The Sedaka Sutta: How the Acrobats Care for Each Other
Read the Sedaka Sutta and its Chinese parallel on mindfulness, mutual protection, and why caring for others involves more than watching their mistakes.
Buddhist Scriptures
Explore Buddhist classics and wisdom, understand the truth of life
Reading the Sutta Nipata: Three Routes into Buddhist Verse
Explore the Sutta Nipata through Dhaniya’s dialogue, the boat simile, and Ajita’s questions, with a map of its five chapters and verse references.
The Salt Crystal Simile: Why Cultivation Matters for Karma
A little salt can spoil a cup of water without spoiling a river. Read the Buddhist comparison closely, including what it does and does not say about karma.
What Is Abhidhamma? Reading Buddhist Analysis of Experience
Find your way into Theravada Abhidhamma through its books, later manuals, and a worked example from the Dhammasangani.
What Is a Dharani? Sacred Words, Memory, and Buddhist Scrolls
Understand dharani through a Buddhist treatise, a sutra on placing sacred writing inside stupas, and the miniature pagodas preserved in Japan.
Four Kinds of Happiness for Buddhist Householders
AN 4.62 recognizes the happiness of having, using wealth, debtlessness, and blameless conduct. Read its priorities without turning wealth into spiritual status.
What Is the Visuddhimagga? A Guide to the Path of Purification
Find your way into Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga: its purpose, opening chapters, and the difference between a first volume and a complete translation.
The Fire Sermon: What the Buddha Calls Burning
Read the Fire Sermon through the senses, three kinds of feeling, and release from passion, with attention to its Pali and Chinese forms.