Hi PC & RobM, (Good to see you around PC....look forward to hearing more from you;-)). ... .... I’m not adding any more topics, but I’m just wondering...
... work or ... effect, ... details ... Hi Sarah, Well, it seems to me that you are going to keep dancing around this issue. I give you specifics and you keep...
Hi, Sarah - In a message dated 10/2/03 4:38:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... =========================== A brief comment, bowing ever so slightly in your...
Hi James, The Facts as I understand them: 1.I made it clear that I thought you raised a good point at the outset as there did seem to be a discrepancy in the...
Hello RobM, This post is much appreciated. I've read and reasoned out many times before that "Dependent on the eye and forms, eye consciousness arises. The...
Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for enumerating your points. It makes it so much clearer what you are saying and allows me to respond in kind. I have responded...
Dear Friends, Blood is an anonymous gift. There is no way that the recipient could know who the donor was. Donating blood is a pure act of giving, without any...
Hi, Sarah, ... Is this the bit you're interested in? PTS D ii.128 tipitaka.org DN 2.3.190 cundassa bhatta.m bhu~njitvaa kammaarassaati me suta.m aabaadha.m...
Hi PC (and Sarah) ... students' ... several ... class ... mentioned, ... the class. ... Incorporate the abhidhammic concepts into popular topics of dhamma is...
Hi James, ... the list of pet peeves under your name. Let’s see: James - rupa, akusala, Pali experts, pat on the head......) ... .... Right...I must have...
Dear All, Nina hasn't gone away yet, but she's been having problems with yahoo and all the mods having been working hard trying to sort things out for her. For...
Hi Derek (Nina, James, Mike & All), ... ... Yes, thank you very much. Exactly. ... .... viriccamaano - purging (present participle of viriccati -to get purged)...
Hi Sukin, I thought you made some very wise comments in your post to Victor. Your explanation (below) of the extract from the S.sutta was very helpful, I ...
Hi Larry, Thx for elaborating on your understanding of concepts and reality and your reference to Warder’s article - all of which I read with interest....
... much ... have ... head' to ... akusala, ... <snip> Hi Sarah, Yep, seems easy enough to remember...;-). Leave some space, there might be some more that...
James: I'm Philip. I would like to ask you a few more questions following last letter: 1. How did you know that I should be nice to my sister and my teachers? ...
Larry ... Samatha/tranquillity is the name given to a very specific kind of kusala consciousness, so if it's not wholesome then it can't properly be called...
... Looks good to me, Sarah ... "bhu~njitvaa," having eaten, and "suukaramaddavena," instrumental. So, not only post hoc, but also propter hoc. Derek....
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Sarah, Derek and all, I found in the Milinda Questions: 175 that Milinda discussed the last meal with Nagasena. Milinda said: <How could that alms ,...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Derek, Thank you for the Pali. Now in the verse we have to look at the instrumental case: bhuttassa ca suukaramaddavena..: bhuttassa: from bhutta: eaten,...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Sarah, thank you for all the trouble. I can easily repost my mails, I do not know whether you frwd them already meanwhile. OK I send them now. We are not...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Relevant text Vis 18: 18. But in either of these cases any skill in means to cause the production of such and such things, which skill occurs at that moment ...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Htoo, very good topics, and you know, we could also use them here in dsg, what do you think? But only one by one, they are so many. Nina...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Htoo and Rob M, I liked your discussion on citta and cetasikas. When citta is the object of awareness, cetasikas cannot be known at the same time,...
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Oct 3, 2003 6:13 pm
Dear Rob M, Yes, it is a good idea, also what Christine and Larry suggested. with appreciation, Nina....
... last meal ... great ... advantage. ... is the ... power of ... condition, ... not because ... because of the ... had to ... worse....So ... you can ... Hi...
Hi Nina and all, As from the last day of September, Rob Eddison went off-line with no internet or email access for at least the next four months. Also stepped...
Hi, Nina, ... I think what we have here is a possible linguistic ambiguity in the original Pali. ... In attempting to make sense of it, I took bhuttassa as...