Dear Pat,

I myself use the bilingual (Pali-English) editions of Aanandajoti Bhikkhu and find them very helpful. This is a good collection of discourses about meditation and other subjects from different parts of the Pali Canon. You can download them from the site:

http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/TT-index.htm

With metta,
Ardavarz

--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Patrick Hall <pathall@...> wrote:
From: Patrick Hall <pathall@...>
Subject: [Pali] Which parts of the Pali canon deal most directly with meditation?
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 2:19 AM












Hello friends,



I've only just begun my studies of Pali, and looking at the size of

the canon is rather overwhelming, millions of words of text. I'm

simultaneously learning about Buddhism, but I've been practicing

meditation for some time now.



I'm interested in trying to read some original Pali about meditation,

but I really have no idea how our where to find them among the thicket

of text.



Is there a section of the canon which is most focused on approaching

meditation?



I realize that it may be hard to interpret the Pali texts as a

"how-to" guide (to get started I'm relying on a lot of works in

English as well as dhamma talks), but I'm motivated to try to

investigate some of the texts.



Any suggestions?



With metta,

Pat



PS. I'm relying on the Unicode-encoded version of the canon from

http://www.buddhist ethics.org/ palicanon. html .





























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