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I want to read the Pali Canon, what version should I get?

>> No.7893679

You do know how big it is?

>> No.7893683

>>7893679
Well I don't plan on reading it cover to cover, but I do want to learn more about buddhism.

>> No.7893690

>>7893670

>58 volumes

wew lad Proust ain't got shit on that

>> No.7893709

>>7893670
Is that the Dhammapada?

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>>7893670
>wants to read Pali Canon
>posts Lotus Sutra

>> No.7893746

>>7893683
>cover to cover

>> No.7893861

>>7893709

you are a certifiable retard

>> No.7893951

>>7893670
I was wondering about this too OP
Like, the Bible and the Qu'ran are easy to find, but I have no idea where to strat with all thus Buddha shit

Has anyone made an infographic?

>> No.7893952

>>7893951
No.

>> No.7893959

>>7893861
I know, but that's exactly why I asked.

>> No.7894036
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html

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>>7894036
>spooky Buddha

>> No.7894049

>>7893951
There is no "where to start" because it depends on your own inclinations -- throughout the Buddha's teachings you will find that the Buddha used many methods to get his teachings across -- through very brief summaries, very long, technical essays, humor, storytelling, example, cross-questioning, silence, and so on. What method he used to teach depended on what was needed by the person or people that he was teaching.

Without a teacher it is all you can do to pore over the suttas, linked in
>>7894036
and study the ones that resonate with you.


That said, "Basic Teachings of the Buddha" by Glenn Wallis is a nice introduction.

>> No.7894056

>>7894049
>>7893951
In addition, since you are presumably a layperson and not a monk, the suttas linked in this forum post may be of great use to you.

http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=259

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>>7893670
This one.

>> No.7894075

>>7894066
>seek detachment
>have to hoard all those books
>self destroy in contradiction

>> No.7894080

>>7894075
dispassion =/= non-ownership

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>>7894075
You don't have to own them yourself, lad. And as the other anon said, stuff itself is not the problem, attachment to it is.

>> No.7894087

>>7894066
for someone who wanted to empty the mind, he sure liked to make this shit as complicated as possible, amrite? haha

Seriously why so many books?

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>tfw I worked at a book publisher warehouse and we had all of BDK's titles and Thomas Aquinas' translated and untranslated Opera Omnia in nice leather-binding
>stole each and every title of both
>literally probably a couple thousand, and they never noticed
>mfw

>> No.7894097

>>7894087
See this anon's post:
>>7894049

>> No.7894106

>>7894091
>Steal a collection of books that teaches virtue
Oh boy, do I love irony

>> No.7894116

>>7894106
he hadn't read them yet innit

>> No.7894136

>>7894116
How did you know about the parts you weren't there?

>> No.7894152

>>7894136
Zhuangzi and Huizi were strolling along the bridge over the Hao River. Zhuangzi said, “The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.”

Huizi said, “You are not a fish, so whence do you know the happiness of fish?”

Zhuangzi said, “You are not I, so whence do you know I don’t know the happiness of fish?”

Huizi said, “I am not you, to be sure, so I don’t know what it is to be you. But by the same token, since you are certainly not a fish, my point about your inability to know the happiness of fish stands intact.”

Zhuangzi said, “Let’s go back to the starting point. You said, ‘Whence do you know the happiness of fish?’ Since your question was premised on your knowing that I know it, I must have known it from here, up above the Hao River.”

>> No.7894158

>>7894036
>My hut is roofed, comfortable,
> free of drafts;
>my mind, well-centered,
> set free.
>I remain ardent.
> So, rain-deva.
> Go ahead & rain.

Comfy.

>> No.7894172

>>7894152
Was posting that part of your initial plan?

>> No.7894183

>>7894172
As much as I like Bane posting, it wasn't, to be frank.

>> No.7894194

>>7894183
Of course it wasn't, you are not Bane. So you do not know how it feels crashing a plane.

>> No.7894377

It isn't like you'll understand most of the Pali canon without reading the commentaries, histories, treatises and clarifications either.

>> No.7894555

This one senpai:
http://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachings-ebook/dp/B003XF1LIO/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459994094&sr=1-4&keywords=tripitaka