Hi Piya,
Is "K." or "Khd." not a nikaya? Is that a difference between
Sanskrit and Pali canons?
"D.o M.any S.killful A.cts" is a good one.
I remembered "M" is the first letter of both "middle" and "majjhima".
I remembered the "anga" as factors, such as asht-anga yoga having 8
factors, in pali eightfold path is atth-ang-iko magga, sambojjh-anga has
7 factors, so anga seemed to often refer to numbered sets.
"D"igha. These suttas are pretty "D"arn long.
"S"amyutta. I just remembered that by rote.
"K"? by rote.

Here's an interesting relationship I noticed recently. The samadhi
khandha of the eightfold path consists of these 3: right effort, right
mindfulness, right concentration.
Each one of those holy trinity of samadhi has 4 factors each: 4
samapaddhana, 4 satipatthana, 4 jhanas.
4-4-4 makes it easy to remember the samadhi group and make sure you
didn't accidentally forget something.


-Frank

On 2/17/2010 6:31 PM, Piya Tan wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> Reminds me of monastic days when some of my brother novices would use
> interesting acronym to remember the books of the Tipitaka. Di Ma Sa A is
> acronym for the four Nikayas. In English I use DMSA for my students, telling
> them to remember "Do Many Skillful Acts".
>
> Traditionally, the student would simply recite the passage line by line, or
> phrase by phrase, by rote. Once they have memorized a line, they add on
> another, and so on.
>
> Piya
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, frank<fcckuan@...> wrote:
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>> These are some mnemonics I came up with to help me to remember key words.
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>> lobha is like lobster, which has claws that greedily grasp and cling,
>> and it hurts when it clings.
>> dosa is like "masala dosa", a name of a spicy indian dish that makes
>> your blood boil and make you feel hot, similar to anger
>> moha is like being stranded in the>>mojave<< desert so long you become
>> confused, start hallucinating like a deluded and confused person
>> raga?
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>> when you're afflicted with 5 niivarana, you are far from nirvana (almost
>> an anagram)
>> worldlings want viagra , meditators prefer viiraga (anagram)
>> dukkha rhymes with sukha, but don't get confused by mixing sukha with
>> moha and raga so you end up losing sukkaa
>>
>> What mnemonics do you use?
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