A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, Entitled, Dhamma-sangani (compendium of States Or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes by Caroline A. F. Rhys DavidsRoyal Asiatic Society, 1900 - 393 pages |
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Page xlix
... thinking about . And man was worth thinking about as a moral being . The physical universe was the background and accessory , the support and the ' fuel ' ( u padanam ) , of the evolution of the moral life . It was necessary to man as ...
... thinking about . And man was worth thinking about as a moral being . The physical universe was the background and accessory , the support and the ' fuel ' ( u padanam ) , of the evolution of the moral life . It was necessary to man as ...
Page lxxiv
... thinking ' ( cetana ) -of the sankhara - skandha . And ' associated with the cittam come all the rest of the constituent dhammas , both sankhāras , as well as specific modes1 or different aspects of the feeling and the thought already ...
... thinking ' ( cetana ) -of the sankhara - skandha . And ' associated with the cittam come all the rest of the constituent dhammas , both sankhāras , as well as specific modes1 or different aspects of the feeling and the thought already ...
Page lxxv
... thinking . There seems to be a breadth and looseness of implication about cittam fairly parallel \ to the popular vagueness of the English term . It is true that the Commentary does not sanction the interpretation of contact and all the ...
... thinking . There seems to be a breadth and looseness of implication about cittam fairly parallel \ to the popular vagueness of the English term . It is true that the Commentary does not sanction the interpretation of contact and all the ...
Page lxxvi
... thinking and thought or idea . When we turn to its synonym or quasi- synonym mano we find , so far as I can discover , that only activity , or else spring , source or nidus of activity , is the aspect taken . The faculty of ideation ...
... thinking and thought or idea . When we turn to its synonym or quasi- synonym mano we find , so far as I can discover , that only activity , or else spring , source or nidus of activity , is the aspect taken . The faculty of ideation ...
Page lxxix
... thinking refers or looks 1 M. i . 295 . 2 Kim patisaranam . The word is a crux , and may bear more than one meaning . Cf. Vinaya Texts ( S. B. E. xvii . ) , ii . , p . 364 , n .; ' Dialogues of the Buddha , ' i . , p . 122 , n . Dr ...
... thinking refers or looks 1 M. i . 295 . 2 Kim patisaranam . The word is a crux , and may bear more than one meaning . Cf. Vinaya Texts ( S. B. E. xvii . ) , ii . , p . 364 , n .; ' Dialogues of the Buddha , ' i . , p . 122 , n . Dr ...
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Abhidhamma abides absence of malice aloof from evil aloof from sensuous Answer arahat Arahatship arise arisen associated attain Atthakatha bad and indeterminate bodily nutriment body-sensibility born of contact Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist causally induced causes cittam co-Intoxicant cognition Commentary conception connexion consciousness cultivates dhamma Dhamma-Sangani disconnected discursive thought doctrine dulness ease ekaggata ethical evil ideas external Fetters five skandhas formless four skandhas fourfold heavens of Form Higher Ideal Hindrances ibid impingeing insight intellect Intoxicant issue of grasping Jhana karma kilesa Manual mental mind modes moral mudita Nikayas Nirvana object of thought occasion occasion-these odour omitted pañña Path perception Pitakas printed text psychological rapt meditation Rhys Davids rupam sankhāras saññā self-collectedness sensual sensuous appetites sensuous universe skandhas of feeling sphere of visible Sutta Sutta Pitaka syntheses tangible taste term tion uncompounded element Unincluded upekkha vedana Vibhanga visible form visual wisdom words worlds of sense
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Page xliv - I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
Page 353 - There is no such thing, O king, as alms or sacrifice or offering. There is neither fruit nor result of good or evil deeds. There is no such thing as this world or the next. There is neither father nor mother, nor beings springing into life without them. There are in the world no recluses or...
Page 353 - ... offering. There is neither fruit nor result of good or evil deeds. There is no such thing as this world or the next. There is neither father nor mother, nor beings springing into life without them. There are in the world no recluses or Brahmins who have reached the highest point, who walk perfectly, and who having understood and realized, by themselves alone, both this world and the next, make their wisdom known to others.
Page xxvi - Namely, that it is, in the first place, a manual or textbook, and not a treatise or disquisition, elaborated and rendered attractive and edifying after the manner of most of the Sutta Pitaka. And then, that its subject is ethics, but that the inquiry is conducted from a psychological standpoint, and, indeed, is in great part an analysis of the psychological and psycho-physical data of ethics.
Page 67 - Herein, O bhikkhus, a brother, aloof from sensuous appetites, aloof from evil ideas, enters into and abides in the First Jhana, wherein there is cogitation and deliberation, which is born of solitude and is full of joy and ease. Suppressing cogitation and deliberation, he enters into and abides in the Second Jhana, which is self-evoked, born of concentration, full of joy and ease, in that, set free from cogitation...
Page 283 - We may say, it is not required to maintain, but to reproduce, the effect, or else to counteract some force tending to destroy it. And this may be a convenient phraseology ; but it is only a phraseology. The fact remains, that in some cases (though these are a minority) the continuance of the condition!) which produced an effect is necessary to the continuance of the effect.
Page 53 - Jhana, which is self-evoked, born of concentration, full of joy and ease, in that, set free from cogitation and deliberation, ', the mind grows calm and sure, dwelling on high. And further, disenchanted with joy, he abides...
Page 70 - ... by turning the attention from any consciousness of the manifold, he enters into and abides in that rapt meditation which is accompanied by the consciousness of the sphere of unbounded space...
Page liii - Resultant modification of the mental continuum, viz., in the first place, contact (of a specific sort) ; then hedonistic result, or intellectual result, or presumably both. The modification is twice stated in each case, emphasis being laid on the mutual impact, first as causing the modification, then as constituting the object of attention in the modified consciousness of the persons affected.
Page 157 - What on that occasion is self-collectedness ? The stability, solidity, absorbed steadfastness of thought which on that occasion is the absence of distraction, balance, imperturbed mental procedure, quiet, the faculty and the power of concentration1 — this is the self-collectedness that there then is.