Which Sutta would you recommend?

[thomaslaw]

@DanteofOld

If a friend, curious about Buddhism, asked you to suggest a Sutta that you would recommend they read first which one would you recommend?

I would suggest first read the sutta-anga portion of SN/SA, and then the Geyya-anga protion of SN/SA, and then the Veyyakarana-anga portion of SN/SA:

See: Choong Mun-keat, The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism: A comparative study based on the Sutra-anga portion of the Pali Samyutta-Nikaya and the Chinese Samyuktagama.

Cf.:

1. The Samyutta Nikaya as the earliest of the EBTs - Discussion - Discuss & Discover (suttacentral.net)

2. The Samyutta Nikaya as the earliest of the EBTs - Discussion - Discuss & Discover (suttacentral.net)