yathābhūtadassana: "seeing things as they really are"?

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Re: yathābhūtadassana: "seeing things as they really are"?

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in a talk, my teacher Venerable Subhuti, an Indian monk draws parallel with this term i believe it was, with "the way to the beyond."
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Hi Altar,

You mean as in the last chapter of the Sutta Nipata?
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... ml#vagga-5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Parayanavagga — The Chapter on the Way to the Far Shore

More literally that might be something like chapter (vagga) on knowledge/way (yana) of/to the beyond (para).
[I'm sure our Pali scholars can give a better account...]

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whichever term it was..
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