It's a mystery to me why this sutta is not regularly recited in monasteries everywhere (once a week minimum, once a day even better). It only takes 5 minutes at conversational speed to recite, about 3 minutes if you trim it down to essentials.
If you're serious about the EBT and core buddhist principles, you want to know this sutta forwards and backwards, word for word. Once you have samma samadhi and samma sati memorized by heart, and understand the meaning of it word for word as you recite it, you'll never be fuzzy again on what you're supposed to be doing moment by moment in terms of "mindfulness" (sati, remembrance of Dharma), and what the 4 quality levels of samadhi for that "mindfulness" are.
SN 45.8 π8☸ (sutta text pali + english)
ππ audio broken down into individual sections
Other versions of SN 45.8
Meaning of glyph:
π = ariya (noble)
☸ = magga (path)
π = web hyperlink
π = audio recording
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