4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦

4👑☸ → 🏛️ → 🚣‍ 🔝 🔗📝

detailed TOC

🚣‍ ¹ – introduction
🚣‍ ² - Memorize 📜, word for word
🚣‍ ³ – Indispensable key 🗝️ ideas 📜
🚣‍ ⁴ – Extremely helpful key 🗝️ ideas 📜
🚣‍ ⁵ - Customize your raft ☸🚣
🚣‍ ⁷ – Example Chanting program for every day of the week
🚣‍ ^7.0 – opening, closing, lunch
🚣‍ ^7.0.1 - opening section before each chant session
🚣‍ ^7.0.2 - closing section after each chant session
🚣‍ ^7.0.3 - before eating each meal
🚣‍ ^7.1 - monday
🚣‍ ^7.2 - tuesday
🚣‍ ^7.3 - wednesday
🚣‍ ^7.4 - thursday
🚣‍ ^7.5 - friday
🚣‍ ^7.6 - saturday
🚣‍ ^7.7 - sunday

7.0.$1 - $2

1 – introduction

💩🌊 → 🏝️
from the ocean of suffering → to the island of Nirvana

Having carefully studied and practiced the teachings of the Buddha,
you've become convinced of the efficacy of the Dhamma,
the truth of kamma,
and a strong conviction in rebirth.

Who knows when death will knock on your door?
Are you prepared?
There are only two rational courses of action for one not yet liberated.
Ordain,
or become a full time yogi.

In the quest for liberation,
you simplify your life to the point where your only possessions consist of one set of clothes,
a bowl for eating,
a needle and some thread to repair your clothes.
No dhamma books, no mp3 players.
You're going old school,
just like the disciples during the Buddha's time.
Whatever dhamma you need to know,
you commit it to memory and recite it frequently.

So what's on your raft?
Which suttas and sutta excerpts are absolutely essential for Arahantship?

The raft ☸🚣 simile comes from SN ^35.238

Kullanti kho, bhikkhave,	“‘(The) raft *, *******’:
ariyass-etaṃ aṭṭh-aṅgikassa maggassa adhi-vacanaṃ,	[represents] (The) Noble Eight-fold Path, (as a) figure-of-speech.
seyyathidaṃ— ...	(it is) as-follows - ...
Tassa hatthehi ca pādehi ca vāyāmoti kho, bhikkhave,	“‘(with)-hands and feet , Making-effort , ******** ’:
vīriy-ārambhass-etaṃ adhi-vacanaṃ.	[represents] vigor & vitality's-arousal, (as a) figure-of-speech.

2 - Memorize 📜, word for word

sample chanting schedule
Pāli pronunciation guide: ☸🦍

The absolute essential, non-negotiable suttas that need to be memorized in their entirety, word for word, that forms the core and heart of EBT.

AN ^3.16 - 5.5min: 3 qualities lead to destruction of āsavā's. The Buddha gives a schedule of how you should practice throughout the day, proper way to eat and sleep.
AN ^4.14 - 5min, 2min: expand on definition of right-effort 4pd
AN ^5.29 - 0.5min: walking meditation. One of the only suttas where the Buddha talks about benefits of health exercise, and how it helps samadhi.
AN ^6.29 - 6min: six of the most important meditation subjects (no need to memorize word for word beginning where Udayi gives wrong answer).
KN Kp 2 - 0.5min: five, eight, ten precepts
SN ^22.59 - 7min: 🚫🏃 an-atta-lakkana
SN ^35.28 - 6min: Āditta Sutta
SN ^45.8 - 5min: 👑8☸
SN ^48.9 - 2.5min: 5ind🖐️️: slight overlap with 👑8☸, but here it explains the raw function and likely pre-Buddhist definition of key words like sati and viriya the Buddha inherited, not found in STED 👑8☸
SN ^54.2 - 2min; 16🌬️😤 combined with 7sb☀️
SN ^54.3 - 3min; STED 16🌬️😤‍. The Buddha's favored and preeminent meditation topic.
SN ^56.13 - 2.5min: STED 4👑☸
SN ^56.14 - 2.5min: same as SN ^56.13 but replace 5uk with 6aya
Total avg. chanting time at fluent speed: 50min
But there are some redundant passages among these suttas, so actually more like 40 minutes.
If you don't read all the repetions that typically get elided, then we're talking 30-35 minutes.

3 – Indispensable key 🗝️ ideas 📜

The suttas that contain critical ideas to the heart of EBT, with ideas and some phrases that need to be memorized to form a complete core EBT understanding.

AN ^4.126 - 3min: memorize the STED 4bv☮️ 4 Brahma vihāras formula and the 11x5 contemplation of dukkha
AN ^4.41 - 5min: memorize the S&S🐘💭 definition here. It's what 3rd and 4th jhana are doing
AN ^6.19 - 8min: marana-sati 1: remember at minimum the key idea from this sutta.
AN ^6.20 - 7min, marana-sati 2: remember at minimum the key idea from this sutta. Also that pamojja and piti aspect of 7sb from SN ^46.3 is clarified here.
AN ^7.61 - 12min, seven ways to stop drowsiness
AN ^7.67 - 🏰 study and memorize the key ideas. This is one of the best suttas in the EBT to help you understand exactly how each of the path factors in 8aam, 7sb, 37bp, interact with each other, what duties they share and overlap. Most Buddhist teachers, even those highly experienced and learned, often have muddled views and gross misunderstandings of what sati/"mindfulness" and other path factors actually mean, because they didn't study suttas like these carefully.
AN ^8.63 - 8.5min: 4sp🐘, 4bv☮️, 4j🌕 all are part of "3 ways of samadhi" (samādhi in 3 ways), and you can do any combination of those in all four postures. Also see AN ^3.63 for explicit tie between 4j and walking. AN ^8.63 is like an expanded version of SN ^47.3 + SN ^47.4.
SN ^36.11 - speech ceasing in first jhana, and breath ceasing in 4th jhana, is key piece of information not in STED 4j.
SN ^46.2 - The nutriments for the 7sb☀️: memorize at least the synopsis, but the sutta is actually very easy to memorize in entirety word for word, because of refrain repetition.
SN ^46.3 - 7sb☀️: 37 seconds to recite the synopsis, memorize word for word that part. That is the heart of EBT meditation engine for all 42 of the most popular EBT meditations.
SN ^47.4 - Sālā: (name of village): all 4sp are done simultaneously with jhana samadhi. Also explains the meaning of cryptic 4sp formula

4 – Extremely helpful key 🗝️ ideas 📜

But you could argue these are not absolutely essential to know. You could still cross over to the island of Nirvana without these, in contrast to previous two sections.

AN ^5.28 - 10min, similes for 4j jhanas are extremely helpful.
AN ^5.57 - 5 Dharma vitakkas to be reflected frequently
AN ^6.10 - 13min, know at least the first 3 of 6 topics. #1 is already built in saddha-indriya of 5ind. Dhamma and Sangha anussati are closely related. All 6 topics feed into the 7sb samadhi engine of SN ^46.3
AN ^9.1 - the part near the end on 4 core meditations
AN ^10.48 - ten Dharma vitakkas to be reflected frequently
MN ⁶² - how to combine 16APS with most of the popular meditations
SN ^12.2 - 8.5min, 12ps explanation. Most important part of 12ps, already covered by SN ^35.28.
SN ^51.12 - 8min: mahap-phala: 6 abhiñña. You could argue the first 2 are optional to memorize, but #4 is the same as satipatthana citta anupassana, and 4-6 are the 3 te-vijja, The Buddha redefining the Brahman's "three vedas" in a way of certifying nirvana realization. And the 4ip are essentially an expansion of developing 4th jhana. AN ^6.29 is essentially a commentary on the 4ip 🌕⚡.
SN ^54.8 - 9.5min: dipa - 9 meditative attainments, 5👑abi️ lemonade formula
SN ^56.11 - 10min (6min if you eliminate deva celebration ending): Dhamma-cakkap-pavattana-sutta: Dhamma-wheel-turning-discourse. No need to memorize word for word parts everything in this sutta, such as the devas celebrating.

5 - Customize your raft ☸🚣

These suttas don't contain indispensable ideas from earlier sections, they may be redundant, or they may just be an elucidation of ideas already present in the core sutta passages above. But you just happen to really like these suttas and want to memorize part or all of it. Here are some of my favorites.

KN KN Snp‍ ^5.14
SN ^8.4 - 2.5min/1min, Ananda’s instructions on destroying lust
SN ^12.63 - Putta-maṃsa 👨‍👩‍👦🍴: son's-flesh: 4 sublime similes of 4 nutriments
SN ^22.95 - Pheṇapiṇḍūpama, A Lump of Foam. Interesting coincidence(?), 95 is 59 transposed SN ^22.59 - 🚫🏃 an-atta-lakkana. Is SN ^22.95 a commentary with similes on SN ^22.59?
SN ^35.247 - Chap-pāṇak-opama: 🐍🐊🐦🐕🐺🐒 6 animals simile
SN ^47.20 - janapada-kalyāṇī 💃🤷🤺

7 – Example Chanting program for every day of the week

This is my personal frankk's 🚣 chanting book I’ve curated, use twice every day, and continue to modify, update, refine.
I chant every 12 hours.
5:30am Morning program averages about 25 minutes
5:30pm evening program averages between 5-10 minutes.
Chanting every 12 hours is like rebooting your computer or cel phone, when it’s getting glitchy from spam, viruses, extra background processes lingering around,
and wiping out everything and getting a pure, clean Dhamma reboot of your mind.

7.0 – opening, closing, lunch

7.0.1 - opening section before each chant session

A few lines of my favorite verses and passages, my way of announcing to any Devas who like to listen in on pali chanting, "Please come listen..."

opening line: always about the raft ☸🚣

Dhp ²⁷³ first line, "maggān-aṭṭh-aṅgiko seṭṭho, saccānaṃ caturo padā."
Dhp ²⁷⁴ first line, " ese-’va maggo n’atth-añño, dassanassa visuddhiyā."
AN 4.34: the line, "Ye, bhikkhave, ariye aṭṭhaṅgike magge pasannā, agge te pasannā. Agge kho pana pasannānaṃ aggo vipāko hoti." But sometimes I switch it up and recite a different line or two from the same sutta.
"Namo tassa, Bhagavato, Arahatto, Sammā Sam-buddhassa." (I see no reason to repeat that line three times when my samādhi is strong and I'm lucid and clear about what I think and what I say)

7.0.2 - closing section after each chant session

KN Kp 2 - 🔗🔊: 10 precepts

7.0.3 - before eating each meal

7.1 - monday

SN 56.11 - 🔗🔊 Dhamma-cakkap-pavattana-sutta: Dhamma-wheel-turning-discourse. No need to memorize word for word parts everything in this sutta, such as the devas celebrating.
AN 6.10 At least the first 3 of 6. 🔗mem.guide
Dhp ¹
Dhp ²
KN Ud 1.1
KN Ud 1.2
SN 47.1
SN 56.1

7.2 - tuesday

SN 22.59 - 🔗🔊 Pañca-vaggiya [An-atta-lakkhaṇa]-sutta 🚫🏃
AN 4.14 - 🔗🔊 samvara

7.3 - wednesday

SN 35.28 - 🔗🔊 Āditta Sutta
SN 54.8 - 🔗🔊 padipama

7.4 - thursday

SN 51.12 - 🔗🔊 Maha -p- phala : great fruits, 6 abhinna
SN 45.8 - 🔗🔊 magga vibhanga: 8aam
SN 48.9 - 🔗🔊 indriya vibhanga: 5ind

7.5 - friday

SN 22.29 - 🔗🔊 one who delights in dukkha, not freed from dukkha
SN 47.2 - 🔗🔊 S&S postures
AN 2.5 - 🔗🔊 2min, Upaññāta: known: Gladly, [let only the] skin and tendons and bones remain, (the) body (having) dried-up (the) flesh-&-blood...
SN 36.11 - 🔗🔊 9 gradual cessations

7.6 - saturday

SN 47.1 - 🔗🔊 just the 'ekayano' + 4nt parallel phrase
SN 47.2 - 🔗🔊 definition of S&S🐘💭
SN 47.4 - 🔗🔊 Sālā: (name of village): all 4sp are done simultaneously with jhana samadhi. Also explains the meaning of cryptic 4sp formula

AN 6.19 - 🔗🔊 death
AN 6.20 - 🔗🔊 death
MN 10 Sati-’paṭṭhāna is overrated. Study this instead:

ASK: (A)n-uttara (S)ati-’paṭṭhāna (K)handha Sutta

The un-excelled remembrance-establishing aggregate discourse.
ASK not what the Dhamma can do for you.
ASK what you can do for the Dhamma.

SN 12.63 Putta-maṃsa: 👨‍👩‍👦🍴 A Child’s Flesh

SN 12.0^63.1 kabaḷī-kāro āhāro: solid food ↔ parents eat child jerky to cross desert
SN 12.0^63.1.7 when food understood → 5kg pleasure cords understood → nonreturner
SN 12.0^63.2 phass-āhāro: contact ↔ everywhere flayed cow goes bugs devour her
SN 12.0^63.2.7 when contact understood → 3 sensations (vedana) understood → arahant
SN 12.0^63.3 mano-sañ-cetan-āhāro: mental-intention ↔ man dragged to pit of fire against will
SN 12.0^63.3.7 when intention understood → 3 cravings (taṇhā) understood → arahant
SN 12.0^63.4 Viññāṇ-āhāro: consciousness ↔ bandit shot with 300 arrows a day
SN 12.0^63.4.7 when consciousness understood → name & form understood → arahant

7.7 - sunday

SN 56.1 - 🔗🔊 samadhi
SN 56.7 4nt vitakka

SN 56.13 - 🔗🔊 STED 4👑☸

SN 56.14 - 🔗🔊 same as SN 56.13 but replace 5uk with 6aya
AN 9.36
SN 36.11 - 🔗🔊
SN 8.4 - 🔗🔊 ananda teaches overcoming lust

KN Snp‍ ⁵ Way to the beyond, 16 suttas on how to get to nirvana

Evening Chant, usually mental recitation with {{++sab}

about 20-30 min.of chanting, omitting redundant passages among suttas here

AN 9.1 - 🔗🔊 just the end of the sutta, 4 core meditations
SN 54.3 - 🔗🔊 STED 16-APS 🌬️😤. The Buddha's favored and preeminent meditation topic.
SN 54.2 - 🔗🔊 16🌬️😤 combined with 7sb☀️
AN 6.29 - 🔗🔊 six of the most important meditation subjects (no need to memorize word for word beginning where Udayi gives wrong answer).
AN 4.41 - 🔗🔊 memorize the S&S definition. It's what 3rd and 4th jhana are doing. Also memorize the asava khaya portion. The rest of the sutta is just repeat of AN 6.29

AN 4.14 - 🔗🔊 expand on definition of right-effort 4pd

AN 3.16 - 🔗🔊 3 qualities lead to destruction of āsavā's. The Buddha gives a schedule of how you should practice throughout the day, proper way to eat and sleep. The first, guarding sense doors, already covered by AN 4.14.

AN 6.19 - 🔗🔊 marana-sati 1: remember at minimum the key idea from this sutta.
AN 6.20 - 🔗🔊 marana-sati 2: remember at minimum the key idea from this sutta. Also that pamojja and piti aspect of 7sb from SN 46.3 is clarified here.

AN 7.61 - 🔗🔊 seven ways to stop drowsiness (just the key 7 ideas, not word for word entire sutta)
SN 46.2 The nutriments for the 7sb☀️: memorize at least the synopsis, but the sutta is actually very easy to memorize in entirety word for word, because of refrain repetition.
SN 46.3 7sb☀️: 37 seconds to recite the synopsis, memorize word for word that part. That is the heart of EBT meditation engine for all 42 of the most popular EBT meditations.
AN 4.126 memorize the STED 4bv ☮️= 4 Brahma vihāras formula and the 11x5 contemplation of dukkha

AN 10.48 - 🔗🔊 ten Dharma vitakkas to be reflected frequently
AN 5.57 - 🔗🔊 5 Dharma vitakkas to be reflected frequently

AN 4.126 - 🔗🔊 memorize the STED 4bv ☮️= 4 Brahma vihāras formula and the 11x5 contemplation of dukkha