What does sangha mean to you?

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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:33 pm
thepea wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:29 pm
Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:13 pm
Incoherent. If it's a good functional definition, you can swap out the word "Saṃgha" with said definition without a change in meaning.

AN 4.7:
With your imaginative re-defining, it reads:
Completely different. This definition you've given the forum is nonsense.
It’s a fine simili. Those who practice in line with the teachings beautify the past stockpile of their sankharas.
They beautify(improve/liberate) their past life regressions.
What part doesn’t make sense?
The fact that the word "Saṃgha" refers to a group of people and the phrase "the past stockpile of (their) sankharas" means something completely different. Your definition is fundamentally flawed, because it changes the meaning of the term "Saṃgha."
Sangha is community.
We are a stockpile of all of our past life regressions, which is the community of ones mind. It’s not flawed at all.
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Re: What does sangha mean to you?

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It is nonsensical to receive an abhiṣeka that initiates you into the "community," "group," or even the "heap" of your own past sankharas. It doesn't really mean anything.

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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:35 pm Just sit and think for a moment.

What would it mean for someone to be ordained into the past stockpile of their sankharas?
Ordain is an order. It would mean one is ordered into their stockpile of past life regressions. The responsibility of the monastic is to do this good work of liberating these sankharas.
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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:33 pm
thepea wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:29 pm
Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:13 pm
Incoherent. If it's a good functional definition, you can swap out the word "Saṃgha" with said definition without a change in meaning.

AN 4.7:
With your imaginative re-defining, it reads:
Completely different. This definition you've given the forum is nonsense.
It’s a fine simili. Those who practice in line with the teachings beautify the past stockpile of their sankharas.
They beautify(improve/liberate) their past life regressions.
What part doesn’t make sense?
The fact that the word "Saṃgha" refers to a group of people and the phrase "the past stockpile of (their) sankharas" means something completely different. Your definition is fundamentally flawed, because it changes the meaning of the term "Saṃgha."
It’s the same. The mind contains the community of past life regressions.
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Sam Vara wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:44 pm Ah, option 3 it is, then: you are reporting your ideas, rather than things which have actually happened.
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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:41 pm It is nonsensical to receive an abhiṣeka that initiates you into the "community," "group," or even the "heap" of your own past sankharas. It doesn't really mean anything.

:shrug:
First... what is an abhiseka? I see an oil bath ritual of some sort linked to Indian tradition but I’m not certain that’s it.
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