Re: sutta 7: the vaggas

Dear jim,
  The corresponding Skt. is varga (root v.rj). In some
> ways, Pali is a
> harder language to learn than Sanskrit on account of the
> abundance of
> confusing Pali homonyms which is not so in Sanskrit eg. Pali:
> vagga & vagga,
> citta & citta; Sanskrit: valga & varga, citta & citra.
>
> It appears to me that this list is taking on a life of its own
> and my
> feeling is just to let it go where it wants to and hopefully
> in the right
> direction. 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.
Dear Jim,
please don't respond to this unless you feel it is essential. I
was just curious about citta &citta. Are there two different
words here? (only reply if it is easy and not time consuming.

Thanks for posting this on dsg>>>>>Then another split
hair is attached to the tip of an arrow with the hair parallel
to the shaft
and in front of the arrowhead. The sharp-shooter then stands at
a distance
of 1 usabha (50 meters -- 320 usabhas = 1 yojana = 16 kms) from
the
egg-plant target and tries to split the tip of its attached hair
with the
hair-tip of the arrow he shoots. At least this is how I picture
it. This
sutta really drives home the point of just how difficult it is
to realize
nibbana.>>>
Contrast this with a statement derick (new to dsg) made on d-l
yesterday: ""I think that we are more fortunate then those
people who
lived 500-1000 years after the Buddha.  Primarily because, we
have had such
a long period of time to filter out all the bullshit. 
What it really comes down to, whether your Mahayana or not, is
mindfulness and the four noble truths.>>>
  
People think it is all so straightforward. And so, like an arrow
badly aimed, they go to the wrong target.

rob



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