”undistractedness”, is a synonym of concentration (sama^dhi, q.v.), one-pointedness of mind (citt”ekaggata^) and tranquillity (samatha, q.v.; further s. samatha-vipassana^).
This term in the sense of ”amoral” or ”karmically neutral”, does not occur in the old sutta texts, while it is found in Pts.M. (e.g. I, 79ff). It plays an important role in the Abh. Canon (e.g. Dhs.) and the philosophical commentaries.
lit.”indeterminate” - i.e. neither determined as karmically ”wholesome” nor as ”unwholesome” - are the karmically neutral, i.e. amoral, states of consciousness and mental factors. They are either mere karma-results (vipa^ka, q.v.), as e.g. all the sense perceptions and the mental factors associated therewith, or they are karmically independent functions (kiriya-citta, q.v.), i.e. neither karmic nor karma-resultant. See Tab. I. (App.).
morality consisting in good: abhisama^ca^rikasi^la (q.v.) .
”hatelessness”, non-ill-will, goodness; is one of the three kinds of right thought (s. sacca, IV. 2), or wholesome thoughts (vitakka, q.v.) and is the 9th of the 10 wholesome courses of actions (kammapatha II. q.v.). The most frequently used synonyms are adosa (s. múla) and metta^ (s. brahma-viha^ra).
”canker of existence”; s. a^sava.
s: a^sava.
lit.: re-becoming;”renewed existence”, is a sutta term for ”rebirth”, which, in later literature mostly is called patisandhi (q.v.). The attainment of Sainthood (arahatta), implying the end of future rebirths, is often expressed in the words: "This is the last birth. Now there is no more a renewed existence!" (natthi ”da^ni punabbhavo) (M. 26; D. 15; Therag. 87, 339; Sn. 502). - The term is often linked with abhinibbatti (”arising”).
"But how, o brother, does it come to renewed existence and arising in the future (a^yatim punabbhava^bhinibbatti)? Because beings, obstructed by ignorance and fettered by craving, find ever fresh delight now here, now there, for this reason there is renewed existence and arising in the future" (M. 43). See also S.XII. 38. Abhinibbatti also stands sometimes alone in signifying ”rebirth”, e.g. in A. VI, 61; X, 65.
Cf., in the 2nd Truth, the adj. ponobhavika, ”leading to renewed existence”.
See A. III, 76; Sn. 163, 273, 514, 733; S. VII, 12; X, 3.
”Doctrine of the Elders”, is a name of the oldest form of the Buddha”s teachings, handed down to us in the Pa^li language. According to tradition, its name is derived from the fact of having been fixed by 500 holy Elders of the Order, soon after the death of the Master.
Therava^da is the only one of the old schools of Buddhism that has survived among those which Maha^ya^nists have called ”Hinaya^na”. It is sometimes called Southern Buddhism or Pa^li Buddhism. It is found today in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Chittagong (East Bengal. ) - Cf. Guide, p. 60. - (App.). thi^na middha: ”sloth and torpor”, constitute the 3rd of the 5 hindrances (ni^varana, q.v.). They may or may not, be associated with greedy consciousness (s. Tab. 23. 25, 27, 29 and II).
This term was already used by the Buddha himself in speaking of the doctrine of a^la^ra-Ka^la^ma (s. M. 26). As a name for the Buddha”s doctrine it belongs to the commentarial literature.
s. manopavica^ra.
s. bhava, loka.
”sensuous existence”; s. bhava.
s. bhava, paticcasamuppa^da.
”the one in whom all cankers are destroyed” is a name for the Arahat, or Holy One; s. a^sava.
”determining”, defining. In its application to insight meditation, this term occurred first in Pts.M. (I, p. 53); but in a verbal form, as a past participle, already in M. 111: tyassa dhamma^ anupada-vavatthita^ honti, "these things (the mental factors) were determined by him (i.e. Sa^riputta) successively" (s. Abh. St., p. 54). In Vis.M. XX, 130, it is said: ”The determining of the truth of suffering is effected with the determining of mind-and-body in the purification of view (s. visuddhi III). The determining of the truth of origination is effected with the discerning of conditions in the purification by transcending doubt (s. visuddhi IV). The determining of the truth of the path is effected by emphasis on the right path in the purification by knowledge and vision of what is path and not-path (s. visuddhi V). Thus the determining of the 3 truths (suffering, origin, path) has been first effected by means of mundane (lokiya, q.v.) knowledge only." - See sammasana, visuddhi.
For the determining of the 4 physical elements, s. dha^tuvavattha^na.
see above.
”belief in being” (eternal personality); s. sassataditthi, ditthi.