Dear Bryan and Frank,
Op 18-mrt-2012, om 14:22 heeft Bryan Levman het volgende geschreven:
> As is well known the Buddha did not believe (unlike the tīrthikas)
> that
> language had any innate sense of meaning; words did not come from
> the mouth of
> Brahma but were arbitrary conventions created by humans. So the
> words can take
> us only so far,
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N: I like Bryan's well thought-out post. Words can help us to a
certain extent, but then what matters above all are the realities
they represent. Through satipa.t.thaana characteristics of realities
can be directly known, without the need to think about them. Take
seeing, we all know that seeing sees, but when there can be awareness
of its characteristic when it appears, it can be understood as an
element, a dhaatu that knows an object, different from ruupa that
does not know anything. This is a beginning of understanding, but
sure, it takes time to develop.
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Nina.
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