[I. INTRODUCTORY]“When a wise man, established well in virtue, Develops consciousness and understanding,Then as a bhikkhu ardent and sagaciousHe succeeds in disentangling this tangle” (S I 13).This was said. But why was it said? While the Blessed One was
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“When a wise man, established well in virtue, Develops consciousness and understanding,Then as a bhikkhu ardent and sagaciousHe succeeds in disentangling this tangle” (S I 13).This was said. But why was it said? While the Blessed One was living at Sāvatth[I. INTRODUCTORY]99%
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[II. VIRTUE]16.However, even when this path of purification is shown in this way under the headings of virtue, concentration and understanding, each comprising various special qualities, it is still only shown extremely briefly.And so since that is insuff1. Sīlaniddeso99%
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39 . vi. The bowl-food-eater’s practice is undertaken with one of the following statements:“I refuse a second vessel” or “I undertake the bowl-food-eater’s practice.”When at the time of drinking rice gruel, the bowl-food eater gets curry that is put in a2. Dhutaṅganiddeso4%
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14 . 10. In the first of the tetrads there is concentration of difficult progress and sluggish direct-knowledge.There is that of difficult progress and swift directknowledge.There is that of easy progress and sluggish direct-knowledge.And there is that o3. Kammaṭṭhānaggahaṇaniddeso9%
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Herein, these are the five kinds of mastery: mastery in adverting, mastery in attaining, mastery in resolving (steadying the duration), mastery in emerging, and mastery in reviewing."He adverts to the first jhāna where, when, and for as long as, he wishes4. Pathavīkasiṇaniddeso2%
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1.[197] Now, ten recollections were listed next after the ten kinds of foulness (III.105). As to these:Mindfulness (sati) itself is recollection (anussati) because it arises again and again; or alternatively, the mindfulness (sati) that is proper (anurūpa7. Chaanussatiniddeso17%
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59.So when this meditator develops the mind-deliverance of loving-kindness through any one of these kinds of absorption, he obtains the eleven advantages described in the way beginning, “A man sleeps in comfort” (§37).60.Herein, sleeps in comfort means th9. Brahmavihāraniddeso3%
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All these elements are “instances of materiality” (rūpāni) because they do not exceed the characteristic of “being molested” (ruppana).They are “great primaries” (mahābhūta) by reason of “great manifestation,” and so on.“By reason of ‘great manifestation,11. Samādhiniddeso5%