Hi Rob M, While waiting for others with knowledge to reply, this small part was one of the questions that King Milinda asked: "On the other hand, I understand that if I will act "Where, Venerable Sir,

Hi Christine, Excellent! Excellent! Thanks for the paradigm shift. Still more thinking to be done, but in a different direction now. Thanks, Rob M :-) --- In dhammastudygroup@y..., "christine_forsyth"

Hello Lisa, all, Interesting to read your word definitions :-) And thanks for your chatty and informative posts and for the opportunity to reflect on the quote "Deep learning and a love of the Way mak

When I think I remember something from my youth, I in fact remember a memory of some years ago from a memory ten years ago etc. from what happened in my youth. Metta Joop

Gethin: p.41: "Clearly when we talk of 'memory' and 'remembering' in the context of Buddhist psychology we are dealing with quite subtle questions.

Hello Herman, Do you have Nyanaponika "Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Exploration of Consciousness and Time" ? I can't find my copy at the moment to check - but see the paragraph beginning "Nyanaponika'

He relies on only rote memory and intellectual ability. Even if he has a sharp memory and can memorize a sutra, he won get any response.

Hi Lisa, Christine, Thanks so much for all that word finding. It has made it clear that it isn't very clear :-) Thanks again Herman <snip>

Memory is at least three-fold, conscious memory, unconscious memory and non-conscious memory. You have addressed the first two, I'll spend a bit of time on the last one.

equivalence between memory and sanna receives almost no attention?

Do you remember the Buddha :-) My meaning was that memory (which allows me to type this post, to conceive of me and you, and to concoct something about the Buddha) receives almost no

The Omission of Memory in the Theravadin List of Dhammas: On the Nature of Sanna by Nyanaponika Thera Kind Regards Herman entire

(nt.) anussara&#7751;a || right memory: (f.) samm&#257;sati. perception : (f.) saññ&#257;.

Dear LBIDD, I appreciate your kindness of talking to me for so long without quoting other people's opinions...

is a translation of sa~n~na cetasika (mental factor of perception/memory).

This makes me think of kamma which has a broader sense than memory.

Thus, the "memory" is never identical to the past event. Best wishes Lucy

of Dear RobM, Do you have a reference for Ayuhana vinnana in the texts, I don't know the term or the context where it is used . If you can give some citations I can check out the discourses where it w

I agree with your observation about memory. Memory is very much shaped and reshaped in a dependent origination kind-of-way. Kind Regards Herman

Dear everyone, I have a question: What is exactly memory in Abhidhamma? Thank you. Best regards, KKT