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Taking up where we left off, we hadn’t started the Further Readings on chapter 5.
I was thinking - ow! those vocab lists in the book are way too long! What I suggest I do is to divide the lists so that there is one smaller list for each reading. That way I can glance through the vocab, read the passage, then test my vocab afterwards.
The following 14 words are associated with Chapter 5 - Further readings Excercise 1. Wherever the glosses below are different from the book that is where Bikkhu Bodhi disagreed with a gloss.
|añjalikaraṇīya|worthy of respectful salutation|
|āhuneyya|venerable, worthy of offerings|
|upekkhaka|equanimous|
|khettaṃ|field, sphere|
|chahi|instrumental-ablative of cha- six|
|dakkiṇeyya|worthy of offerings|
|disvā|having seen|
|dummana|unhappy, downcast|
|pāhuṇeyya|worthy of hospitality|
|puññaṃ|merit, righteousness|
|viññāya|having cognised|
|sata|mindful|
|sammodi|past of sammodati “rejoices”|
|sumana|of a happy mind, of a pleased mind|
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Maybe there is a better way of posting a table?
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I think you have to add a line like this:
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Let’s try it:
| word | gloss |
|---|---|
| bhikkhu | monk |
Hey it worked!
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Good man, @khagga
So here we are. The vocab for Exercise 1 in the Further Readings.
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| Word | Gloss |
|---|---|
| añjalikaraṇīya | worthy of respectful salutation |
| āhuneyya | venerable, worthy of offerings |
| upekkhaka | equanimous |
| khettaṃ | field, sphere |
| chahi | instrumental-ablative of cha- six |
| dakkiṇeyya | worthy of offerings |
| disvā | having seen |
| dummana | unhappy, downcast |
| pāhuṇeyya | worthy of hospitality |
| puññaṃ | merit, righteousness |
| viññāya | having cognised |
| sata | mindful |
| sammodi | past of sammodati “rejoices” |
| sumana | of a happy mind, of a pleased mind |
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And here is a link to the text with Bhante Sujato’s translation.
I think one passage/exercise every 3 days would be an ok pace. With sufficient heat not to get bored.
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And here is the vocabulary for Further Readings Exercise 2.
There will be an exam on these vocab lists. In your home. When you least expect it.
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| Word | Gloss |
|---|---|
| ajjatagge | from today on (ajjato +agge) |
| ajjhataṃ | inwardly, internally subjectivel(y) |
| abhikkantaṃ | excellent, suberb, wonderful |
| upasaṃkami | 3ps pst of upasaṃkamati “approaches” |
| upeti | approaches, attains, comes to reaches (the past particable upeti has the sense of “endowed with” |
| khamati | is fitting, seems good |
| (X) - dhamma | of the nature of X |
| taññeva | = taṃ + eva |
| tathā | thus, so |
| tena hi | if so, in that case |
| dhāreti | holds, bears, accepts, contains |
| dhāretu | 3ps imperative dhāreti “holds, bears, accepts, contains” (i.e… let him, her, it…) |
| naṃ | anternate form of taṃ |
| pajānati | knows, understands |
| paṭipucchati | asks in response, inquires |
| paṭipucchismāmi | 1ps future of paṭipucchati “asks in response, inquires” |
| pāṇupetaṃ | for life (literally “possessed-with-breath-ly” pāna(ṃ) breath + upetaṃ netuer past particple of upeti (has the sense of “endowed with”) |
| byākaroti | explains, answers, brings to light |
| bhagavant | “fortunate one” |
| yaṃ | that, since, for (adverbial use of the accusative of ya-) |
| santa | existing, being |
| sandiṭṭhika | visible, empirical, empirically ascertainable, of advantage in this life |
| Sīvako | a proper name |
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And here is the text for Further Readings - Excercise 2.
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The Vocab for Further Readings Excersise 3.
| Word | Gloss |
|---|---|
| ayoguḷo | iron ball |
| āditta | burning, blazing |
| āha | said |
| gaṇhāti | picks up, takes |
| ḍayhati | gets burned |
| tatta | heated, hot |
| thero | elder, senior |
| daṇḍeti | punishes |
| diguṇaṃ | doubly, twofold |
| pāpakammaṃ | evil, sinful act |
| balikataraṃ | more, greatly |
| mahāmatto | chief minister |
| rājaputto | prince |
| sampajjalita | ablaze, in flames |
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And here is the text of exercise 3. Has anyone any thoughts on the interpretation of this text? It seems surprising what it says, that unknowing wrongdoing causes greater demerit than knowing wrongdoing.
IMHO, you should read this as a philosophical proposition in context of the entire discussion.
The previous sutta says:-
He who does wrong, O king, comes to feel remorse, and acknowledges his evil-doing. So demerit does not increase.
It then explains how the person who intentionally does right acquires merit.
So, when one knowingly does wrong, there will be remorse and acknowledgement (probably sooner than later)… so demerit will not increase… aka the person knowingly grasping hot metal. He won’t be holding on too long!
But when one unknowingly does wrong, one doesn’t have the faintest clue why one is getting the results one is. Since there is no remorse or acknowledgement (there may even be denial - I didn’t mean to, x made me do it, etc etc), there is the propensity to cause much more hurt… aka a person unknowingly grasping hot metal. Hence the greater demerit.
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Thanks Doc, it makes more sense now 
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And here is the Vocab for Further Readings Exercise 4
| Word | Gloss |
|---|---|
| nicca | permanent, non-transitory |
| no | negative “not”, more emphatic than na |
| vipariṇāma | change |
| vedanā | feeling |
| saṃkhāro | volitional formations |
| saññā | perception |
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Here is a link to the text for Further Readings - Exercise 4.
Would anybody like to link to their favourite discussions of the Pāli words for the Khandas? I’m still looking for the ultimate explanation.
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Let us pause to appreciate the compound atītānāgatapaccuppannaṃ.
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Very good. I wasn’t reading past the exercise and I was happy enough with Anattalakkhaṇasutta.
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