[advaitayzen] Good Grammar

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Hi Shogun,

 

When I wrote 'Good Grammar' I was thinking only in English, but I'm glad that you and Hour expanded the scope. In Spanish the verb 'ser' to be can be used without

the pronoun. We can say 'soy bruto' I'm stupid. In Italian 'sono bruto' I'm ugly.

So in this sense it is easier to loose track of the "I" in Spanish. Not that it helps spiritually, that I have noticed. But it's forgetting to filter experience through the verbal

sieve of identification which brings us to the undefined.

 

Gash,

 

Pete

 

 

Hi Hur and Pete,

 

 

I think what you described in comparison to Turkisch is a singularity of English,  German and a few other languages and, in fact, it sounds ridiculous when translated literally into other languages.  It sounds even strange in Castillian to use "be" (ser) as an auxilliary verb. They use "estar", which could be translated in many different ways but in the usage as auxilliary verb it could mean: " I stay (stand, located) here" and then comes the verb clarifying, why someone is staying at this moment and in that place doing something or not. If someone uses "estar" without a following clarification it would just mean "to stand (reside, stay) here and now or everywhere in any time)" without any other purpose or dignity than "to stand here and know or everywhere in any time (in this world)", not conferring a dignity, quality or attribute. What I mean reflects itself very good regarding the states death or alive. In Castillian it would sound completely absurd to say "he is death"

translating it literally, because if someone is death he cannot *be*. I like the castillian, spanisch "estar" very much and it's not far away from the the Heideggarian notion of "Da-sein", the difference is that the castillian-speakers didn't need to compose a philosophy around this matter...it was always clear. I think, Pete, being primarily "spanish-parlant", means "estar" more than to *be*, but he will surely clarify that by himself better than I can do it.

 

 

 

gassho

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