Dear Nina & Yong Peng,

> Resentful sign. The word resentful seems to suggest that the nimitta
> itself is resentful or angry.
> BPS has: repulsive feature.
> Footnote from commentary: anittha.m. What is undesirable.
> Do you like: an undesirable feature?
> I have trouble with the word nimitta, sign. It sounds strange. It can mean
> object.
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Nimitta can be a tricky word, and it depends on the context. I think
here it is
possible to read it as meaning "basis" and render it pa.tigha,nimitta as
"basis for
repulsion", especially if this refers to the latent tendencies
(anusaya).

I have included some useful notes on nimitta in the Sutta Discovery vol
13 study on
"the Satipatthana Suttas" (2005). The excerpt has been sent separately
to you both.

Sukhi

Piya