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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's wild to me that people will live their lives guided by their reading of a *translation* of a document without ever engaging with the original language or any of the details of the translation process
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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rereading my favorite thing @RomeoStevens76 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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i won't be able to find it but awhile ago
@jonathandubin
linked to an author making some radical claims that the bible has been badly mistranslated and lots of important passages don't mean anything like what they sound like they mean in, say, the KJV translation
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
oh nice this is actually pretty close to what i remember the excerpts from prayer of the cosmos were saying
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RomeoStevens
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In this view, 'accepting Jesus into your heart' is probably the same as taking heart-centered, somatic metta as your meditation object. The deep okayness that is a result of stream entry here is given a gloss of being about the afterlife.
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This seems hard e.g. learning Latin (?) for Bible. I have limited capacity (time/effort) to study primary sources in full depth, so what choice is there other than to take what other people have translated for most of my info?