[Buddha-l] testifying with body (AN.i.118)

[Piya Tan]

Mitchell.

There is some discussion on this interesting ares in the annotated
translation
of the Kitagiri Sutta (M 70), which also quotes others citations:

http://dharmafarer.googlepages.com/M70_Kitagiri_S_sd11.1.pdf

With metta,

Piya Tan


On Jan 30, 2008 2:18 PM, Mitchell Ginsberg <jinavamsa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hello all,
>
> I just opened the PTS edition of AN vol. 1 and came
> across AN.II.3.Sect.21 (in one ordering), aka AN.i.118
> (by pagination).
>
> In that little section is the concept of Testifying with
> Body (that's the way the PTS translation puts it).
>
> I am not clear what they are gettingat, but I interpret
> it to relate to the progress possible for one who is
> focusing on the first of the four satipatthanas, which
> is body, after all.
>
> In the passage, the Buddha is asked, and says that of
> the 3 kinds of people being considered it is not easy
> to tell which is the best, which means, I take it, that
> they're pretty much about the same in worthiness in
> the (Buddhist) path.
>
> The three are people who testified to the truth with body,
> who have won view (or insight)_ and who are released by
> confidence (or "faith" in the special Buddhist sense that is
> quite different from the term in Christianity).
>
> The one thing I can see so far is that it has to do with the
> concentration developed by paying careful attention to the
> body.
>
> Are there any passages elsewhere, or in the cmy lit. that
> clarifies this?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Mitchell G.
>
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