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**Jxlacvio** · 04-27-2012, 07:58 AM

When the mind is attached to the mundane, to the worldly stuff...there is the temptation to bring into this sutta the idea of a "continuum of consiousness" but I don't give that reading from it.

Yes, it seems so

Buddha has used a physical simile but it seems the translator has interpreted it literally (materialistically) rather than meditatively

using the same words, in SN 12.19, Buddha asked the question:

Tatra , bhikkhave, ko viseso ko adhippayāso kiṃ nānākaraṇaṃ paṇḍitassa bālenā

So what difference, what distinction, what distinguishing factor is there between the wise person & the fool? Buddha simply & literally said: "if the mind has long been nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, nurtured with learning, nurtured with relinquishment, nurtured with discernment then this leads (gamini) the mind (citta) to becoming (hoti) lofty (uddha) and distinguished from the ordinary (visesa)"

04-27-2012, 07:58 AM	#5
Jxlacvio Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	When the mind is attached to the mundane, to the worldly stuff...there is the temptation to bring into this sutta the idea of a "continuum of consiousness" but I don't give that reading from it. Yes, it seems so Buddha has used a physical simile but it seems the translator has interpreted it literally (materialistically) rather than meditatively using the same words, in SN 12.19, Buddha asked the question: Tatra , bhikkhave, ko viseso ko adhippayāso kiṃ nānākaraṇaṃ paṇḍitassa bālenā So what difference, what distinction, what distinguishing factor is there between the wise person & the fool? Buddha simply & literally said: "if the mind has long been nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, nurtured with learning, nurtured with relinquishment, nurtured with discernment then this leads (gamini) the mind (citta) to becoming (hoti) lofty (uddha) and distinguished from the ordinary (visesa)"
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