhammapalooza with Bhante Jay https://www.youtube.com/live/YCjZovyv4RU?feature=share a community guided weekly Livestream event including chanting, sutta readings, Q&A, Dhamma talks, and guided meditations. #Buddhism #Buddhist #Theravada #sutta #meditation #Dhamma #DhammaTalk

Buddhist practice: Thus have I heard: 'The Four Noble Truths' An abridged version of the 'Saccavibhanga sutta'. http://ow.ly/uW9I30bmKLJ

#Saccavibhanga #Sutta #SaccavibhangaSutta #FourNobleTruths #Buddhism

Buddhist practice: Thus have I heard: 'The Four Noble Truths' An abridged version of the 'Saccavibhanga sutta'. http://ow.ly/uW9I30bmKLJ

#Saccavibhanga #Sutta #SaccavibhangaSutta #FourNobleTruths #Buddhism

#Buddhism #Sutta #Theravada #Samyutta #Silence #TheSoundsOfSilence

A philosophy professor I once had said that one of the worst things you could do to many people is to tie them down to a chair in a room with no stimulation.

People are afraid of being alone with their thoughts

Hence newspapers, televisions, radios, and the worst: mobile phones.

A minority of people relish silence

Of course the same person could relish silence at some times and not at others

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“In the still of high noon, when the birds have settled down, the formidable jungle whispers to itself: that seems so scary to me!”

“In the still of high noon, when the birds have settled down, the formidable jungle whispers to itself: that seems so delightful to me!”

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SN 1.15: Whispers
https://suttacentral.net/sn1.15/en/sujato

#Buddhism #Theravada #Samyutta #Sutta #Sutra #Anger

From
SN 7.3 Asundarika Sutta
https://suttafriends.org/sutta/sn7-3

“The fool thinks he has won,
when speaking with harsh words.
However, patience is the true victory,
for those who praise patience.

“When you get angry at an angry person,
you just make things worse for yourself.
When you don’t get angry at an angry person,
you win a battle hard to win.

“When you know that the other person is angry,
if you’re patient, mindful and calm,
then you act for the good of both
for yourself and the other person.

“People unfamiliar with the Buddha’s teachings
consider that the person who acts
for the good of both oneself and the other
to be a fool.”

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Mastery in our practice, MN 152- Dhammatalk with Ayya Phalanyani https://www.youtube.com/live/AiHXfA_3Q18?feature=share #Theravada #Buddhism #Buddhist #Sutta #Bhikkhuni #Dhamma #DhammaTalk

Potaliya Sutta MN 54 Talk with Ayya Phalanyani #DhammaTalk #Bhikkhuni #Dhamma #Sutta #Theravada #Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/live/EmYXOkZgAKs?feature=share

Yesterday I gave a Dhamma Talk on AN 8.54 "Dīghajāṇu":
https://suttacentral.net/an8.54/en/sujato

It's a rare #sutta where the #Buddha gives what could be called "financial advice":

"...being neither too extravagant nor too frugal. ...'my income will exceed my expenditure, not the reverse'"

I also distinguished between "Cheap and Cheery" (the good kind of frugality), and what I call "Cheap and Cruel" (the stingy, or even deceptive kind). Similar concept: 差不多 ("almost", or half-assed quality).

#Buddhism #Dharma

To motivate myself to do more meditating, #sutta reading, #yoga, and #exercise, I wrote a small app (my first ever) in #LibreOffice Base, which tracks how many minutes a day I spend doing these activities.

Here is a good tutorial which got me off the ground with Base:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhRJFgDG-5o

That tutorial got my idea developed into a working #app - in a minimalistic way - in only 2 hours. After another 4 hours of refinement, the app is in a daily usable state.

#meditation #buddhism #database

But when in the world of darkness Buddhas arise to make things bright, They present this profound teaching Which brings suffering to an end. Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind.
https://buddhismnow.com/2017/12/09/vipallasa-sutta-distortions-of-the-mind/

#Buddhism #Sutta

But when in the world of darkness Buddhas arise to make things bright, They present this profound teaching Which brings suffering to an end. Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind.
https://buddhismnow.com/2017/12/09/vipallasa-sutta-distortions-of-the-mind/

#Buddhism #Sutta

Morning meditation — The heart’s Release by Loving-Kindness.

‘I declare that the heart’s release by loving-kindness has the beautiful for its excellence.’
The Buddha — SN 46.54

https://buddhismnow.com/2022/12/12/morning-meditation-the-hearts-release-by-loving-kindness/

#Buddhism #Theravada #TheravadaBuddhism #Pali #Sutta

Morning meditation — The heart’s Release by Loving-Kindness.

‘I declare that the heart’s release by loving-kindness has the beautiful for its excellence.’
The Buddha — SN 46.54

https://buddhismnow.com/2022/12/12/morning-meditation-the-hearts-release-by-loving-kindness/

#Buddhism #Theravada #TheravadaBuddhism #Pali #Sutta

Another incredible Sutta discussion with Venerable Candā of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project - a pioneering project working to establish the first Theravada Bhikkuni Monastery in the UK where women can train towards full ordination. Please support them if you can.

#DhammaTalk #Dhamma #UK #Theravada #Buddhism #Sutta #Anukampa #Bhikkhuni #AN5 #ordination #VenerableCanda

https://youtu.be/y46k5-wICdc

Another incredible Sutta discussion with Venerable Candā of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project - a pioneering project working to establish the first Theravada Bhikkuni Monastery in the UK where women can train towards full ordination. Please support them if you can.

#DhammaTalk #Dhamma #UK #Theravada #Buddhism #Sutta #Anukampa #Bhikkhuni #AN5 #ordination #VenerableCanda

https://youtu.be/y46k5-wICdc

Live now #DhammaTalk on #friendship with Bhante Bodhidhaja from BSV https://youtu.be/z7GaUtWj-YU #Buddhism #Dhamma #Sutta #BuddhistSocietyOfVictoria #Australia #Buddhist

Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind.

These four, O Monks, are distortions of perception, distortions of thought, distortions of view…
Sensing no change in the changing,
Sensing pleasure in suffering,
Assuming “self” where there’s no self,
Sensing the un-lovely as lovely —

Gone astray with wrong views, beings
Mis-perceive with distorted minds.

https://buddhismnow.com/2017/12/09/vipallasa-sutta-distortions-of-the-mind/

#Mind #Sutta #Buddhism

Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind.

These four, O Monks, are distortions of perception, distortions of thought, distortions of view…
Sensing no change in the changing,
Sensing pleasure in suffering,
Assuming “self” where there’s no self,
Sensing the un-lovely as lovely —

Gone astray with wrong views, beings
Mis-perceive with distorted minds.

https://buddhismnow.com/2017/12/09/vipallasa-sutta-distortions-of-the-mind/

#Mind #Sutta #Buddhism

External sandhi in the #Pali #sutta nipata
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/external-pali-sandhi_norman

External sandhi in the #Pali #sutta nipata
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/external-pali-sandhi_norman

This page gives a quick overview of the most important books of the #SuttaPitaka to use in a daily #sutta reading practice. The best and most easily accessible publications of each book are also given:

🔗 https://readingfaithfully.org/canonical-collections-for-practice

These are the traditional ancient collections that were established when the suttas were well protected by the tradition of memorization.

Have a favorite collection? Curious about which collection would to read next? Let's talk in the comments.

#Buddhism #Dhamma

This page gives a quick overview of the most important books of the #SuttaPitaka to use in a daily #sutta reading practice. The best and most easily accessible publications of each book are also given:

🔗 https://readingfaithfully.org/canonical-collections-for-practice

These are the traditional ancient collections that were established when the suttas were well protected by the tradition of memorization.

Have a favorite collection? Curious about which collection would to read next? Let's talk in the comments.

#Buddhism #Dhamma

It is really helpful for our #sutta reading if we have a general idea of where the places are when they are mentioned. Remember, the events in the suttas took place in real places that we can even visit today.

This page gives you some PDFs of a simple map that you can print out and use as a bookmark in whatever sutta book you are reading. Then you can check it as you read.

PDF: https://readingfaithfully.org/living-in-the-land-of-the-buddha/

#LifeOfTheBuddha #Jambudipa #Buddhism #BuddhistPilgrimage #Dhamma #Dharma

@ReadingFaithfully_org My #FavouriteSutta is... the #Sutta I'm at! 😄

Aṅguttara Nikāya, The Book of Fours, Chapter 20, The Great Chapter 🙏🏼

Today is #FavoriteSuttaFriday!

Your favorite sutta today may not be your favorite sutta yesterday. So share what is inspiring you to follow the Buddha's teachings.

Reply or tag your post with #FavoriteSuttaFriday

#Buddhism #Suttas #Sutta #Dhamma #Theravada #PaliCanon #BuddhaQuotes #RealBuddhaQuotes

(more about this image: https://buddharupa.org/seated-buddha-china/)

@ReadingFaithfully_org @datayana if i may chip in, here on Mastodon, as there's no search function as such nor algorithms dictating what users will see, the recommendation is to really, really use hashtags. #sutta #suttra #suttas #suttras etc etc. And I'd "always" include #ReadingFaithfully (remember CamelCase for accessibility). 🙏🏼