Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.s1.12

c19.s1.12

(MN. III. 243) cf. "it was a state of attention, more akin to that of the boy Samuel in the Herbrew scriptures; 'speak, lord, for thy servant heareth.' "It was an attitude for coming to know (Sakya. p. 37)" "What is stated to be left is sati coupled with emotional indifference (Upekkhā). Now sati was just lucid, introspective awareness, the very state needed by the listner who is purged of preconceptions, has made his mind a tabula rasa and is waiting to learn" (Ib. 166). On the "simplification" of psychic process and contents cf. Laignel Lavastine. op. cit. pp. 98–99.