Sumana,

You might already know that your name means "good" (su) "mind" (mana).

Although I am not impressed with the rampant spiritual materialism of many Sinhalese
monks, I remember with happiness my first taste of temporary monkhood with Bhante
Gunaratana when he was in Malaysia over 3 decades back.

I am profoundly happy to know that he has taken up meditation and not merely become a
"Venerable Doctor" for whom the letter is  above the spirit, or the spirit becomes so
watered down until it intoxicates.

Sadhu to good monks: may we meet more of them.

Piya

paulocuana wrote:

> Dear Yong Peng,
>
> My teacher Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Nayaka Thera,(Bhante G.) gave
> me a Pali name recently.  Where else can I use a Pali name? :)
>
> With Metta,
> Sumana
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <yongpeng.ong@...>
> > Btw, Sumana, why is there a recent change in name?
> >
> >
> > metta,
> > Yong Peng.
> >
> >
> > --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, paulocuana wrote:
> >
> > Not only did I not have a specific monk in mind, I also did not
> have
> > a specific Western philosopher in mind.  Just exchanging ideas. It
> > was unfortunate that there was a name in the subject line.  It was
> > the subject line of the post I responded to and I wouldn't have
> > thought to change it since people look to the subject line for
> > responses to their posts and I don't like to edit what others
> write.
>
>
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