Meaning of AN 1.439-446

[Kaz]

Can anyone explain the meaning of AN1.439-446? (Segment Nos. sc439.1.1 -sc439.1.32)
I just don’t get it. No idea at all.
Any help would be much appreciated as I am trying to translate these passages.

[mikenz66]

Bhikkhu Bodhi notes:

These are the eight bases of overcoming ( abhibhāyatana ). For explanations, see 8:65 and pp. 1808–9, notes 1771–75.

AN8.65: SuttaCentral

[Kaz]

Thank you very much, @mikenz66. Much appreciated. Sadhu sadhu sadhu.

[mikenz66]

It is in cases like this that the footnotes are helpful! Bhikkhu Bodhi refers to the commentaries and the Visuddhimagga in his notes 1771–75, and this post may be helpful:

'āyatana' in context

Like some other terms essential for the understanding of the EBT āyatana has not received its due attention, often translated as the inaccessible ‘base’ I would like to highlight in which conceptual contexts it appears. āyatana in Vedic/Sanskrit sources Monier-Williams translates āyatana as a resting-place, support, seat, place, home, house, abode, a sanctuary, a barn Jan Gonda provides an exhaustive source collection of āyatana in Indian sources (Gonda (1975): Selected Studies, Volume II…

[Kaz]

I have just quickly skimmed through to abhibhāyatana #2, and Bhikkhu Bodhi’s explanation, and I think I got it. It is hard to understand for a puthujjanā like me as I have never come closer, let alone mastered, such a way of perceiving. Thank you, and thank you Gabriel, too.