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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 ...
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...
Treatise on Wisdom - 11
The footprints of the Buddhas cannot be followed. In fact, this is not the way it was or was done. It does not work like this. To walk in the footsteps of the Buddhas of the past, you always have to go two steps ahead and so you see where they are going. It is a wandering walk in which whenever you look at the ground you realize that you are treading in the footsteps of the Buddhas. You don't follow any tracks. The footprints seem to be following you. Whatever you do, wherever you go, you only tread footprints. Not that the tracks cannot be followed? No. They cannot be followed. But footprints can chase you. Wherever you go You only have to go two steps ahead of the footprints of the Buddhas.
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.
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...
Treatise on Wisdom - 5
Putting an end to suffering for good does not seem like a really desirable goal. I have not come to get to this. It is not that eradicating suffering is not a noble goal, and it can be for many people, but it is not my case. Practice continues to guide me and I know that I will eventually reach Wisdom, even though I don't even know what it is at this moment. The "special effects" are not satisfactory and only serve to certify where I am, so far from everyone, that the comparisons begin to become too obvious. It is at this point that I begin to see that what the entire Buddhist world considers valid and supports many of its postulates are collections of recurring falsehoods that violate logic and the suttas themselves.
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...
MN1 - Intermediate Speech Collection
The Majjhima Nikāya (abbreviated MN) or Collection of the Buddha's Intermediate Discourses is a collection of 152 discourses in the Pāli canon. The word "intermediate" refers to the length of each individual discourse. It contains a wide variety of teachings presented as narratives between the Buddha and a wide range of his contemporaries. The collection parallels the Madhyamāgama (MA) of the Sarvāstivāda school, which survives as a translation in the Chinese canon. The Collection of the Buddha's Intermediate Discourses is the best known collection among the four Nikāyas containing original suttas. This popularity may be due to the fact that it mixes biographical anecdotes with very su...
Treatise on Wisdom - 10
This book addresses the fundamental question that humans have been concerned with throughout history: what are we and where do we come from and, more importantly, where are we going ... all these questions have to do with what is " reality". Tomás Morales, in this book, has discussed these basic questions from the perspective of what is real and what is made up in our own minds, which brings us to the last question: why are we here or what is the ultimate goal? in human life? Tomás Morales has approached this issue of what reality is from many aspects, including the spiritual and scientific basis used by others to explain human behavior. All these discussions make us wonder again who we are and where we are going ... this becomes a fundamental question in astronomy, now that we know, that the earth is just a kind of dust in the cosmos! Thomas has discussed this fundamental topic from his own life experiences and his deep understanding of the scientific and theological bases of human behavior, and I find this book to be a very deep look at human behavior!
