In case anyone still lands here at the old blogger address from obsolete referral links. New blog posts are here: https://notes.lucid24.org
always question authority
Posts
A friend wrote to me: I meant this page: https://s.4nt.org/kn/index. html where Milinda is not marked as non-ebt etc... let alone it's only canonized in Myanmar only. I didn't study it much, but lets say 2 out of 3 times i've opened Milinda panha due to an important topics it was adhamma: #1 is Buddha all-seeing all-knowing? ‘samaṇo gotamo sabbaññū sabbadassāvī, aparisesaṁ ñāṇadassanaṁ paṭijānāti, ‘The ascetic Gotama claims to be all-knowing and all-seeing, to know and see everything without exception, thus: mn71 https://find.dhamma.gift/read/ ?s=sabba%C3%B1%C3%B1&q=mn71#5. 2 Here the Buddha explicitly says that this is not how he spoke. But here , Nāgasena says: "Yes, Your Majesty, the Buddha is all-seeing and all-knowing." https:// suttacentral.net/mil3.6.2/en/ kelly?lang=en&layout= sidebyside&reference=none& notes=none&highlight=false& script=latin #2 Lay aharant And this is the passage I was referring to during the lesson. It's ...
Leaders in the top AI companies are researching whether AI has developed consciousness. The whole argument can be shut down very quickly and concisely. If you don't even know how consciousness in organic life forms (in humans and animals for example) works, (like what happens with consciousness at birth, death, comas, etc.) how are you even qualified to determine if inorganic machines designed to behave like humans have consciousness? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ claude AI refined my writing style: Leading AI companies are investing significant effort in researching whether AI has developed consciousness. But this entire line of inquiry can be dismissed quickly and concisely: if we don't even understand how consciousness works in organic life forms—what happens to it at birth, at death, during comas, and so on—how could we possibly be qualified to determine whether inorganic machines, designed merely to mimic huma...
When you're trying to find your way around a large ebook or document, you frequently find yourself asking these 2 questions: 1) Where the heck am I? (after scrolling around a bit) 2) How can I get to where I want to go easily and quickly? I believe I've designed a system that fixes those problems, and even works well on small mobile devices (tested on 8" android tab device so far). Try this for example, entire MN in one file. https://lucid24.org/mn/esq/frn/index.html
A friend shared their notes, excerpts from Ajahn Dtun Biography highlighting what activity Ajahn was doing at the time of each stage of awakening. Ajahn Dtun’s four stages of awakening Glossed from his autobiography (tapes exist at Boonyawad of him explaining to the bhikkhus his stage in more details; or so I recall being told, while there ca. 2017). Pages given from the PDF ( download here ). Bold formatting mine, emphasizing the key insights that would qualify him for each stage. NB: second and last stages attained when doing walking meditation, third while lying down, and stream-entry while sweeping (!) 1. Stream-entry 📅 Vassa 1978 🛕 Beung Khao Luang (1st vassa) “One morning a few days later, I returned to my kuṭi after the meal. Once having taken care of my personal business, I started sweeping the veranda floor in preparation for walking meditation. As I did so, I thought of the events over the past few days. At that moment an understanding arose in my heart exclaiming, ‘ ...
From Oxford American Dictionary putz ˈpəts; ˈpo͝ots 1. informal n. 1) a stupid or worthless person puthujjana jana 1: masc. man; person; fellow [√jan + a] ✔ masc. common man; ordinary man; normal person; man in the street [puthu + jana] ✔ in the context of 4 noble truths and Dhamma translating puthujjana as 'putz' in ordinary context wouldn't work, but in the frequent phrase as-sutava puthujjana, that uneducated putz (with respect to 4nt and Dhamma) would fit wouldn't it? contrasted against sutava ariay-savako educated noble one's disciple.
Wisdom only licensed some of Bodhi's translations for public on suttacentral, about 50 of 152 MN suttas for example, and no footnotes. Just completed this past weekend: My personal private edition of s.4nt.org has Bodhi's MN, AN, SN, Snp (sutta nipāta), all line by line aligned with pali, and footnotes. verbatim validated against the wisdom epubs I purchased for a few hundred dollars many years ago.
sample page https://s.4nt.org/mn/mn125/index.html footnotes section now lives in bottom left corner, sharing left sidebar with table of contents. see settings > help page for details. the whole left sidebar can be adjusted in size for width, and how much footnotes takes up. settings > font size for footnotes lets you individually customize that. This new UX (user interface) improvement allows DPD (digital pali dictionary) to coexist peacefully as it uses the right sidebar.
DN 2 is a good sample: https://s.4nt.org/dn/dn2/index.html This took AI about 6 hours to mostly autonomously process DN (34 long suttas). Compared to MN, this one aligned poorly (line by line...). partly because PTS fills out pali source ...pe... elisions with long paragraphs of repetitions. But the one guarantee of s.4nt.org is the aligned translations, even if they're off on line by line, they are as an entire sutta a verbatim diff of the original source (minus some white space and punctuation mark normalization). PTS DN Can be aligned very well with some human guidance and better section marks identifying chunk points for large suttas This would require volunteer help from someone technically savvy in ai, programming, and competent in pali. competent in those areas enough to not take any meaningful amount of my time. contact me if interested. I have too much on my plate to bring PTS DN up to par with the other aligned nikayas. Summary of AI session PTS Dīgha Nikāya — Tru...
AN 4.141 “Monks, there are these four kinds of brightness. “Catasso imā, bhikkhave, ābhā. What four? Katamā catasso? The brightness of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom. Candābhā, sūriyābhā, aggābhā, paññābhā— These are the four kinds of brightness. imā kho, bhikkhave, catasso ābhā. The best of these four kinds of brightness is the brightness of wisdom.” Etadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imāsaṁ catunnaṁ ābhānaṁ yadidaṁ paññābhā”ti. desktop wallpaper 2k video clip
excerpt from merriam webster dict. orthodox /ˈôrTHəˌdäks/ The term orthodox generally refers to beliefs, behaviors, or traditions that are widely accepted, conventional, or aligned with established standards. Literally translated from Greek, it means "right belief" or "correct teaching". [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] Etymology and Literal Meaning The word comes from the Greek words orthos (meaning "right," "straight," or "true") and doxa (meaning "opinion," "belief," or "glory"). Therefore, the literal meaning is "right opinion" or "true doctrine". [ 1 , 2 ] What is "orthodox" Theravada? Whenever you hear someone claim they're orthodox, you should be asking, "Orthodox with respect to what or who?" Is it orthodox with respect to the Buddha's spoken words during his lifetime? Is it orthodox with respect to the Buddha's recorded words within the first few hundred years?...