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  • Start Here
  • Sutta Practice
    • What is a sutta practice?
    • Developing Your Sutta Practice
    • How Much to Read
    • When to Read
    • When You Complete a Book
  • Books
    • Canonical Collections
    • Anthologies
    • Suggestions Based Time
    • Suggestions Based on Experience
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  • Audio
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Sutta Art Journaling: Deep Engagement

Over the last few years there has been an emerging practice in the Christian community called Bible Art Journaling. It has probably  been helped along by the adult coloring craze, scrapbooking, bullet journaling, and of course social media. The idea is that by embellish the extra large margins of a text designed for this purpose … Read more

Categories motivation, Overcoming Difficulties Tags Art, Dhammapada

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He who remembers his former lives, who sees heaven and hell with his divine eye, who has attained the end of rebirth and attained the higher knowledges, and who has reached the full culmination of spiritual excellence, Nibbāna—him do I call a Brāhmin.

—The Buddha, Dhammapada 423

What is a Sutta Practice

Broadly speaking, a sutta practice is a regular habit of interacting directly with the suttas in a way that lifts the heart and brings us to faith in the Blessed One, his Dhamma, and his Sangha of enlightened disciples.

In practical terms, this may be done by reading daily from a text, be it a traditional collection, or an anthology of suttas around a particular theme. The emphasis is placed on what is understood and taking that to heart. We approach the text as a sick person would seeking medicine, with the Blessed One as our doctor.

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