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2: . In this section of the list, "beings" denotes all living beings below the level of the gods. "Go[...] 3: . The sphere of the infinitude of space, the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness, the sphere [...] 4: . "The seen, the heard, the sensed, & the cognized" is a set of terms to cover all things experienc[...] 5: . Singleness = experience in states of intense concentration (jhana). Multiplicity = experience via[...] 6: . "What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & [...] 7: . Unbinding = nibbana (nirvana).
2: . "Defilements of the mind" (cittassa upakkilesa). Comy.: "When explaining the mental defilements,[...] 3: . The Sixteen Defilements of Mind: 1. abhijjha-visama-lobha, covetousness and unrighteous gree[...] 4: . "Knowing covetousness and unrighteous greed to be a defilement of the mind, the monk abandons th[...] 5: . Comy. emphasizes the connection of this paragraph with the following, saying that the statements[...] 6: . "Unwavering confidence" (aveccappasada). Comy.: "unshakable and immutable trust." Confidence of [...] 7: . "When he has given up...(the defilements) in part" (yatodhi): that is, to the extent to which th[...] 8: . "Gains enthusiasm for the goal, gains enthusiasm for the Dhamma" (labhati atthavedam labhati dham[...] 9: . The Pali equivalents for this series of terms* are: 1. pamojja (gladness), 2. piti (joy or raptur[...] 10: . "Of such virtue, such concentration, such wisdom" (evam-silo evam-dhammo evam-pañño). Comy.: "Th[...] 11: . "No obstacle," i.e., for the attainment of the path and fruition (of Arahatship), says Comy. For [...] 12: . "With a mind of Loving-kindness" (metta-sahagatena cetasa). This, and the following, refer to th[...] 13: . "He understands what exists, what is low, what is excellent" (so 'atthi idam atthi hinam atthi p[...] 14: . "... and what escape there is from this (whole) field of perception" (atthi uttari imassa saññaga[...] 15: . Comy.: "When, by insight-wisdom (vipassana), he thus knows the Four Noble Truths in these four wa[...] 16: . Kamasava bhavasava avijjasava. The mention of liberation from the cankers (asava) indicates the m[...] 17: . "Bathed with the inner bathing" (sinato antarena sinanena). According to the Comy., the Buddha u[...] 18: . Bharadvaja was the clan name of the brahman. Sundarika was the name of the river to which that br[...] 19: . Based on Bhikkhu Ñanamoli's version, with a few alterations. 20: . Three are fords; the other four are rivers. 21: . The text has Phaggu which is a day of brahmanic purification in the month of Phagguna (February-M[...] 22: . Uposatha. 23: . "It is here, 0 brahman, that you should bathe." Comy.: i.e., in the Buddha's Dispensation, in the[...]
2: . Self-doctrines or world-doctrines (atta-vada, lokavada). According to Comy., this refers: (a) to[...] 3: . In a monk who is only at the beginning of his (meditative) reflections (adim-eva manasikaroto). [...] 4: . (The object) in which (yattha). Comy.: yattha (where) = yasmim arammane. The object, or basis, t[...] 5: . In which these views arise (yattha uppajjanti), i.e., arise for the first time, without having o[...] 6: . With right wisdom (sammappaññaya). Comy.: "With insight-wisdom, ending with the knowledge pertai[...] 7: . As it actually is (yatha-bhutam). Comy.: "Because the five aggregates exist only in that manner [...] 8: . This is not mine: hereby craving (tanha) is rejected. 9: . This I am not: this refers to the rejection of conceit (mana). 10: . This is not my self: this refers to the rejection of false views (ditthi). 11: . Abandoning... discarding (pahanam... patinissaggo). Comy.: "Both terms are synonymous with the u[...]
13: . "By 'perceptions of corporeality' (rupasañña) are meant the absorptions of the fine-material sph[...] 14: . Perceptions of sense-response (lit. resistance, patigha-sañña) are perceptions arisen through th[...] 15: . Perceptions of variety (ñanatta-sañña) are perceptions that arise in a variety of fields, or var[...]
17: . Comy.: "Harmlessness is called 'effacement,' because it effaces harmfulness, i.e., it cuts it of[...] 18: . Comy.: "A single wrong view (or wrong attitude), which is an obstacle for the supramundane quali[...]
20: . Sub.Comy.: "For those who cannot take up, by actual application, the practice of effacement, eve[...]
24: . Not fully quenched (aparinibbuto) Comy.: "with defilements not extinguished (anibbuta-kilesa)." [...] 25: . Comy.: "There may be those who object that this is not correct because some come to penetration o[...] 26: . For the connection between the modes of effacement and the preceding simile, Comy. gives two alte[...]
2: . Mind (Pali citta, also consciousness or viññana) in this connection means the states of mind or [...]
4: . 'Internally': contemplating his own breathing; 'externally': contemplating another's breathing; [...] 5: . The origination factors (samudaya-dhamma), that is, the conditions of the origination of the bre[...] 6: . The conditions of the dissolution of the breath-body are: the destruction of the body and of the[...] 7: . The contemplation of both, alternately. 8: . That is, only impersonal bodily processes exist, without a self, soul, spirit or abiding essence[...] 9: . Detached from craving and wrong view. 10: . All contemplations of the body, excepting the preceding one, have as factors of origination: ign[...] 11: . The so-called 'elements' are the primary qualities of matter, explained by Buddhist tradition as[...]
14: . This refers to a restless mind. 15: . The consciousness of the meditative absorptions of the fine-corporeal and uncorporeal sphere (ru[...] 16: . The ordinary consciousness of the sensuous state of existence (kamavacara). 17: . The consciousness of the sensuous state of existence, having other mental states superior to it.[...] 18: . The consciousness of the fine-corporeal and the uncorporeal spheres, having no mundane mental st[...] 19: . Temporarily freed from the defilements either through the methodical practice of insight (vipass[...] 20: . The factors of origination consist here of ignorance, craving, kamma, body-and-mind (nama-rupa),[...]
22: . These five groups or aggregates constitute the so-called personality. By making them objects of [...] 23: . The origination-and-dissolution factors of the five aggregates: for material form, the same as f[...] 24: . The usual enumeration of the ten principal fetters (samyojana), as given in the Discourse Collec[...] 25: . Origination factors of the ten physical sense-bases are ignorance, craving, kamma, food, and the[...] 26: . Just the conditions conducive to the origination and dissolution of the factors of enlightenment[...] 27: . The origination-and-dissolution factors of the truths should be understood as the arising and pa[...] 28: . That is, the non-returning to the world of sensuality. This is the last stage before the attainme[...]
2: . Comy.: Even though the adherents of other sects all declare Arahantship -- understood in a gener[...] 3: . "Favoring and opposing" (anurodha-pativirodha): reacting with attraction through lust and with a[...] 4: . Proliferation (papañca), according to Comy., generally means mental activity governed by craving[...] 5: . The adoption of one view entailing opposition to the other links up with the earlier statement t[...] 6: . Comy. mentions eight conditions which serve as the origin (samudaya) of these views: the five ag[...] 7: . Comy. glosses full understanding (pariñña) here as overcoming (samatikkama), with reference to t[...] 8: . This passage clearly indicates that the critical differentiating factor of the Buddha's Dhamma i[...] 9: . Comy.: The Buddha teaches how clinging to sense pleasures is abandoned by the path of Arahantshi[...] 10: . This passage is explained in order to show how clinging is to be abandoned. Clinging is traced b[...] 11: . The Pali idiom, n'eva kamupadanam upadiyati, would have to be rendered literally as "he does not[...] 12: . This is the stock canonical declaration of Arahantship.
2: . Superhuman states (uttari manussadhamma) are states, virtues or attainments higher than the ordi[...] 3: . The thrust of his criticism is that the Buddha teaches a doctrine that he has merely worked out [...] 4: . All the sections to follow are intended as a rebuttal of Sunakkhatta's charge against the Buddha[...]
6: . Comy. glosses thana as cause or ground (karana) and explains: "Such and such dhammas are causes [...] 7: . Vbh. Section 810: "Herein, the Tathagata comprehends that there are some evil actions performed [...] 8: . Vbh. Section 811: "Herein, the Tathagata comprehends thus: 'This is the path, this is the practi[...] 9: . Vbh. Section 812: "The Tathagata comprehends the different aggregates, the different sense bases[...] 10: . Vbh. Section 813: "The Tathagata understands that beings are of inferior inclinations and superi[...] 11: . Vbh. Sections 814-27 gives a detailed analysis. Comy. states the meaning more concisely as the T[...] 12: . Vbh. Section 828: "The defilement (sankilesa) is a state partaking of deterioration; cleansing ([...] 13: . The idiom yathabhatam nikkhitto evam niraye is knotty; the rendering here follows the gloss of C[...]
18: . The "eight-days' interval of frost" is a regular cold spell which occurs in South Asia in late D[...] 19: . That is, they hold the view that beings are purified by reducing their intake of food. 20: . Rebirth into the Pure Abodes (suddhavasa) is possible only for non-returners. 21: . The Pali for the four terms is: sati, gati, dhiti, paññaveyyattiya. Comy. explains sati as the a[...] 22: . The Venerable Nagasamala had been a personal attendant of the Buddha during the first twenty yea[...] 23: . Lomahamsanapariyaya. The sutta is referred to by that name at Milindapañha, p. 398, and in the c[...]
2: . Ven. Sariputta and Ven. Punna speak of this list of seven purities -- purity in terms of virtue,[...] 3: . Anupada-parinibbana. The Commentary gives two interpretations of this term. The first, taking up[...]
2: . For an explanation of these views held by some teachers in the Buddhist time, and which were a r[...] 3: . The rendering of the various gods' names are based on the commentary to the Hadayavibhanga (in t[...]
2: . Emptiness, the signless, & the undirected are names for a state of concentration that lies on th[...] 3: . According to the commentary, "seclusion" here stands for Unbinding. On emerging from the cessati[...] 4: . In other words, once the pleasure of the first jhana has been used as a basis for giving rise to[...] 5: . Once this sorrow has has been used as a basis for giving rise to the discernment that leads to n[...] 6: . Once this feeling of neither pleasure nor pain has been used as a basis for giving rise to the d[...]
2: . A defiled kamma expressed through the body (speech, mind). 3: . Painful "touches" through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind. 4: . That is, the novice ordination and the full ordination as a bhikkhu or monk.
2: . Evenness: samañña.
2: . The brahmans regarded Brahma as their original ancestor, and so called him their "Kinsman." The [...]
2: . It is not possible to learn the three Vedas by heart in one day [Commentary]. 3: . Ganana. From this profession of his, the distinguishing addition to the brahman's name is derive[...]
7: . Ariya refers here, according to the Visuddhimagga, to the Enlightened Ones. 8: . Accantanittha. Accanta can also mean "utmost, culminating, supreme."
2: . Delineation (paññapana) literally means, "making discernible." This apparently refers to the int[...]
2: . For stories connected with these thirteen names see Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G. P. Malal[...] 3: . Literally those essences of beings, MA. iv. 129. Having declared the names of these thirteen pacc[...] 4: . Literally removed the spike of passions (visalla). 5: . It would appear that the reason why in the Pali stanzas attributes are mentioned in respect of so[...] 6: . Culla Jali and Maha Jali. 7: . Four Anandas, four Nandas and four Upanandas, MA., iv. 129. 8: . The five aggregates of: body; feelings or sensations; perceptions; formations and consciousness. [...] 9: . Sangha, attachment or grasping, they are: lust, hate, delusion, pride, and false views.
2: . A son of King Bimbisara.
6: . Dukkha: usually rendered by "suffering" or "ill" [Ed., The Wheel]. 7: . Raga, dosa, moha.
2: . These priests & contemplatives are probably the proponents of non-action, annihilation, and non-[...] 3: . To this day, this is the way butter is obtained in rural north India. The churn-stick is a small[...]
2: . This is a quotation from the Buddha's words: see Samyutta Nikaya, Vedana Samyutta, Rahogata-vagg[...] 3: . This is an addition necessary for understanding this sentence. 4: . These are the ten unwholesome courses of kamma. 5: . These are the ten wholesome courses of kamma. 6: . This amounts to the belief in theistic religions where virtue and faith (=whatever is held to be[...] 7: . Devadatta, for instance, who persuaded prince Ajatasattu to murder his father (who was a stream-[...] 8: . This series of three phrases appears to mean: earlier, either earlier in life before he undertoo[...] 9: . A good example of this is the story of "Coppertooth," the public executioner who, after a career[...] 10: . Though such a person attained a heavenly rebirth the evil kamma made will still mature sooner or[...] 11: . King Pasenadi of Kosala, for instance. 12: . This was what happened to Queen Mallika, wife of King Pasenadi, who had led a good life, generou[...] 13: . Though this virtuous and good person has obtained a low rebirth through the power of previously [...] 14: . This final terse paragraph may have been clear to the venerable Ananda Thera, or he may have ask[...]
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