[Buddha-l] Tibetan language expert

[Jim Peavler]

For what it is worth, the English "meditate" is from the Latin root  
"meditari" which meant "to remedy". Same as the root for "medicine"  
or "medical".
So there seems to have been some healing aspect when the English  
speakers looked for a word for that activity.


On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:52 PM, F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing) wrote:

> Well, consider what Meditation 'mean' in English. It means (say, it  
> refers to) deep concentration, which, it seems to me, means in turn  
> precisely a very deep kind of 'paying attention'
> -- 
> F. K. L. Chit Hlaing
> Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Jim Peavler
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