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Plain Dharma: The Buddha's Foundational Teachings in Modern English

Written by: Gautama Buddha
Narrated by: Digital voice (ElevenLabs "Theo Silk"); produced by Alex Miller
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 Six of the Buddha's foundational teachings, rendered in plain modern English — clear enough to read in an afternoon, faithful enough to take seriously.This is not a scholarly translation bristling with Pali and footnotes. It is a plain reading: the same teachings working scholars have translated for decades, set down in everyday language so a first-time reader can actually follow them — without watering down the substance.Inside:1. The Buddha's First Talk (Dhammacakkappavattana) — the middle path, the four noble truths, and the eightfold way to live.2. The Buddha's Second Talk: Not-Self (Anattalakkhana) — why the body, feelings, perceptions, and even awareness aren't you.3. The Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya) — everything is on fire; what is burning, and how to cool down.4. On Loving-Kindness (Metta) — hold the wish that every living thing, without exception, be at ease.5. The Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana) — watch the body, feelings, mind, and experience clearly.6. How to Decide What to Believe (Kalama) — don't take anything on authority; test it for yourself.Each teaching opens with a one-line distillation and a simple illustration, and the book closes with a Sources & Further Reading appendix pointing to the rigorous scholarly translations (SuttaCentral, Access to Insight, Bhikkhu Bodhi) behind every plain-English rendering.Released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. Copy it, print it, translate it, give it away — no permission needed, no attribution required, in keeping with the Buddhist tradition of free dharma distribution. Every format lives free at plaindharma.com.A note on how it was made: the plain-English rendering was drafted with AI from the original Pāli, then refined by hand — argued out line by line, word by word, against the 2,600-year-old text. The full story is at plaindharma.com/how-it-was-made.©2026 Plain Dharma Press (P)2026 Plain Dharma Press
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