Dear Jim and Mahinda,
Op 26-feb-2009, om 1:45 heeft Jim Anderson het volgende geschreven:

> For the meaning of 'pariyatti' I have been somewhat confused as to
> whether
> it refers to scriptural/textual learning or the texts themselves. I
> follow
> the Abh-.t gloss on 'pariyatti' in Abh 784 which has "pariyatti
> pariyaapu.nitabbaa vinayaabhidhammasuttantaa." = "pariyatti is the
> vinaya,
> abhidhamma, & suttanta to be learnt or fully-mastered". I think the
> three
> pillars of the religious life or, in other words, the three-fold
> Saasana
> sums it up beautifully and serves as a great conceptual model for
> finding
> one's bearing.

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N: This is a very interesting gloss. To be learnt and fully mastered,
and here I would like to add: pariyatti is not theory, it relates to
learning to understand all realities as they occur at this moment
through eyes, ears, nose, tongue, bodysense and mind-door. Thus, it
relates to our life at this moment and we have to learn this little
by little. In this way pariyatti can develop to pa.tipatti, the
actual practice of direct awareness and understanding.
Nina.



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