Akanittha: the ‘Great or Non-junior Ones’, i.e. ‘Highest Gods’, are the inhabitants of the 5th and highest heaven of the Pure Abodes suddhāvāsa, cf. avacara deva II Anāgāmī

Akuppa-dhamma: The unshakeable state; is that of one who has attained full mastery over the absorptions jhāna. In Pug. 4 it is said: What person is unshakable? If a person gains the meditative …

…paths see: ariya-puggala. These 4 moments of impulsion are: the preparation parikamma, access upacāra, adaptation anuloma and…

…thinking vitakka - vicāra are extinguished. Having entered the 3rd absorption, joy pīti is extinguished. Having entered the 4th…

…during absorption jhāna, whilst the neighbourhood or access-concentration upacāra samādhi only approaches the 1st absorption…

Arūpāvacara: Formless spheres see: avacara

…thinking vitakka and vicāra are called verbal constructions vacī-sankhāra, see: sankhāra 2. In-and-out-breathing forms one of the…

Avacara: S phere, realm, level or dimension. The 3 levels of existence are: the sense-level kāmāvacara, the fine-material level rūpāvacara, the formless level arūpāvacara. Which things are …

…upacāra-samādhi, see: samādhi.

4 sublime abodes brahma-vihāra: loving-kindness, Pity,…

Carana: see: vijjā-carana.

…VI, 8. - Indulging in e., see: manopavicāra

[[fine-material sphere]]Fine-material sphere: or [[fine-material sphere]]Fine-material world: see: avacara loka Absorptions of the: rūpa-jjhāna see: jhāna

Gladness: somanassa - Indulging in g., see: manopavicāra.

Grief: domanassa - Indulging in g. see: manopavicāra.

[[immaterial sphere]]Immaterial sphere: arūpāvacara cf. avacara jhāna 5-8; Tab. I.

Indulging: in joy, sadness etc.: see: manopavicāra.

…parikamma approach upacāra adaptation anuloma and change-of-lineage-moment gotrabhū In connection with entering the earth-kasina…

…and discursive thinking vicāra, born of detachment vivekaja and filled with rapture pīti and joy sukha he enters the first…

…2 discursive thinking vicāra 3 interest pīti 4 joy sukha 5 sadness domanassa 6 indifference upekkhā 7 concentration samādhi For…

Parihāna-dhamma: ‘liable to decline’.;Now, someone reaches the attainments absorptions: jhāna of the fine-material or immaterial sphere see: avacara But he does not reach them according to h …

Pañca-vokāra-bhava: ‘five-group existence’, is a name for existence in the sense-sphere kāmāvacara or in the fine-material sphere rūpāvacara avacara since all the 5 groups of existence …

[[planes of existence]]Planes of existence: the 3: see: avacara.

Āneñja: Static imperturbability, denotes the mental state of being(s) in the formless sphere arūpāvacara avacara, see: sankhāra cf. M. 106.