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DN2 - Collection of Long Speeches
The second book of the Digha Nikāya, the Collection of the Long Discourses of the Buddha. Because of their length they are not discourses as such, but long texts written for an audience outside the Teaching, indicating that they were created as support for Buddhist missionaries. The Book of the Greats collects 10 suttas in which the four great discourses are included: the Mahapadana, the Mahanidana, the Mahaparinibbana and the Mahasatipatthana. The rest are false suttas, not even falsified. They relate uninteresting stories of unlikely characters who end up, in the end, being ancient rebirths of the Buddha, and thus justify their existence. They are stories to entertain, in contrast to the ...
Treatise on Wisdom - 9
What is offered today is not Buddhism, it is New Age. And any investigation leads us to the same authors and translators. And it's not that it's funny. Buddhism was in death throes, once again like so many others throughout its history, and someone came to revive it. And this time it was the Theosophical Society. He managed to keep Buddhism from being engulfed by the Jesuit missionaries and he “saved” it by reviving it, but of course, giving it that theosophical flavor that is what permeates Buddhism today. A touch that corrupts the true meaning of the Buddha's Dhamma and that has contributed to consolidating ignorance even in those who sought the truth. If the water is thirsty, there is nothing that can be done.
DN1 - Collection of Long Speeches
The word of the Buddha has remained pristine over the centuries because it has been encoded in pāli, a language created exclusively for this purpose, under a very complex system of redundancy. Like any artificial language that was not subjected to evolution, each concept has a word and each word has a single concept, like Morse. The complete code has 1,453,000 words that are distributed in 167,800 lines and these in 64,800 paragraphs. Redundancy is constant, so that each word will have a large number of occurrences in very different contexts. Decoding the texts requires having for each word all the available meanings, not only those derived from the compilation of its previous partial trans...
AN6 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
The sixth book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 649 suttas or discourses whose subject matter is almost always centered on groups of six topics. And I say almost always, because there are not many topics in the texts of six elements, so many are forced as in the case of chapter 11 called triads because they are just that, triads. And well, since three plus three is six... two triads are put in and we have, supposedly, a sextet ready to be included in the Book of Sixes. But we will also see that six is made by adding one to five, or two to a group of four... In AN 6.29 he talks all the time about five things and ends up adding anoth...
AN2 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
Although the Aṅguttara Nikāya is known as the "Numbered" or "Numerical" Discourses, its etymology may give us clues to its origin. The word Aṅguttara is composed of aṅga, which in pāli and Sanskrit means "member" or "division" and uttara meaning "northern". In Sanskrit "north" is used figuratively also in the sense of superior, above, so uttara could be figuratively translated as "more than" in an incremental sense. The different categories into which the early Buddhist canonical texts prior to Hinayana scholasticism were divided were called aṅgās. Originally categories were made depending on the type of material within the various texts and later, it was used to classify those sa...
AN3 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
The third book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 352 suttas or discourses whose subject matter focuses on groups of three topics. For example, suttas are collected, not exhaustively, that speak of the three emotional reactions: pleasant, unpleasant and indifferent. There are other suttas included in other collections that are not in this one. The book of threes breaks with the purely mnemonic mechanics of the "matika" series of the first two books. This is a book made to be read. Even so, both its subject matter and content are far from interesting since they neither relate the life of the Buddha nor include unique doctrinal princip...
The Great Book Of Lies
The principle of economics governs life. Saving resources is the norm in evolutionarily successful systems. The problem is that after cutting so much, it is preferred to believe than to verify because it is cheaper. And believing is easy if you have lies at hand, because the lie that is designed to be believed. This is what this book is about, lies. Of the thousands of lies that build the vital frame of reference of the human being that serve him to try to spend a life without having to think, reacting to stimuli according to his limbic system like any amphibian. And, of course, of the smart ones who for thousands of years have used the same scams to cheat and live off the fools who consume their life, their resources, their work and sacrifice their children to make those who gave them rich and important a lie and they made it their own. If you undress a rich man and a poor man, you don't see the difference. The difference is according to the side where the lie is. After reading this book, nothing will be the same.
SN5 - Collection of Interlaced Speeches
The Great Book deals in depth with the fourth noble truth, the path that leads to liberation from suffering. It is not a path that appears difficult, let alone impossible, although as we shall see, it is easy to get lost and become irretrievably bound to unbearable conditionality. We start with the correct belief. It is evident that if we start from wrong axioms, everything that comes later will be wrong and there, from the beginning, we will be lost. The erroneous beliefs are so many and so varied that we can say that they are all of them, except the correct one, which is only one. It is an incorrect belief that all paths lead to liberation. The correct one is that all paths but one bind to...
AN8 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
The eighth book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 627 suttas or discourses whose subject matter centers on groups of eight topics, though not always. This book contains a remarkable accumulation of important suttas, some of them unique, which makes it indispensable, in contrast to the anodyne lack of interest of the previous books of this Numeric Collection. Even so, it is not understandable that at the end of the book there are suttas that repeat previous ones with inappreciable differences. This book contains a famed sutta that is completely false: AN 8.51 with Gotamī. It contains the sad story of an orphaned Buddha nursed by his...
AN4 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
The fourth book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 783 suttas or discourses whose subject matter is centered on groups of four topics. For example, suttas are collected that speak of the four elements. The groups of four give rise to repetitions of the type A, B, A and B and not A and not B, or even, A, not A, A and not A and not A and not A and not A and not A. They are also employed using four of the five precepts, or groups of three to which a third component is added, such as belief, for example. Although this is a book made to be read, it is of little or no interest. Only some sutta may be interesting, although there are none th...
