Recognition == 想
or Conception or Thinking. The Sanskirt word is Sanjna. It is the function of mind. It may lead to desire. One of the Five Skandhas.
of former existences: s. abhin~n~a^ 4.
s. avacara.
= cetana^, q.v.
”verbal action”; s. karma, kamma-patha.
”sceptical doubt”, is one of the 5 mental hindrances (ni^varana, q.v.) and one of the 3 fetters (samyojana, q.v.), which disappear for ever at Stream-entry, the first stage of holiness (s. ariya-puggala). As a fetter, it refers to sceptical doubt about the Master (the Buddha), the Teaching, the Sangha, and the training; about things past and future, and conditionality (Dhs. 1004; cf. A . X, 71 ) . It also applies to uncertainty whether things are wholesome or not, to be practised or not, of high or low value, etc. According to Vis.M. XIV, 177, vicikiccha^ is the lack of desire to think (things out i.e. to come to a conclusion; vigata-cikiccha^, desiderative to ? cit, to think); it has the nature of wavering, and its manifestation is indecision and a divided attitude; its proximate cause is unwise attention to matters of doubt. It is associated with one of the 2 classes of unwholesome consciousness rooted in delusion (Tab. I, No. 32). - See also kankha^.
(of Karma): a^yúhana (q.v.).
s. avacara.
”deliverance of mind”. In the highest sense it signifies the fruition of Arahatship (s. ariya-puggala), and in particular, the concentration associated with it. It is often linked with the ”deliverance through wisdom” (pan~n~a^-vimutti, q.v.), e.g. in the ten powers of a Perfect One (s. dasa-bala). See vimokkha I.
It is also called ”unshakable deliverance of mind” (akuppa-c.); further ”boundless d. of m”. (appama^na-c.);”d. of m. from the conditions of existence, or signless d. of m.” (animitta^-c.);”d. of m. from the appendages” (a^kincan~n~a-c.), since that state of mind is free from the 3 bonds, conditions and appendants, i.e. from greed, hatred and ignorance; and since it is void thereof, it is called the ”void deliverance of mind” (sun~n~ata^-c.)
In a more restricted sense, ”boundless deliverance of mind” is a name for the 4 boundless states, i.e. loving-kindness, compassion, altruistic joy and equanimity (s. brahma-viha^ra);”d. of m. from the appendages” stands for the ”sphere of nothingness” (a^kin~can~n~a^yatana s. jha^na 7);”d. of mind from the conditions of existence”, for d. of mind due to non-attention to all conditions of existence;”void d. of m” for d. of m. due to contemplating voidness of self. For further details, s. M. 43.
”consciousness-moment”, is the time occupied by one single stage in the perceptual process or cognitive series (cittavi^thi; s. vin~n~a^na-kicca). This moment again is subdivided into the genetic (uppa^da), static (thiti) and dissolving (bhanga) moment. One such moment is said in the commentaries to be of inconceivably short duration and to last not longer than the billionth part of the time occupied by a flash of lightning. However that may be, we ourselves know from experience that it is possible within one single second to dream of innumerable things and events. In A. I, 10 it is said: "Nothing, o monks, do I know that changes so rapidly as consciousness. Scarcely anything may be found that could be compared with this so rapidly changing consciousness." (App. khana).
”process of consciousness”; s. vin~n~a^na-kicca.
(expression or truth): s. desana^.
produced through consciousness, karma, etc.; s. samuttha^na. - Sensitive c.: pasa^da-rúpa. (q.v.).
abhijjha^ (q.v.); further s. kamma-patha (1).
The ”Wheel (realm) of the Law”, is a name for the doctrine ”set rolling” (established) by the Buddha, i.e. the 4 Noble Truths (sacca, q.v.).
"The Perfect One, o monks, the Holy One, fully Enlightened One, in the Deer Park at Isipatana near Benares, has set rolling (established) the unsurpassed Wheel (realm) of the Law" (M. 141). Cf. cakka.
the ”divine eye”, is one of the 6 higher powers (abhin~n~a^, q.v.), and one of the three kinds of knowledge (tevijja^, q.v.).
vippayutta-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.) .
anicca (q.v.). - Contemplation of i., cf. vipassana^ (1).