Re: CHAT: Not Politics (was: CHAT: India--Pakistan Nuclear War?)
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 2, 2002, 10:46 |
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On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 00:32, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 05:47, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> > _Om mani padme hum_ = somewhat literally: "hail to the jewel in the
> > lotus!" or "oh, the jewel is in the lotus!"...
> > more meaningfully it can be understood as "Om, the jewel of
> > enlightenment consciousness arises within the lotus of ordinary (but
> > trained)
> > consciousness!"
>
> 'Padme' doesn't happen to mean 'jewel', does it? And does it derive from
> a certain Star Wars character? (I've assumed that's a conlang there.)
"padme" is good Sanskrit for "lotus". In the Star Wars cycle, it undoubtedly
derives from "The Good Ship Lollipop", or some other mythical beast. <:) It
also occurs as a character name in Salman Rushdie's "Children of Midnight" -
if I've remembered the names correctly.
Wesley Parish
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> Tristan
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
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