Dear Yong Peng,
Much appreciated you made this beginning of the Saddaniti.
Op 19-jan-2009, om 16:41 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven:

> Sakattham-pi dhaaretii-ti dhaatu,
> own way - too / understands / dhaatu
> 'Understands in one's own way' is dhaatu,

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N: I read elsewhere: dhaatu bears its own meaning (or
characteristic). Dhareti: bear.
Visuddhimagga Ch XV, 21: <These, on the contrary, are elements
(dhaatu) since they cause [a state's] own individual essence to be
borne (dhaarenti).>
Instead of individual essence I prefer: own characteristic.
Dhaatu is close in meaning to dhamma.
To illustrate this a little more: we read Vis. XV, 22: <Furthermore,
'element' is a rerm for what is soulless, and for the purpose of
abolishing the perception of soul the Blessed One accordingly taught
the elements in such passages as 'Bhikkhu, this man has six
elements' (M.III, 239) >
I hope Jim and others also have further suggestions.
Nina.




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