notes on the Dhamma

4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦 Khuddaka Nikāya short/small collection   I spent about 8 hours yesterday overhauling that index page,  http://lucid24.org/kn/index.html All 15 books have their pali titles translated, numbered (some of them correspond to how DPR numbers KN sutta search references), and a brief description about each book pulled from DPR, probably the Pali dictionary of proper names.  The EBT portion of it, 5 books worth, are on the sticky navigation bar for easy access, and with complete pali + english side by side translation for all of them. Also for that EBT portion, we have Pali chant recordings for all of them, and English for most of them. 🔊 Audio recordings from EBT KN Dhp Dhammapada: Pāli - 🔗 Ven. Jiv.  , 🔗 Ariya Dhamma Mahā Thero  | 🔗 Eng.: Ven.Buddha-Rakkhita  🔗 & Chinese  🔗 & Hindi Ud Udāna: [inspired] Utterances 🔗 Pāli: Ven. Jiv.  | 🔗 Eng.: Ven. Ānandajoti Iti Iti-vuttaka: Thus [was it] - said: 🔗 Pāli: Ven...

All sutta titles in pali with english translation. Navigation works well both on PC and mobile devices for these reworked sutta index pages   DN‍       SN‍  

  r/Buddhism • Posted by u/djrocklogic1 1 day ago Sūtra/Sutta Light Rays Coming From Buddha's Body in Pali Canon I've heard that the Buddhavamsa in the Khuddaka Nikāya has a story about multi-colored light rays coming from the Buddha's body. However I can't find an English copy of this sutta to verify that fact and I don't know of any other stories from the Pali Canon where light emits from the Buddha's body. Does anyone know if this comes from the Pali Canon? Thanks! lucid24-frankk 1 point · just now "āloko udapādi" (light arose) is a frequently occurring phrase, mentioned when special events in the buddha's life happened, during meditation or insights attained. Nothing about colored lights mentioned, I'd always assumed the luminosity was just bright white light, since that's what happens when people's meditation battery are charged and they begin seeing visions with their eyes closed in meditation. Meditators throughout history (of an...

  4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦 Majjhima Nikāya (MN) Middle (length) collection (of suttas) MN has 152 suttas divided into 15 Vaggas (chapters) Usually 10 suttas per Vagga.  4👑☸  →  MN    << link there

  English recording frankk 26min, mp3 + flac sutta text: ●  MN 79     -  🔗🔊  26m,  Cūḷa-sakuludāyi : shorter (discourse to) sakuludayi Interesting things about jhanas in that sutta: * “Well sir, what is that grounded path (paṭipadā) for realizing a world of perfect happiness (ekanta-sukhassa lokassa)?” “It’s when a monk, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first jhāna.... 2nd... 3rd...". * 4th jhana with the ability to converse with deities who live in the world of perfect happiness (ekanta-sukhassa lokassa) is the point where the Buddha actually considers it to be having realized that world, whereas the first 3 jhanas are just the preparation, "that grounded path (paṭipadā)." * interestingly, the 4 jhanas again are somewhat paradoxically part of the list when the Buddha describes the things for which monks ordained, that are better than the realization of the 'world of perfect hap...

I just made an English audio recording of MN 139. 4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦 MN 139 sutta text ✴️ MN 139   🔗🔊  Araṇa-vibhaṅga: non-conflict analysis Pāḷi chanting not yet English frankk 22min ☸ Lucid 24.org  🐘🐾‍  One of the main points of MN 139 is teaching the disciples how to speak Dharma without conflict, without flattering and rebuking individuals and simply describing the Dharma priniciple and how it either leads to suffering or not. for example: ‘Ye attakilamathānuyogaṃ ananuyuttā dukkhaṃ anariyaṃ anatthasaṃhitaṃ, sabbe te adukkhā anupaghātā anupāyāsā apariḷāhā sammāpaṭipannā’ti— You don’t say: ‘Indulging in self-mortification is painful, ignoble, and pointless. All those who have broken off such indulgence are free of pain, harm, stress, and fever, and they are practicing the right way.’ na evamāha. Rather, by saying this you just teach Dhamma: ‘Ananuyogo ca kho adukkho eso dhammo anupaghāto anupāyāso a...

Synopsis What all of these suttas have in common, AN 5.26, AN 8.63, SN 46.3, SN 47.10, SN 54.13,  they all involve the 7sb awakening factor sequence, and how vitakka and vicara (V&V) play a critical role in choosing the meditation subject, lead to pamojja and pīti, and the four jhānas (equivalent to the awakening factor of samadhi-sambojjhanga). First, I present excerpts of my translation of relevant passages from those suttas, showing consistent and coherent behavior when V&V (vitakka and vicara, thinking and evaluation) is translated and interpreted the same way in all of those passages. Next, we revisit the same excerpts with B. Sujato's inconsistent interpretation of V&V. All passages have vitakka and vicara highlighted in yellow so you can quickly see where B. Sujato can't make up his mind on how to interpret V&V. This does not bode well for his reinterpretation of jhāna, vitakka, vicāra. If you're trying to convince the world that Vism. has the proper ...

The samadhi in 3 ways formula, is not well understood by most people. Part of the reason, is because they're trying to understand a corrupted translation of vitakka and vicara. It's complete nonsense if you go by B. Sujato's translation, or Visuddhimagga late Abhidhamma redefinition of what  V&V💭   means.  But if you follow correct EBT understanding of V&V,  vitakka means directed-thought, and vicara means evaluation. Now the question is, both vitakka and vicara are 'thinking', so what's the difference between them? KN Pe 7.72  explains it succinctly: Vitakka decides on a topic, then gives it to vicara to analyze it further. AN 8.63  -  🔗🔊   is the most detailed sutta that talks about  samādhi in 3 ways  .  In it,  4bv☮️  and  4sp🐘  are the 8 types of vitakka used to practice in conjunction with  samādhi in 3 ways , to fulfill  7sb☀️  and  4j🌕  and attain arahantship. So...