Fill us with happiness: tell us about all our mistakes!

[sujato]

@Nevs4511

sitting meditation

change to “sitting in meditation”

@mikenz66

Sorry if this sounds picky.

Not at all, see my extended discussion here:

On MN 140 and the tides of conceiving

@mikenz66 has highlighted one of the most inspiring passages in the suttas: He has raised a number of translation issues, which are well considered, but on returning to the text I find there are more issues than I thought. I wonder, in fact, whether my translation has been unduly influence by the commentary. Here’s the Pali; note the punctuation in the MS edition: Cha dhāturo ayaṁ, bhikkhu, puriso cha phassāyatano aṭṭhārasa manopavicāro caturādhiṭṭhāno; yattha ṭhitaṁ maññassavā nappavatta…