[Buddha-l] Prapanca

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Richard Hayes schreef:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:46 +0800, Piya Tan wrote:
>
>   
>> That is why no one is really happy on this
>> website, but
>> they keep coming back because they could not find it anywhere else anyway.
>>     
>
> As I understand it, prapanca is, among other things, narratives we
> impose on our experiences to try to make sense of them. These narratives
> are rarely well founded and contain speculations that conform more to
> our prejudices than to fact. A good example of such a speculation is the
> claim that no one is really happy on this website. It's a wild guess,
> unsupported by any kind of evidence, made in conformity with a dogmatic
> adherence to doctrinal Buddhism.
>
>   
Perhaps 'discursivity' in the sense of making a discourse would be an 
acceptable translation.

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Erik

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