…see: paramattha-desanā, anattā, puggala, satta, jīva.

…necessary condition for the attainment of sainthood arahatta, i.e. of the sixth abhiññā.

Vis.M XI-XIII gives a detailed explanation of…

Abodes: vihāra The 4 Divine abodes: brahma-vihāra The 9 abodes of beings: sattāvāsa

Adherence: parāmāsa clinging or attachment.

…person gains the meditative attainments of the fine-material and formless sphere rūpāvacara - arūpāvacara; and he gains them at his wish,…

…he becomes a vision-attainer ditthippatta; and at the highest stage, i.e. Nobility, he is called ‘liberated by understanding’ paññā…

Anattā-saññā: Perception of no-self; of impersonality see A. VI, 104; A. VII, 48; A. X, 60; Ud. IV, 1.

Anattā-vāda: The doctrine of impersonality; see: anattā

Anattānupassanā: C ontemplation of no-self is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight see: vipassanā. See also above.

…no relinquishment, no attainment of deliverance. Hence comprehension of impermanence gained by direct meditative experience heads two lists…

…see: above. In A. IX, 33 they are called successive attainments anupubba - samāpatti.

…mind the Noble Disciple attains understanding of the meaning, understanding of the law of Dhamma, and attains to joy through the law of Dhamma….

…3: Or, with effort he attains the Noble path for the overcoming of the higher mental chains. Such a being is called one who reaches…

…i.e. all those who have attained any of the 4 noble paths to Nobility see: ariya-puggala. With regard to the absorptions jhāna, anyone is…

…samādhi only approaches the 1st absorption without attaining it; see: samādhi

Arahat: and Arahatta-magga, Arahatta-phala: see: ariya-puggala

…

6: The vision-attainer ditthippatta,
7: The one liberated by understanding paññā-vimutta.
This group of seven Noble…

Asañña-satta: The unconscious beings, are a class of divine beings in the fine-material world; see: deva II. There are, Bhikkhus, divine…

…samyojana, until the attainment of Arahatship or Nobility. It falsely assumes an entity ‘I’ the be real and existent. It is based upon the…

Atta-ditthi: - vāda: ’ ego-belief ’, ’ personality-belief ’, see: ditthi

Atta-kilamatha: Self-mortification = self-torture, is one of the two extremes to be avoided, the other extreme being addiction to sensual…

Atta-saññā: Atta- citta & atta- ditthi: perception, thought, & view of an ego, self or soul is one of the 4 perversions vipallāsa.

Atta-vādupādāna: Attachment to the belief or view in a constant ego, self or soul, is one of the 4 kinds of clinging upādāna.

Attachments: see: parāmāsa

Attainment-concentration: appanā-samādhi, see: samādhi

Attainments: The 8 Attainments see: samāpatti

…a very refined way until the attainment of Arahatship, it is counted as the last of the 10 mental chains samyojana, which bind beings to the cycle…

…attainment of Nobility arahatta: He makes known the highest knowledge aññam vyākaroti, in exactly this way: ’Rebirth has ceased, fulfilled…

[[balance of mental faculties]]Balance of mental abilities: indriya samatta.

Being: living: satta, further see: puggala. - Belief in eternal personality: bhava-ditthi see: ditthi, sassata-ditthi.

Beings: The 9 worlds of: sattāvāsa.

Belief: blind: see: indriya-samatta.

[[bhojane mattaññutā]]Bhojane mattaññutā: ‘knowing the measure in eating’.

Now, o Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu wisely reflecting partakes of his…

…gives full directions how to attain full concentration and the absorptions jhāna by means of the following 40 meditation subjects…

…the designation ‘Bodhisatta’ is given only to Prince Siddhattha before his enlightenment and to his former existences. The Buddha himself uses…

…are said to be the means of attaining the threefold understanding see: tevijjā.

They may be attained by means of the 4 foundations of awareness…

…sermon, Dhamma-cakkappavattana Sutta see: dhamma-cakka.

Another figurative meaning of C. is ‘blessing’. There are 4 such ’auspicious…

[[cycle of existence]]Cycle of existence: see: samsarā vatta

Eating: knowing the measure in bhojane mattaññutā.

Ego-entity: attā

Egolessness: anattā

…one-group existence, is the existence of the unconscious beings asañña-satta as they possess only the materiality-group….

Ends: ‘attaining two ends simultaneously’; sama - sīsī.

Enlightenment: bodhi - The 7 elements of e.: bojjhanga - A being destined for e.: Bodhisatta.

…= tatra - majjhattatā. - Knowledge consisting in e. with regard to all constructions, see: visuddhi VI, 8. - Indulging in…

[[equilibrium of mental faculties]]Equilibrium of mental abilities: indriya-samatta.

…nissāya manodhātu ca mano-viññāna-dhātu ca vattanti, tam rūpam.*

…4 roads of power lead to the attaining and acquiring of magical power, to the power of magical transconstruction, to the generation of magical…

Impersonality: see: anattā - Contemplation of: see: vipassanā 3.

…- phala 22 at attaining the Arahat-Fruition arahatta - phala For the three last, see: ariya-puggala

The abilities,…

Indriya-samatta: ‘equilibrium, balance, or harmony of abilities’, relates to the 5 spiritual abilities: faith, energy, awareness or mindfulness,…

…as they are close to the attainment-concentration and are moving in its neighbourhood; adaptive anuloma as they adapt themselves to the…

…the attainment of full or attainment -, or ecstatic concentration appanā see: samādhi during which there is a complete, though temporary,…

…reviewing the still remaining defilements, reviewing Nibbāna as object. ‘This blessing have I attained’. ’This and that defilement still…

…the words are the utmost attainment’.;Whoever, though having learned much, speaking much, knowing many things by heart, and discoursing much,…

…Great Beings mahā - satta a synonym often found in the Mahāyana scriptures for Bodhisatta, i.e. ’Enlightenment Being or Being destined for…

…someone reaches the attainments absorptions: jhāna of the fine-material or immaterial sphere see: avacara But he does not reach them…

Parāmāsa: ‘adherence’, attachment, ‘misapprehension’, is according to Vis.M XXII a name for wrong views; in that sense it occurs in Dhs. 1174…

…one exerts oneself to attain the absorptions, and thus finally, through perseverance, reaches these advantageous states of mind. Ignorance…

Patipannaka: ’ Path -attainer’, is he who had reached one of the 4 supra-mundane paths of Nobility see: ariya-puggala - App.

…7 qualities leading to the attainment of the 4 ‘analytical knowledge’, see: A. VII, 37 - See Vis.M XIV, 21ff; Vibh. XV; Pts.M. Patisambhidā…

[[patta-pindik’anga]]Patta-pindik’anga: the ‘exercise of the bowl-eater’, is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises dhutānga,…

Patti-dāna: lit. ‘giving of the acquired’, i.e. ‘transference of merit.’ Though in the older texts very seldom mentioned e.g. A VII, 50, it is, however, a widespread custom in all Buddhist countr …

…beings asaññā - satta only the one materiality group. Cf eka-vokāra-bhava and catu - pañca - vokāra - bhāva further…

Paññā: ‘understanding, knowledge, understanding, insight’, comprises a very wide field. The specific Buddhist knowledge or understanding, however, as part of the Noble 8-fold path magga to deli …

…fruition of Nobility arahatta - phala In Pug. 31 and similarly in M. 70, it is said:;A Bhikkhu may not have reached in his own person the 8…

Personality: s. sakkāya For personality-belief, see: sakkāya ditthi, ditthi, attā, satta, puggala, vipallāsa.

…and which, till the attainment of the next higher path, may during the practice of insight vipassanā still recur innumerable times. If…

[[progress of the disciple]]Progress of the disciple: Gradual development of the 8-fold path in the: In many suttas occurs an identical passage that outlines the gradual course of development in …

…individuality, being satta self attā etc., in short all terms designating a personal entity, hence also: I, you, he, man, god, etc., all…

…is called patisandhi The attainment of Sainthood arahatta implying the end of future rebirths, is often expressed in the words:;This is the…

…sceptical doubt, attachment to mere rule and ritual, nor is on the way to lose these 3 things, such a one is called a worlding; Pug….

Puñña-kiriya-vatthu: ‘bases of meritorious action’. In the suttas, 3 are mentioned consisting of giving generosity; dāna - maya - p of morality sīla - maya - p and of mental de …

…craving’, is identical with ‘ceasing of fermentations’ āsavakkhaya and the attainment of perfect Nobility or Arahatship. Cf. ariya-puggala.

…by ‘living being’ satta they mean to say that here the questioners are using the merely conventional expression, Tathāgata, in the sense…

Tatra-majjhattatā: ‘equanimity, equipoise, mental balance’ lit., ‘remaining here and there in the middle’, is the name for a high ethical…

Ti-lakkhana: the ‘3 charactcristies of existence’, or signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā no-self anattā.

Whether Perfect Ones appear in th …

[[turning away]]Turning away: contemplation of the: vivattanupassanā see: vipassanā.

…skeptic doubt and attachment to mere rules and ritual; see: samyojana he becomes one who will be ‘reborn 7 times at most’ see:…

…see: visuddhi VI + VII, and it is said to be helpful to the attainment of the ‘divine eye’ see: abhiññā 5.

…Suttas concluding with the attainment of Arahatship by the listeners, often end with the words: During this utterance, the minds of the Bhikkhus…