Agitated Synonym
Although it is a basic power, a shelter and a refuge of the mind, the role it plays in the drama of transition from Ignorance to Knowledge differs considerably according to the other properties of mind with which it works. Drawing distinctions, it is said: Body and feeling are the cause of zest [assadassa karana]. It is often the case that owing to a lack of proper understanding of oneself one has to try all objects before one gets to know what suits one best for the preliminary work. Who reflects on his movements and clearly comprehends states of activity and rest as taught in the commentary has his mind turned towards self-mastery. Word Formation Dokumen 13 halaman. By the words, "And for such other purposes," the following should be understood: "This yogavacara the Buddha's disciple who is endeavoring for spiritual insight contemplates just feelings and not any other thing, because he is not one who contemplates by way of the lovely the good or the desirable , after the manner of a fool who sees a gem in a bubble of water which has not the quality of a gem. Others again went on and on with the training until, at last, the two earnest ones from Lanka were left to face the calm Teacher whose evenness of mind was in no way disturbed by the recurring phenomenon of dwindling enthusiasm or numbers in those courses of hard life and abstruse thought. The sentient being is radically searched through manifold analysis to see if anything in him is unanalysable. Just as a great king of leopards concealed in the forest in grass-bush, jungle-bush or hill-thicket, seizes wild buffaloes, elks, pigs and other beasts, this bhikkhu yoking himself to the subject of meditation gains the Four Real Paths and Fruits [cattaro magge ceva ariyaphalani ganhati] one after another, in succession; and therefore the men of old said:. Consciousness is only mundane; and mundane, too, are mental objects. But the important thing to be noted here is that a just and generally accurate perception of the significance of the totality as a thing distinct from every other and possessing a character that clearly is not to be merely described or defined by the parts is the result of the team-work of the forces of wisdom and concentrated vision. As with desire he breathes in and he breathes out long breaths finer than the last, each during a long stretch of time, joy [piti] arises in him. Then he went to the Buddha with his five hundred remaining nymphs and said this to the Lord:.
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