I believe there is a quote to the effect of "Action is intention." All i can find on the internet is "It is action which I call intention." But I can't find a sutta reference. Does anyone know what sutta this is from?
Sorry if this is the wrong forum as i'm basically just looking for a reference. But discuss on the sentence is okay.
Action is intention
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lyndon taylor
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Re: Action is intention
Actually I think its intention precedes and predicates action, they are two different words.
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For instance you can have the intention to mow the lawn, but the action of actually getting started mowing it might take an hour or two weeks.
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Re: Action is intention
there are acts of body speech & mind. and as mind precedes all phenomena (Dhp1 & 2), and intention is a mental action it is, as the above quote from AN6 says, Kamma.lyndon taylor wrote:For instance you can have the intention to mow the lawn, but the action of actually getting started mowing it might take an hour or two weeks.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill