Prepared by
Evelin Halls, DipFLC
David Ley, BBlgs, Arch
Pennie White, BA DipEd
Abhidhamma Class No. 55, 8 July 2003
Review of citta – part 2
Glossary
somanassa = mental pleasant feeling, joyful
sahagatam = together with
ditthi = view, belief, dogma, theory
samma ditthi = right doctrine, right philosophy
miccha ditthi = wrong views or hearsay
sampayutta = connected with, associated together
vippayutta = disconnected with
asankharika = spontaneous, unprompted, automatic
sasankharika = prompted by oneself or others, volitionally inactive
upekkha = indifferent or neutral feeling
eka = one
domanassa = mentally painful feeling, distress, melancholy, grief
patigha = dosa = hatred, illwill, resentment
vicikiccha = skeptical doubt about the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha and the Training
uddhacca = restlessness
hetu = mula = cause or root-condition
akusala-hetu = unwholesome roots (lobha, dosa, moha)
kusala-hetu = wholesome roots (alobha, adosa, amoha)
cakkhu-vinnana = eye-consciousness, consciousness by means of visual perception, visual cognition
sota-vinnana = ear-consciousness
ghana- vinnana = nose-consciousness
jivha-vinnana = tongue-consciousness
kaya-vinnana = body-consciousness
sampaticchana-citta = receptive-consciousness
santirana-citta = investigating-consciousness
pancadvaravajjana-citta = five-door adverting
consciousness
manodvaravajjana-citta = mind-door adverting
consciousness
hasituppada-citta = smile-producing consciousness
nana = knowledge, insight
nana-sampayuttam = associated with knowledge
nana-vippayuttam = dissociated with knowledge
vitakka = initial application that directs the mind towards the object
vicara = sustained application that examines the object again and again
piti = joy or pleasurable interests in the object
vedana = feeling, sensation
sukha = pleasant or agreeable feeling, bliss
upekkha = neutral feeling, equanimity
ekaggata = one-pointedness, samadhi (concentration)
pathama = the first
dutiya = the second
tatiya = the third
catuttha = the fourth
panca = the fifth
akasa = infinite space
vinnanancayatana = infinite knowledge
akincanna = nothingness
neva-sanna-nasannaya-tana = perception neither exists nor does not exist
vipaka = resultant
kiriya = functional
kusala = moral
Last week we reviewed “The Complete Chart on Cittas”, Appendix A: Chart No. 1, in Dr. Mehm Tin Mon’s book “The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma”. Today we will complete this review.
Dr Mehm Tin Mon explains that citta may be divided into four classes in accordance with the four planes (bhumi) or spheres (lokas) (p. 20):
1.kamavacara citta – consciousness mostly experienced in the sense sphere (kama-loka)
2.rupavacara citta – consciousness mostly experienced in the fine-material sphere (rupa-loka)
3.arupavacara citta – consciousness mostly experienced in the immaterial sphere (arupa-loka)
4.lokuttara citta – consciousness experienced in the supramundane (transcendental level).
The above four classes of citta may be called in short, kama citta, rupa citta, arupa citta and lokuttara citta.
The Pali words in today’s glossary help to understand the meaning of the symbols used in Chart No. 1. The symbols were given in order to remember citta more easily.
The glossary is compiled following the order of classification in the chart.
Now you can work out the symbols used in the chart:
Dit-Sa, Dit-Vi
A, Sa
Pati-Sam
Vici-Sam
Ud-Sam
Cak, Gha, Ka, Ti,
So, Ji, Sam
Pan-D, Hasi
Mano-Dva
Sana-Sa, Nana-Vi
Vi, Ca, Pi, Su/U Eg,
Pa, Du, Ta, Ca, Pan
Aka, Akin
Vinn, Neva
So, Da, Na, Ar
References
Davids and Stede (editors) (1979) The Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary, Pali Text Society, London.
Mon, Dr. Mehm Tin (1995), “The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma”, Mehm Tay Zar Mon, Yangon.
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