4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦

4👑☸ → V&V💭 → V&V⛔    🔝

🐎You can lead a horse to first jhāna...

but you can't make him think.🐴💭

🐎You can lead a horse to first jhāna

but you can't make him think.🐴💭

• V&V💭 in 1st Jhāna🌘
• ni-j-jhāna can function like a first jhāna with V&V
• vicara & vicāra
• How various English translators render V&V
• Relativity of ⛔Wrong, and the horse from Bodagosia
• 🔗Audit: U Thittila mistranslation of V&V in Abhidhamma Vb first jhāna gloss | 🔗Even in redefinition, vitakka is thinking (featuring simile of doorstop)
• L.S. Cousins, V&V in EBT and non EBT

Appendices

• ⛔B. Anālayo’s mistranslation of V&V
• ⛔B. Sujato’s mistranslation of V&V
• Fallacy & Cognitive Bias
• V&V💭 sutta anthology

☸Epilogue



⛔ Wrong translations for V&V💭

✅ ☸EBT V&V💭: vitakka & vicāra = directed-thought & evaluation
⛔ Vism. Redefinition V&V💭: applied-thought & sustained-thought (b.nanamoli)
⛔ Vism. Redefinition V&V💭: initial-application & sustained-application (u thittila, Te Ab Vb 12 )
⛔ B.Sujato mistranslation of V&V💭: placing-the-mind & keeping-it-connected
⛔ B.Anālayo mistranslation of V&V💭: [directed] awareness and [sustained] contemplation

⛔🔗The one stop V&V shop, where errant views meet the chopping block
✅Relativity of ⛔Wrong, and the horse from Bodagosia


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