notes on the Dhamma

  The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If "love" was a legitimate translation for "metta",  you would expect Sujato and his followers to stand behind it. If it was really easy to disambiguate "love" according to context, as Sujato claims, You would expect Sujato to advertise his yearly "love retreats". But does he?  You won't find it in his advertisements. Doing a google web search,  you see that he only advertises "metta retreat". Whereas people who translate metta as "loving kindness", have no qualms about advertising "loving kindness retreat". From the first page of google search results for "loving kindness retreat" Loving-kindness Retreat Indriya Retreat https://indriyaretreat.org › meditation-retreats-2 › lovin... A retreat with Anthony teaches loving-kindness through guided meditations and inspiring instructions. It focuses on healing ourselves and relationships. Reflections from a week lon...

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  AN 3.75    a noble-one's-disciple (ariya-sāvakassa) with experiential confidence (aveccappasāde) in the Buddha ... can not be reborn in animal realm, hell, or other unfavorable births.  avecca-p-pasāda masc. perfect clarity; absolute faith; epithet of stream entry [avecca + pasāda] ✓ So what about the ariya savaka who DOESN'T have perfect experiential confidence in Buddha? According to B.Bodhi and Sujato, ariya-savaka is a "noble disciple", someone who is already a confirmed stream enterer or higher attainment. Their translation of AN 3.75, effectively ends up saying, An arahant, nonreturner, once returner, or stream enterer,  IF they have experiential confidence in the Buddha (epithet of someone who is at least a stream enterer), can not be reborn in ... hell, bad realms. Or a more simple example, to illustrate the absurd illogic of it, A stream enterer, if he is a confirmed stream enterer, can not be reborn in hell. By definition, a stream enterer is alrea...

Internal 4👑☸ → EBpedia📚 → yoniso   If you really want to know what 'yoniso' means in the suttas, look at how it's used. Here are all the occurrences in the suttas:  EBpedia📚  →  yoniso . Sujato had "rational", I replaced "rational" with "source-seeking" just as a temporary eyesore fix, as I go through fixing all the translations at each reference by hand on lucid24.org. Here's an example of  how I plan to translate 'yoniso' manasi-karoti (literally, mind activities relating to the source): 1.11 - AN 1.11 (subha-nimitta sign of beauty →  kāma 💘💃‍ 11 11 “Nāhaṃ, bhikkhave, aññaṃ Eka-dhammampi samanupassāmi yena anuppanno vā kāmacchando uppajjati uppanno vā kāmacchando bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya saṃvattati yathayidaṃ, bhikkhave, subhanimittaṃ. “monks, I do not see a single [bad] Dharma that gives rise to sensual desire, or, when it has arisen, makes it increase and grow [that can compare with] the sign (nimitta) of beauty. Subhanim...

someone on suttacentral asked: How to handle difference between Pali and Agama sutra parallels? The answer, if you're Bhikkhu Sujato or Analayo, is pick the school that supports your biased agenda, regard that as "legitimate", and claim the other school made a "transmission error". MN 125 Sujato doubles down on fraudulent interpretation of vitakka in jhāna MN 117 Sujato's fraudulent/criminal interpretation of 'vitakka' is based on this sutta MN 44 Sujato's fraudulent interpretation of 'vitakka' in jhāna via conflating vācā (speech) and vacī-sankhāra (speech co-activities) Also, use fallacious tactics of cherry picking and sophistry, with some ostrich maneuvering, pretending the parallel that disagrees with you doesn't even exist. MN 19 and agama || MA 102 two sorts of thoughts in first jhāna, and out, even Abhidhamma does not contradict this, what are Sujato and Brahm 'thinking'? MA 101 and MA 102, the agama parallels for MN 1...