"Though that clever person has transcended identity, they’d still say, ‘I speak,’ and also ‘they speak to me.’" 2/3 Arahanta Sutta
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"Skillful, understanding the world’s conventions, they’d use these terms as no more than expressions." 3/3 Arahanta Sutta
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This of course is a translation, but by it I'm reminded of a favorite word teaching from Middle English, the language of the Christian contemplative text, *The Cloud of Unknowing.* In that anonymous author's time, the way you spelled the word "concept" in English was: "conceit"
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Manas comes to mind. The term for conceit in this passage is "māna," related to "mano" and "manas." In the Triṃśikā, Vasubandhu notes that "manas" (ego) is 1) associated with "māna" (conceit) and 2) characterized by "mana" (thinking), ātmamāna and mananātmakam, respectively.
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