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_content/articles/early-buddhist-meditation-part-3_analayo.md

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+---
+title: "Early Buddhist Meditation, Part 3: The Establishments of Mindfulness"
+authors:
+  - analayo
+external_url: "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12671-023-02260-y.pdf"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02260-y"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/18SvnMBWmxFBd9huCYhseXOFVTBvDwkCR/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: path
+tags:
+  - buddhism
+  - sati
+year: 2023
+month: nov
+journal: "Mindfulness"
+volume: 15
+number: 3
+pages: "733--736"
+publisher: "Springer Science"
+openalexid: W4388812838
+---
+
+> The same scanning procedure can be employed for the next body contemplation, which instead takes up the four elements as basic constituents of matter in general and the human body in particular. These four are earth, water, fi re, and wind, which represent the qualities of solidity or hardness, cohesion or wetness, temperature, and motion.
+
+A brief introduction to the Four Satipaṭṭhānas.
+

_content/articles/epigraphic-pali_karpik.md

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 title: "Light on Epigraphic Pali: More on the Buddha Teaching in Pali"
 authors:
   - "Stefan Karpik"
-external_url: "https://www.academia.edu/110698478/Light_on_Epigraphic_Pali_More_on_the_Buddha_Teaching_in_Pali"
-source_url: "http://www.jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/264"
+source_url: "https://www.academia.edu/110698478/Light_on_Epigraphic_Pali_More_on_the_Buddha_Teaching_in_Pali"
+external_url: "https://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/download/264/357"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/13lle2eLi7h7XGXX1sWg9fNbDQIDJygze/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: pali-language
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 > If attention is given instead to Salomon’s ‘central-western epigraphic Prakrit’, it can be seen as a later reflex of Pali by a method of presentation unique to this paper. Accordingly, it should be merged with the existing category of 'Epigraphic Pali' and serious attention given to the Theravada tradition that the Buddha spoke Pali.
 
-A compelling argument that the post-Ashokan "Prakrit" inscriptions found across South Asia from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE were, in fact, composed in a later version of the same exact language that we see in the Pāli Canon.
-This theory gives credence to the idea that the Pāli Canon is a trustworthy witness to the "common tongue" of the Buddha's ancient North India, perhaps even more reliable than the [idiosyncratic "Māghadī"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokan_Prakrit?wprov=sfla1) of Ashoka himself (despite his edicts having been committed to writing at the earlier date).
+A compelling argument that the post-Ashokan "Prakrit" inscriptions found across South Asia from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE were, in fact, composed in a later version of the same language that we see in the Pāli Canon (just a later form of it).
+This theory gives credence to the idea that the Pāli Canon is a trustworthy witness to the "common tongue" of ancient North India, perhaps even more reliable than the [idiosyncratic "Māghadī"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokan_Prakrit?wprov=sfla1) of Ashoka himself (despite his edicts having been committed to writing at the earlier date).
 
 See also: [Bhante Sujato's reaction to this paper on SuttaCentral](https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/stefan-karpik-s-light-on-epigraphic-pali-more-on-the-buddha-teaching-in-pali-a-review/31713?u=khemarato.bhikkhu).

_content/av/rousseau-social-contract_writ-large.md

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+---
+title: "On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's \"The Social Contract\""
+authors:
+  - "James Kloppenberg"
+subcat: podcast
+editor: "Zachary Davis"
+external_url: "https://newbooksnetwork.com/on-jean-jacques-rousseaus-the-social-contract"
+source_url: "https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SLj01JvyI4jjdWEr4bmjG?si=jqkU92sVQq2AFP8fyT4ENQ"
+course: society
+status: featured
+tags:
+  - the-west
+  - ideology
+year: 2022
+month: nov
+series: writ-large
+number: 69
+minutes: 36
+---
+
+> Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.
+
+How an 18th century philosopher's ideas came to dominate modern political thought.
+
+Rousseau thought that it was polite society that made people evil and that a sufficiently enlightened social order could bring out people's inherent virtues.

_tags/karma.md

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 illustration_caption: >-
   <a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t3rd8ckv/images?id=pfqnz5un">This 1874 woodblock by Kawanabe Kyōsai</a>
   depicts Japanese people dodging flames and turning into demons as they make alcohol, butcher meat, and blindly embrace "Modernity."
-  Buddhists believe that "Wrong Livelihood" lowers our mind to the level of ghosts or demons.
+  Buddhists believe that "Wrong Livelihood" harms our minds and leads to suffering.
 image: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/banners/Good_deed.jpg
 image_width: 2560
 image_height: 1920