Talk:Kammatthana
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[edit] Merge with Kasina?
I vote against merging this article into Kammatthana, just on the basis that someone may be specfically looking up kasina, and this seems like a good concise discussion. As long as it links to Kammatthana and vice-versa, why merge? Ultraviolet777 15:16, 31 March 2006
- I also vote against merging. The concepts are fairly different, kammatthana being a verb meaning work or place of effort, while kasina is an actual object of concentration. I haven't ever associated these two terms, personally. Obhaso 07:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I also vote against the merge. Based on my reading of the Visuddhimagga and related material, kasinas are ten of the 40 meditation subjects identified by the term kammatthana; that is, a subset of practices. Thus, in my mind, this article should no more be merged with the kammatthana article than other articles on other kammatthana practices such as the Brahma-viharas, Metta, Anapanasati, mahabhuta, etc. In addition, as indicated above, the kasina article could be referenced by other articles (such as, jhanas) without referencing the kammatthana article (especially since, I think, the term kammatthana is probably more obscure, less known to Westerners than kasina). Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 19:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
