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FUNDAMENTAL

ABHIDHAMMA

PART I

by Dr. Nandamālābhivaṃsa

Sagaing Hills, Myanmar

December 2005

compiled in cooperation by Alma Jorey (Poland), U Sobhana (Nepal), and Daw Aggañāṇī (Germany)

revised and edited by Aggañāṇi

© 2005 Copyright by CBS

Centre for (CBS), Mahāsubodhayon Monastery, Sagaing Hills, Sagaing, Myanmar

ABBREVIATIONS

BB Bodhi (general editor), A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1993 RC A Dictionary of the Pāḷi language; Buddha Sāsana Council Press, 1974 RD Rhys Davids, Pāḷi-English dictionary; The Pāḷi Text Society, Oxford,1925/1992 comp. compare esp. especially e.g. for example lit. literally metaph. metaphorical opp. opposite, antonym ref. referring, refers to syn. synonym

The glossary is arranged according to the Roman alphabet, not the Pāḷi-alphabet, in order to simplify the search for Abhidhamma- students who are beginners in Pāḷi.

GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______-A- mind; opp. dvāra (-rūpa) Agocaraggāhika:- not A:- a negative particle; e.g. receiving an object; ref. rūpa: adosa, ahetuka, ahirika material qualities which Abhi:- higher; abhidhamma cannot receive an object; 23 Abhidhamma:- agocaraggāhika-rūpas; opp. (abhi/dhamma); ‘profound gocaraggāhika dhamma’; higher dhamma; Āhāra:- nutritive essence; RC higher doctrine; RD the material quality of nutriment; ‘special doctrine,’ i.e., the edible food (kabaḷikāra); syn. doctrine pure and simple oja (without any admixture of Āhāraja:- āhāra-born; āhāraja literary grace or of persona- rūpa - matter born of āhāra, lities, or of anecdotes, or of material phenomena arguments ad personam); originated from nutriment highest dhamma Ahetuka :- (a/hetu/ka) Abhidhamma piṭaka:- ‘The ‘consciousness that is Basket of Philosophy’; third dissociated from hetu’; part of tipiṭaka rootless; opp. hetu; result of Abhiññā:- direct knowledge; kusala, result of akusala, and supernormal power (can be just kriya attained after mastery of the Ahirika:- (a/hiri/ka) shame- fifth rūpa-jhāna) lessness; a mental state that Adhimokkha:- (adhi/mokkha); promotes immoral actions; RD decision; consent, agreement; unscrupulous; akusala ceta- RD firm resolve, sika; opp. hiri determination; aññasamāna Ājīva:- livelihood, mode of cetasika; opp. vicikicchā living; RC profession, occupa- Adosa:- (a/dosa) non-hatred; tion; see sammā-ājīva anti-hatred; sobhana cetasika; Ajjhattika:- internal; ref. rūpa: syn. mettā; opp. dosa internal matter, composed Adukkhamasukha:- neither only of the 5 pasāda-rūpa dukkha (painful, unpleasant) Ākāsa:- space, sky, air, open nor (pleasant, happy); air; e.g. ākāsānañcāyatana indifferent, neutral; comp. Ākāsānañcāyatana:- (ākāsa/ upekkhā-vedanā ānañca/āyatana); ‘the con- Advāra:- non-door; ref. rūpa: sciousness that has the matter which does not “infinite space” as its object’; perform as a door for the realm of infinite space, base

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of infinite space; returning to the kāma-world’; arūpāvacara jhāna one who does not return; RD Akiñca:- nothingness, void; Never-Returner; Noble being akiñcaññyāyatana at the third stage out of the Ākiñcaññyāyatana:- (ākiñca- four noble stages ñña/āyatana) ‘the conscious- Ānañca:- infinity; RC ness that has “non-existence immensity, boundless of the first viññāṇa” as its Ānāpāna:- in-breathing and object’; the realm of out-breathing; in-breath and nothingness; arūpāvacara out-breath; esp. ānāpānasati jhāna ( of in-breathing Akusala:- (a/kusala) and out-breathing) ‘contradiction of kusala’; Anārammaṇa:- non-awareness demeritorious, unwholesome, of object; all rūpa are called immoral, unskillful, bad, evil; ‘anārammaṇa’ - objectless, opp. kusala because they are unable to Akusala kamma:- Evil action, perceive an object demeritorious action; action :- (an/attā) non-self; with unwholesome intention lack of (a permanent) self; Akusala vipāka:- result of opp. attā akusala kamma; belongs to Aṇḍaja:- (aṇḍa/ja) egg-born; ahetuka citta (beings) born of an egg Ālambaṇa:- object; ‘where Aṅga:- factor, constituent; ‘a citta delights in’; syn. constituent part of a whole or ārammaṇa system or collection’; e.g. Alobha:- (a/lobha); non-attach- jhānaṅga ment; anti-craving; Anicca:- impermanent generosity; sobhana cetasika; Aniccatā:- ; ref. opp. lobha rūpa: the physical Amoha:- (a/) non- phenomenon of the delusion; anti-delusion; impermanence of matter, the knowledge; sobhana complete breaking up of cetasika; syn. paññā; opp. matter; one of the four moha, avijjā lakkhaṇa-rūpas An:- a negative particle; e.g. Anidassana:- not visible; ref. an/ottappa rūpa: non-visible matter; Anāgāmi:- (an/āgāmin) non- matter that cannot be seen returner; ‘magga of non- with the eye; 27 anidassana- 2 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______rūpa; opp. sanidassana Appamaññā:- illimitable; Anindriya:- non-faculty; ref. limitless, boundless, rūpa: matters that do not immeasurable; mental state of manage or control a function limitless object; mettā, 20 anindriya-rūpas; opp. karuṇā, muditā, upekkhā indriya (-rūpa) Appanā:- jhānic, application of Anipphanna:- secondary mate- the mind on an object; fixing rial qualities; non-concretely of thought on an object; produced matter; 10 rūpas attainment; e.g. appanā javana which have no intrinsic - Javana-consciousness in nature (sabhāva lakkhaṇa) jhāna-attainment and therefore are not suitable Appaṭigha:- not impinging; for insight-meditation; opp. without impingement; ref. nipphana rūpa: non-impinging material Aññasamāna cetasika:- (añña/ phenomena; matters without samāna); common to all, ku- impingement; 16 appaṭigha sala as well as akusala ; rūpas; opp. sappaṭigha divided into two groups: Arahant:- one who has de- universal and particular; stroyed all his mental defile- metaph. organs or tools of citta ments; a worthy one; a fully Anottappa:- (an/ottappa) fear- enlightened person; the fourth lessness (of doing evil); esp. and final Noble person with all types of immoral Arahatta:- (ari/hatta); ‘magga action; RC absence of fear of that is the cause of arahatta sinning, recklessness, fruition’; worthy of respect; hardness of heart; common to the fourth and final stage of all types of akusala cetasika; enlightenment opp. ottappa- fearfulness Arūpa:- (a/rūpa); without form Anupādinna:- ‘not clung-to’; or body, incorporeal, ref. rūpa: matters which are formless, immaterial; not the result of kamma arūpāvacara jhāna opp. rūpa accompanied by craving and Arūpa brahma:- formless wrong ; 10 anupādinna- deity; Brahma of formless rūpas; opp. upādinna world Āpo:- ‘water-element’; the Arūpāvacara:- formless element of cohesion; the great sphere; -citta:- consciousness appearance of fluidity and during arūpa-jhānas; the cohesion; one of the four consciousness mostly arising mahābhūta in the arūpa brahma world

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Asampatta:- not touching, not attending; reaching, not physically con- pañcadvārāvajjana: five- tacting; ref. rūpa: asampatta- door-adverting rūpa are two of the agoc- (consciousness); gate-opener; araggāhika rūpas: the manodvārāvajjana: mind- pasāda-rūpas of eye and ear, door-adverting; mind-door- because they do not reach and opener touch their objects; opp. Avajjeti:- to bend, to incline, to sampatta upset Asaṅkhārika:- (a/saṅkhārika) Avatthu:- non-base; ref. rūpa: unprompted; without matter that is not the seat of promptitude; not hesitating, mind (22 rūpas except 5 not encouraged; opp. pasāda and hadaya); opp. sasaṅkhārika vatthu Asaññāsatta:- (a/saññā/satta) Avinibbhoga:- inseparable; RD non-percipient being, being not to be distinguished, without mind; being of one of indistinct; ref. rūpa: the rūpa planes inseparable material qualities; Asubha:- (a/subha) not beauti- material phenomena which ful, ugly, disgusting, are present together in all repulsive; opp. subha material objects; they Attā:- self; permanent entity or together form the smallest self; opp. anattā material group (kalāpa); 8 Attha:- thing; e.g. paramattha, avinibbhoga-rūpas (4 mahā- attha-paññatti bhūta, colour, smell, taste and Aṭṭhaka:- octad, group of nutritive essence); opp. vi- eight; see suddhaṭṭhaka - pure nibbhoga octad, a group of eight Āyatana:- i) the sphere or material phenomena; see plane; see arūpāvacara jhāna; kalāpa ii) base; āyati,āya Avacara:- sphere, realm, Āyati:- to go; āyatana home; see also avacarati, Āya:- coming in, entrance; see kāmāvacara, rūpāvacara, āyatana arūpāvacara Avacarati:- to occupy, to make -B- one’s home, to traverse; see carati Bāhira:- external; ref. rūpa: Āvajjana:- adverting, external matter, including all 4 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______rūpas except the 5 pasāda- ferred to as kamma; aññasa- rūpas māna cetasika Bhāva:- matter of sex; the Cetasika:- mental state, mental material quality which is the quality, mental factor, mental source of femininity or mas- property, mental culinity; itthibhāva, concomitant; state dependent pumbhāva upon citta; cetasikas arise and Bhavaṅga:- (/aṅga) life- cease together with citta, continuum; factor of life; RD have the same base and same the vital continuum in the object like citta; RD absence of any process (of belonging to ceto; metaph. mind, or attention). organs or tools of citta Byāpāda:- ill-will; aversion, Chanda:- wish to do, willing- malevolence, malice, hatred, ness, desire; particular fury; one of the five aññasamāna cetasika; comp. hindrances (nivaraṇa); spelling lobha also vyāpāda, syn. dosa Citta:- consciousness; it is -C- aware of an object; syn. ceta, viññāṇa, mano Cakkhu:- eye; e.g. cakkhu- Cittaja:- citta-born; cittaja pasāda - sensitive matter of rūpa - matter born of citta, the eye; cakkhu-viññāṇa - material phenomena eye-consciousness; one of the originated from six sense bases (saḷāyatana) consciousness Cakkhu-viññnāṇa:- eye-con- Citta-kammaññatā:- adaptabi- sciousness lity of mind; fitness of mind, Carati:- to walk, to walk about, workability of mind; to wander, to live sobhana cetasika Cattuja:- born of four (con- Citta-lahutā:- lightness of ditions); e.g. cattuja rūpa - mind; sobhana cetasika matter born of four conditions Citta-mudutā:- pliancy of (kamma, citta, utu and āhāra) mind, softness of mind; Catuttha:- fourth; see catu sobhana cetasika Catuttha jhāna:- fourth jhāna; Citta-pāguññatā:- proficiency ref. rūpāvacara jhāna of mind, healthiness of mind; Catu:- four; e.g. catuttha jhāna sobhana cetasika Cetanā:- motivation; volition; Citta-:- tranquility stimulation, encouragement; of mind; sobhana cetasika a mental state that is often re- Cittu-jukatā:- rectitude of

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mind, straightness of mind; tal pain, mental suffering, sobhana cetasika misery; unhappy (feeling); RC Cuti:- death; RC disappearance, dejection, displeasure, gloom, vanishing, leaving one world melancholy, grief ; see vedanā to be born in another; RD Domanassa-sahagata:- decease, shifting out of accompanied by displeasure, existence accompanied by unhappy fee- ling -D- Dosa:- hatred, aversion, anger, fear; one of the akusala hetu; Dasaka:- decad, group of ten; akusala cetasika; see doso see kalāpa Dosamūla:- hatred- Dassana:- seeing; firstly seeing rooted; -citta:- consciousness of Nibbāna; in figurative sense that is rooted in hatred; see ‘knowing’, ‘understanding’; dosa, mūla ref. sotāpatti-magga Doso:- RC defect, blemish, Dhamma:- The Buddha’s guilt, offence, crime, injury, Teaching; phenomenon, state, damage mental object, mental state; Du:- a prefix implying badness, see Abhidhamma difficulty; disgusting, causing Dhammasangaṇī:- ‘Classifica- to vomit tion of Dhammas’; first of the Dukkha:- pain, physical suffe- seven Abhidhamma books ring; unpleasantness, unsatis- Dhātu:- element; e.g. mano- factoriness; see vedanā dhātu; see mahābhūta Dukkha-sahagata:- Dhātukathā:- ‘A Talk on the accompanied by pain Elements’; third of the seven Dure:- far, distant; ref. rūpa: far Abhidhamma books matter; matters which cannot Diṭṭhi:- wrong view; view, be perceived easily; 16 dure belief; (wrong) seeing, rūpas; opp. santike (wrong) understanding; Dutiya:- second; e.g. dutiya akusala cetasika; see jhāna diṭṭhigata-sampayutta Dutiya jhāna:- second jhāna; Diṭṭhigata:- with wrong view; ref. rūpāvacara jhāna see diṭṭhi Dvādasaka:- do-decad, group Diṭṭhigata-sampayutta:- of twelf; see kalāpa connected with wrong view Dvāra:- door, gate; e.g. cakkhu- Domanassa:- displeasure, men- dvāra; manodvārāvajjana; 6 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______ref. rūpa: matter of door; -E- material quality serving as a door for the mind (7 dvāra- Eka:- one; see rūpas: 5 pasāda and 2 Ekādasaka:- un-decad, group viññattis) of eleven; see kalāpa Dvi:- two; e.g. dvihetu, dvi- Ekaggatā:- one-pointedness of pancaviññāṇa the mind; one of the jhāna Dvihetuka:- (dvi/hetu/ka) citta factors (jhānaṅga); associated with two roots; see aññasamāna cetasika; syn. hetu samādhi Dvija:- born of two Ekahetuka:- (eka/hetu/ka) (conditions); e.g. dvija rūpa - with one root; -citta:- matter born of two conditions ‘consciousness associated Dvipañcaviññāṇa:- with one hetu’ (dvi/pañca/ viññāṇa) two Ekaja:- born of one five-fold consciousness; eye-, (condition); e.g. ekaja rūpa - ear-, nose-, tongue- and body- matter born of one condition consciousness; five are the (either kamma, citta, utu or results of kusala and five āhāra) results of akusala -G-

Gabbha seyyaka:- beings who lie in a womb (meaning jaḷābuja and aṇḍaja beings) Gandha:- smell, odour; one of the gocara-rūpa Gata:- walking, going, devoted to; see sahagata Gati-nimitta:- sign of destina- tion; sign of destiny; a sign or image where will take place Ghāna:- nose; e.g. ghana- viññāṇa Ghāna-viññaṇa:- nose-con- sciousness; ghana, viññāṇa Ghāyana:- smelling Gocara:- object-matter; objec-

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tive material phenomena; lit. effects’; root, cause; three ‘where the mind delights in’ wholesome roots: lobha, (where the mind goes for dosa, moha; three food); there are 7 kinds of unwholesome roots: alobha, matter which can be the adosa, amoha object of our sense-organs: Hiri:- moral shame; sobhana visible object, sound, smell, cetasika; quality that leads to taste and the 3 touchable purity, to moral actions; opp. matters (pathavī, tejo, vāyo) ahirika Gocaraggāhika:- receiving an object; ref. rūpa: material -I- qualities which receive an object; there are 5 Indriya:- faculty; ref. rūpa: gocaraggāhika-rūpas (5 matters that manage or pasāda), 2 of them do not control the function touch their object concerned (8 indriya-rūpas: 5 (asampatta), 3 touch their pasāda, 2 bhāva and jīvita) object (sampatta); opp. Issā:- jealousy, envy; akusala agocaraggāhika cetasika in dosamūla cittas only -H- Itthibhāva:- matter of feminin- ity; material quality which is Hadaya:- heart; matter of the the source for female sex; heart; material quality lying bhāva on the blood in the heart; see hadaya-vatthu -J- Hadaya-vatthu:- heart-base; seat of the mind; material Jaḷābuja:- womb-born; quality of the base of the (beings) born in a womb mind Jaratā:- decay; the physical Hasituppāda:- phenomenon of the decay of (hasita/uppāda); smile matter; one of the four producing consciousness lakkhaṇa-rūpas (only within Arahants); kriya Javana:- ‘Javana’ citta; ahetuka citta (untranslated), dynamic Hasita:- laughter, smile, mirth; consciousness; RD ‘going’ joy (intellectual movement); Hetu:- ‘conditions that fortify stage of full perception; 8 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______twelfth stage or function in Kalāpa:- group; unity; bundle; citta-vīthi (mental process) bunch; ref. rūpa: material Jhāna:- ‘jhāna is so called group, a group of material because it concentrates firmly qualities; matter does not on an object’; meditative, arise as a single but in mental absorption. The word kalāpas jhāna is used for the unity of Kāma:- desirable object of jhāna- factors; see rūpāvacara senses, desire for enjoyment jhāna; arūpāvacara jhāna of sensual object Jhānaṅga:- (jhāna/aṅga) Kāmacchanda:- factor of jhāna; 5 jhāna- (kāma/chanda) sensual factors: vitakka, vicāra, pīti, desire; wish for sensual sukha, ekaggatā enjoyment Jivhā:- tongue Kāmasobhana citta:- beautiful Jivhā-viññāṇa:- tongue-con- sense sphere consciousness sciousness (having magnificent quality) Jīvikā:- livelihood, means of Kāmāvacara:- consciousness subsistence, means to get that frequents the plane of one’s living; see sammā-ājīva sensual pleasure (kāma-plane, Jīvita:- life (mental and kāma-loka); realm of sense- physical); see jīvitindriya desire, sense-sphere, sphere Jīvitindriya:- (jīvita/indriya) of sensual pleasure faculty of life; vitality, mental Kāmāvacārammaṇa:- object life (one of the aññasamāna of the sense-sphere, kāma- cetasika), physical life (one object of the upādāya rūpa) Kamma:- action; intentional Jīva:-living; a creature, a action; mental, verbal, bodily; being, life; RD soul usually relating to the Jukatā:- rectitude, straightness cetasika cetanā of body or mind Kammaja:- kamma-born; -rūpa:- matter born of -K- kamma, material phenomena originated from kamma Ka:- group; e.g. dasaka (dasa/ Kammantā:- physical action ka) - a group of ten, decad Kammaññatā:- fitness for Kabaḷikāra:- edible food; lit. work, workability; RC ‘making morsels’; food that is adaptability, pliancy, ingested by making into mor- readiness, fit for work; two sels; see āhāra kinds: citta-kammaññatā and

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kāya-kammaññatā sciousness; ahetuka vipāka Kappa:- aeon; world-period; citta an age of the world Kāya-viññatti:- bodily intima- Karuṇā:- compassion; appa- tion; material phenomena of maññā cetasika; sobhana bodily expression; silent lan- cetasika guage, gesture, sign of the Kasiṇa:- entirety of device; body; viññatti object of -meditation; Kāyu-jukatā:- rectitude of object used to attain rūpa- body (mental factors), jhāna; 10 kinds of kasiṇa straightness of body; sobhana :- ‘Points of Con- cetasika troversy’; fifth of the seven Kicca:- function Abhidhamma books Kiriya/kriya:- functional; Kāya:- body; e.g. kāya-viññāṇa ‘mere action’; -citta:- Kāyagatāsati:- mindfulness functional or inoperative with regard to the body; esp. consciousness; citta that acts, contemplation of the 32 parts but does not produce an of the body; reflection on the effect as kamma impurity of the body Kukkucca:- (ku/kicca) Kāya-kammaññatā:- remorse, worry, regret; worry adaptability of body (mental about one’s own previous factors), fitness of body; misconduct or worry about sobhana cetasika; what one has not done; Kammaññatā akusala cetasika in dosamula Kāya-lahutā:- lightness of cittas only body (mental factors); Ku:- formal part of several sobhana cetasika compounds, implying inferio- Kāya-mudutā:- pliancy of rity or wickedness body (mental factor), softness Kusala:- (ku/sala) meritorious, of body; sobhana cetasika wholesome, moral; Kāya-paguññatā:- proficiency beneficial, skillful, good, of body (mental factors), virtuous; opp. akusala healthiness of body; sobhana Kusala citta:- wholesome con- cetasika sciousness Kāya-passaddhi:- tranquility Kusala vipāka:- result of of body (mental factors); kusala kamma sobhana cetasika Kāya-viññāṇā:- body-con- -L- 10 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______anāgāmi-, arahatta-magga; Lahutā:- lightness (of mind or comp. body) Maggaṅga:- (magga/aṅga) Lakkhaṇa:- characteristic; the path-factor; eightfold noble characteristic of matter is path; magga itself a material, physical Mahā:- great; e.g. mahā-kusala phenomenon; rūpa has four Mahābhūta:- great characteristics: upacaya, appearance; the four great or santati, jaratā, aniccatā. primary elements: pathavī, Lobha:- attachment, craving, apo, tejo, vāyo; BB ‘great greed, passion; akusala ceta- essentials’ sika; one of the akusala Mahaggata:- sublime, great, roots; syn. taṇhā; opp. alobha lofty, developed; mahaggata- Lobhamūla:- attachment- citta - developed or sublime rooted -citta:- ‘the consciousness of the jhāna- consciousness that is rooted attainments in attachment’; see lobha, Mahā-kiriya citta:- great mūla functional consciousness; that Loka:- world; kāma-, rūpa-, are the 8 kāmasobhana kiriya arūpa-loka cittas Lokiya:- wordly, mundane Mahā-kusala citta:- great Lokkuttara:- (loka/uttara); wholesome consciousness; supramundane; higher, supe- that are the 8 kāmasobhana rior than the world; opp. lokiya kusala cittas Mahā-vipāka citta:- great -M- resultant consciousness; that are the 8 kāmasobhana Macchariya:- stinginess; un- vipāka cittas willingness to share; RC Māna:- conceit; pride; akusala avarice, selfishness, cetasika in lobhamūla cittas niggardliness; akusala only cetasika in dosamūla cittas Manasikāra:- attention; to bear only in mind, to pay attention, to Magga:- way, path, road, attend to; aññasamāna course; ‘by removing mental cetasika defilements, it attains Mano:- mind; syn. viññāṇa, nibbāna, so it is called citta; e.g.manasikāra magga’; eightfold noble path; Manodhātu:- mind-element; sotāpatti-, sakadāgāmi-, term for the three cittas

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pañcadvārāvajjana and the Mohamūla - delusion- two sampaṭicchana rooted; -citta:- ‘the Manodvārāvajjana:- consciousness that is rooted (mano/dvāra/āvajjana) mind- in delusion’; see moha, mūla door adverting; mind-door Muditā:- sympathetic joy; attending; mind altering; see appreciative joy; one of the āvajjati appamaññā cetasika; Manoviññāṇadhātu:- mind- sobhana cetasika consciousness-element; term Mudutā:- pliancy, softness (of for the collection of cittas mind or body); without which are preceded and tension; RC mudu:- soft, mild, followed by cittas with the malleable, supple same base; generally 76 types Mūla:- root; there are six roots: of consciousness: the 12 lobha, dosa, moha, alobha, akusala, 3 santīraṇa, 2 adosa, amoha; also see hetu ahetuka kiriya, 24 kāmasobhana, 15 -N- rūpāvacara, 12 arūpāvacara, 8 lokuttara cittas (that are all Na:- nor; comes together with cittas except the 3 of mano- neva (neither); e.g. neva- dhātu and the 10 viññāṇas). saññā-nāsaññā Mettā:- loving kindness; syn. Nakutocija:- born of none adosa; RC friendliness; opp. (condition); e.g. nakutocija dosa rūpa - matter not born of any Middha:- torpor; sluggishness; condition (neither kamma, akusala cetasika; one of the citta, utu nor āhāra) (nivaraṇa); Nāma:- mind; consisting of always together with thīna citta and cetasika Moha:- ‘delusion’; ignorance, Ñāṇa:- knowledge; insight; dullness of mind, bewilder- wisdom; understanding; ment, syn. avijjā; one of the ñāṇa-sampayutta - connected hetu; one of the three with knowledge; ñāṇa- principle mental defilements vippayutta - disconnected which are the root causes of from knowledge all other mental impurities; Navaka:- nonad, group of nine; infatuation, folly, error; see kalāpa akusala cetasika; opp. amoha, Neva:- neither; comes together vijjā, ñāṇa, paññā with na (nor); nevasaññā- 12 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______nāsaññā Oja:- essence; nutritive Nevasaññānāsaññā:- (neva/ essence; nutriment; one of the saññā/na/asaññā) neither per- 8 inseparable matters ception nor non-perception; (avinibbhoga) syn. āhāra the highest jhāna possible; Oḷarika:- gross; ref. rūpa: gross arūpa jhāna matter; matters which can be Nibbāna:- a state of freedom known easily; 12 oḷarika from attachment; a state in rūpas (5 pasāda and 7 which mind and matter gocara); opp. sukhuma become completely extinct; Opapātika:- spontaneously freedom from suffering; one born; born without parents; of the ultimate realities; the arisen without visible cause; unconditioned; the dying out (beings) born by making their in the heart of the threefold appearance (deities, brahmas, fire (rāga, dosa, moha); see petas) sotāpatti, sakadāgāmi, anā- Ottappa:- moral dread, fearful- gāmi, arahatta ness (of doing evil); moral Nimitta:- sign, image; state that leads to purity, to condition; kamma-, gati- morality; sobhana cetasika; nimitta opp. anottappa Nipphanna:- primary matter, real matter; matter produced -P- by cause (18 rūpas); material qualities with intrinsic nature Pañcadvārāvajjana:- (pañca/ (sabhāva lakkhaṇa) suitable dvāra/āvajjana) five door for insight-meditation adverting; five door Niraya:- hell; infernal world; attending; five-gate-opener; lowest woeful state; lit. see dvāra, āvajjana ‘downward-path’ Pañcama:- fifth; e.g. pañcama Nivaraṇa:- hindrance; jhāna obstacle, warding off, Pañca:- five keeping back, preventing, Pañcama jhāna:- fifth jhāna; stop; 5 hindrances: ref. rūpāvacara jhāna kāmacchanda, byāpāda, Pañcaviññāṇa:- five-fold thīna-middha, uddhacca- sense-consciousness; ahetuka kukkucca, vicikicchā vipāka citta, result of either kusala or akusala kamma -O- Paññā:- wisdom; knowledge; sobhana cetasika; syn. ñāṇa,

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amoha; opp. moha, avijjā Paṭīgha:- ill-will, hatred, Paññatti:- concept; lit. ‘make repulsion, repugnance, anger, known’ or ‘to be known’; aversion; syn. dosa, byāpāda same root as paññā; broadly, Paṭigha-sampayutta:- there are two types: sadda- connected with ill-will; (name) and attha-paññatti paṭigha, sampayutta (conceptual thing, which the Paṭisandhi:- rebirth-linking; name describes) relinking; RC entering the Paññindriya:- (paññā/indriya) womb in a new existence, faculty of wisdom; sobhana conception, rebirth cetasika :- ‘Conditional Rela- Para:- beyond; on the further tion’; last one of the seven side; over; opposite; e.g. Abhidhamma books paramattha Phala:- effect of magga; fruit, Paramattha:- the truth, reality, fruition; belong to vipāka; RC ultimate reality; ‘truth which “there are two attainments, is an axiom…independently the attainment of knowledge of its being supported by the and the attainment of result; authority of mankind’ by attainment of knowledge Paramattha :- ultimate is meant the four paths, by truth, abstract truth the attainment of the result is Pariccheda:- matter of limita- meant the four fruition.” tion; void region that delimits Sotāpatti-, Sakadāgāmi-, and separates material Anāgāmi-, Arahatta-phala groups; syn. ākāsa-dhātu Phassa:- contact; universal Pasāda:- sensitive matter; aññasamāna cetasika material qualities of the five Phoṭṭhabba:- tangible object, sense-organs; lit. ‘to clarify touchable object, tangibility; the elements’ belongs to gocara-rūpa; con- Pathama:- first; e.g. pathama sists of three of the jhāna mahābhūta: pathavī, tejo, Pathama jhāna:- first jhāna; vāyo ref. rūpāvacara jhāna Phusana:- touching Pathavī:- ‘earth-element’; the Piṭaka:- basket; collection element of extension; the Pīti:- joy; delight; rapture; great appearance of hardness zest; a jhāna factor and softness; one of the four (jhānaṅga) mahābhūta Puggala paññatti:- 14 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______‘Designation of individuals’; Saddhā:- confidence; faith; fourth of the seven i) dassana-mūlika saddhā: Abhidhamma books faith based on seeing, direct Pumbhāva:- matter of knowledge; ii) ākāravati masculinity; material quality saddhā: faith dependent on which is the source for male reasoning and logic; sobhana sex; bhāva cetasika Sādhāraṇa:- BB universal; RD -R- general, common, joint Saha:- with, together with Rāga:- lust, greed; syn. lobha, Sahagata:- accompanied by taṇhā Sakadāgāmi:- once-returner; Ramati:- to enjoy oneself, to ‘magga of once-returner to delight in the kāma world’; one who Rasa:- taste; one of the gocara- will not be reborn on earth rūpa more than once; second stage Rūpa:- matter, material quality, of four noble stages physical phenomenon, corpo- Saḷāyatana:- the six sense reality; visible object, form, faculties; six sense bases: figure, shape; color and eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, shape; fine-material (see and mind rūpāvacara) Sam:- with, together Rūpāvacara:- fine-material Samādhi:- concentration; syn. spere; -citta:- the conscious- ekaggata ness during the attainment of Sammā:- correct, right, proper, rūpa-jhānas; the true, real, well, perfect, consciousness that arises thorough mostly in the ‘rūpā brahma’ Sammā-ājīva:- right world; -jhāna:- fine-material livelihood; sobhana cetasika; jhāna virati cetasika; maggaṅga Sammā-diṭṭhi:- right view; -S- right understanding; maggaṅga Sabhāva:- intrinsic, own Sammā-kammanta:- right nature; e.g. sabhāva lakkhaṇa action; right deed; sobhana - individual characteristic cetasika; virati cetasika; Sacca:- truth maggaṅga Sadda:- sound, noise, voice; Sammā-samādhi:- right one of the gocara-rūpa concentration; maggaṅga

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Sammā-sankappa:- right (saṃ/yoga) bond, ; thought; maggaṅga association; connection; see Sammā-:- right samyojana mindfulness; maggaṅga Samyojana/saṃyojana:- bond, Sammā-vācā:- right speech; fetter; esp. the fetters that bind sobhana cetasika; virati to the wheel of continued cetasika; maggaṅga existence Sammā-vāyāma:- right effort; Saṅgaha:- one of the two ways maggaṅga; ref. vīriya of association system Sammutti:- general consent, between citta and cetasika; authorization, consent; - describes how the cittas sacca:-conventional truth; associate with how many that which is generally cetasikas; BB compendium, received as truth by the combination, inclusion general consent of mankind; Sanidassana:- visible; ref. see paññatti; comp. paramattha rūpa: visible matter; matter Sampaṭicchana:- receiving; to that is seen with the eye; 1 agree, to assent, receive, take sanidassana-rūpa (rūpa - Sampatta:- touching, reaching, visible form); opp. anidassana physically contacting; ref. Saṅkappa:- thought; sammā- rūpa: sampatta-rūpa are three saṅkappa; syn. vitakka of the gocaraggāhika rūpas: Saṅkhāra:- volitional activity; the pasāda-rūpas of nose, mental states, mental forma- tongue and body, because tion; conditioned thing; ‘har- they touch their objects; opp. moniously working together asampatta (to produce an effect)’; BB Sampayoga:- one of the two formation; mental formation, ways of association system kammic formation; between citta and cetasika; prompting describes how the cetasikas Saññā:- perception, noting, associate with (how many) keeping in mind; cittas aññasamāna cetasika Sampayutta:- (sam/payutta) Santati:- continuity; the associated with; association physical phenomenon of the e.g. diṭṭhigata sampayutta continuous arising of matter; Saṃsedaja:- moisture-born; one of the four lakkhaṇa- (beings) born in moisture rūpas Samyoga/saṃyoga:- Santike:- near, proximate; ref. 16 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______rūpa: near matter; matters reached the first stage of which easily can be sainthood (sotāpatti), and has perceived; 12 santike rūpas firstly seen Nibbāna; one who (5 pasāda and 7 gocara); opp. has entered the stream to dure Nibbāna; the first of four Santīrana:- investigating, Noble persons checking Sotāpatti:- (sota/āpatti) Sappaṭigha:- with stream-entry; ‘magga that impingement; ref. rūpa: enters the stream to nibbāna’; impinging material first stage of sainthood, first phenomena; matters with im- experience of Nibbāna; the pingement; 12 sappaṭigha first of four noble stages rūpa (5 pasāda and 7 Su:- A particle implying gocara); opp. appaṭigha excellence Sasaṅkhārika:- prompted; Suddhaṭṭhaka:- ‘with promptitude’; (suddha/aṭṭha/ ka) pure hesitating; encouraged; opp. octad, pure group of eight; see asaṅkhārika kalāpa Sati:- mindfulness; presence of Sukha:- happiness; physical mind, wakefulness of mind; pleasant; one of the vedanā; awareness; memory; RC blest, happy; delightful, sobhana cetasika; sammā- pleasant; easy; aggreable; one sati of the jhāna factors Savana:- hearing (jhānaṅga) Sāyana:- tasting Sukhuma:- subtle; ref. rūpa: Sobhana:- beautiful, shining, subtle matter; matters which good, magnificent cannot be known easily; 16 Somanassa:- pleasure feeling; sukhuma rūpas; opp. oḷarika mental pleasant or happy fee- ling; see vedanā -T- Somanassa-sahagata:- accompanied by pleasure; Tadārammaṇa:- ‘following somanassa, sahagata the object of javana’; Sota:- ear, e.g. sota-viññāṇa; succeeding of javana; mostly stream, e.g. sotāpatti translated as ‘registration’; Sota-viññāṇa:- ear-conscious- one of the functions of cittas ness Tatiya:- third; e.g. tatiya jhāna Sotāpanna:- stream-enterer, Tatiya jhāna:- third jhāna; ref. stream-winner; one who has rūpāvacara jhāna

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Tatramajjhattatā:- equanimity; one of the Uddhacca:- restlessness; agita- appamaññā cetasika; tion, over-balancing, excite- sobhana cetasika; syn. ment, wavering, flurry; upekkhā associates with all akusala Tejo:- ‘fire-element’; the cittas; opp. samādhi element of heat or Upacaya:- initial appearance; temperature; the great the physical phenomenon of appearance of heat and cold; the initial appearance of one of the four mahābhūta; matter; one of the four see utu lakkhaṇa-rūpas Terasaka:- tri-decad, group of Upādāyarūpa:- ‘the thirteen; see kalāpa derivative’; derivative matter, Thīna:- Sloth; akusala cetasika derived material qualities; the always together with middha 24 secondary rūpa which are Thīna-middha:- ‘sloth and dependent on the four torpor’; sluggishness, somno- primary elements lence, drowsiness, sleepiness, (mahābhūta) dullness, torpor of mind or Upādinna:- ‘clung-to’; ref. body; akusala cetasika; see rūpa: matters which are the nivaraṇa result of kamma accompanied Ti:- three by craving and wrong view; Tihetuka:- (ti/hetu/ka); with 18 upādinna-rūpa (5 pasāda, ; BB triple 2 bhāva, hadaya, jīvita, 8 rooted; -citta:- avinibbhoga, ākāsa); opp. ‘consciousness associated anupādinna with three roots (hetu)’; Upekkhā:- neutral feeling, Tija:- born of three between joy and sorrow, (conditions); e.g. tija rūpa - indifferent feeling, jhānaṅga; matter born of three comp. vedanā; equanimity; conditions (citta, utu and one of the factors of āhāra) enlightenment; comp. tatra- Tipiṭaka:- (ti/piṭaka); three majjhattatā baskets (-, Suttanta- Upekkhā-sahagata:- and Abhidhamma-piṭaka); the accompanied by indifference, Pāḷi-canon accompanied by neutral feeling -U- Uppādo:- springing up; appea- 18 GLOSSARY OF MIND & MATTER ______rance, birth :- ‘The Book of Utu:- heat, temperature; comp. Analysis’; second of the tejo seven Abhidhamma books Utuja:- utu-born; utuja rūpa - Vicāra:- sustained application; matter born of heat (utu); sustained thought; investiga- material phenomena tion; examination; particular originated from temperature aññasamāna cetasika; one of the jhāna factors (jhānaṅga); -V- see vicarati Vicarati:- to walk or go about Vācā:- speech Vicikkicchā:- doubt; Vāci-viññatti:- vocal perplexity, uncertainty; intimation; material akusala cetasika phenomena of verbal Vikāra:- distinction of matter; expression; sign of the physical situation; BB mutable speech; to make other’s know material phenomena; group by sound; viññatti of five material qualities: Vatthu:- base; esp. hadaya- lahutā, mudutā, kammaññatā, vatthu - heart-base; RC and the two viññatti substance, object, thing, Vinibbhoga:- separable; matter; ref. rūpa: matter that distinct; ref. rūpa: separable is the seat of mind (6 kinds: 5 material qualities; matter pasāda and hadaya) which can be present in Vāyāmo:- Effort; endeavor, material objects or not; 20 striving; RC toil, exertion; vinibbhoga-rūpas; opp. sammā-vāyāma; see vīriya avinibbhoga Vāyo:- air-element; the element Viññāṇa:- consciousness; syn. of motion; the great citta, mano appearance of motion, Viññaṇañcayatana:- (viññā- movement or wind; one of ṇañca/āyatana); the the four mahābhūta consciousness that has Vedanā:- feeling; 5 kinds: ‘infinite viññāṇa’ as its sukha, dukkha, somanassa, object; second arūpāvacara domanassa, upekkhā; jhāna universal aññasamāna Viññatti:- intimation; material cetasika phenomena of bodily and Vi:- sense of separation, diffe- verbal expression; lit. ‘to be rence, opposition; e.g. virati; known to others’; two kinds: vipayutta kāya-viññatti (bodily intima-

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tion) and vāci-viññatti (vocal dosa; spelling also: byāpāda; intimation) Vipāka:- ‘the consciousness -Y- that is the result of kusala or akusala’; result (of kamma), :- ‘The Book of Pairs’; product, consequence, fruit, sixth of the seven retribution Abhidhamma books Vipassanā:- (vi/passanā) Yogo:- union, attachment; e.g. ‘seeing in other ways’; sampayoga insight Yutto:- yoked, joined, connec- Vippayutta:- (vi/payutta) ted, attached, possessing, dissociated from; dissociation used; e.g. sampayutta Virati:- abstinence; RC viramati: see (vi/ramati) to abstain, refrain, desist; three abstinences: abstinence from wrong speech, from wrong action and from wrong livelihood, and cultivation of right speech, action and livelihood; sobhana cetasika Vīriya/viriya:- strength, effort, energy, exertion; particular aññasamāna cetasika; factor of enlightenment; see vayāma Vitakka:- initial application; initial thought; one of the jhāna factors (jhānaṅga); particular aññasamāna cetasika; syn. saṅkappa Votthapana:- determining, se- lecting; spelling also: votthapāna, voṭṭhabbana, voṭṭhappana Vyāpāda:- ill-will; aversion, malevolence, malice, hatred, fury; one of the five hindrances (nivaraṇa); syn. 20

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