Re: Num : orientation

>I am sure Sarah is right about how Dosa can condition Lobha
>to arise.  I haven't had the chance to read it thoroughly
>yet, but perhaps by the upcoming weekend.

Dear K. Kom,

I knew I could count on you to do that!  I must say I thought you
would wait til you had studied it before replying, but thanks for the
preliminary affirmation all the same.  I feel more secure in the
absence of handy references to discuss things when I know that you
won't let any mistakes pass and make people misunderstand the dhamma
because of my misunderstanding or carelessness!  As I said to Sarah,
if you guys ever get tired of damage control just shout and I'll stop
writing!!!

>Yes, in that case, you have at least three nephews in this
>group.  It's an interesting co-incidence that the three of
>us (K. Num, K. Jaran, and I) ran into TA. Sujin, DSG, an PSG
>at about the same age.  Conventionally (even with the
>pannatti "pointing" to paramatha), I can think of many
>kusala characteractics of many people in this group, so it
>would be easy to call people aunts, uncles, older brother,


This is sweet of you, perhaps you could just address me as AA among
ourselves, (others in my age group might not want to feel too
ancient).  Whereas sometimes I need to feel 'mature', I guess…  Maybe
mentally I'm still my mother's youngest child, what do you think, K.
Num?  How do you stop being that, even conventionally?  Of course the
dhamma liberates us from even that, who are we but nama and rupa, all
of us!!!

Sorry for all the non-Pali prattle, High Priest Jim of the Pali Order!

Amara