Re: the title 'Sayadaw'

  Dear Friends,

I had the idea we could start a Pali memorization club over the
Internet, as a means of supporting each other in our memorization work. 
We could start on the Digha, and just keep tabs on who's memorized to
what extent, setting goals, etc.  I could set up a website for it.  Any
takers?

Ready to go back to school,

Yuttadhammo

On 08/30/2010 06:47 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
>
> Dear Bhante. Nyanatusita,
>
> Thank-you very much for the information on the memorization and
> recitation of texts. I'm much in agreement with you on its importance.
> In the educational environment I grew up in, in the 50s and 60s in
> Canada, this way of learning a text seemed quite minimal. To find out
> how children are doing these days, I asked my cousin who was then a
> librarian-teacher at an elementary school if school children were
> required to memorize anything. She said "no". Sometime after, I heard
> in a CBC radio interview a professor of educational studies make the
> comment that by the time students finish high school they retain very
> little of what they were taught all through school.
>
> I would like to ask a question about the following Paacittiya IV rule:
>
> "Whatever monk should make one who is not ordained speak dhamma line
> by line, there is an offence of expiation." (Horner, p. 190)
>
> Doesn't this rule prevent a monk from teaching Pali to the unordained?
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim
>
>


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