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Deepuji Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
What is meant by the underlined portion below.I fail to understand it.I am studying history
All this is connected with another aspect of existence emphasized in the buddha's teaching-impermanence.Impermanence has many facets.In relation to an individual's life there is no being or power in the universe that can prevent old age, sickness and death.At a more basic level, what we think of as the 'I' or 'me' is actually a never-changing compound of a succession of instants of experiences and consciousness.The simile of the river helps explain this-the river seems the same, but the drops of water that constitute it are changing every instant.At a later text, the 'milindapanha' describes the name of a person as a convenient label for a complex, connected cluster of ever-changing elements, similar to a chariot, which consists of many different parts such as pole, axle, frame and wheels.
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All this is connected with another aspect of existence emphasized in the buddha's teaching-impermanence.Impermanence has many facets.In relation to an individual's life there is no being or power in the universe that can prevent old age, sickness and death.At a more basic level, what we think of as the 'I' or 'me' is actually a never-changing compound of a succession of instants of experiences and consciousness.The simile of the river helps explain this-the river seems the same, but the drops of water that constitute it are changing every instant.At a later text, the 'milindapanha' describes the name of a person as a convenient label for a complex, connected cluster of ever-changing elements, similar to a chariot, which consists of many different parts such as pole, axle, frame and wheels.
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Since there are a lot of words stuffed into these phrases, explanation may be largely a case of citing dictionary definitions. Is it possible for you to highlight more specifically which aspects you don't understand?
- Since there are a lot of words stuffed into these phrases, explanation may be largely a case of citing dictionary definitions.
- Is it possible for you to highlight more specifically which aspects you don't understand?
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Since there are a lot of words stuffed into these phrases, explanation may be largely a case of citing dictionary definitions. Is it possible for you to highlight more specifically which aspects you don't understand?
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deepuji is actually a never-changing compoundI think this is wrong, by the way. I think it was supposed to be "is actually an ever-changing compound".
The meaning is something like this:
Each of us thinks of ourselves as the same person from birth to death, but in fact this is not true. We are alw
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Thank you sirs.
the name of a person as a convenient label for a complex,
GPY Is it possible for you to highlight more specifically which aspects you don't understand?I don't get this specifically
the name of a person as a convenient label for a complex,
CalifJimI think this is wrong, by the way. I think it was supposed to be "is actually an ever-changing co
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deepujiI don't get this specificallythe name of a person as a convenient label for a complex,The part that you have extracted does not observe phrase boundaries. The basic structure of this part is "the Milindapanha describes X as Y", which means that Y is given as a description or explanation of X.
X is "the name of a person", and Y is "a con
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