In MN 10 the phrase:
"Just as a skilled turner or his apprentice, when making a long turn, discerns that he is making a long turn, or when making a short turn discerns that he is making a short turn
What is/was a turner?
What is a 'turner'?
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Re: What is a 'turner'?
It is another name for a person who uses a "lathe". A "turner" "turns" at a "lathe".thereductor wrote:In MN 10 the phrase:
"Just as a skilled turner or his apprentice, when making a long turn, discerns that he is making a long turn, or when making a short turn discerns that he is making a short turn
What is/was a turner?
Possibly the height of new fangled technology at the Buddha's time.
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Re: What is a 'turner'?
Treadle powered back then, like the traditional potter's wheel or (more recently ) your granny's sewing machine.Paññāsikhara wrote:It is another name for a person who uses a "lathe". A "turner" "turns" at a "lathe".thereductor wrote:...
What is/was a turner?
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Possibly the height of new fangled technology at the Buddha's time.
But I haven't got any pictures.
Kim
Re: What is a 'turner'?
I thought it might be linked to carpentry. When I use a scroll saw for finishing work (carpentry) the mental focus is similar to that of watching the breath in anapanasati.
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Re: What is a 'turner'?
Kim O'Hara wrote:Treadle powered back then, like the traditional potter's wheel or (more recently ) your granny's sewing machine.Paññāsikhara wrote:It is another name for a person who uses a "lathe". A "turner" "turns" at a "lathe".thereductor wrote:...
What is/was a turner?
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Possibly the height of new fangled technology at the Buddha's time.
But I haven't got any pictures.
Kim
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I started this thread for a Alms Bowls and Ven. Dhammanandho gave some similar info aswell as some useful info.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: What is a 'turner'?
but there must be something more with long turns and short turns!
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