Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is the first part of a series looking into "What the Buddha Taught", based on a teaching by Venerable Sariputta in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33) - Reciting Together - an extended collection of the Buddha's teachings grouped by numerical sequence.
In examining this sutta in a gradual way, it offers a different approach to learning the Dhamma. We take the opportunity to:
- familiarise ourselves with pali words and phrases and delving into their true meanings;
- extend and improve our pali vocabulary and pronunciation
- reduce any anxiety, confusion or frustration that we might have towards pali and Dhamma that we aren't familiar with
- learn new Dhamma, or revisit things we have already covered;
- get a birds-eye view (or even learn a little more) of what the Buddha taught;
- reference other teachings of the Buddha and the noble arahants to help understand parts of the Sangiti Sutta
- use this as a way of reciting and memorising the Buddha's teachings
- enable the spiritual path to grow and last longer
Other suttas referred to directly or indirectly in this talk:
- — Dasuttara Sutta (DN 34)
- — Āhāra Sutta (SN 12.11)
- — Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63)
- — Khajjanīya Sutta (SN 22.79)
- — Paccaya Sutta (SN 12.27)
- — Parivīmaṁsana Sutta (SN 12.51)
- — Papāta Sutta (SN 56.42)
- — Mahāpariḷāha Sutta (SN 56.43)
- — Andhakāra Sutta (SN 56.46)
To read the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33) - https://suttacentral.net/dn33/en/tw-caf_rhysdavids or https://suttacentral.net/dn33/en/sujato
To access the video with presentation slides, you can go to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDHbVVyRqXA
