lit.”working-ground” (i.e. for meditation), is the term in the Com. for ”subjects of meditation”; s. bha^vana^.
vipa^ka (q.v.).
”sensuality considered as defilement” (s. kilesa) might well be called ”subjective sensuality”, in contradistinction to ”objective sensuality” (vatthu-ka^ma), i.e. the sensuous objects (ka^ma-guna). Cf. ka^ma.
s. kasina.
”greedy-natured”, s. carita.
s. nimitta, kasina, sama^dhi.
mano-dha^tu (q.v.).
(of existence): s. marana.
one of the 13 dhutanga (q.v.).
”blue-kasina exercise” s. kasina.
s. viha^ra.
s. avihimsa^.
”miracle”, marvel. Three marvels are ascribed to the Buddha: the marvel of magic (iddhi-p.), the marvel of mind-reading (a^desana^-p.) and the marvel of instruction (anusa^sani^-p.). In D. 11, the Buddha says that he sees danger in the first two and therefore abhors them. In A. III, 61, the ”marvel of instruction” is called the one ”more noble and sublime”. For iddhi-pa^tiha^riya, see D. 25. See also yamakapa^tiha^riya.
”natural or genuine morality”, is distinct from those outward rules of conduct laid down for either laymen or monks. Those later are the so-called ”prescribed morality” (pan~n~a^ttisi^la). Cf. si^la.
s. sikkha^pada.
”full Nibba^na”, is a synonym for Nibba^na; this term, therefore, does not refer exclusively to the extinction of the 5 groups of existence at the death of the Holy One, though often applied to it. Cf. nibba^na.
”sensitive corporeality”, is a name for the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf. a^yatana.
ahetu-, dvihetu-, and tihetu-p.: are purely commentarial terms. For patisandhi-citta, s. citta-vi^thi.