Re: upa-nijjhaayati

Dear nina,
I was just packing up some books to send to japan - including
the kindred sayings . Thanks very much for this commentary as i
have this passage marked out in the book. So interesting and
helpful.
robert
--- Nina van Gorkom <nilo@...> wrote:
> Dear Jim, Sarah, Jon,
> Here is the text about jhaana I referred to some months ago:
> Papa~ncasuudanii, Atthk to the Sallekhasutta (M.N. I,8):
> Jhaayathaa ti. aaramma.nuupanijjhaanena
> a.t.thati.msaaramma.naahi
> (thirtyeight objects of samatha), lakkha.nuupanijjhaanena ca
> aniccaadito
> (beginning with aniccaa) khandhaayatanaadiini upanijjhaayatha.
> Samatha~n ca
> vipassana~ca va.d.dhetaa(develop) ti vutta.m hoti. Maa
> pamaadatthaati
> maapamajjittha.
> In this light the use of the word kammatthaana is of interest:
> not only for
> samatha, also for vipassana, and there it is object of right
> understanding.
> I just read in the Samuyutta Nikaya IV, Migajaalavaggo, 71,
> Chaphassaayatanikaa, the six spheres of contact, the
> aayatanas.( I know
> Robert likes this, he is always interested in the ayatanas.)
> The Commentary
> I have only in Thai: The bhikkhu does not understand these
> ayatanas, and we
> read that the Buddha was thinking what kammathana would be
> helpful for that
> monk who had no viriya for the kammathanas of the dhatus ,
> kasinas or other
> subjects. He thought that the kammathana of the ayatanas would
> be a sappaya,
> helpful condition for that monk. He then asked whether the eye
> is I, mine or
> myself, etc. And so on for the other ayatanas. This sutta is a
> helpful
> condition for me too, I find.
>
> Nijjhaayati is the same in meaning as upanijjhaayati, reflect,
> meditate,
> but upa here could mean: support. In other contexts upa could
> be nearness in
> the sense of an ennemy, a hindrance, perhaps in: upakilesa ?
> I had not thought before of the prefix vi in vi~n~naa.na,
> meaning: knowing
> clearly, precisely or in detail. And also: that which should
> be known
> clearly, as explained in abh list.
> A minor point: in the Tika I am studying, further on, between
> brakets there
> is an O plus numbers. Can I ignore this?
> Best wishes, Nina.
>
>


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