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  "id": "the-path-of-awakening",
  "languageCodes": [
    "en",
    "pi"
  ],
  "languageNotes": {
    "en": "Canonical passages: Bhikkhu Sujato · introductions: editorial commentary",
    "pi": "Mahāsaṅgīti source edition · only where a canonical reading supplies it"
  },
  "chapters": [
    {
      "id": "path-preface",
      "title": "How to use this book",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-preface-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The Path of Awakening is a Buddhist study-and-recitation anthology arranged in eight thematic books. It uses the navigable form of books, chapters and numbered passages familiar from other scriptural reading traditions, while preserving Buddhist source texts and their own references. It makes no claim to replace the Tipiṭaka, the Chinese canon, the Tibetan canon, or any community’s authorised service book."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-preface-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Read the editorial opening of each book, then the attributed canonical texts. The canonical readings are reproduced as supplied by SuttaCentral, with Pāli and Bhikkhu Sujato’s English translation. A section reference such as MN 61 remains the authority for locating a passage; the anthology’s sequence is a new editorial arrangement. Shortened source repetitions remain marked, so this is not an expanded word-for-word chanting manual."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-preface-3",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For personal study, begin with one reading and its source reference. For a group, a reader may announce the title and translator, read a chosen passage and leave time for silence. A facilitator can invite discussion of meaning and conduct afterwards. Those are optional modern facilitation suggestions, not an ancient liturgy attributed to the Buddha."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-preface-4",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "No text from the Bible or Qur’an has been substituted into Buddhist teachings. No newly written prose is presented as a revelation. Shared ethical themes do not make different religions or Buddhist traditions textually identical. This anthology’s primary corpus is early Pāli Buddhism; the separate Mahāyāna collection retains its own witnesses."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-preface-5",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Editorial commentary and source notes. Independent scholarly or Sangha review has not been completed."
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-1",
      "title": "I · Refuge and orientation · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-1-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Begin with refuge, conduct and goodwill. Read refuge as an orientation of practice, and allow the ethical commitments to shape how you approach the rest of the book. The Khuddakapāṭha’s ten training rules are not relabelled as the five lay precepts."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-1-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kp1",
      "title": "I · KP1: The Three Refuges",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/kp1.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/kp1/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "kp2",
      "title": "I · KP2: The Ten Precepts",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/kp2.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/kp2/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "kp5",
      "title": "I · KP5: Blessings",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/kp5.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/kp5/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "kp9",
      "title": "I · KP9: The Discourse on Love",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/kp9.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/kp9/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-2",
      "title": "II · The search and awakening · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-2-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "These readings connect the search for release, the reconsideration of austerity and the setting out of the path. Their accounts are traditional textual testimony. The editorial sequence does not turn them into a modern verified diary."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-2-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn26",
      "title": "II · MN26: The Noble Quest",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn26.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn36",
      "title": "II · MN36: The Longer Discourse With Saccaka",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn36.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn56.11",
      "title": "II · SN56.11: Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn56.11.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-3",
      "title": "III · Understanding experience · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-3-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Follow the explanations before reducing them to slogans. The truths have tasks; dependent origination identifies conditions; the aggregates and senses invite investigation. The source texts remain distinct teachings even when read together."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-3-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn141",
      "title": "III · MN141: The Analysis of the Truths",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn141.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn141/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn12.2",
      "title": "III · SN12.2: Analysis",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn12.2.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn12.2/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn22.59",
      "title": "III · SN22.59: The Characteristic of Not-Self",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn22.59.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn22.59/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn35.28",
      "title": "III · SN35.28: Burning",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn35.28.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn35.28/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-4",
      "title": "IV · Conduct in the world · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-4-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Ethics reaches speech, livelihood, relationships and examination of action. Ancient social arrangements require careful interpretation in contemporary settings. Do not use a selectively quoted duty to excuse coercion or exploitation."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-4-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn61",
      "title": "IV · MN61: Advice to Rāhula at Ambalaṭṭhika",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn61.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn61/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn58",
      "title": "IV · MN58: With Prince Abhaya",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn58.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn58/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "an3.65",
      "title": "IV · AN3.65: With the Kālāmas of Kesamutta",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/an3.65.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/an3.65/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "an5.177",
      "title": "IV · AN5.177: Trades",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/an5.177.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/an5.177/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "dn31",
      "title": "IV · DN31: Advice to Sigālaka",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/dn31.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/dn31/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-5",
      "title": "V · Training attention · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-5-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Mindfulness and concentration belong within a path of conduct and understanding. Read instructions in context. An unusual experience does not by itself establish an attainment; this anthology does not authorise anyone to certify their own progress."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-5-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn10",
      "title": "V · MN10: Mindfulness Meditation",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn10.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn10/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn118",
      "title": "V · MN118: Mindfulness of Breathing",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn118.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn118/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn20",
      "title": "V · MN20: How to Stop Thinking",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn20.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn20/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "an6.63",
      "title": "V · AN6.63: Penetrative",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/an6.63.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/an6.63/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-6",
      "title": "VI · Care without hostility · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-6-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "Goodwill and patience concern how the mind responds, not a requirement to abandon reasonable protection from harm. Discuss applications carefully, especially where a listener is vulnerable or under pressure."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-6-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn21",
      "title": "VI · MN21: The Simile of the Saw",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn21.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn21/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn47.19",
      "title": "VI · SN47.19: At Sedaka",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn47.19.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn47.19/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "an11.15",
      "title": "VI · AN11.15: The Benefits of Love",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/an11.15.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/an11.15/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-7",
      "title": "VII · Community and human dignity · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-7-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The community is heard through different kinds of text, including teachings on conduct and verses of practitioners. Historical voices are not made identical to contemporary positions, but they can prompt careful reflection on dignity, support and responsibility."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-7-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mn98",
      "title": "VII · MN98: With Vāseṭṭha",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/mn98.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/mn98/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "an8.54",
      "title": "VII · AN8.54: With Dīghajāṇu",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/an8.54.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/an8.54/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "thig6.1",
      "title": "VII · THIG6.1: Five Hundred Students of Paṭācārā",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/thig6.1.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/thig6.1/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "thag1.1",
      "title": "VII · THAG1.1: Subhūti",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/thag1.1.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/thag1.1/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "path-book-8",
      "title": "VIII · Release and remembrance · editorial introduction",
      "units": [
        {
          "id": "path-book-8-1",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "The anthology closes with readings on direct understanding, the unconditioned, the scope of teaching and the Buddha’s final journey. Read the final discourse as a whole supplied edition, not merely as a source for a famous last sentence."
          },
          "links": []
        },
        {
          "id": "path-book-8-2",
          "kind": "text",
          "text": {
            "en": "For reflection: What does this group of readings ask you to understand or practise? Which question needs a teacher or further source comparison, rather than a quick answer?"
          },
          "links": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ud1.10",
      "title": "VIII · UD1.10: With Bāhiya",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/ud1.10.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/ud1.10/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "ud8.1",
      "title": "VIII · UD8.1: About Extinguishment (1st)",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/ud8.1.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/ud8.1/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "sn56.31",
      "title": "VIII · SN56.31: In a Rosewood Forest",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/sn56.31.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/sn56.31/en/sujato"
    },
    {
      "id": "dn16",
      "title": "VIII · DN16: The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment",
      "file": "/canon/2026-09-23/dn16.json",
      "sourceUrl": "https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato"
    }
  ]
}