Dear Rett and friends, thanks for the suggestions. I think u and _ will work but underlining appears like this: (I don't see anything underlined) u u u u u _ u...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jan 1, 2006 12:09 pm
Dear Bh Santi, Dan, Gunnar, Ole, Piya, Rett, Thomas and friends, happy new year. Thanks for this wonderful discussion. I notice that there is more to talk...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jan 2, 2006 3:30 am
Dear Nina, Ole, Chanida and friends, Happy new year, and thanks again. However, I am still not sure of bheda. Perhaps I was not clear in my previous question....
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Ole Holten Pind
olepind
Jan 2, 2006 7:53 am
Dear Ong Yong Peng, This is a good question. Strangeliy, the commentator Buddhaghosa apparently takes the semantics of the expression to be evidentbecause he...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jan 2, 2006 9:24 am
Dear Yong Peng, As I see it, kaayassa bheda denotes that the living body has become corpse. As Ole says, a fundamental change. When alive, the ruupas of the...
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Khemaramsi
tzungkuen
Jan 2, 2006 11:44 am
Dear friends Happy New Year. I got a question: is 'bhavissa.m' an alternative form for 'bhavissaami'? For the sentence 'bhavissa.m...ruupii bhavissa.m....,'The...
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Ole Holten Pind
olepind
Jan 2, 2006 2:27 pm
< is 'bhavissa.m' an alternative form for 'bhavissaami'? > Yes! There are more than just a handful of similar future forms in th canon. Please consult...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Jan 2, 2006 4:02 pm
Dear Yong Peng, Niraya is, also by PTS, translated as purgatory, but this sounds Catholic Christian. In Catholicism purgatory is used as a transition to...
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Gunnar Gällmo
gunnargallmo
Jan 2, 2006 5:56 pm
... Normally, that is. I suppose that when the pope declares that someone is "beatus" (before deciding whether he is also "sanctus"), this means that he _has_...
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chanida jantrasrisalai
jchanida072
Jan 3, 2006 11:24 am
Dear Yong Peng, Yes, as Ole and Nina have explained. "Kaayassa"; here does not denote only "physical body" but "life". In the Pali canon, the phrase "kaayassa...
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thomaslaw03
Jan 3, 2006 11:26 am
Dear All, In Udana 8. 9 (PTS, 1885; reprinted 1982, pp. 92-3), it mentions tejodhaatu.m samaapajjitvaa "attaining the dhaatu of heat". It is a kind of "heat...
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Ole Holten Pind
olepind
Jan 3, 2006 12:02 pm
< It is a kind of "heat meditation" (Tejo-dhaatu samaapatti). > There is no heat-meditation in early Buddhism. The term denotes the third of the four...
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Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko
oselok
Jan 3, 2006 1:19 pm
Dear Thomas, This kind of meditation is described, for example, im Maharahulovada sutta (MN 62). Vimuttimagga, describing the practice of fire kasina, says...
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thomaslaw03
Jan 4, 2006 8:28 am
... the third of ... is left of ... According to the Woodward's translation, the text shows clearly it is a kind of meditation: " ... the venerable Dabba of...
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thomaslaw03
Jan 4, 2006 8:33 am
... of ... I have checked the text, but do not see any information you indicate here. Could you point out the sentences or the translation here please. Thank...
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Ole Holten Pind
olepind
Jan 4, 2006 9:41 am
There are no descriptions in the early canon of the nature of tapokasi.na. The passage you refer to clearly does not implicate tapokasi.na. In addition, there...
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Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko
oselok
Jan 4, 2006 10:26 am
Dear Thomas, ... In Maharahulovada sutta (MN 62) you can find two passages devoted to 'tejodhaatu' “Katamaa ca, raahula, tejodhaatu? Tejodhaatu...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jan 4, 2006 11:11 am
Dear Gunnar, Nina, Ole, Chanida and friends, thanks for the explanation. It is much clearer now. Using "breaking up of the body" sounds much like...
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Gunnar Gällmo
gunnargallmo
Jan 4, 2006 4:24 pm
... I don't think that is correct. "Purgatorium" comes from "purgare", which means "purify". In the Buddhist view of samsara, there is no guarantee whatsoever...
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Piya Tan
libris@...
Jan 4, 2006 5:06 pm
Dear Yong Peng & friends, A Very Happy New Year! One of the students in my meditation classes will be going to Melbourne next month for further studies...
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nina van gorkom
nilovg
Jan 4, 2006 8:02 pm
Dear Yong Peng, ... N: It is problematic. When you say aggregate, I think of khandha. The rupakkhandha dissolves. The namakhandhas fall away but are succeeded...
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John Kelly
palistudent
Jan 5, 2006 3:17 am
Dear Piya, Happy New Year to you! I don't live in Melbourne but I've visited there several times and I have visited the following two places which I could...
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keren_arbel
Jan 5, 2006 9:16 am
Hello everyone, and happy new year. My question is how the word karu.na was created from the root kri? Maybe an explanation from sanskrit..? Thanks in advance,...
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tandons4
Jan 5, 2006 9:16 am
I wonder if Tejo-dhaatu means INTENSE meditation rather than HEAT meditation. biloo_5 ... indicate ... to ... upaadinna.m, ... yena ca ... ajjhatta.m ... ...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jan 5, 2006 10:43 am
Dear Nina and friends, thanks for the reminder. I wonder if anyone has a better suggestion. How about the "dissolution of life"? Also, we may just add a...
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thomaslaw03
Jan 5, 2006 10:50 am
... tapokasi.na. ... to ... of persons ... in the ... is ... I consider that the term, tejo-dhaatu.m samaapajjati, used in the context of the text (Ud. 8. 9)...
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thomaslaw03
Jan 5, 2006 10:50 am
Dmytro, Thank you for your reply. Could you translate the texts into English here (or indicate the page number/s of the English version)? Thank you. Sincerely,...
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Ong Yong Peng
ypong001
Jan 5, 2006 11:06 am
Dear Gunnar, Nina and friends, thanks, Gunnar. I have missed out one of your points. It has been quite some time since I last read about Catholic theology....
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rett
rett_thiele
Jan 5, 2006 11:24 am
Dear Yong Peng and group, ... Unlike some, I don't see the problem with using the word 'hell'. In English it is often used figuratively, without all the...
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rett
rett_thiele
Jan 5, 2006 11:30 am
... Hi Thomas and group, I realize you asked Dmytro but I happen to have the translation of M62 in front of me (probably for the same reason you were...
