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>Also, I recently read a translation and comment of the first speech by Buddha after enlightment. It's enlightenment. Interesting; got a link?

• PurplePanda 6y ago
  The first sermon is said to be recorded by the dhammacakkappavattana sutta. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's translations of the pāli Canon are usually sensible: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html or Bhikkhu Bodhi: https://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebsut001.htm https://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebsut001.htm There are also translations around that come via the Chinese cannon instead. The suttas are probably very hard to understand without background knowledge or commentary (or, really, actual practice), but of course I don't know which of the commentaries GP refers to. The dhammacakkappavattana sutta, being one of the important/famous ones, has truly voluminous commentary from truly voluminous sources. GP refers to "continuous effort to face the uncomfortable". I'm not sure that I'd use that sentence to summarise the Buddhas teaching to be honest. But I suppose that it could be a reference to the 6th limb of the noble eightfold path (right-effort), or the 7th (right-mindfulness), or to the 1st noble truth (the truth of unsatisfactoriness/ suffering). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path First sermon aside, his last words also, as given in the maha-parinibbana sutta, were to be "heedful" or to "strive diligently".
  • vram22 6y ago
    Thanks.
• ta1234567890 6y ago
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  • vram22 6y ago
    Thanks.