…though appearing quite mechanical, if properly carried out will bring about a high degree of mental concentration and entrance into the 4…

…for those moral rules other than the 8 ending with right livelihood i.e. 4-fold right speech, 3-fold right action and right livelihood, as in the…

…like a winged bird. With his hand he touches the sun and moon, so mighty & giant. Even up to the Brahma-world can he master his…

Absorption: see: jhāna

Accumulation: of Kamma see: āyūhana

Acinteyya: lit. ‘That which cannot not be thought of’, the unthinkable, unimaginable, inconceivable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, that which transcends the limits of thinking and over which the …

Adaptability: of body, mental properties and consciousness: kammaññatā, cf. khandha materiality and Tab. II.

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

Adhitthāna, as a doctrinal term, occurs chiefly in two meanings:

1. ‘Foundation’: four ‘foundations or basics’ of an Arahat’s mentality, mentioned and explained in M. 140: the foundatio …

…or indifferent feeling; see: vedanā - khandha

…’ are: the path of desire chanda, the path of hate, the path of confusion, the path of fear bhaya. One who is freed from these evil impulses is…

[[aggregates or clusters]]Aggregates or clusters: khandha

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 …

…term designating advantageous (beautiful) mental property is sobhana-sādhārana-cetasika see: sobhana.

…them are given: by changing the object, thinking of the evil results, paying no attention to them, analyzing them, suppressing…

[[alcohol prohibition]]Alcohol restriction: see: surāmeraya - majja - ppamādatthānā. The 5th training rule.

[[analysis of the 4 elements]]Analysis of the 4 primary elements: dhātu-vavatthāna

…paticca-samuppāda, khandha, ti-lakkhana, nāma-rūpa, patisandhi*

Literature: Anattā-lakkhana Sutta, Vinaya I, 13-14; se e:…

…is the arising, passing and changing of things, or the disappearance of things that have emerged & become into being. The meaning is that these…

…are: the preparation parikamma, access upacāra, adaptation anuloma and change-of-lineage gotrabhū moments. For further details…

Anupassanā: Contemplation, deep reflection, profound consideration:
The 4 fold: see: satipatthāna.
The 18 fold: see: vipassanā.
The 7 fold: The seven contemplations:
1: Contemplating c …

Anupubba-nirodha: The 9 ‘successive ceasings’, are the 8 ceasings reached through the 8 absorptions jhāna and the ceasing of feeling and perception’ see: nirodha-samāpatti, as it is said in …

Anurakkhana-padhāna: the ‘effort to maintain’ advantageous states; see: padhāna

…stinginess, liberal, open-handed, rejoicing in giving, ready to give anything asked for, glad to give and share with others.

6:…

…2: Or, while living more than half of the lifetime there, or at the moment of death, he attains the Noble path for the overcoming of the higher…

Aparihāna-dhamma: ‘incapable of relapse’, or ‘of falling away’, namely, with regard to deliverance from some or all mental chains of existence see: samyojana. Thus all Noble Disciples are calle …

Aparihāniya-dhamma: ‘conditions of welfare’ lit. of non-decline, for a nation. Seven such conditions are mentioned in the Mahā-Parinibbāna Sutta D. 16. They are followed by five sets of 7, and …

…by the footprint of the elephant, and the footprint of the elephant is considered as the mightiest amongst them, just so have all the meritorious…

Appanā-samādhi: Absorption concentration or full concentration from apeti to fix, is the concentration existing during absorption jhāna, whilst the neighbourhood or access-concentration *upa …

…4: Sense-desire kāma-cchanda = kāma-rāga rāga, and

5: Ill-will vyāpāda = dosa see: mūla.

III: Through…

…see: jhāna

Arūpa-khandha: The four formless immaterial groups of sentient existence are: feeling, perception, mental constructions, and…

[[ascending insight]]Ascending insight: see: vutthāna - gāminī - vipassanā

Association: sampayutta-paccaya is one of the 24 conditional relations paccaya. *

Asubha:* Impurity, loathsomeness, foulness, disgust. - In Vis.M VI, it is the cemetery contemplations * …

Attentiveness: Attention, awareness or mindfulness; see: sati satipatthāna.

Atthangika-magga: The Noble 8-Fold Path see: Magga.

…elements, sources (see: khandha dhātu āyatana ) #āyatana, form, feeling, perception, mental constructions and consciousness, all these…

Avoidance: see: Cāritta-sīla - The effort to avoid all evil states, see: padhāna 1.

…See Dhs. PTS 362-364, 505, 553; Indriya Vibhanga; path 162.

Bala: ‘powers’. Among various groups of powers the following five are most frequently met with in the texts: 1 faith saddhā, 2 energy viriya, 3 awareness or mindfulness sati, 4 concentration …

Beautiful: sobhana.

Bhangānupassanā-ñāna: ‘knowledge consisting in contemplation of dissolution’ of all forms of existence, is one kind of insight: see:…

Bhavanga-sota: and Bhavanga-citta: The first term may tentatively be rendered as the ‘undercurrent forming the condition of being, or existence’, and the second as ‘subconsciousness’, though …

Bhayatupatthāna-ñāna: ‘knowledge consisting in the awareness of terror’, is one of those kinds of insight-knowledge that form the ‘purification by knowledge and vision of the path -progress’ se …

…nor to become beautiful or handsome, but only to maintain and support this body, to avoid harm and to assist the Noble life, knowing: ’In this way…

…refers to the sexual characteristics of the body, and belongs to the group of materiality see: khandha. It is a commentarial term for the…

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

…anattā see: tilakkhana of all bodily and mental phenomena of existence, included in the 5 groups of existence, namely, materiality,…

…of enlightenment bojjhanga = bodhi-anga and the 37 ‘things pertaining to enlightenment’ bodhipakkhiya - dhammā. In one of the…

…and in the Jhāna Vibhanga, only the 7 factors of enlightenment bojjhanga.

See The Requisites of Enlightenment, by Ledi Sayadaw…

…as an ideal higher than or alternative to Arahatship; nor is there any record in the Pāli scriptures of a disciple declaring it as his…

Body: kāya Contemplation on the b. is one of the 4 satipatthāna.

…law dhamma-vicaya-sambojjhanga energy viriya-sambojjhanga, viriya padhāna rapture pīti - sambojjhanga tranquillity passaddhi -…

Brahma-kāyika-deva: The ‘divine beings of the Brahma-world’ inhabit the first 3 heavens of the fine-material world, rūpaloka corresponding to the 1st absorption jhāna. The highest ruler of …

Buddhānussati: ‘recollection of the Enlightened One’; see: anussati

…WHEEL 137/138; The Wheel of Birth and Death, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo WHEEL 147/149

Catu-dhātu-vavatthāna: ‘analysis of the four elements’; see: dhātu-vavatthāna

…consciousness, see: khandha are found there, the materiality group being absent. Cf. pañca-vokāra-bhava, eka-vokāra-bhava App.:…

…consciousness see: khandha the Abhidhamma as a rule treats them under the more philosophical 3 aspects: consciousness, mental properties…

Ceto-vimutti: ‘deliverance of mind’. In the highest sense it signifies the fruition of Arahatship see: ariya-puggala and in particular, the concentration associated with it. It is often linked …

…for instance: kāma-cchanda, sense-desire’, one of the 5 hindrances see: nīvarana chanda - rāga ‘lustful desire’ see: kāma It…

Change: contemplation of: one of the 18 chief kinds of insight vipassanā.

Characteristics: of existence, the. 3: ti-lakkhana

[[citta-ja (citta-samutthāna)-rūpa]]Citta-ja citta-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘mind-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna

…may be found that could be compared with this so rapidly changing consciousness.; App. khana.

…and viññāna see: khandha and Tab. 1. Dhs divides all phenomena into consciousness citta mental properties cetasika and materiality…

Citta-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘mind-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna.

Cittānupassanā: ‘contemplation of consciousness’, is one of the 4 foundations of awareness or mindfulness satipatthāna

…viññāna** see: khandha citta mano q v - Moment of °: citta-kkhana Contemplation of °: cittānupassanā: satipatthāna -…

Control: effort of: see: padhāna

…see: anussati, treasures’ see: dhana.

Effort: the 4 right e.: samma - ppadhāna see: padhāna Right e. see: sacca IV 6, magga 6. - 5 elements of e.: padhāniyanga

Elasticity: of materiality, mental properties or consciousness: mudutā see: khandha Materiality I.B. and Tab. II.

Elements: dhātu - Analysis of the 4 e.: dhātu-vavatthāna

Emotion: 8 sources of e.: samvega-vatthu. The 4 places rousing emotion; samvejanīya-tthāna

Energy: viriya, further see: bojjhanga, bala, pāramī

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

Escape: nissarana see: pahāna.

Exertion: see padhāna viriya magga 6. - Reaching Nibbāna with or without e.; see: anāgāmi

…- The 5 groups of e.: khandha - The 4 substrata of e.: upadhi - Courses of e.: gati - Wheel of e.: samsāra. - Craving…

visual-consciousness: cakkhu-viññāna see: dhātu, khandha

…- F. of absorption, see: jhāna - F. of enlightenment, see: bojjhanga.

abilities = Abilities: indriya, see also paccaya 16.

Feeling: vedanā, further see: khandha - Contemplation of f.: vedanānupassanā see: satipatthāna.

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

Food: material: is one of the 4 nutriments āhāra. Foodproduced materiality, see: samutthāna - Refusing all further f., see: dhutānga - Loathsomeness of f. see: āhārepatikkūla - saññā

[[foolish babble]]Foolish babble: sampha - ppalāpa see: kamma, kamma -pat ha I; cf. tiracchāna - kathā.

Forbearance: khanti

Foundation: nissaya one of the 24 conditions paccaya,. Wrong f. of morality, see: nissaya f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu f. f orming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna, - f. o …

[[foundations of awareness or mindfulness]]Foundations of awareness or mindfulness: the 4: satipatthāna.

[[frivolous talk]]Frivolous talk: cf. tiracchāna - kathā kamma-patha I, 7, kamma.

…i.e. the Matured One.

I. ‘change-of-lineage-Moment’ gotrabhū - citta is the last of the 4 impulse moments javana cf….

Gotrabhū-ñāna: ‘change-of-lineage-knowledge’; see: prec. and visuddhi VII

…see: rūpa-kāya mind-group, see:…

Growth: bodily: rūpassa upacaya see: khandha I.

Hetu: ‘cause’, condition, reason; Abhidhamma root-condition. In sutta usage it is almost synonymous with paccaya ‘condition’, and often occurs together with it ’What is the cause, what is the c …

Hāna-bhāgiya-sīla: - samādhi b h. b. p aññā morality, concentration or understanding connected with decline. The other three stages are: thiti-bhāgiya-sīla etc. morality, etc. connected …

Iddhi: ‘power’, ‘magical power’. The magical powers constitute one of the 6 kinds of higher spiritual powers abhiññā. One distinguishes many kinds of magical powers: the power of determination * …

…of intention chanda - samādhi accompanied by effort of will padhāna - sankhāra - samannāgata concentration of energy…

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

…sankhāra - khandha see: Tab II. - 20 arises at the moment of entering the Sotāpatti- path sotāpatti - magga 21 on…

…paññā on the one hand and energy and concentration viriya samādhi on the other. For excessive faith with deficient understanding…

[[Infinite consciousness]]Infinite consciousness: and b. space, Sphere of: see: jhāna 5, 6.

Intention: chanda.

…is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment bojjhanga.

Iriyā-patha: lit. ‘ways of movement’: ‘bodily postures’, i.e. going, standing, sitting, lying. In the Satipatthāna-sutta see: satipatthāna they form the subject of a contemplation and an exerc …

…amongst which the last one change-of-lineage-moment belongs to the fine-material sphere rūpāvacara whereas the rest belong to the…

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

Jhāna-paccaya: is one of the 24 conditions paccaya.

Jhānanga: ‘constituents or factors of absorption’; see: prec.

…consciousness; see: khandha the acquiring of their sensitive organs: this is called birth; D. 22. For its conditioning by the prenatal…

Materiality-group: rūpa- khandha see: khandha

Materiality: produced through consciousness, kamma, etc.; see: samutthāna - Sensitive c.: pasāda-rūpa

Materiality-perceptions: rūpa - saññā see: jhāna

Paccavekkhana-suddhi: ‘purity of reflection’, is a name for wise consideration in using the 4 requisites allowed to the monk, i.e. robes, food,…

Paccavekkhana-ñāna: ‘retrospective knowledge’, refers to the recollected mental image obtained in concentration, or to any inner experience…

…concentrated intention chanda, energy viriya, consciousness citta and investigation vīmamsā In one and the same state of…

…Treasure-Store Sutta Nidhikhandha Sutta, Khp. mentions pacceka-bodhi the C. Nidd. ascribes to individual Paccekabuddhas the verses of the…

…4 to maintain anurakkhana - padhāna i.e. 1 the effort to avoid disadvantageous akusala states, such as evil thoughts, etc. 2 to…

Padhāniyanga: ‘elements of effort’, are the following 5 qualities: faith, health, sincerity, energy, and understanding M. 85, 90; A. V. 53. See pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga.

…by repression vikkhambhana-pahāna i.e. the temporary suspension of the 5 hindrances nīvarana during the absorptions, 2 overcoming by…

Pahāna-pariññā: s. pariññā

…the 3 characteristics tilakkhana are applied. The majority of Sutta texts, however, use the conventional language, as appropriate in a practical…

…6 patience or forbearance; khanti 7 truthfulness sacca - p 8 resolution adhitthāna - p 9 loving-kindness mettā - p 10 equanimity…

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 …

Pariññā: ‘full understanding’, full comprehension. There are 3 kinds of mundane f.u. lokiya - p namely: full understanding of the known ñāta - p f.u. as investigating tīrana - p and …

…passaddhi-sambojjhanga: :* * ‘tranquillity, as link to Awakening’, consists in tranquillity of mental properties kāya-passaddhi…

…pain, etc. - About the 4 elements. see: dhātu, khandha I. A..

Patibhāna-patisambhidā: the ‘analytical knowledge of ready wit’: see: patisambhidā

…this process of continually changing mental and bodily phenomena, nothing can be found that would pass from one moment to the next moment, so also…

Patience: or forbearance khanti one of the 10 perfections pāramī, .

Patigha: - 1. In an ethical sense, it means: ‘repugnance’, grudge, resentment, anger, and is a synonym of vyāpāda, ill-will’ see: nīvarana and dosa ‘hate’ see: mūla It is one of the late …

…Path ’; for instance in dukkhanirodha - gāminī - patipadā ‘the road leading to the ceasing of suffering’ = 4th Noble Truth; majjhima -…

Patipassaddhi-pahāna: ‘overcoming of defilements by tranquillization’ see: pahāna.

Patisambhidā: ‘analytical knowledge’ or ‘discrimination’, is of 4 kinds: analytical knowledge of the true meaning attha-patisambhidā of the law dhamma - patisambhidā, of language nirutti …

…of enlightenment bojjhanga, bent on solitude, on detachment, on ceasing, and ending in deliverance, namely: awareness or mindfulness,…

Patisankhānupassanā-ñāna: ’knowledge consisting in reflective contemplation

is one of the 9 knowledges constituting the ‘purification by knowledge and vision of the path -progress’ patipadā \ …

…the 5 groups of existence khandha are found there. In the immaterial sphere arūpāvacara see: avacara however, only the 4 mental groups are…

…details, see: under tilakkhana.

With regard to the condition of its arising one distinguishes 3 kinds of knowledge knowledge based on thinking…

Paññā-vimutti: ‘deliverance through understanding’ or understanding’, signifies, according to Com. to A. V, 142, the understanding associated with the fruition of Nobility arahatta - phala I …

Penetration: s. pativedha pariyatti - For the power of penetrating vipphāra knowledge and concentration, see: iddhi - For morality combined with penetration nibbedha see: *hāna-bhāgiy …

…sankhāra - khandha In lists of both these categories it is generally mentioned first e.g. Dhs. 1: M. 9, due to its fundamental…

Pleasantness: idea of: see: vipallāsa, subhanimitta.

[[produced materiality]]Produced materiality: nipphanna-rūpa

Progress: s. patipadā, abhabbagamana - p. in morality, etc., see: hānabhāgiya etc. - Purification by knowledge and vision of path -progress, see: visuddhi VI. - p.: of the disciple …

…there exist only ever-changing physical and mental phenomena, flashing up and dying every moment. - Kath., in its first section, discusses…

Purisindriya: ‘Virility’; see: bhāva khandha

Purity: the elements of the effort for: pārisuddhipadhāniyanga

…209ff.

See ‘The Advantages of Merit’, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo BODHI LEAVES B. 38.

Pādaka-jjhāna: ‘foundation-forming absorption’, is an absorption used as a foundation, or starting point, for the higher spiritual powers abhiññā, or for insight vipassanā, leading to the su …

Pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga: the 4 ‘elements of the effort for purity’, are: effort for purity of morality sīla - parisuddhi - padhāniyanga for purity of mind citta of view ditthi of deli …

…vedanā - khandha, but may be described psychologically as ‘joyful interest’. As such it may be associated with advantageous as…

Tadanga-pahāna: ‘overcoming by the opposite’, is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming pahāna,.

Talk: low: tiracchāna - kathā

…33

There are 18 ‘thought-channels of craving’ tanhā - vicarita induced internally, and 18 induced externally; and as occurring in past,…

…the 5 groups of existence khandha are to be regarded as the Tathāgata, nor can the Tathāgata be found outside these material and mental…

…to the sankhāra - khandha see: khandha and is mostly known by the name upekkhā In its widest sense it is associated with all pure…

Temperature: utu. - For materiality produced by temperature, see: samutthāna

…of the Buddha’s teachings, handed down to us in the Pāli language. According to tradition, its name is derived from the fact of having been fixed…

Thiti-bhāgiya-sīla, Thiti-bhāgiya-samādhi, Thiti-bhāgiya-paññā: ‘static morality, static concentration, static understanding’; see: hāna-bhāgiya-sīla

thought, Thought-conception: s …

Ti-lakkhana: the ‘3 charactcristies of existence’, or signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā…

Tiracchāna-kathā: ‘low talk’, lit. ‘beastly talk’, is the name in the sutta-texts for the following:;Talk about kings and robbers, ministers and armies, danger and war, eating and drinking, clot …

Tiracchāna-yoni: ‘animal womb’; birth as animal. The animal kingdom belongs to the sense-world see: loka is one of the 4 lower worlds see: apāya and one of the 3 woeful courses of existence …

Trance: jhāna

Tranquilisation: Overcoming of defilements by way of: see: pahāna

…of mind: see: samatha, samatha - vipassanā, bhāvanā, bojjhanga - ‘One who has taken t. as his vehicle’: samathayānika

Treasures: the 7: see: dhana

…derived materiality see: khandha Summary I. In the figurative sense, as ‘foundation’ or sustaining condition, it is one of the 24 conditions…

Āhāra-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘Food-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna

Ākiñcaññāyatana: The sphere of nothingness; see: jhāna 7.

…derived materiality see: khandha Summary I; Dhs. 638 and to a sixfold classification of elements see: dhātu M. 112, 115, 140. It is also an…

Ākāsānañcāyatana: ‘Sphere of Infinite space’, is identical with the 1st formless absorption; see: jhāna 5.

Ānupubbī-kathā: ‘gradual instruction’, progressive teaching; given by the Buddha when it was necessary to first prepare the listener’s mind before speaking to him on the advanced teaching of the …

…of enlightenment bojjhanga, and then how these again produce release of mind ceto-vimutti and release through understanding…

…rūpa - khandha see: khandha. They form the external foundations for the sense-perceptions, and without them no…

Āruppa: Formless mental absorption see: jhāna

…and of receiving sampaticchana the data of the sense-object. On the functions of the mind, see: viññāna-kicca

The visible object…

Āyūhana: K ammic accumulation, is a name used in the commentarial literature for the advantageous and disadvantageous intentional activities…