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**hellenmoranov** · 05-13-2011, 09:29 AM

a fleshy man...

that's a great way to put it! And I concur totally with what you said about the Forest Tradition. Ajahn Sumedho is a BS detector par excellence (of my BS...don't know about others). The irony for me is that their humility makes me actually trust them as leaders, which is a weird feeling to me because I definitely have "authority issues." LOL!

There is dukkha... and dukkha should be welcomed. This is my new interpretation...! How's that? Try that one. You can experiment with these different words. You don't have to think, "Pali scriptures say 'understand', they don't say 'welcome'!" Pali Scriptures don't say 'understand', they use a Pali word...we translate as 'understand'. Maybe we don't understand what 'understand' means. Did you ever think about that? Maybe we don't understand our own language. We're so limited to a particular narrow view of the word 'understand' that we can't really expand it. If we have a broader view then we can experiment with the words. Just observe the effect."

Ajahn Sumedho, Intuitive Awareness, p.79. , my emphases
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05-13-2011, 09:29 AM	#35
hellenmoranov Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 367 Senior Member	a fleshy man... that's a great way to put it! And I concur totally with what you said about the Forest Tradition. Ajahn Sumedho is a BS detector par excellence (of my BS...don't know about others). The irony for me is that their humility makes me actually trust them as leaders, which is a weird feeling to me because I definitely have "authority issues." LOL! There is dukkha... and dukkha should be welcomed. This is my new interpretation...! How's that? Try that one. You can experiment with these different words. You don't have to think, "*Pali scriptures* say 'understand', they don't say 'welcome'!" Pali Scriptures don't say 'understand', they use a Pali word...we translate as 'understand'. Maybe we don't understand what 'understand' means. Did you ever think about that? Maybe we don't understand our own language. We're so limited to a particular narrow view of the word 'understand' that we can't really expand it. If we have a broader view then we can experiment with the words. Just observe* the effect." Ajahn Sumedho, Intuitive Awareness*, p.79. , my emphases b@eze
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