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1 – introduction
From the ocean of suffering to the island of Nirvana
| Habiendo te sumergido en las enseñanzas y práctica del Buddha, | Having immersed yourself in the Buddha’s teachings and practice, | 深研佛陀的教法与修行后， |
| ahora estás seguro de la eficacia del Dhamma, | you are now certain of the Dhamma’s efficacy, | 你已深信正法的实效、 |
| la realidad del kamma, | the reality of kamma, | 业力的真实， |
| y el ciclo ineludible del renacimiento. | and the inescapable cycle of rebirth. | 以及那无可逃避的轮回。 |
| La llegada de la muerte es impredecible; ¿cuándo tocará? | Death’s arrival is unpredictable; when will it knock? | 死期难以预料；它何时会敲响你的大门？ |
| ¿Estás verdaderamente preparado? | Are you truly prepared? | 你真的准备好了吗？ |
| Para el no liberado, solo quedan dos caminos racionales: | For the unliberated, only two rational paths remain: | 对于尚未解脱的人，唯有两条理性的道路： |
| La renuncia a través de la ordenación, | Renunciation through ordination, | 出家修行， |
| o la vida de un yogi dedicado. | or the life of a dedicated yogi. | 或是成为一名全职的禅修者。 |
| Impulsado por la búsqueda de la liberación, | Driven by the quest for liberation, | 在解脱之志的驱使下， |
| reduces la vida a lo esencial: una sola túnica, | You strip life down to the essentials: a single robe, | 你将生活简化至极致：一身袈裟、 |
| un cuenco de limosnas, | an alms bowl, | 一个衣钵， |
| y una aguja e hilo para reparaciones. | and a needle and thread for repairs. | 以及缝补衣物的针线。 |
| Sin libros, sin distracciones digitales. | No books, no digital distractions. | 没有经书，没有电子干扰。 |
| Regresas al camino antiguo, | You return to the ancient way, | 你回归古老的传统， |
| reflejando a los discípulos del Buddha. | mirroring the disciples of the Buddha. | 效仿佛陀当年的弟子。 |
| El Dhamma que requieres, | The Dhamma you require, | 你所需要的法， |
| queda grabado en la memoria mediante recitación constante. | is etched into memory through constant recitation. | 皆通过不断的诵读刻进记忆之中。 |
| ¿Qué, entonces, permanece en tu balsa? | What, then, stays on your raft? | 那么，你的法船上还留着什么？ |
| ¿Cuáles suttas, y cuáles pasajes de suttas, son las semillas vitales de la Iluminación? | Which suttas, and which sutta passages, are the vital seeds of Enlightenment? | 哪些经文，哪些经文片段，才是成就正觉的关键种子？ |
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 schedulePāli 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
--ERROR SUTREF: KN Kp 2🔗🔊--: 10 precepts7.0.3 - 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
--ERROR SUTREF: Ud 1.1--
--ERROR SUTREF: 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 SuttaSN 54.8 padipama
7.4 - thursday
SN 51.12 Maha -p- phala : great fruits, 6 abhinnaSN 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 dukkhaSN 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 phraseSN 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 kabaḷī-kāro āhāro: solid food ↔ parents eat child jerky to cross desertSN 12.0 when food understood → 5kg pleasure cords understood → nonreturner
SN 12.0 phass-āhāro: contact ↔ everywhere flayed cow goes bugs devour her
SN 12.0 when contact understood → 3 sensations (vedana) understood → arahant
SN 12.0 mano-sañ-cetan-āhāro: mental-intention ↔ man dragged to pit of fire against will
SN 12.0 when intention understood → 3 cravings (taṇhā) understood → arahant
SN 12.0 Viññāṇ-āhāro: consciousness ↔ bandit shot with 300 arrows a day
SN 12.0 when consciousness understood → name & form understood → arahant
7.7 - sunday
SN 56.1 samadhiSN 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 meditationsSN 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