Sarah's list

Dear Jim, thank you for your letter with useful directions. I am very glad
you will first deal with Sarah's list, because her points are very relevant
and interesting. I am looking forward to your remarks. I would like to add
one more point. Robert was quoting from Ven. Soma's commentary to the
satipa.t.thaana sutta, about  "the particular sense of awareness". Since I
am still thinking of pa.ti patti, I would like to know what this is in Pali,
visesa? Here is the text :

Gacchanto va gacchamiti pajanati = "When he is going (a bhikkhu)
> understands: 'I am going.'" In this matter of going, readily do dogs,
> jackals and the like, know when they move on that they are moving.
> But this instruction on the modes of deportment was not given
> concerning similar awareness, because awareness of that sort
> belonging to animals does not shed the belief in a living being, does
> not knock out the percept of a soul, and neither becomes a subject of
> meditation nor the development of the Arousing of Mindfulness.
>
> Going. The term is applicable both to the awareness of the fact of
> moving on and to the knowledge of the (true) characteristic qualities
> of moving on.
> The terms sitting, standing and lying down, too, are applicable in
> the general sense of awareness and in the particular sense of
> knowledge of the (true) characteristic qualities. Here (in this
> discourse) the particular and not the general sense of awareness is
> to be taken. "" ENDQUOTE

From August 25 I shall be silent for one week, because we are going away.
Nina.



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