Goenka Chanting translation

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wizi
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Goenka Chanting translation

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The chanting translation on VRI website doesn't seem to be the literal translation of the morning chants by SN Goenka.

http://www.vridhamma.org/uploadedfiles/ ... ishweb.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They seem to start off with some other sutta chanting before getting to the sutta itself. I am not sure.

Does anyone have the entire translation of his morning chants?

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Re: Goenka Chanting translation

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Dear Wizi,

It might be worth investigating this book:
Gem set in Gold
http://store.pariyatti.org/Gem-Set-in-Gold_p_1457.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

with metta
Chris
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Re: Goenka Chanting translation

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Hi - there's also an mp4 (video) file available from this site, currently free of charge or on a donation basis. The description:

"In this download you hear S. N. Goenka chant the Pali suttas (discourses) and Hindi dohas (poems)from the ten-day course of Vipassana meditation while the original text and the English translation simultaneously display on the screen"

Here's the link, but I think you need the old student password to access that part of the site:

http://store.pariyatti.org/Gem-Set-in-G ... _3246.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

best wishes,

tk
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Re: Goenka Chanting translation

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Thank you both for the links! Now I understand why his chanting doesn't sound anything like the written suttas at first. Does he start off with Hindi dohas and then go on to the Pali suttas? :anjali:
All beings like yourself are responsible for their own actions. Suffering or happiness is created through one's relationship to experience, not by experience itself. Although I wish only the best for you, I know that your happiness or unhappiness depends on your actions, not on my wishes for you.
May you not be caught in reactivity.
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