Dear Yong Peng,
Thank you very much.
I just add a few remarks.
Op 26-apr-2009, om 15:36 heeft Ong Yong Peng het volgende geschreven:

> Tatra, bhikkhave, yamida.m bhaavanaabala.m sekhaanameta.m bala.m.
> There, O monks, the power of mental cultivation, so to speak, this
> power is the outcome of training and development.

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N: suggestion: this is the power of the 'learners'. (sekhaana.m)
The trainers or learners are the ariyans who are not arahats.
Co adds: the power of the understanding (~naana) of the learners.
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> Y.P.: Sekha~nhi so, bhikkhave, bala.m aagamma raaga.m pajahati,
> dosa.m pajahati, moha.m pajahati.
> Indeed, O monks, having arrived at (this) power pertaining to
> training and development, one renounces greed, renounces hatred,
> renounces delusion.

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N: aagamma can be translated as: owing to. Owing to the power of the
learners...
As to renounce or abandon, Co adds: by the magga or path.
Thus, the ariyans who subsequently reach path-consciousness at
enlightenment eradicate defilements in accordance with the path they
reach.
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> Nina.

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