Dear Yong Peng,
A few suggestions
op 01-08-2005 17:46 schreef Ong Yong Peng op yongpeng.ong@...:

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> A`nguttara Nikaya: Ekaka Nipaata
> Accharaasa`nghaata Vagga

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> Accharaasa`nghaata Vagga
> short duration / chapter

The Chapter on Quick Thoughts
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N: I personally prefer the litteral: For the Duration of a Fingersnap.
More powerful, expressive: even if one develops mettaa just for the duration
of a fingersnap.
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> 1. "Pabhassaramida.m, bhikkhave, citta.m.
> resplendent-this / monks / mind

"The mind, monks, it is luminous.
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N: This mind, monks, is luminous.
ida.m belongs to citta.m
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> Ta.m assutavaa puthujjano yathaabhuuta.m nappajaanaati.

Due to his background, the unlearned ordinary person does not know it

> clearly.

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N: instead of: Due to his background, : This, the uneducated ordinary
person does not know it
as it truly is.

> assutavant (adj) unlearned.
> puthujjana = puthu jana (m) an ordinary, average person.

yathaabhuuta.m = yathaa aabhata (adv) as one has been brought and

> placed.
> - yathaa (adv) as, according to.

## - aabhata (pp of aabharati) brought (there or here), carried,

> conveyed, taken.

N: yathaa+bhuuta: bhuuta: nature, what is, truth.
yathaa+bhuuta.m: according to the truth, as it really is.

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> 2. "Pabhassaramida.m, bhikkhave, citta.m.
> resplendent-this / monks / mind

"The mind, monks, it is luminous.
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N:This mind...
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"Monks, if for even just a brief moment, a monk practises loving

> kindness,

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N: just for the duration of a fingersnap...
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> aya.m vuccati, bhikkhave -
> this / to be said / monks
> this is to be said, monks:

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N: The word bhikkhu of the next sentence belongs here at the end:
aya.m vuccati, bhikkhave , bhikkhu.
Such an one one is to be called a bhikkhu.
Meaning: he is a true bhikkhu, a true recluse.
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Text: arittajjhaano viharati satthusaasanakaro ovaadapatikaro,

> amogha.m ra.t.thapi.n.da.m bhu~njati'.

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N: not futile (aritta) is his jhaana. He complies with the Master's
teaching, he takes advice and he is worthy to eat the country's almsfood.
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Y.P.:> - saasanakara (adj) complying with one's order or

> teaching.ovaadapatikara = ovaadapatikara ???

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N:pa.tikara: compensation. Ovaada pa.tikara: giving advice. PED.

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> Ko pana vaado ye na.m bahuliikarontii"ti!

> But, what is to be said (about those) who devotes themselves to it?"

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N:What then should I say of those who devote themselves completely to that
subject?
(vaado: I say)
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> 4. "Accharaasa`nghaatamattampi ce, bhikkhave, bhikkhu mettaacitta.m
> bhaaveti;

aya.m vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu

> this is to be said, monks:

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N: Place again bhikkhu of the next sentence here: he is to be called, monks,
a bhikkhu.
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> arittajjhaano viharati satthusaasanakaro ovaadapatikaro,
> amogha.m ra.t.thapi.n.da.m bhu~njati'.

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N: as previous.

> Pa~ncama.m.

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Nina.