Sunday, October 27, 2024

Oct 27– Buddhist Writings translated by Henry Clarke Warren

 I wanted the "fifth sense" bit from Curse of Monkey Island but I couldn't find it on Youtube.

Oct 27– Buddhist Writings translated by Henry Clarke Warren

Summary: There's a lot more than just "good" and "bad" karma.

Commentary: I like these little bits from different culture sections. I don't know a ton about Buddhism, but tonight I learned there are six senses (at least according to this book) so that's neat. I don't necessarily understand some parts (I will, as I often do, blame the translation for part of it) super well, but it's still cool to see how a very different point of view from the one I grew up with. Just the phrasing is very different from what I'm used to, and it feels like I need to kind of transliterate it into a "normal" phrasing, then work through the language, then get to meaning. For example:

By the second word:— The word “Origination,” as exhibiting an origination of the elements of being and inasmuch as the elements of being originate by means of a full complement of dependence, shows a rejection of such heresies as that of the annihilation of existences, the heresies, namely, of the annihilation of existences, of nihilism, of the inefficacy of karma. For if the elements of being are continually originating by means of an antecedent dependence, whence can we have annihilation of existence, nihilism, and an inefficacy of karma? 

        The vocabulary itself isn't too bad, but the use of rhetorical and the pseduo-outline format complicates things a bit.

 

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