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**Khcyhshq** · 09-23-2011, 06:59 AM

Hello Traveller,

You are not alone with that issue. Many people has told me that same thing when talking about the Nikayas. My experience has been quite different and maybe can be of some help to see the repetitions under another scope. Sometimes the suttas have a similar structure of that of a Fugue or a buckle or an iteration. In each of them there is a basic formula a kind of core idea or fundamental concept.

Some suttas or sections of them do not have repetitions and are about similes. I have really hard time dealing with them but when it comes to the repetition section, where the idea seems to be clearly expounded, the effect of such repetitions is to focus, to still the chattering mind, to be concentrated and reflective about them. Just to be with the teaching, letting it to settle, working in silence, doing its proper work; a kind of contemplation with insight. A given sutta can take us some amount of time so to settle down in our mind and when some event happens in our daily life... there is an aha! moment that makes us remember the core concept given in each repetition.

Some translations, mainly form "access to insight" cut off the repetitions and in my experience, this do not help me to address the sutta properly.

But anyway, I also think that this is something more about our temper.

09-23-2011, 06:59 AM	#2
Khcyhshq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	Hello Traveller, You are not alone with that issue. Many people has told me that same thing when talking about the Nikayas. My experience has been quite different and maybe can be of some help to see the repetitions under another scope. Sometimes the suttas have a similar structure of that of a Fugue or a buckle or an iteration. In each of them there is a basic formula a kind of core idea or fundamental concept. Some suttas or sections of them do not have repetitions and are about similes. I have really hard time dealing with them but when it comes to the repetition section, where the idea seems to be clearly expounded, the effect of such repetitions is to focus, to still the chattering mind, to be concentrated and reflective about them. Just to be with the teaching, letting it to settle, working in silence, doing its proper work; a kind of contemplation with insight. A given sutta can take us some amount of time so to settle down in our mind and when some event happens in our daily life... there is an aha! moment that makes us remember the core concept given in each repetition. Some translations, mainly form "access to insight" cut off the repetitions and in my experience, this do not help me to address the sutta properly. But anyway, I also think that this is something more about our temper.
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