Re: sutta 7: the vaggas

> I find that I'm continually getting side-tracked on a daily basis
> and I cannot keep up with responding to many of the messages that I
want to
> respond to. Yesterday, I was checking Amara's translation with the
Pali and
> found that this is a much more difficult job than at first appeared.
For one
> thing, I'm not at all familiar with that particular passage in the
> Atthasalini and the same goes for most Pali passages in any text.
When I
> start digging into a text I soon realize how little I understand it.
One
> could easily spend hundreds of hours researching a single Pali
paragraph and
> still not fully understand it, but at least one will be making some
> progress.
>
> I hope to find more time to respond to some of your other messages.



Dear Jim,

Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all your kindnesses both
here and elsewhere.  Please take as much time as you like and I will
go over your previous lessons and try to memorize the letters.  I'm
really grateful that you're checking the translation, it will go in
the book that will soon be printed, so I would like it to be at least
close to the original.  It was indeed the hardest passage to translate
in the book!  The idea itself is quite clear unlike other, harder
parts about the dhamma, but the language was close to unintelligible
to me at the time, though in Thai!

Again, thank you and anumodana,

Amara