[Buddha-l] Mere mereness

[curt]

That has interesting implications. As in "citta-maatra". One doesn't (or 
at least I don't) usually associate the Yogacara attitude toward 
consciousness with the word "mere". My Sanskrit is lousy to non-existent 
- is this the same "maatra" we are talking about?
- Curt

Richard P Hayes wrote:
> Fools Crow wrote:
>
>   
>> Actually, the Latin origin of "mere" appears to have meant something  
>> like "undiluted".  Used precisely, in English from Middle English  
>> until well into the last century is meant "solely" or "no more nor  
>> better than what is specified".
>>     
>
> Although "mere" is not etymologically related to Sanskrit "maatra", my 
> impression is that the two words function in much the same way. In 
> Sanskrit "maatra" at the end of a compound means having something as 
> its full measure. So X-maatra means "nothing more nor less than X." I 
> suspect that "mere" can function in the same way. As C.S. Lewis 
> explains his usage, it sounds as though he takes "mere Christianity" to 
> mean something like nothing more nor less than Christianity. 
>
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