So! Whatās the theme for April? BÄle? 
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Wow. I canāt believe it took me three days to get the joke. Maybe I can attribute that to being embedded in a culture that doesnāt celebrate lying with a yearly holiday 
No, the theme for April is community and harmony.
Iām always happy to get suggestions for suttas on the monthly theme or for themes to use in the future.
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I guess you have the theme for next April ā¦ 
Iām reprising last yearās Vesak theme. The suttas this month will all be related to the Buddha somehow.
Hard to believe itās almost been a year of daily suttas. As of today there are 1,347 subscribers to the emails, 510 followers on Mastodon, 312 members on Reddit.
After Tw*tter started labeling NPR as state sponsored media I decided to stop publishing the suttas there.
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More on Mastodon than Reddit! Thatās a pleasant surprise. Congratulations
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Will someone explain the joke for me? 
Iām impressed with the beautiful pictures you come up with for Mastodon.
Iāve noticed that Mastodon tends to be an older crowd than Reddit. More Europeans, especially Germans. More people who have taken alternative paths or who have alternative lifestyles.
I attribute that to the general lack of Buddhist content on Mastodon. So if you want Buddhist content there isnāt much to choose from. Also I got active on that platform with the first wave of Twitter defectors.
April Fools.
Thanks. They are all either from Pixabay or Unsplash. I try to spend as little time as possible choosing them.
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Oh, wow. Itās been a year since my last update hereā¦
This May marks two years since we started the service, 732 suttas to date.
And as usual, all the suttas in the month of Vesak will have to do with the Buddha.
If you can think of any way to promote this service to others who might be interested, please do so. Itās the same amount of work for me if we have 2,277 subscribers (our current number) or if we have twenty thousand.
I share all merits I have collected from this project especially with all the translators and especially Bhante @Sujato without whom the emails probably wouldnāt be possible.
Sadhu Sadhu!
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Thank you so much, Bhante. I just found this post and signed up. What an absolutely great idea. Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu to you and all the others involved 
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Tomorrow is the end of my second year of reading suttas daily.
I started on Vesak withe launch of the Daily Sutta/Reading Faithfully service.
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Sadhu sadhu! I think there are a few of you who joined from the very beginning.
Glad to have you along. Hope the selections have been helpful.
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I keep forgetting to do announcements about the monthās topic.
For October 2024 we have a reprise of giving and generosity, which first appeared in November 2022. It will be all new suttas, so donāt worry about repeats.
In the CIPS giving has 170 unique citations, second only to the Buddha (206) If you add in generosity (28), giftsāspecific types of (35), and recollection of generosity (7) it moves into first place.
Some lovely and inspiring testimonials from readers have been added to the Daily Sutta Email homepage so take a look if you need a boost.
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Just a short update on the projectā¦
In May of 2025 we completed three years of daily sutta emails. We will now start seeing suttas again in this three year rotation. Iām figuring that after three years we are fine to see the same suttas again.
And there is a new way to stay up to date with the new suttas if email, rss, or the various social platforms donāt work for you.
Just keep the latest suttas page open in your browser (or maybe even pin it). Normally the icon looks like this in the tab:
When there is a new sutta waiting it will turn to this:
As always Iām very open to feedback on making the service accessible to more people.
And a special thanks to all those here who have been with me on this journey since the very beginning.
EDIT: Ok, for some reason the icon change didnāt work for me today. ::sigh:: Iāll keep an eye on this.
EDIT2: Should be working now.
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Hi! Iām religiously reading it everyday these suttas. Thank you again for the project. However, it would be good for a place to react/comment/ask about the sutta of the day.
Sometimes I feel almost elated by a sutta and Iām curious if other people were too. I donāt know how difficult would be to do this.
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Thanks so much for the feedback!
Originally the website was set up to allow people to comment on the suttas. Very few people took advantage of it, so eventually I turned it off.
I might turn it on again. Iāll mention in the emails if I do so. But with over 3,500 people getting the mail each day, you can be sure that there are many other people rejoicing with you!
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I love it! Reading daily for one month about 1 topic really plants it into my mind. So the wholesome garden keeps on growing. Sadhu Bhante (and everyone else) for all your efforts!
With much gratitude 
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