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# Minowani's Wrintings on Dhamma

[https://minowani.github.io](https://minowani.github.io)
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<p>This document contains the posts on https://minowani.github.io for
offline reading.</p>
<p>Minowani.</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
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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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