Access: Moment of access into one-pointed concentration: see: javana

…4 moments of impulsion javana flashing up immediately before either reaching the absorptions jhāna or the supra-mundane paths see:…

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 * …

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

Bhāvanā-maya-paññā: understanding based on mental development’; see: paññā

Bhāvanā: ‘mental development’ lit. ‘calling into existence, producing’ is what in English is generally but rather vaguely called ‘meditation’. One has to distinguish 2 kinds: development of tranqu …

Brahma-vihāra: the 4 ‘sublime’ or ‘divine abodes’, also called the 4 Infinite states appamaññā are: loving-kindness mettā Pity karunā, altruistic or sympathetic joy muditā equanimity *up …

…of the 4 impulse moments javana cf. viññāna-kicca immediately preceding the entering into an absorption jhāna or into one of the…

Impulsion: javana

Javana: fr. javati to impel: ‘impulsion’, is the phase of full cognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process citta-vīthi see….

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 …

…of impulse consciousness javana - citta one after the other, flash up while reviewing the path. After they again have sunk into the…

…Repetition-condition āsevana-paccaya refers to the kammical consciousness, in which each time the preceding impulse moments javana -…

Padhāna: ‘effort.’ The 4 right efforts samma - padhāna forming the 6th stage of the 8-fold path i.e. sammā - vāyāma see: magga are: 1 the effort to avoid samvara-padhāna 2 to overc …

Parikamma: ‘preparatory-moment’: see: javana

Patisankhāna-bala: and Bhāvanā-bala: ‘power of reflection’, and ‘power of mental development’. About these 2 powers it is said in A. II, 10:

What, o Bhikkhus, is the power of reflection? If …

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 …

[[preparatory concentration]]Preparatory concentration: and preparatory image, etc.: see: samādhi javana

…listening to the Doctrine savana 10 straightening one’s right views rectification of views; ditthujukamma - Expl. in Atthasālini Tr….

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

Āsevana-paccaya: repetition, is one of the 24 conditional relations paccaya.

…six impulse-moments javana depending on one and the same state of directing āvajjana (see. viññāna-kicca ), these are called the…