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Lost in the matrix, no more! (massively bookmarked sutta table of contents on lucid24.org)

 

One of the goals of lucid24.org, only about 20% complete so far in MN, is to have detailed massively bookmarked table of contexts that:

1. not only serve as table of contents, but gives a concise summary of entire sutta

2. numbered and balanced as a tree in such a way it’s easy to know very quickly where you are in the matrix.

See for example 4👑☸ → MN‍ → MN 46 . If you had been dropped in randomly in any location of a plain sutta translation like Sujato's on suttacentral, there are so many repetitions you’d have no idea where you were in the sutta, what it's talking about.

And on the MN index page  4👑☸ → MN‍ , with abbreviated table of contents for all 152 suttas, you can quickly see the difference between MN 45 and MN 46 (both on the same topic)


● MN 45 - 🔗🔊 13m, Cūḷa-dhamma-samādāna: shorter discourse on taking up ☸Dharma-[practices]

“monks, there are these four ways of taking up practices.
        MN 454.1 – (pleasure now (5 sensual pleasure strings), future pain (reborn in lower realm))
        MN 454.1.5 - (sensual pleasure compared to creeper that kills tree)
        MN 454.2 – (Painful now (useless austerities), future pain (reborn in lower realm))
        MN 454.3 - (Painful now (resist urge of 5niv), future pleasure (reborn in deva realm))
        MN 454.4 - (Pleasure now (4j jhanas), pleasure future (rebirth in deva realm))

● MN 46 - 🔗🔊 18m, Mahā-dhamma-samādāna: longer (discourse on) {taking up} ☸Dharma-(practices)

     MN 451 (beings want good to come and bad to go)
        MN 451.1 (but the opposite happens. Why?)
        MN 451.2 (ordinary person cultivates wrong)
    MN 454 (four permutation details)
        MN 454.1 (pain now and pain future: wrong action, speech, view)
        MN 454.2 (pleasure now and pain future: wrong action, speech, view)
        MN 454.3 (pain now and pleasure future: abstain from wrong action, speech, view)
        MN 454.4 (pleasure now and pleasure future: abstain from wrong action, speech, view)
    MN 455 (four similes)
    MN 456 (conclusion: way that is pleasant now and future ↔ rain season sky sun dispels dark)
        MN 456.1 (Buddha critical of wrong Dharmas of other religions)




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