Indifferent to past form, not delighting in future form
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 12:42 am
Hi all
Thanks always for your help with my questions, this is a wonderful forum.
There is a passage in SN 22:79 that includes "having reflected thus (that he has been, is being and will be 'devoured by form " he becomes indifferent towards past form) he does not seek delight in future form and he is practiving revulsion towards present form. " Surprisingly, there is no footnote for these terms in Bhikhu Bodhi's anthology. I think 'practicing revulsion' is nibbida (?) and obviously doesn't mean sticking one's tongue out in disgust.
I'm more interested in asking about the first and the third, is there any particular difference in the canon in how we are to understand the past and future khandas? It would seem to me that reflections about the past or the future are always proliferations and could be considered the same but is there an idea that there is more aversion to the past and more greed towards the future and that they require different ways of understanding? It almost sounds like that. But that doesn't make sense. Dosa and lobha are pretty free time travelers I'm sure!
Thanks
Thanks always for your help with my questions, this is a wonderful forum.
There is a passage in SN 22:79 that includes "having reflected thus (that he has been, is being and will be 'devoured by form " he becomes indifferent towards past form) he does not seek delight in future form and he is practiving revulsion towards present form. " Surprisingly, there is no footnote for these terms in Bhikhu Bodhi's anthology. I think 'practicing revulsion' is nibbida (?) and obviously doesn't mean sticking one's tongue out in disgust.
I'm more interested in asking about the first and the third, is there any particular difference in the canon in how we are to understand the past and future khandas? It would seem to me that reflections about the past or the future are always proliferations and could be considered the same but is there an idea that there is more aversion to the past and more greed towards the future and that they require different ways of understanding? It almost sounds like that. But that doesn't make sense. Dosa and lobha are pretty free time travelers I'm sure!
Thanks