Hi Yong Peng,
I understand where you're coming from in terms of trying to keep the
list focused on pali, but you did ask an interesting question, and
sometimes surveying the tangents will spark someone's memory to come up
with the precise detail you were looking for, whereas if everyone is too
worried all the time about staying exactly within topic, the tension
may prevent their body and mind from loosening up enough to think of a
solution.
As a child I declined the "option" to learn reading/writing Chinese.
I can speak and comprehend a kindergarten level of spoken Mandarin, and
I've been making an effort lately to learn how to read and write some
important Chinese words like impermanence, suffering, not-self, noble
eightfold way. Other than that I learn languages and vocabulary on a
need-to-know basis.
-Frank

On 2/14/2010 12:05 PM, Ong Yong Peng wrote:
>
> Dear Frank, thank you. However, I think you have gone too much into
> the details, and the narrative. ;-)
>
> I am surprised you don't read Chinese. Isn't Kuan a Chinese surname?
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>



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