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by Sylvester
Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:14 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

Food recipes was perhaps a poor example, but it demonstrates the sheer arbitrariness of the law. From this article: Cooking is not considered inventing; rather, it evolves. ...so, music and technology are created by the "person"? They don't simply evolve no differently than with cooking? ...
by Sylvester
Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:48 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

Copyright doesn't just protect ownership over a particular physical arrangement and embodiment of information (ex: a chocolate cake), but instead protects ownership over any particular arrangement with the same information (ex: any chocolate cake made with the same recipe). So, it is basically gran...
by Sylvester
Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

You are welcome.
by Sylvester
Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:12 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

It's important to separate three issues here: first, whether people have a "right" to own copies (whether violating copyright is theft), second, the ethics of actually producing copyrighted material, and third, the efficacy of using copyright for dhamma materials. Bhikkhu Bodhi, the BPS, ...
by Sylvester
Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:30 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

I might prefer to call the Dhamma the intellectual "capital" of the Sangha, rather than intellectual "property". "Capital" because it is for the Sangha's growth, rather than "property" because that would entail too many implications of "ownership". B...
by Sylvester
Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:06 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

Thank you, Bhante. I am surprised to hear that Thailand has few copyright restrictions, given its modern legal system being modelled on the Civil Law of Europe. My hazy recollection of European copyright laws is that it is certainly more "developed" than the Anglo-American systems. I wonde...
by Sylvester
Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:58 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution
Replies: 48
Views: 11051

Re: The Ethics of Dhamma Distribution

If it was done with the "bodhicitta aspiration" (helping others to attain enlightenment) then it might be justified. But in Theravada terms, there might be some problems with it, even though in the Bhikkhu Vinaya there is no such thing as "stealing intellectual property" (a mode...
by Sylvester
Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:11 am
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: Physical pain - nama or rupa?
Replies: 9
Views: 2935

Re: Physical pain - nama or rupa?

Painful bodily feeling is the vedanā that accompanies the fifth of the seven types of unwholesome-resultant consciousness (akusala-vipāka citta), namely, unwholesome-resultant bodily consciousness accompanied by pain (dukkhasahagataṃ kāyaviññāṇaṃ). The basis (vatthu) of this citta is rūpa, but the ...
by Sylvester
Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:02 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Sankhara
Replies: 18
Views: 6893

Re: Sankhara

Many thanks, Ben.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
by Sylvester
Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:07 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Sankhara
Replies: 18
Views: 6893

Re: Sankhara

Hello Element Hope you can help me with the "kaya sankhara". Does MN 44 or any other sutta draw a distinction between kaya sankhara as an activity (ie breathing) and breath as the product of that activity? I note that the Commentary to MN 118, in explaining "sabba kaya patisamvedi&quo...