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livelihood, 48, 256, 258, 287, 379, 462
lobha. See greed (lobha)
loving-kindness (mettā)
as an immeasurable deliverance of mind, 159
categories of beings for mettā practice, 160–62, 165–69
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 375
the kind heart, 148–49
meditation instruction
breaking down the boundaries, 165–66
a good start each day, 150–51
radiating kindness for all beings, 167–69
overcoming fears, story of the Buddha’s guidance, 147–48
phrases for mettā practice, 150–51, 160, 163–65
potential dangers of, 176–78
as the subject of jhāna concentration, 162–65
understanding, 149–50, 177
universal friendliness to all, 166–67
wide community, little moments with, 152–53
luck of others, acknowledging. See appreciative joy (muditā)
lust
abandoning, with repulsive meditations, 199
antidote to, 108
sensory experience and, 16–17
See also sensual desire (kāmacchanda)
M
Majjhima Nikāya, quotations from, 95, 309
malleability (mudutā)
arising with tranquility, 442–43
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 363
of consciousness, 377
māna. See conceit (māna)
manifestation (paccupaṭṭhāna)
meditation instruction, defining phenomena by characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause, 356–58
understanding, 355
masculinity faculty (purisabhāva indriya), 221, 361
mass, the compactness of (samūhaghana), 210–11
material base, 337, 338, 339
material groups. See rūpa kalāpas
material jhānas. See jhānas, four material
material phenomena (rūpa)
arising with mental phenomena, 264–65
meditation instruction
contemplating material and mental phenomena as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 402–3
contemplating the repulsiveness of inanimate material phenomena, 412–13
twenty-eight types of, 221, 236–38
See also specific material phenomena
matter, nonconcrete
matter, sensitive, 221
matter or materiality (rūpa)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 385
concrete (See concrete materialities (nipphannarūpa))
knowledge of, as one of the ten imperfections, 442
the knowledge of analyzing materiality, 430, 432
as link in dependent arising, 316–17, 350–51, 352
meditation instruction
analyzing the dynamics of matter, 247–49
contemplating the characteristics of materiality, 400–401
the disadvantages of materiality, 135–36
identifying the four elements through twelve characteristics, 226–30
observing mind-body responses, 259–61
a world of matter, 251–52
meditation instruction, contemplating phenomena in incremental time periods
materiality is born and dies, 416–17
materiality is disappearing stage by stage, 417–19
materiality that is associated with happiness, 421–22
matter arising from nutriment, 419–20
matter arising from temperature, 420–21
natural materiality, 422–23
momentary existence of, discerning, 210
nonconcrete (See nonconcrete materialities)
as one of the five aggregates, 296–97
primary past and present causes of, 338–39
subtle material formations of, 230–32
surmounted by the immaterial jhānas, 133–34
three present causes, at conception, 336
twelve characteristics of, 226
unsatisfactory nature of, 252
See also four elements meditation; rupās
mature knowledge of arising and passing away, 446
meditation
discomfort during, 204
instructions, list of, vii–ix
seven exercises emphasizing seeing the impermanence of the meditating phenomena, 424–28
subtle pleasure of, 17
“warming up” with loving-kindness practice, 149
See also specific meditations
meditation objects
and balanced awareness, 58–59
choosing, as support for concentration, 56
concentration beyond the breath, 95–99
intensifying factors (jhāna factors), 62–67
the single object, importance of, 72–73
skill in suitability, 199
thirty-two parts practice, 103–9
for vipassanā, 390–91
See also specific meditation objects
meditation subjects
boundless intentions and, 176–78
breathing, as foremost, 97
choosing, 56, 97–98
deepening practice, 96
the divine abodes, 159
the immaterial jhānas, 145
jhāna potential of, 197
skill in the range, 195–96
ten kasiṇas as, 131
unique qualities of, 2
See also specific meditation subjects
memories
indulgence in, 23
narrative thought and, 207
mental brightness. See brightness, mental
mental components of all conscious processes, eight universal, 257
mental concepts. See conceptualization
mental factors
causal relationships and, 327
in the cognitive series, 266
concentration and, 60
development of the first four jhānas, 134
the fifty-two mental factors, 255–59, 265
first four jhānas and, 134
meditation instruction, observing mind-body responses, 259–61
torpor, as diminishment of, 20
See also controlling faculties or controlling functions (indriya); specific mental factors
mental formations (saṅkhāra)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 371–83
at conception, 334–36
first jhāna cognitive process with associated mental formations, 272–73
formations that comprise the impulsion consciousness of unwholesome mental states, 275–77
impulsion consciousnesses and registration consciousnesses, 274
as link in dependent arising, 351
meditation instruction
discerning mental formations characteristic of jhāna, 261–64
discerning the sense-sphere cognitive process, 288–90
in mind-door adverting consciousness, 278
in the mind-moment sequence, 265, 269
as one of the five aggregates, 299
present in jhāna, 271
in unwholesome five-door cognitive processes, 282–84
in wholesome five-door cognitive processes, 279–81
in wholesome mind-door cognitive processes, 285–87
mentality (nāmas)
causes that produce mentality, 335–36, 339
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 384
characteristics of, 270
and discerning the jhāna factors, 263–64
knowledge, as one of the ten imperfections, 442
the knowledge of analyzing mentality, 430, 432
as link in dependent arising, 316–17, 352
meditation instruction
a real world, 290–91
removal of wrong views, conceit, and crav
ing, 427–28
meditation instruction, focus on mentality through the seven exercises
highlighting a series of four meditating minds, 426
highlighting a series of ten meditating minds, 426–27
highlighting the meditating mentality as a whole group, 424–25
highlighting the meditating mentality that occurs in each of the seven separate methods, 425
mentality, ultimate
choiceless awareness, distinguishing from the wandering mind, 293–94
the cognitive process, 264–65
cognitive series, overview of, 266–69
decision-making angst, untangling, 292
fifty-two mental factors, 255–59
first jhāna cognitive process with associated mental formations, 272–73
gathering objects for insight meditation, 253–55
as link in dependent arising, 350–51
meditation instruction
discerning mental formations characteristic of jhāna, 261–64
discerning the jhāna cognitive process, 269–70
discerning the mind-door cognitive process, 277–78
discerning the sense-sphere cognitive process, 288–90
observing mind-body responses, 259–61
a real world, 290–91
mental formations
present in jhāna, 271
that comprise the impulsions consciousness of unwholesome mental states, 275–77
in unwholesome five-door cognitive processes, 282–84
in wholesome five-door cognitive processes, 279–81
in wholesome mind-door cognitive processes, 285–87
mind-door cognitive processes, 273–74
sense-sphere cognitive process, 279–94
mentality-materiality
as cause for the arising of mentality, 352
as interdependent with consciousness, 316, 350–51
and the six sense bases, 351
mental lightness, 479n110
mental objects, mindfulness of, 44–45
See also specific mental objects
mental patterns, penetrating, 291–92
mental phenomena, contemplating as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 402–3
mental states, 44, 259–61
See also mental factors
metaphors
adding salt to a lake, 151
the Buddha, on freedom from the five hindrances, 27–28
on Dhamma practice, 429–30
for entering the experience of nibbāna, 453
on recognizing phenomena and the desire for release, 451
the Visuddhimagga on the subtlety of state of neither-perception-nor-nonperception, 142–43
See also similes; teaching stories
mettā. See loving-kindness (mettā)
mind
in absence of the five hindrances, 26–28
calming, when it becomes overenthusiastic, 57
comparing mind, 203–5
encouraging, when progress is slow or painful, 57–58
focusing attention on, via the heart base, 81–82
immeasurable deliverance of, loving-kindness as, 159
meditation instruction, observing mind-body responses, 259–61
patterns of, penetrating, 291–92
powerful, the five spiritual faculties and, 52
wandering mind vs. choiceless awareness, 293–94
mind-and-matter
mind-consciousness, 73, 316, 344–45
mind door (manodvāra)
and analyzing real materialities, 239
description of, 81
at the heart base, directing attention to, 82, 83, 88, 167, 193, 261, 269
sixty-three rūpas of, 245
mind-door adverting consciousness (manodvārāvjjana), 270, 274, 278, 344, 368, 404, 425
mind-door cognitive processes
engagement in, 273–74
meditation instruction
causal relationships in mind-door cognitive processes, 344–45
discerning the mind-door cognitive process, 277–78
mind-door objects, arising of, 268
phases of, 274
variable consciousnesses in, 267
wholesome, mental formations in, 285–87
mindfulness (sati)
of the body, 43, 101–2
with breathing, developing concentration through, 97
with breathing plus counting, meditation instruction, 9–11
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 374
and clear comprehension, 45–47
of death, 182–84
four foundations of, 43–45
living mindfully, thoughts and, 22, 26
as mental factor, 42–43
as potentially one of the ten imperfections, 443
mind-moments
description of, 266
objects of consciousness in, 333–34
See also specific mind-moments
“mine-making,” 211, 302, 303, 306
momentary arising and perishing, 437, 438–39
See also arising and passing away
morality, 469
See also virtue
muditā. See appreciative joy (muditā)
multitasking, 264
N
nāma rūpa, 384
See also matter or materiality (rūpa); mentality (nāmas)
name (nāma). See mentality (nāmas)
near-death process, 333, 346–49
neighborhood concentration (upacāra samādhi)
and the body meditations, 115
and the practice of discerning the thirty-two body parts, 109
as the threshold of jhāna, 76–77, 197
neither-perception-nor-nonperception
base of (eighth jhāna), 140–43
as meditation subject, 145
See also jhāna, eighth (base of neither-perception-nor-nonperception)
neutrality of mind. See evenness of mind
See also equanimity (upekkhā)
nibbāna
cognitive process that takes nibbāna as object, 460
description of, 455
as indescribable, 399
and the knowledge of change of lineage, 455
and the knowledge of conformity with truth, 454
and the knowledge of equanimity toward formations, 453–54
the path knowledge, 455–59
reviewing, 462
and the sixteen knowledges, 430, 431, 449
nīla kasiṇa, 122, 123, 131
nimitta (counterpart sign)
as compared to kasiṇas, 129
and entering the first jhāna, 78
of the fifth immaterial jhāna, 138
of the four immaterial jhānas, 134
and the object of attention, 72
question of the necessity of, 71–72
reflection of, when attending to the heart area, 82
of repulsiveness, 111–12
seeing, meditation instruction, 70–71
and skill in the object, 195
understanding, 67–69
the white nimitta, 118–20
noble individual, 455–59
noble path, 455–59
nonad kalāpas, 237, 240, 241, 248, 249
nonconcrete materialities
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 362–64
meditation instruction, analyzing nonreal, nonconcrete materialities, 246
ten types of, 221, 236–37
See also specific types of nonconcrete materialities
nondelusion (amoha), 259
nongreed (alobha), 374–75
nonhatred (adosa), 375
nonopposing characteristics, eight
discerning, 232
nonreal materialities. See nonconcrete materialities
nonreturner, 456, 458
nonself. See not-self (anattā)
nose base, 238, 2
39, 240
nose-consciousness (ghānaviññāṇa), 360, 361, 366
nose decad kalāpas, 237, 239
nose door, 81, 243, 343, 349, 350
nose-sensitive element (ghānapasāda), 221, 239, 359–60
nothingness
base of (seventh jhāna), 134, 139–40
and the base of neither-perceptionnor-nonperception, 140, 141, 142
as meditation subject, 145, 197
See also jhāna, seventh (base of nothingness)
not-self (anattā)
the characteristic of, 394–96
meditation instruction
contemplating material and mental phenomena as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 402–3
contemplating the bases and elements as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 405–7
contemplating the characteristics of materiality, 401
contemplating the five aggregates as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 403–4
meditative investigation into, 304–6
nourishment. See nutriment materiality (ojārūpa)
nutriment materiality (ojārūpa)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 362
meditation instruction, contemplating phenomena in incremental time periods, highlighting matter arising from nutriment, 419–20
nutritive essence
function of, 212
octad kalāpas, 237
O
objective phenomena, 221
objects
compactness of object (ārammaṇaghana), 213–14
of consciousness, in previous lifetimes, 333–34
and development of the four immaterial jhānas, 134
nibbāna as object, and the knowledge of conformity with truth, 454, 455
skill in the object (ārammaṇa kusala), 195
See also meditation objects
obstacles, 11–14, 35, 254
See also hindrances, five
occasional factors
ethically variable factors, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 372–74
occasional mental factors, six, 257
unwholesome, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 381–83
unwholesome factors, ten, 257
octad kalāpas, 237, 240, 247, 248–49
odor (gandha)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 361
as material phenomena, 221, 236, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245
nose-consciousness and, 366
rūpa kalāpas, discerning the smell of, 239
once-returner, 456, 458
one-pointedness. See ekaggatā (one-pointedness)
P
Pa-Auk Monastery, 218, 476n6
Pa-Auk Sayadaw, Venerable
the limited-space kasiṇa, 128
the nimitta, 72
on objects, as obstacles or assets to concentration, 254
practices, order of instruction for, 129–30, 226