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Reading Faithfully
  • 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
    • Sutta Reading Book Sources
  • Audio
  • Downloads
  • Ebooks
  • Home
    • Dedication of Merit
    • Glossary
    • Sutta Reading Frequently Asked Questions
    • Contact

Memorizing

Simple Chart of the Sutta Pitaka

Learn to find your way around the Sutta Pitaka with this simple chart. Knowing the structure of the Pali Canon will make you more comfortable with what you read.

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Categories Reference Material Tags Canon, Memorizing, Pronunciation, Sutta Pikaka

Personal Anthology

The Blessed One Is Talking to You: Making Your Personal Anthology When we read the suttas faithfully, we are going to find passages that strongly resonate with us. We may get a feeling that the Buddha is speaking to us directly, seeing our defilements and giving the precise antidote to our disease of suffering. It … Read more

Categories motivation Tags Hindrances to Reading, Memorizing, Personal, Personal Anthology, Pragmatic

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He who has passed beyond the troublesome road of defilements, this difficult path, this journey of rebirths, this delusion; who has crossed over and reached the other shore; who is a meditator, free from craving, free from doubt, and clinging to nothing; and who has become cooled—him do I call a Brāhmin.

—The Buddha, Dhammapada 414

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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