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Isn't Sujato supposed to follow his own translation rule of "principle of least meaning"?
19.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's a translation error by sujato. Nisīdi tattha bhikkhu vigatalomahaṃso.
there "meditates" a monk, free of goosebumps.
Nisīdi = Sit, not "meditate".
And how! "Musāvādasutta: Lying by Bhikkhu Sujato "
26.11.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Noble Silence" (ariyo tuṇhī) is not just being vocally silent, which is the impression people reading the sutta will have when they encounter the term "noble silence". SN 21.1 defines it as having samādhi of second jhāna or higher. If Buddha only wanted vocal silence, it'd be plain "tuṇhī"
17.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So why did Marjorie Taylor support and vote for Trump in the first place? A rational person might have a clue before election that Trump, a convicted felon, rapist, misogynist, fake Christian might be the kind of person you can trust.
17.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0merriam webster dict. defines "awareness": : the quality or state of being aware : knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists. Bhante B. wrongly equates sati or satipaṭṭhāna with "awareness". Sati ("mindfulness") is much more than "bare awareness".
17.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AN 4.73 needs to be considered along with other suttas. In isolation, it's too simplistic and easily justifies buddhist laiety remaining silent when certain situations like major crimes by monastics are being committed. There's time for discretion, times for silence, and times to shout "Crime!"
15.11.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0are these journalists "of no integrity", or good citizens reporting crime? church leaders actively tried to hide thousands of priest sex abuse crimes. The Spotlight team won Pulitzers - the 2003 award for the Catholic Church investigation is their most renowned and impactful.
15.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sutta ref.?
09.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Consider how lies of omission, fraudulent translation of sutta passages on jhāna, denial of that, fits in with that verse, and what the consquences are for the monastic and lay enablers who are aware of Dhamma crimes and don't speak or act to expose it.
06.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0from Snp 3.10, with longer version of SN 6.9 of verse: "A liar goes to hell,
as does one who denies what they did.
Both are equal in the hereafter,
those men of base deeds."
AN 4.100 right speech is not being silent when you witness a crime (because you're worried about being divisive or harsh).
at the right time you criticize truthfully that which deserves it.
and what about when the non-noble disciple gives? they don't get the same karmic result? What's the karmic result of translating ariya-savaka wrongly as "noble disciple" and promoting these wrong ideas? And what's the karma of republishing wrong translations when you know they're wrong?
13.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And why is there even controversy whether jhāna is needed for stream entry and beyond? People can start by translating and interpreting suttas correctly. That helps.
09.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Saddahānā arahataṁ,
place justifiable-trust in the perfected ones,
ariyapaññāya jhāyino.
Jhāna meditators of noble wisdom. - The sutta literally says "jhāna-meditator" here, not "meditative". The context obviously is full enlightenment, not any "meditative" activity will get there, 4 jhānas req'd
no critical thought makes it "blind faith", but being able to determine something is sa-d-Dhamma (True Dharma) is what inspires confidence (pasanna) and Justifiable-trust (saddha). notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2025/09/sadd...
08.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
saddhammaṃ sotumicchati;
they want to hear the true Dharma; - that part of sutta is great clue saddha is not "faith" (which in religious context usually means "blind faith" and gullibility), but instead, saddha is a "justifiable-trust" that has to pass critical thinking and evaluation.
