[Buddha-l] Loving your object of study

[jkirk]

Richard wrote:
All that sounds a lot  like intellectual work to me. How do you see it,
Jack?
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I see it as describing the 3 stages  of the 'progress of the  disciple'.1. 
Understanding the doctrine (pariyatti). 2. Practicing  it
(patipatti) and 3. Penetrating it (pativedha) and realising it.  Scholarship
only deals with 1 and not necessarily 2 and 3.
 
To make it clear, I am not denigrating scholarship nor scholars.
 
Jack
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Well, as I see it Jack's version is excessively literal-minded. 
Scholarship, as proven by the vast library of Buddhological publications,
researches, observes, analyses and interprets all three, not just pariyatti.

Joanna K.

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