metta == 慈
(in the Arahat): s. hasituppa^da-citta.
rapture, enthusiasm (rendered also by joy, happiness); interest it is one of the mental factors or concomitants (cetasika) and belongs to the group of mental formations (sankha^ra-kkhandha). As, in sutta texts, it is often linked in a compound word. with ”gladness” (pa^mojja) or ”happiness” (sukha), some Western translations have wrongly taken it as a synonym of these two terms. Pi^ti, however, is not a feeling or a sensation, and hence does not belong to the feeling-group (vedana^-kkhandha), but may be described psychologically as ”joyful interest”. As such it may be associated with wholesome as well as with unwholesome and neutral states of consciousness.
A high degree of rapture is characteristic of certain stages in meditative concentration, in insight practice (vipassana^) as well as in the first two absorptions (jha^na, q.v.). In the latter it appears as one of the factors of absorption (jha^nanga; s. jha^na) and is strongest in the 2nd absorption. Five degrees of intensity in meditative rapture are described in Vis.M. IV. 94ff. It is one of the factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga, q.v.).
understanding (or r. view), r. thought, etc.: s. magga.
”living being”. This term, just like atta^, puggala, ji^va, and all the other terms denoting ”ego-entity”, is to be considered as a merely conventional term (voha^ra-vacana), not possessing any reality-value. For the impersonality of all existence. s. anatta^, paramattha, puggala, ji^va, satta, paticcasamuppa^da.
middha, s. ni^varana.
Stupa == 塔
It refers to a place where the Buddha”s true body resides.
Sutra == 經
It is a "path" necessarily passed through in the cultivation of the Way.
1.”round”, 2.”round of rebirths”.
(1) With reference to the dependent origination (paticcasamuppa^da, q.v.), Vis.M. XVII speaks of 3 rounds: the karma round (kamma-vatta) comprising the karma-formations and the karmaprocess (2nd and 10th links); the round of defilements (kilesa-vatta) comprising ignorance, craving and clinging (1st, 8th and 9th links); the round of results (vipa^ka-vatta) comprising consciousness, mind and corporeality, 6 bases, impression, feeling (3rd-7th links). Cf. paticcasamuppa^da (diagram).
(2) round of rebirth = samsa^ra (q.v.).
kasina, white-k., wind-k.: s. kasina.
- 莊春江居士編
karma (q.v.) - Right bodily a.: samma^-kammanta; s. sacca (IV.4)
anatta == 無我
and arahatta magga, phala: s. ariya-puggala.
”the unworried”, is the name of a class of deities (s. deva,) inhabiting the first of the five Pure Abodes (suddha^va^sa, q.v.), in which the Ana^ga^mi^ (q.v.) has his last rebirth.
deliverance through the perception of: cf. vimokkha (II. 3) To hold for beautiful or pure (subha) what is impure (asubha), is one of the 4 perversions (s. vipalla^sa).
ra^ga-c., dosa-c., buddhi-c., etc., are only to be met with in the Com. and Vis.M.
”nature, character”. In Vis.M. III there are explained six types of men: the greedy-natured (ra^ga-carita), the hate-natured (dosa-carita), the stupid or dull-natured (moha-carita), the faithful-natured (saddha^-carita), the intelligent-natured (buddhi-carita), the ruminating-natured (vitakka-carita). - (App.).