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# Minowani's Wrintings on Dhamma | ||
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<p class="subtitle">on what the Buddha taught</p> | ||
<p class="nav"><a href="../index.html">Home</a> >> Prefix</p> | ||
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<p>Minowani.</p> | ||
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<p class="subtitle">on what the Buddha taught</p> | ||
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<p>I decided to have a site when I looked for a home for | ||
<em>Knowing</em>, my book about understanding the Buddha’s Dhamma. I | ||
look at Knowing as a talk I wanted to give but due to it’s length and | ||
depth I never was able to finish. By writing it down one can now go back | ||
and forth at one’s own pace. Because I am not a writer, nor is english | ||
my native language, there are no doubt a lot of grammar and style | ||
issues. A home for Knowing should allow me to make those updates swiftly | ||
and with ease, which is what this personal site does. Over time there | ||
were some points I liked to address, some questions I chose to answer, | ||
which lead this site turning into what it is now.</p> | ||
<p>I wrote mainly to encourage people to read from the suttas for | ||
themselves, especially the four <em>Nikāyā</em>, without holding the | ||
general interpretations as true first. This because on crucial points | ||
the general opinion deviates from the path. Interpretations are not | ||
translations and I think that with a little nudge one should be able to | ||
read the suttas while keeping a right view in mind. To support this I | ||
also started to translate some suttas; it can be handy to ponder on | ||
different translations so once in a while.</p> | ||
<p>So here are my texts, which I would have preferred to have read them | ||
for myself decades ago. May they aid you on your journey to come to | ||
understand things for yourself. Should you have any questions, found | ||
errors, or just want to discuss, feel free to contact me: | ||
<em>minowani</em> on <em><span class="citation" | ||
data-cites="tutanota.com">@tutanota.com</span></em>.</p> | ||
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<p>Suppose someone is helping a friend cleaning up their new house. A | ||
lot has been done already and only some floors are left to do. When | ||
their friend goes to the store for some groceries, they decide to start | ||
on the old hall which has a nice looking marble floor. After mopping the | ||
hall they take a break.</p> | ||
<p>When their friend returns and, to their surprise, starts to clean the | ||
part which just got cleaned, they inform their friend they had already | ||
been cleaning there. When their friend explains that the marble is | ||
actually white and what they probably took as the pattern was is in fact | ||
dirt, they might look at the floor differently. Especially when seeing | ||
with the proper cleaning tools these patterns do indeed come off. And | ||
now it is understood better what to do right? When they didn’t see the | ||
dirt as dirt, they saw no problem in stopping where they did.</p> | ||
<p>It is the same with the mind really. In the <em>Aṅguttara Nikāya</em> | ||
we find these two sermons:</p> | ||
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<p>‘This shining, almsmen, mind. And that now is stained from visiting | ||
stains. That, not having learned, the commoner essentially not | ||
understands. Therefore, for the unlearned commoner, development of mind | ||
is absent I say.’ <em>(AN1.51)</em></p> | ||
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<p>‘This shining, almsmen, mind. And that now is liberated from visiting | ||
stains. That, having learned, the disciple of nobleness essentially | ||
understands. Therefore, for the learned disciple of nobleness, | ||
development of mind is present I say.’ <em>(AN1.52)</em></p> | ||
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<p>So, in this way it is not a statement about the mind being beautiful | ||
as it is, perfect in its nature, that it only needs to be observed, or | ||
anything like that. A clean floor is still a floor. With a dirty floor | ||
it is about not seeing dirt as dirt, and thus lacking the knowledge, | ||
effort, skill, interest, etc., to attain to the job of removing the | ||
dirt.</p> | ||
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<p><em>Ājīva is often translated as livelihood.</em></p> | ||
<p>And it certainly has to do with livelihood. In the discourses | ||
particulars of <em>ājīva</em> very often includes jobs. But also found | ||
are things like: ‘With right action, right <em>ājīva</em>; with wrong | ||
action, wrong <em>ājīva</em>’. Thus a foolish person has, despite their | ||
job, wrong <em>ājīva</em> (AN10.105).</p> | ||
<p>To put a little less emphasis on just income, yet including | ||
livelihood while playfully trying to use life (<em>jīva</em>), I use | ||
‘way of life’ instead. <em>Sammā ājīva</em> then the right way of life, | ||
which does connect:</p> | ||
<p><em>With right view, right attitude; with right attitude, right | ||
speech; with right speech, right doing; with right doing, right way of | ||
life.</em></p> | ||
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<strong>Ājīva</strong> [ā+jīva] way of life. | ||
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<p><em>Ariyasāvaka is often found translated as noble disciple.</em></p> | ||
<p>It is a compound formed with the words <em>ariya</em> and | ||
<em>sāvaka</em>. <em>Ariya</em> is said to refer to the generally | ||
approved and esteemed customs and ideals of the <em>Aryan</em> clans. It | ||
covers the racial, social and ethical aspects, translated as noble. | ||
<em>And sāvaka</em> means hearer or disciple.</p> | ||
<p><em>Noble disciple</em>, though grammatically correct, seems to | ||
indicate the disciple as the noble one. But note that for the | ||
<em>arahant</em> <em>sāvaka</em> is being used which makes it a little | ||
odd. Another rendering is <em>disciple of the noble ones</em> but again, | ||
for the <em>arahant</em> (also a disciple) ‘just’ <em>sāvakā</em> is | ||
used. Both translations leave some oddness, trying to assign a noble | ||
one.</p> | ||
<p>But noble here stood for the social and ethical direction. It is | ||
about the hearer, learner of <em>the good, the highest, | ||
righteousness</em>, of all of those traits for which <em>Aryan</em> | ||
stood example. <em>Ariya</em> is here used as brand generification so to | ||
speak. <em>Ariyasāvaka</em> then means something like ‘disciple of the | ||
good’, and how lovely is that? Since the <em>arahant</em> is done with | ||
going, that direction towards the good does not apply.</p> | ||
<p>To stay close to common translations I use <em>disciple of | ||
nobleness</em>.</p> | ||
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<strong>Ariya</strong> (adj. — n.) noble.<br /> | ||
<strong>—sāvaka</strong> disciple of nobleness. | ||
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