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@Jayarava

A lot of the time, I'm preaching to the converted. But at least I'm preaching heresy and apostasy.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2012.

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    The current economic system is predicated on the idea that the worst people in society will, for the worst possible motives, work for the benefit of all. And they will do so of their own free will, without any governance (no rules, no oversight).

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  2. Dentist this week. Always difficult, but my local dentist has just been bought out. Now called [corporate drivel] their mission is [corporate drivel] and they hope that [corporate drivel]. And rest assured [corporate drivel]. Blah blah [corporate drivel].

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  3. Although Coronavirus is fatal less often than SARS or MERS, it looks to be much more contagious. So the death toll will be considerable. But keep in mind that flu kills 300-650k each year anyway. It's serious but not apocalyptic.

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  4. Work Capacity Assessment. FUCK!

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  5. oat milk is really just runny porridge. (h/t )

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    The three ages of humanity.....

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  7. or what about "niṣṭhanirvāṇaḥ"? Ever see nirvāṇa declined as masculine before? Or used adjectivally in a Buddhist text? Nirvāṇa begs for a verb, i.e. "bodhisatvo niṣṭhaṃ nirvāṇaṃ prāpṇoti", not "bodhisatvo niṣṭhanirvāṇaḥ".

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  8. e.g. why would anyone write cittāvaraṇanāstitvāt when one could convey the same idea with acittāvaraṇāt? The word -nāstitvāt is just weird. Right? And a hapax legomenon.

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  9. The ongoing problem is that the Sanskrit text is a poor translation of the Chinese. It's Chinese hybrid Sanskrit: e.g. it prefers adjectives to verbs and abstract nouns in the ablative to gerunds, it uses Chinese idioms & syntax at times; it gets words wrong.

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  10. These two mistakes cause downstream problems. But they resolve themselves. And you end up with a text that *can* be read as Sanskrit.

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  11. You first task as a student approaching the Sanskrit Heart Sutra is to eliminate Conze's mistakes: missing anusvāra and an extra full stop. Many scholars have missed them over the years, but careful parsing should highlight the problems.

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  12. All writing systems are entirely arbitrary. There is no right way to write. There are only more or less conventional ways. Sometimes we choose an unconventional method because of constraints, convenience, or just for fun. As long as the intended recipient understands, it's fine.

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  13. Coronavirus is not that scary. Mortality is quite low. It's a wake-up call though. Humanity is vulnerable in many ways that are only mitigated by pulling together.

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  14. Pema Chodron and David Schneider both step down from "Acharya" role in Shambala citing concerns about the failure to address issues related to Sakyong's behaviour.

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  15. A lot of the time, I'm preaching to the converted. But at least I'm preaching heresy and apostasy. 🤣

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    31. sij

    “Thus neither the moderate Right nor the moderate Left even recognises, let alone offers any solution for, the central problem of our days: the completely unprecedented personal economic insecurity of working people..”Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future

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    31. sij

    I got a lovely email from a US school, asking if I could donate a book for their library. It's heartbreaking that schools in the world's largest economy can't afford books. It is heartening they have such committed teachers. 2 copies of this coming their way.

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  19. There's a general shortage of generic ibuprofen in Cambridge. Overpriced Nurofen™ aplenty, but none of the affordable stuff in chemists or supermarkets.

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  20. In other words, this is not the view of a modern skeptic. Today I have my historian hat on. I am simply restating (and paraphrasing) what Indian Buddhists *wrote down* in the early centuries of the CE.

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  21. Surviving polemics and apologetics from antiquity showed that they were well aware of the problem and hated each other's solutions.

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