Bundokji wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 11:46 am"Evaį¹ me suttaį¹",
it's sutam, not suttam. sutam is releated to sota (ear) having heard (sutva). typical usage: sotam sadda sutva (with the ear, sounds I heard).
A very interesting thing about the word sutva and related words like sutam, in relation to the oral tradition. Sometimes translators render sutva as "heard", other times "learned."
It's because in an oral tradition, the functions of hearing and learning are inseparable, along with memorizing, reciting, vitakka and vicara (verbal thinking and evaluation of the material you heard and learned). Without vitakka and vicara (as verbal thinking), the oral tradition wouldn't work. It would be like dumb birds with great memory who can mimic and recall all kinds of speech and music, but have no idea what they're parroting.
Similarly, Ajahn Brahma and B. Sujato's vitakka and vicara in first jhana of just placing the mind with no verbal thinking, destroys the oral tradition and reduces jhana and meditation to dumb birds just mimicking sounds.
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'Viveka', Sanskrit dictionary Primary meaning is ‘discrimination’. Other meanings: (1) true knowledge, (2) discretion, (3) right judgement, (4) the faculty of distinguishing and classifying things according to their real properties’. Wikipedia (sanskrit dictionary entry 'viveka') Viveka (Sanskrit: ą¤µिą¤µेą¤, romanized: viveka) is a Sanskrit and Pali term translated into English as discernment or discrimination.[1] According to Rao and Paranjpe, viveka can be explained more fully as: Sense of discrimination; wisdom; discrimination between the real and the unreal, between the self and the non-self, between the permanent and the impermanent; discriminative inquiry; right intuitive discrimination; ever present discrimination between the transient and the permanent.[2]: 348 The Vivekachudamani is an eighth-century Sanskrit poem in dialogue form that addresses the development of viveka. Within the Vedanta tradition, there is also a concept of vichara which is one t...
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