How did that happen? 
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Every evening when my mind is dull, two bites of dark chocolate wakes my brain up. If I became a monk I would wail and cry for dark chocolate. 
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This same thing happens to me too.
And only now do I understand the slight but noteworthy difference between “fallen from” and “fallen for”. In the case of dark chocolate, the latter is something I can much better relate to. 
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Hmm. It more than doubles the number of results. “head w.* on fire” has 16, “on fire” has 34, many of which are just the title of a Vagga, and the actual Sutta doesn’t have that term at all.
Anything that speaks against “head w.* on fire”?
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Chat? I have discovered something interesting…
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Find the link in the private dev thread.
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Added ‘eight liberations’ to examples. Six suttas deal with this interesting topic.
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Thank you! Added “acht Befreiungen”.
I find 10.
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We had both “fruits of giving” (2 results, the two Siha Suttas) and “fruit of giving” (3 results, adding Iti 26 to the list which is a very beautiful little Sutta. I removed “fruits of giving” to keep the one that includes the Iti Sutta.
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Adding examples:
- never become famous | niemals berühmt werde (3 results)
- bowl upside down | Schale umdrehen (1 result)—it points to an important Vinaya rule.
- the supreme wheel of dhamma | das unübertreffliche Rad des Dhamma (13 results)—points to MN 141, which is an explanation of the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path first explained in the first Sutta
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Added example “live for”. This finds DN26 as the first result:
DN26:19.1: There will come a time, mendicants, when these people will have children who live for ten years.
I did consider “there will come a time”, but we already have a “there comes a time”
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Thanks for finding a way to point to the interesting DN 26!
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I am adding
- a heart full of love to one direction | eine Himmelsrichtung mit einem Herzen voller Liebe
This points to the metta meditation formula (followed by the other brahmaviharas, unless abbreviated) and has 29 results.
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Added:
- “with tongue pressed” this finds suttas describing over-exertion during meditation.
- “the unsurpassable” this finds six suttas. I kept hearing this in DN34 and finally sat down to understand what it meant.
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Hmm … I think this one is a little problematic. The actual phrase “with tongue pressed” doesn’t occur anywhere in the Suttas, and we only get a keyword search with results like “with teeth clenched and tongue pressed”. This may work in Voice, but not on EBT-Sites.
Good for English 
, unfortunately not working for German. 
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Oops. Thanks for catching that. I updated it to “tongue pressed”, which returns four suttas
“Unübertreffliches” finds 10 of your translations?
“unsurpassable” finds 18, but perhaps you haven’t translated some of these:
32.128 dn28
30.448 an6.30
4.5 an6.8
4.003 dn33
2.054 an1.170-187
2.009 mn35
2.002 dn34
1.143 an6.140
1.125 an6.24
1.091 an6.22
1.033 an6.23
1.031 an6.21
1.03 an10.22
1.026 an6.27
1.023 an6.28
1.022 an6.25
1.019 an6.29
1.016 an6.26
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Thank you, that’s great.
Well, for English with the entire canon translated there are 6, for German with only a quarter translated there are already 10. I had a few similar cases where it got overwhelming after a few more months of translating, so I am a bit careful. Will think about it again at a later point perhaps.
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OK. I wanted to highlight AN6.30, which you can do with “Unübertreffliche Dinge” (7 suttas)
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Ah, good to know. “unübertreffliche Dinge” at least finds Suttas that all have the word “unsurpassable” in the English text. For “unübertreffliches”, only 5 out of 10 results do have that.
Thanks for taking all this effort for German!
Added: I just had a look, and we have already “unübertreffliche Dinge” in our list! And we have “unsurpassable”, so with adding “the unsurpassable” that might be a bit redundant.
And … AN 6.30 is indeed worth highlighting!
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OK. I changed English to have “unsurpassable things” and that will match Deutsch.
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