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AN 8.63 four categories, vitakka, vicara, even dogs understand and use this.
It's not just oral tradition for humans, vitakka and vicara is a basic universal phenomena of how we hear, learn, process information and use it in everyday life.
Even dogs intuitively use and understand vitakka (thinking) and vicara (evaluation).
If you study the stories below, they're using the same paradigm as AN 8.63 three way samadhi with vitakka and vicara.
AN 8.63 four categories, vitakka, vicara, even dogs understand and use this.
AN 8.63 four categories, vitakka, vicara, even dogs understand and use this.
www.lucid24.org/sted : ☸Lucid24.org STED definitions
www.audtip.org/audtip: Audio Tales in Pāli: ☸Dharma and Vinaya in many languages
www.audtip.org/audtip: Audio Tales in Pāli: ☸Dharma and Vinaya in many languages