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Which suttas should I study first? How an oral tradition works.

 

Re: What texts should I study first?

Post by frank k » 

Gami47 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 2:34 pm:namaste:
This will give you a strong foundation.
https://lucid24.org/misc/raft/index.html

You shouldn't think of it like a college course where you go through an ordered series of suttas that you study, then move on and graduate from them.

Rather, the Dhamma contains not a large amount of important ideas, but you keep revisiting them and deepening your understanding of it.
The suttas were designed and composed for an oral tradition,
which means to get to most out of it, you should memorize the core ideas,
recite the instructions frequently, every day, think and ponder their meaning.
Then dots will start to connect, and you'll deepen your understanding contiuously over time.
Years later, decades later, you'll continue to discover deeper layers.


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  1. nikeJanuary 31, 2023 at 11:36 AM

    賢友好,很抱歉借用這個帖子來述說與此帖不相關的內容,因為實在找不到您的email
    您能否為您英文的弘法網站(lucid24.org)增加一個中文版本，這樣以造福講中文的讀者？就是在右上角有英文顯示和中文顯示按鈕那樣式的，英文讀者選擇英文顯示，中文讀者選擇中文顯示那樣式的網站。另外不知道blogspot.com是否支持讀者使用自己的母語進行閱讀？如果支持的話能否請賢友在您的(http://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/)穀歌博客系統增加一個中文顯示？

    很喜歡看你這兩個網站，並且也很受益，但因為母語是中文，閱讀英文網站只能使用穀歌翻譯頗不方便，所以有了以上的不情之請.

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    1. frankkFebruary 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM

      my contact info is on the sidebar to the right side of the blog:
      contact info, response to blog comments, subscribe
      http://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/p/contact-response-to-commenters.html
      once you get me on there we can exchange email addresses

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