Respected venerable sir,

Thank you very much for this useful sharing.

Yours respectfully,
Chanida

On 5 October 2010 10:37, Kumara Bhikkhu <kumara.bhikkhu@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>



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