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**heltduell** · 09-19-2011, 08:48 AM

One of the interesting things about learning foreign languages and culture is how their similes and metaphors compare to those of my native language and culture. Sometimes they're remarkably similar and sometimes no amount of explanation can make them clear. I think the necessary information that might explain those images in the sutta passages above has been lost in the intervening 2,500 years. At least, I haven't been able to find explanations for them.

When I read those passages, I just take the obvious advice about cultivating dispassion towards, food, sense impressions, volition and consciousness. These are things that we ordinarily attach to, cling to, chase after and/or be enamored of, but they all bear the 3 marks of existence, so they are ultimately unsatisfactory. That's about all I can do with it. Wish I had something more, Element.

09-19-2011, 08:48 AM	#7
heltduell Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	One of the interesting things about learning foreign languages and culture is how their similes and metaphors compare to those of my native language and culture. Sometimes they're remarkably similar and sometimes no amount of explanation can make them clear. I think the necessary information that might explain those images in the sutta passages above has been lost in the intervening 2,500 years. At least, I haven't been able to find explanations for them. When I read those passages, I just take the obvious advice about cultivating dispassion towards, food, sense impressions, volition and consciousness. These are things that we ordinarily attach to, cling to, chase after and/or be enamored of, but they all bear the 3 marks of existence, so they are ultimately unsatisfactory. That's about all I can do with it. Wish I had something more, Element.
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