1. (mfn.) mental; connected with thought or intention.
2. (m. n.) a mental state, a form of thought or intention.

…and materiality citta, cetasika, rūpa Thus, of these 3 aspects, the mental properties cetasika comprise feeling, perception and the 50…

…Kāyikaṃ sukhaṃ → cetasikaṃ s. AN.i.81; SN.v.209; kāyikā darathā → c. d. MN.iii.287, MN.iii.288; c. duk khaṃ DN.ii.306;…

mental, concerned with consciousness; or concerned with higher consciousness, superior thought.

…of the mental properties cetasika and belongs to the group of mental constructions sankhāra - khandha. In M. 111, it is mentioned…

Akusala-sādhārana-cetasika: Universal, general or primary disadvantageous mental properties associated with all disadvantageous intentions:…

…the seven mental properties cetasika inseparably bound up with all consciousness, namely sensorial or mental contact phassa feeling vedanā…

…general mental properties cetasika Tab. II taught in the Abhidhamma, the moral quality of which is determined by the character of the intention…

…citta mental properties cetasika and materiality rūpa.

In adhicitta ‘higher mentality’, it signifies the concentrated, quietened mind,…

Factors: mental: see: cetasika - F. of absorption, see: jhāna - F. of enlightenment, see: bojjhanga.

abilities = Abilities:…

…properties of consciousness cetasika and belongs to the group of mental constructions sankhāra - khandha In lists of both these categories…

…properties or properties cetasika and belongs to the group of mental constructions sankhāra - khandha As, in sutta texts, it is often…

adjective dependent on the clearest consciousness. On the spelling see ābhic˚ (of jhāna) MN.i.33, MN.i.356; MN.iii.11; SN.ii.278; AN.ii.23; AN.v.132 (Spelt. ābhi˚ at MN.i.33; AN.iii.114; Vin.v.136). S …

…to cetasika (i.e. ceto) in its determination of the 7 items of good conduct (see sīla) which refers…

…Dhp.138; cp. ˚vikkhepa; -cetasika belonging to heart & thought, i.e. mental state thought, mind DN.i.213; Dhs.1022…

anxiety, care, distress AN.ii.238; MN.iii.287 sq. (kāyikā & cetasikā d.); Snp.15 (darathajā: the Arahant has nought in him born of care C^y explains by pariḷāha fever); …

Dhamma¹

masculine & rarely neuter constitution etc.

A. Definitions by Commentators

Bdhgh gives a fourfold meaning of the word dhamma (at DN-a.i.99; Dhp-a.i.22), viz. 1 guṇe ( …

…one who has or bears his yoke, patient, enduring SN.i.214 = Snp.187 (: cetasikaviriya-vasena anikkhittadhura Snp-a.236).

cp. Sk….

…grief. As mental pain (cetasikaṃ asātaṃ cet. dukkhaṃ SN.v.209 = Cnd.312; cp DN.ii.306; Ne.12) opp. to dukkha…

…d.: kāyikaṃ = dukkhaṃ; cetasikaṃ domanassaṃ); Vism.165 (twofold), Vism.496 (dukkhā aññaṃ na bādhakaṃ), Vism.499 (seven divisions),…

…distinguished kāya as = the cetasikas (mental properties or the vedanā, saññā and sankhārā khandhas), body being excluded. Cpd. 96. See also…

…physical happiness (opp. cetasika˚) SN.v.209; AN.i.81; dukkhaṃ DN.ii.306; MN.i.302 (opp. cetasikaṃ); kāyikaṃ (sc. dhammaṃ sikkhati to…

…DN-a.i.211 (explained as cetasika gelañña: see on this passage Dhs trsl. §1155) Sdhp.459
■ See thīna.

orig. pp….

…viz. kāyika vācasika, cetasika), Mnd.390 sq.; Ja.ii.32; Ja.v.449 (pagabbhiya); Snp-a.165; Kp-a.242; Dhp-a.iii.354 (pa˚) Vv-a.121.

fr….

one of the most difficult terms in Buddhist metaphysics, in which the blending of the subjective-objective view of the world and of happening peculiar to the East, is so complete, that it is almost i …

…Two kinds, viz kāyika & cetasika; at Pts.i.188; several other pairs at AN.i.80; three (praise, wealth, heaven) Iti.67; another three…

1. (f.) feeling, sensation (see on term, e.g. Cpd. 14 Mrs. Rh D. B. Psy., ch. iv.) DN.i.45; DN.ii.58 (cp. Dial. ii.54), DN.ii.66, DN.iii.58, DN.iii.77, DN.iii.221, DN.iii.228, DN.iii.238 (˚upādā …

(as special term in Buddhist metaphysics) a mental quality as a constituent of individuality, the bearer of (individual) life, life-force (as extending also over rebirths), principle of conscious lif …

…(contrasted with kāyika & cetasika;) Vin.iv.2; Pp.21; Mil.91; Vism.18; Dhs-a.324
■ As nt. noun at Mil.352 in meaning “behaviour in…

adjective See abhicetasika. This spelling, with guṇa of the first syllable, is probably more correct; but the short a is the more frequent.

…a 5 fold object viz. citta, cetasika, pasāda- & sukhuma-rūpa, paññatti nibbāna. See on term especially; Cpd. 3, 14; Dhs trsl. xli.& 209;…