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tongue-consciousness, 366
tongue-sensitive element, 360
teachers, necessity for
accuracy of discernment and, 238
developing these practices, 4, 291, 296, 330, 453, 467
teaching stories
on the appropriateness of the field of action, 46
on balanced effort, 36–37
the Buddha, on the four kinds of horses, 184
on cause and effect, 325
causes of experience, 326–27
community, widening your sense of, 152
compactness of continuity, 207–8
on compassion, 153–54
dangers that are just enough, 14
hindrances, working with as a gardener, 14
the king and the local craftsmen, 141
the land-finding crow, 453
mindfulness, concentration, and effort, 48
monks in the forest with mischievous spirits, 147
on the nimitta, 70
paying attention, canine obedience class, 11
Sariputta on mastery of mind, 24–25
stability of the peaked roof house, the Buddha on, 52
suffering and loving-kindness, 149–50
on taking responsibility for our desires and distractions, 466
a tiger’s patience, a spider’s diligence, 35–36
See also metaphors; similes
temperament of the meditator, 130, 230, 296
temperature-produced materiality
fire element, as the cause of, 339
glimpsing, in the threshold between lifetimes, 333, 348
meditation instruction
analyzing the dynamics of matter, 247–49
highlighting matter arising from temperature, 420–21
in repulsive meditations, 413
tender knowledge of arising and passing away, 436–37, 445
terror, appearance as, 447–48
thinking and thoughts
letting go of, 21–22
mastering your mind, 23–26
two kinds of, 51
wholesome thoughts, the Buddha on, 50–51
See also mind; restlessness and worry (uddhaccakukkucca)
thirty-two parts of the body
external parts, meditation instructions on, 106–9
internal parts, meditation instructions on, 105–6
jhāna potential of, as meditation subject, 197
as meditation subject, 102–5
thoroughness, skill in (sakkaccakāri kusala), 198
three characteristics. See characteristics, three
threshold between lifetimes, 333, 348
time
contemplating, 415–16
meditation instruction, contemplating phenomena in incremental time periods
highlighting materiality that arises from kamma, 421
highlighting materiality that is associated with happiness, 421–22
highlighting matter arising from nutriment, 419–20
highlighting matter arising from temperature, 420–21
highlighting natural materiality, 422–23
highlighting that materiality disappears stage by stage, 417–19
highlighting that materiality is born and dies, 416–17
working with, in meditative exercises, 332
See also future; past
tongue base, 238, 239
tongue-consciousness (jivhāviññāṇa), 316, 366
tongue decad kalāpas, 237, 239–40
tongue door, 243, 349
tongue-sensitive element (jivhāpasāda), 221, 360
torpor. See sloth and torpor (thīnamiddha)
tranquility (passaddhi)
of associated mental factors (kāyapassaddhi), 376
calming the mind, when it becomes overenthusiastic, 57
of consciousness (cittapassaddhi), 376
as one of the ten imperfections, 442–43
See also calmness (samatha)
translucent body, 234
trust
contemplation of objects worthy of, to enhance faith, 33
faith and, 31, 32–33
of the methodical approach, 128
of your intentions, mettā and, 151
truth
of impermanence, 190, 392, 435, 436
the knowledge of conformity with, 431, 454, 460
twelve characteristics of matter, 226–30
twenty-eight types of material phenomena (rūpa), 221, 236–38
U
The Udana, quotations from, 101, 215
ultimate materiality, discernment of, 209, 220, 230–36, 400–401, 413, 420, 423, 436, 481n183
ultimate reality
absorption based on, 139
characteristics of, 398
contemplation of, 426
four ultimate realities, 216–18
ignorance and, 384
nibbāna as, 455
unconditioned element, 216, 217, 398, 399, 453, 455, 457
See also nibbāna
understanding, full. See clear comprehension (sampajañña)
unification of mind, 47, 49, 80, 117
See also concentration (samādhi)
universal factors
beautiful universal factors, nineteen, 258
beautiful universals, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 374–78
ethically variable universals, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 371–72
mental components of all conscious processes, eight, 257
mental factors, four unwholesome, 257
unwholesome, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 380–81
See also specific universal factors
unreal materiality. See nonconcrete materialities
unsatisfactoriness (dukkha). See suffering (dukkha)
unspecified categories of beings
in equanimity practice, 176
in mettā practice, 166
unwholesome states and factors
applications of energy/effort, 38
formations that comprise the impulsion consciousness of, 275–77
fourteen, table of, 256
meditation instruction, observing mind-body responses, 259–61
mental factors, and the quality of lived experience, 253–54
occasionals, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 381–83
occasional unwholesome factors, ten, 257
universal mental factors, four, 257
universals, and the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 380–81
unwholesome five-door cognitive processes, mental formations in, 282–84
See also specific unwholesome states
upacāra samādhi. See neighborhood concentration (upacāra samādhi)
upekkhā. See equanimity (upekkhā)
uprightness (ujukatā)
arising with tranquility, 442–43
of consciousness and associated mental factors, the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 378
urgency, sense of
the Buddha, on the four kinds of horses, 184
necessity for, and equanimity, 443–44
spiritual urgency, death and, 41, 57, 181–90
urine, as focus for yellow kasiṇa, 122–23
V
verbal intimation (vacāviññatti), 246, 362–63
verified faith, 32–33
vicāra. See sustained application (vicāra)
vicikicchā. See skepticism (vicikicchā)
view, right, 456
views, wrong. See wrong views (diṭṭhi)
The Vimuttimagga
on access concentration, 77
definition of kasiṇa, 117
on the white kasiṇa, 118–19
vipassanā (insight)
disenchantment, detachment, and dispassion, 398–99
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sp; impermanence (anicca), characteristic of, 391–94
insight, deepening, 407–8
insight, flashes of, 399–400
insight, repelled toward, 408, 412–13
meditation instruction
contemplating jhāna factors as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 404–5
contemplating material and mental phenomena as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 402–3
contemplating phenomena one by one, 401–2
contemplating the bases and elements as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 405–7
contemplating the characteristic of materiality, 400–401
contemplating the five aggregates as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self, 403–4
contemplating the repulsiveness of animate material phenomena, 413–15
contemplating the repulsiveness of inanimate material phenomena, 412–13
focus on mentality through seven exercises, 424–28
forty ways of viewing phenomena with the three characteristics, 408
meditation techniques, as countering misperceptions, 396–97
not-self (anattā), characteristic of, 394–96
objects for, 390–91
objects for, and four elements meditation, 216, 218, 251–52
origins of term, 389
phenomena, contemplating in incremental time periods, 415–23
phenomena, ephemeral nature of, 423–24
suffering (dukkha), characteristic of, 394
See also insight
virtue
and the divine abodes as meditation subjects, 159
and generosity, reflection of, 34
visible object (vaṇṇa), 359, 360
Visuddhimagga, quotations from
anger, 20
balanced effort, 36–37
the base of nothingness, 140
the breath, 68
cultivating equanimity as a jhāna practice, 173–74
the desire for deliverance, 450
disenchantment, 449
the kasiṇas, 129
the knowledge of appearance as terror, 447
learning from others’ mistakes, 38
the object of mettā practice, 163
path knowledge, 457
seeing formations as danger, 448
the state of neither-perception-nor-nonperception, 142
story of the king and local craftsmen, 141
on vicāra, 63–64
vitakka (initial application of the mind)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 372
in the first jhāna, and absent in the second, 83
first jhāna factor, directing the attention to the breath, 63, 67
subsiding of, upon establishing the second jhāna, 80–81
vocal intimation. See verbal intimation (vacāviññatti)
void (suññyata)
of all conditioned formations, nibbāna as, 455
of a self, 411, 452
and space, understanding, 136–37
voidness liberation of mind, 454
volitional formations
and the arising and perishing of causes and effects, 440
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 371, 384
coming into being, with ignorance, 315–16
as link in dependent arising, 314, 337
W
water element (āpodhātu)
body parts and, 250
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 358
as concrete materiality, 221, 358
properties of, 219, 222–23, 229
water kasiṇa, 126, 132
white kasiṇa, 117–20, 123, 131
wholesome kamma, 350
wholesome states and factors
applications of energy/effort, 38–40
associated with jhāna, discerning mental factors and, 263
attention to repulsiveness and, 110
cultivation of, 39
loving-kindness and, 149
meditation instruction, observing mind-body responses, 259–61
mental factors, and the quality of lived experience, 253–54
wholesome five-door cognitive processes, mental formations in, 279–81
wholesome mind-door cognitive processes, mental formations in, 285–87
See also specific wholesome states
wieldiness, as nonconcrete materiality, 236, 246, 363
wind element (vāyodhātu)
bodily intimation and, 246, 362
body parts and, 250
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 359
as concrete materiality, 221
properties of, 219, 224–25
wind kasiṇa, 127, 132
wisdom (paññā)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 380
the faculty of, 50–52
as one of the fifty-two mental factors, 259
quotation from The Dhammapada, 389
wisdom, light of. See light of wisdom (paññāloka)
workability (kammaññatā)
arising with tranquility, 442–43
of associated mental factors, the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 377
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 363
of consciousness, the characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate causes of, 377
as mental factor, 256, 258, 283, 286, 291, 377
as mental formation, 262, 273, 281
as nonconcrete materiality, 221, 363
worry (kukkucca), 21, 27, 256, 276, 383, 461
See also restlessness and worry (uddhaccakukkucca)
wrongdoing
shamelessness of wrongdoing (ahirika), 256, 257, 276, 380, 461
shame of wrongdoing (hiri), 256, 262, 272, 280, 283, 286, 374, 379
wrong views (diṭṭhi)
characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause of, 381
removing, meditative exercise for, 427–28
role of, in exploring dependent arising, 328
Y
yellow kasiṇa, 122–23, 131
About the Author
SHAILA CATHERINE began her meditation practice in 1980 and has accumulated eight years of intensive silent retreat experience. For nearly a decade, Shaila studied with masters in India, Nepal, and Thailand. Since 2003, she has focused on using the deep concentration of jhāna as the basis for insight, and since 2006, her practice has been guided by the teachings of Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw of Burma (Myanmar). Shaila has taught meditation since 1996, and in 2006 she founded Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Mountain View, California. She authored Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity (2008), and she leads retreats and courses on the cultivation of concentration and mindfulness-based insight practices internationally.
Insight Meditation South Bay
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