EBT major texts

March of the Arahants

EBT transmitted via oral tradition.

👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦

4👑☸ → 🏛️

🏛️ ¹ – Thera-vāda: sayings of the elders
🏛️ ^1.1 - EBT Thera-vāda: early buddhist teachings period
🏛️ ^1.2 - LBT Thera-vāda with high % EBT
🏛️ ^1.3 - LBT Thera-vāda with serious issues, incompatible with core EBT
🏛️ ² – Chinese Āgamas
🏛️ ¹¹ – Lucid24.org EBT guides

Major Texts

1 – Thera-vāda: sayings of the elders

1.1 - EBT Thera-vāda: early buddhist teachings period

AN → Aṅguttara Nikāya: numbered collection

DN → Dīgha Nikāya: long collection

KN‍ → Khuddaka Nikāya: small collection

MN‍ → Majjhima Nikāya: Middle (length) collection

SN‍ → Saṃyutta Nikāya: connected collection

Vin‍ → Vinaya: monastic code of discipline

Theravada collection of nikāyas, in alphabetical order

Nipatas (books) go from 1 to 11

long discourses

khuddaka, collection of small discourses

middle length discourses

connected discourses

Vinaya

KN Thag

KN Thig

KN Iti

KN Dhp

KN Ud

KN Ja

KN Mil

KN Pe

KN Ps

KN Mnd, Cnd

🔗📝 collection of notes KN Cnd, KN Mnd

KN Snp

LBT late buddhist teachings

Abhidhamma

Ab Vb vibhanga

patthana

Comments

Lucid24.org: What's new?

Link to lucid24.org home page : 4👑☸ Remember, you may have to click the refresh button on your web browser navigation bar at to get updated website. 2024 9-17 Lots of new stuff in the last 2 and a half years. Too many to list. Main one justifying new blog entry, is redesign of home page. Before, it was designed to please me, super dense with everything in one master control panel. I've redesigned it to be friendly to newbies and everyone really. Clear structure, more use of space. At someone's request, I added a lucid24.org google site search at top of home page. 2022 4-14 Major update to lucid24.org, easy navigation of suttas, quicklink: the ramifications 4-2 new feature lucid24.org sutta quick link 3-28 A new translation of SN 38.16, and first jhāna is a lot easier than you think 🔗📝notes related to Jhāna force and J.A.S.I. effect AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111: How does Ajahn Brahm and Sujato's "Jhāna" work here? 3-13 Added to EBPedia J.A.S.I. ('Jazzy...

Advice to younger meditators on jhāna, sex, porn, masturbation

Someone asked: Is porn considered harmful sexual.activity? I don't have a sex life because I don't have a partner and I don't wish to engage in casual sex so I use porn to quench the biological urge to orgasm. I can't see that's it's harmful because nobody is being forced into it. The actors are all paid well and claim to enjoy it etc. The only harm I can see is that it's so accessible these days on smart devices and so children may access it but I believe that this is the parents responsibility to not allow unsupervised use of devices etc. Views? Frankk response: In another thread, you asked about pleasant sensations and jhāna. I'm guessing you're young, so here's some important advice you won't get from suttas if you're serious about jhāna. (since monastics are already celibate by rule) If you want to attain stable and higher jhānas, celibacy and noble silence to the best of your ability are the feedstock and prerequiste to tha...

AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111: How does Ajahn Brahm and Sujato's "Jhāna" work here?

What these 3 suttas have in common, AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111, is the very interesting feature of explicitly describing doing vipassana, while one is in the jhāna and the first 3 formless attainments. LBT (late buddhist text) apologists, as well as Sujato, Brahm, claim that the suttas describe a jhāna where one enters a disembodied, frozen state, where vipassana is impossible until one emerges from that 'jhāna'. Since Sujato translated all the suttas, let's take a look at what he translated, and how it supports his interpretation of 'jhāna'. AN 9.36: Jhānasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato (suttacentral.net) ‘The first absorption is a basis for ending the defilements.’ ‘Paṭhamampāhaṁ, bhikkhave, jhānaṁ nissāya āsavānaṁ khayaṁ vadāmī’ti, iti kho panetaṁ vuttaṁ. That’s what I said, but why did I say it? Kiñcetaṁ paṭicca vuttaṁ? Take a mendicant who, q uite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskill...

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