rereading my favorite thing has ever written, "(mis)Translating the Buddha"
"This is a good example of how Buddhism has been transmitted to the west. It's worse than not helpful, it's actively anti-helpful. As in it obscures actual understanding."
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one big downside of translating dukkha is that the word dukkha kind of sounds like dukkha feels. Whereas stress sounds like gliding and suffering is way too bouncy
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increasingly in favor of just using the pali terms
If I could I would just make a fax machine sound everytime I wanted to say it
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don’t let your dreams be dreeeeeams
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