SD 60 – 69 (in progress) | The Dharmafarers

In progress …

Note: (a) A sutta whose title is preceded by an asterisk (*) means that it is only an excerpt. (b) All files are in pdf.

Celebrating 20 years (2002-2023) of full-time sutta translation and teaching by Piya Tan (TAN Beng Sin) assisted by Ratna Lim and family:

Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 + 2, 3, 4, 5.6 (SD 60.1ab, SD 60.1c, SD 60.1d, SD 60.1e, SD 60.1f) by Piya Tan: covers/imprints/detailed contents [download].

Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 & 2 by Piya Tan

SD 60.1ab: Character analysis; and Samatha, Vipassana, Kammatthana (2022a, 2023 rev) [ISBN 978–981–18–5504–7]

“Meditation is the ground from which we rise into the space of freedom.”

SD No.

Sutta or Chapter Title

Sutta reference

Theme

60.1ab

SD 60.1ab cover & TMC activities

SD 60.1ab Cover, imprint, detailed contents

Character analysis; types of meditation: samatha, vipassana, kammatthana.

60.1ab

SD 60.1ab Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 & 2

SD 60ab cover

Note: (a) A sutta whose title is preceded by an asterisk (*) means that it is only an excerpt. (b) All files are in pdf.

Handbook of Meditation in Society 3 by Piya Tan

SD 60.1c: The rhetoric of Buddhist Experience: A psychosocial exploration of modern Buddhism (2022b).

“Buddhism is daily experience fully and joyfully understood.”


SD No.	Sutta or Chapter Title	Sutta reference	Theme
60.1c	SD 60.1c Cover, imprint and detailed contents
60.1c	SD 60.1c The rhetoric of Buddhist Experience		A psychosocial exploration of modern Buddhism.

Handbook of Meditation in Society 4 by Piya Tan

SD 60.1d: An Evolutionary Psychology of Mindfulness: Buddhist experience: the individual and society (2023a).

“Mindfulness is knowing ourself so that we awaken to true freedom.”


SD No.	Sutta or Chapter Title	Sutta reference	Theme
60.1d	SD 60.1d Cover, imprint and detailed contents.
60.1d	SD 60.1d An evolutionary psychology of mindfulness.		Buddhist experience: the individual and society

Handbook of Meditation in Society 5 by Piya Tan

SD 60.1e: Delusion and Experience: Epistemology, psychology and the Abhidhamma (2023b).

“What we know is what we sense: thinking makes sense of it.”


SD No.	Sutta or Chapter Title	Sutta reference	Theme
60.1e	SD 60.1e Cover and Detailed contents.
60.1e	SD 60.1e Delusion and Experience.		Epistemology, psychology and the Abhidhamma.

Handbook of Meditation in Society 6 by Piya Tan

SD 60.1f: A Psychopathology of Mindfulness: when religion and meditation fail. (2023c).

“Wisdom and science are the better alternative to religion.”


SD No.	Sutta or Chapter Title	Sutta reference	Theme
60.1f	SD 60.1f Cover and Detailed contents.
60.1e	SD 60.1f A psychopathy of mindfulness.		When religion and meditation fail.

SD 60.2: Mindfulness in practice. (2024a). “Mindfulness is seeing here, awareness in knowing now.”

SD No.	Sutta or Chapter Title	Sutta reference	Theme
	SD 60.2 Cover imprint TMC activities
60.2	Mindfulness & lovingkindness	Essay	Versality and harmony in early Buddhist mental cultivation.
60.3	Pilinda Sutta	U 3.6	Dealing with habitual tendencies.
60.4	Go,datta Sutta	S 41.7	Citta the houselord’s teachings on the liberations of mind.
60.5	Maha Kaccana Lohicca Sutta	S 35.132	Recalling goodness in the past.
60.6	Avassuta Pariyaya Sutta	S 35.202	An arhat is a master of his senses and mind.
60.7	Yassadani kalam mannati	Essay	Formula for departure or invitation?
60.8	Makhadeva Sutta	M 83	A good tradition that is worth perpetuating.
60.9	Sitibhava Sutta	A 6.85	Wrong practice and right practice.
60.10	Chakka Arati Sutta	A 6.113	Discontent is when we know not what is truly good.
60.11	Satipatthana Sati Sutta	S 47.2	Mindfulness is being here and now.
60.12	Atthasata Sutta	S 36.22	The various forms and sets of feelings.
60.13	Kappavasesa	Essay	The meanings and usages of kappavasesa in terms of the Buddha’s lifespan.
	SD 60.2 BACK COVER 20 reasons for translating suttas

Selected essays from Piya Tan’s SD series (SD 60 onwards)