I have finished the Long Discourses. Finished—but I’m not done with them!
Today I started with the Connected Discourses. As of writing, Bhante Sujato’s ongoing recordings are available for most of the Devatā-saṃyutta (SN 1) and part of the Devaputta-saṃyutta (SN 2) on GitHub (in addition to the auto-generated recordings available at SuttaCentral Voice for the full Connected Discourses).
I'm also experimenting with how to listen to the suttas.
In a nutshell, I’d like to go slower yet deeper. Some things I’m trying out:
- Meditating on suttas to deepen understanding
- Using SuttaCentral’s parallel feature to explore parallels in English translation.
- Taking notes, using Bhante Sujato’s four perspectives on the suttas to sort notes in four categories:
- Literal
- Moral -practical
- Metaphorical -creative
- Transcendent
- There’s also research on the Saṃyukta-āgama by the Āgama Research Group relevant to the Saṃyutta-nikāya which I’d like to explore in due time.