You're most welcome.

I received some very useful feedback from some people. I believe they wouldn't mind me sharing here:

Ricardo Sasaki wrote thus at 06:59 02/10/2010:

>Thanks for your sharing Bhante! I have the same impression. Notice however that Concentration comes from the Latin con-centrare = to be near or with the center. So the original meaning of concentration is very near the one of samadhi and not an activity of intense mental effort, but rather being centered and composed.

ajahn brahmali wrote thus at 07:56 04/10/2010:

>On ekaggata, I think collectedness is probably ok. But the literal meaning of the Pali is closer to 'onepointedness'. The important point, as I see it, is to remember that this onepointedness comes about as a result of samatha, 'settling', and letting go, not as a result of using will-power. If ekaggata is seen as the result of a process, rather than a descriptive term for how to arrive at the result, then I think there is no problem.

kb


Bryan Levman wrote thus at 23:16 03/10/2010:

>Dear Ven. Kumara,
>
>Thanks very much for sharing this. I think these are excellent translations for
>these words - esp. "composure" for samaadhi and "settling" for samatha,
>
>Metta, Bryan