Dear friends, a quick look at my personal records revealed that we were slightly ahead than previously thought. We had, in fact, completed up to Sa.myojana...
Dear Yong Peng, yes, that is in my files. I hope that Ven. Yutadhammo is still around, he helped us. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Yong Peng, Thank you very much. What about it if we translate ka.nhaa literally as dark? Then it is in contrast to sukka in the next sutta I would...
Hello Pat, A fundamental meditation teaching of the Buddha can be found as the "Teaching on mindfulness of Breathing" (Ānāpāna-sati Sutta, Majjhima-Nikāya...
Dear Pali pals, Could you kindly explain how the ~n~ (spanish "senor" sound) is pronounced before a consonant such as "j"? (So far I have only seen this in...
Dear Phil you could try: <http://www.aimwell.org/Help/Pali/pali.html> and click: pa~nca and pa~nha. Nina. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear phil, It's called a tilde ! As for the pronunciation. when ~n is followed by a vowel, it is pronounced with the full -ny- sound, as you correctly say,...
... This is right. 'deva' is a common Pali term for rain, rainy sky or cloud . This meaning is noted in PTS Dictionary under DEVA. So devo vassati means "it...
Dear Yong Peng, I will try the last sentence. Op 1-mrt-2009, om 14:45 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven: AN2.1.9 Cariyasutta 9. "Dveme , bhikkhave,...
Hello James and Nina ... further back for c/j, and further back still for the subdotted .t/.d, pronounce the preceding n/~n/.n at that same spot and it will...
Hello group I think most of your are already familiar with themm,but I'd like to offer these very helpful tables to fellow beginners. I find in the online...
Pat, you may want consider reading up on the Gradual Training (as found in MN 107) to have a more complete picture of the practice, rather than just focus on...
There's a problem in equating citta, mano and vi~n~naa.na. If mano and vi~n~naa.na (leaving out citta for now) are the same, what then is manovi~n~naa.na,...
Venerable Bhikkhu Kumara, ... N: Yes, this is a sixfold classification we find in the Suttanta: mano-vi~n~naa.na are all the cittas that are not seeing,...
... It's curious though, and perhaps even unsettling, that the Buddha encouraged the practice of asubha, which many of the monks apparently did not grasp...
Dear Ven. Kumara and Nina, thanks for the ensuing discussion to my post, even though it deviates from my question by some slight measure. ;-) IMHO, a being...
Greetings, I am about to finish up lesson six in the Pali Primer and have a question regarding the answer for 16. The sentence is: The doctor's teacher calls...
Dear Diipaa, Fear not, you were right! doctor's (singular) = vejjassa doctors' (plural) = vejjaana.m I don't have the Pali Primer, but from what you say the...
Dear Ven. Kumara and Nina, thanks for your inputs. Nina, thanks for looking up the commentary and provide the English translation. I agree to have ka.nhaa as...
Dear Dipa, you may have read the question incorrectly. Please see the original at VRI: http://www.vri.dhamma.org/publications/pali/primer/lesson06.html I also...
Hello, May be the real meaning of saavaka is not disciple. Mettaa, DC _____ From: Pali@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Pali@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of arunlikhati ...
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Dear AL and DC, as Ardavarz pointed out in his post, ariyasaavaka is a compound, and decomposing a compound, most often than not, depends on its context. A...
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