Thursday, January 30, 2020

Ajahn Brahm's Jhabrama Jhana is not Jhāna




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  1. The thing is all the problem lies in the term Ekaggatā and how it is interpreted. Frank can you do a list of all the places where the term Ekaggatā appears?

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  2. I did a detailed study of ekodi a couple of yeears ago, which covers a few of the important instances of ekagga:
    http://lucid24.org/sted/8aam/8samadhi/ekaggata/index.html#calibre_link-103

    Do you want to help out with doing research on ekagga? I have a tool that will take Digital pali reader's search results, and plug in hyperlinks jumping directly to the sutta from that.

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    1. http://lucid24.org/tped/e/ekaggata/index.html

      There's a raw list of all the references, with hyperlinks.
      Do you know how to use microsoft excel, or the free equivalent, libre office spreadsheet?

      From my raw list of hyperlinks, when you click through to the sutta, find the relevant section containing 'ekag...', cut and paste the pali and english and drop it into the spreadsheet column 1 and column 2. Then in column 3, make a little annotation or short commentary describing what's happening with ekagg in that passage. You can email me the spreadsheet, and I'll massage it and run it through my script to produce output like
      http://lucid24.org/sted/8aam/8samadhi/vitakka/all/index.html

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    2. Frank I did the Majjhima Nikaya part, i could mail you that if you could send me your id, i'll be busy for the next week.

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  3. no hurry on finishing it, or even doing a detailed job. I forgot to mention, you know when you cut and paste my pali + english from lucid24.org, cutting the whole passage you want to quote, you can just paste it into the first cell  of the upper left hand corner of where in  the spreadsheet you want to put it,  and it drops the whole passage in to all the cells right? I I hope you didn't cut and paste each individual cell one at a time. I wouldn't ask anyone to do something tedious and hard like that. It just requires one control c from the lucid24.org, and then one control v into the spreadsheet. Super fast and easy.  If you took the trouble to click through the link and look at a particular sutta passage, it just takes a few seconds to cut and paste what you looked at into the spreadsheet.   You don't have to cut and paste any passages that don't add any value either, or are just repetitions of previous ones. For example, if MN 2 uses nearly the same as MN 1, you could just do a quick notation in column 3 a comment that "MN 2 nearly same as MN 1" and that's all the info we need. 
    Thanks for helping!

    If anyone else is interested in researching any other particular important pali terms in this way, let me know.

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