The Importance of Chanting the Sutras

Jensu Chita: In an early Buddhism, chanting was not a part of meditation practice except insofar as they were chanting the Dharma teachings. It's just it's more done simply to preserve them because at the time, of course, they didn't have any writing. The Buddha really didn't talk that much about meditation except in a couple of sutras, right? He said, I'm do this practice. But he talked about meditation a lot.