Dear Frank,

Reminds me of monastic days when some of my brother novices would use
interesting acronym to remember the books of the Tipitaka. Di Ma Sa A is
acronym for the four Nikayas. In English I use DMSA for my students, telling
them to remember "Do Many Skillful Acts".

Traditionally, the student would simply recite the passage line by line, or
phrase by phrase, by rote. Once they have memorized a line, they add on
another, and so on.

Piya

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, frank <fcckuan@...> wrote:

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> These are some mnemonics I came up with to help me to remember key words.
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> lobha is like lobster, which has claws that greedily grasp and cling,
> and it hurts when it clings.
> dosa is like "masala dosa", a name of a spicy indian dish that makes
> your blood boil and make you feel hot, similar to anger
> moha is like being stranded in the >>mojave<< desert so long you become
> confused, start hallucinating like a deluded and confused person
> raga?
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> when you're afflicted with 5 niivarana, you are far from nirvana (almost
> an anagram)
> worldlings want viagra , meditators prefer viiraga (anagram)
> dukkha rhymes with sukha, but don't get confused by mixing sukha with
> moha and raga so you end up losing sukkaa
>
> What mnemonics do you use?
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