In the video we quote several passages from the Visuddhimagga to highlight these differences. Hi, welcome to Dhamma Wheel. I have a couple of suggestions regarding your videos. Firstly, when a block of text is being displayed it would be better to let it stand for a few seconds longer so that viewe...

Do you have any resources on how this other word is derived, bhante? I'm afraid not. Childers' dictionary is missing the word; and neither the PED nor Cone supply an etymology. The commentaries, likewise, supply a gloss but not an etymology: "Acakkhussan" ti cakkhūnaṃ hitaṃ na hoti, parih...

Byādhidhammānaṁ (var. vyādhidhammānaṁ) is the form that the adjective byādhidhamma would take if the noun that it qualifies is in the dative or genitive plural. Its meaning is "subject to sickness" or "of the nature to get sick". This is an example where it's being used in the da...

1. Is the treatment there always free? In the sangha hospitals everything is free for monks. In the government hospitals almost everything is free. In the latter the only charges are for private rooms (if the monk doesn't want to stay in a public ward) and non-life-threatening complaints when they'...

The word cakkhussa comprises two homonyms. One is the genitive of the noun cakkhu, but the other is an entirely different word, an adjective that's cognate with Skt. cakṣuṣya. The latter isn't a very common word. An example (AN 5.208): Dantakaṭ­ṭha­sutta “Pañcime, bhikkhave, ādīnavā dantakaṭṭhassa a...

Lastly, I have been seeking for years a respectable bhante, namely Dhammanando from Wat Tha-Ma-Oh, Lampung, North Thailand, but unsuccessful so far. I shall be most delighted and would very much appreciate if anyone could tell me how to contact him, bhante Dhammanando (mail, PM or whatso...) Hi ven...

If the Buddha wanted us to develop metta n karuna at the second order of N8FP ie right intention , he would have pointed it out . No doubt. And the commentarial understanding is that the Buddha did point it out, but did so using the words "non-ill will" and "non-harming" in plac...

Occasionally, however, the preference may be overridden, especially in verse when there's a metri causa need to lose a vowel. It's then that one might meet with t-m (though I can't immediately think of an example). Bhante, can metri causa also result in pronouncing a vagga followed by an avagga as ...

This means after devoid of something , they develop metta pervading in all direction . :quote: devoid of longing, devoid of ill will, unconfused, clearly comprehending, ever mindful, dwells pervading one quarter with a mind imbued with loving-kindness I don't think so. If the commentary is right to...

That is commentary explanation . In Pali and Sanskrit the a- and an- prefixes have four main semantic functions: negative, privative, invertive and idiomatic. In other words: (1) not-X, (2) free-from-X / without-X, (3) opposite-of-X, and (4) of unpredictable meaning that needs to be contextually de...

A. L. Basham, The Wonder that was India: a survey of the culture of the Indian subcontinent before the coming of the Muslims. From W. Norman Brown's review: The ten chapters of Dr. Basham's work treat of five main themes, namely history with prehistory (70 pages); the state, social order, and daily ...

But are there any common examples of combinations of two different vaggas With vagga consonants there's a strong preference that when any two are juxtaposed they should be of the same place of articulation (velar with velar, palatal with palatal, etc.). Hence Sanskrit ātmā and śabda become Pali att...

* He may strengthen his motivation to observe the Uposatha precepts by reading and regularly re-reading the various Anguttara Nikaya suttas that outline the advantages in doing so. When tempted to break a precept he may resist the temptation by resort to the three ādhipateyyas ("authorities&qu...

The pronunciation seems ok, but I noticed some mistakes in the syllabification. 1. Only the initial syllable of a Pali word can begin with a vowel. Every medial and final syllable has to begin with a consonant. For example, dipamattano is syllabified as "dī-pa-mat-ta-no", not "dīp-am-...

Sam Vara wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:59 pmOr does one maintain the eight precepts, finishing this off with the less luxurious bed on the night of the 16th/17th?

One would observe the precept from dawn on the 16th until dawn on the 17th.