[Buddha-l] rebirth

[Joy Vriens]

Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> As for satya, some medieval Hindu usages suggest this understood as "truth"
> or "true," but if we go back to its vedic roots, sat meant something
> "actual", something that had emerged into "actual existence," as opposed to
> asat, the not-yet-existent or the no-longer-existent, i.e., potential
> existence. So, rather than "true proposition" for satya, I *propose*
> "actuality."

Interesting, thanks for the many precious pearls that are thrown to 
swines like me by the likes of you on Buddha-L lately.

It then seems that a complete reversal took place with notions like 
Brahman and maayaa where the *actual* existence is untrue and the 
not-yet-existent true.

Joy