Clear Comprehension of Pali Terminology

To begin with I am not a Pali scholar.

I am a scientist by nature and upbringing.

I am trying to be a philosopher but failing due to paucity of my language skills.

Having said that to understand Pali one does not need Grammer and Schematics.

The words by themselves have pristine meanings.

Larger than self of their own.

Metta
Karuna
Muuditha
Upekka are foundations of Buddhist way of life.

I have three Pali words that, I am interested:

1. Nana or near enough English word Knowledge

2. Darshana, Dassana or Wisdom

3. Visuddhi or Mental Purity, the Clear Comprehension of the concepts of Anatta (no abiding self), unsatisfactory nature or Dukkha of conditional phenomena and Anitta or changing nature of all phenomena with constant flux, are  the fundamentals, to ponder upon in Dhamma.

I am indebted to all Western scholars of Pali Text Society of London and German Jewish Founders  of Buddhist Publication Society (Gnanathiloka and Gnanaponika) of Kandy which was the Consultation Clinic of Dr.Dharmasena, our family doctor when I was a kid.

All these are interlocked for me to  present Buddhism in a Nutshell through our erudite Reverend Narada Thera.

But if not for Bikku Bodhi in USA now, none of these texts would have been edited and presented to worldlings, all over the world.

We are on the threshold of World War, it is time for everybody to visit the Wisdom of Buddha with non violence or Avihinsa as a goal for human preservation.

It is very strange that American preoccupation is possession of guns.

Dhamma Pada does NOT have a verse on crimes but there is a popular saying in Ceylon, that states, those who carry swords are killed by swords.

Please substitute guns for swords  that is especially applicable to America.

People in Ceylon had guns to protect property before JVP insurrection.

The JVP by force collected these guns and used them, in their insurrection in 1970s.

The government confiscated all the guns and only the forces can carry guns  (live rounds  are never charged except in combat).

This was after a shooting in the Peradeniya University where a protesting student was killed that guns were not allowed to be loaded (only when necessary the soldiers act in defense and load guns).

We are not trigger happy nation (except rank criminals who use them or premeditated cases of murder).

I heard this incident in the university and rushed to the hospital and he was DOA (dead on arrival).

Buddha's time guns were not available but he used the word Danda or Rod (used in violence).

Even monks used Danda to fight among monks of opposing views.

Danda Vagga has 16 verses.

Violence were common in human conflict throughout history only the weapons have changed over time.

China invented gun powder.

But it was in Wild West America that  guns and violence were used to settle disputes.

It is (guns) a money spinner for American economy and currently it is supplying the Ukraine.