Appendices

19. Appendices#

19.1. Four foundations of mindfulness and the five aggregates#

Four foundations of mindfulness

Five aggregates (arising and passing together)

Body
(kaya-nupassana)

Body / physical sensations

Body incl. sense spheres (rūpa)

Feeling
(vedana-nupassana)

Feeling (vedanā)

Mind (nāma)

Perception (sañña)

Mind states
(citta-nupassana)

Emotions

Mind objects
(dhamma-nupassana)

Thoughts / Reactions (saṅkhārā)

Consciousness

19.2. The noble eightfold path, the five faculties, the seven factors of enlightenment#

Eightfold path

Five faculties

Seven factors of enlightenment

Concentration
(samādhi)

8. right concentration

concentration

concentration / stability (6)

7. right mindfulness

mindfulness

mindfulness (1)

6. right energy / effort

energy

energy (2)

Morality
(sīla)

5. right livelihood

4. right action

3. right speech

Wisdom
(pañña)

2. right thought / intention / aim

faith

1. right view / right understanding

wisdom

investigation (3)

rapture (4)

tranquility (5)

equanimity (7)

19.3. Right concentration#

Right concentration / stability

4. jhana

pure bright awareness

3. jhana

equanimity

2. jhana

rapture, pleasure born of concentration

1. jhana

rapture, pleasure born of seclusion

19.4. Dependent origination#

:pdfpage:298 Dependent origination is not looked at as a temporal sequence, rather as conditional links arising in one moment.

1

ignorance / delusion / nonknowledge

avijjā / moha

2

conditional formation / volitional formations / intentional structures / karma

saṅkhārā

3

consciousness

viññāṇa

4

nāma-rūpa

nāma-rūpa

5

sense-bases

āyatana

6

contact

phassa

7

feeling

vedanā

8

craving (me) / aversion

taṇhā

9

clinging (mine)

upādāna

10

being (my self)

bhava

11

birth (I am)

jāti

12

aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, despair

jarā, maraṇa, soka, parideva, dukkha, domanassa, upāyāsā

19.5. Vipassana insights (vipassanā ñāṇas)#

  1. :pdfpage:299 knowledge of the difference between nāma and rūpa, nāma-rūpapariccheda-ñāṇa

  2. discerning conditions for nāma and rūpa, paccaya-pariggaha-ñāṇa

  3. comprehension by groups (the three characteristics), sammasana-ñāṇa

    corresponding to the first vipassana jhana

  4. knowledge of arising and falling away, udayabbaya-ñāṇa

    corresponding to the second vipassana jhana

    insight into path and not-path: corresponding to the third vipassana jhana

  5. knowledge of dissolution, bhanga-ñāṇa

    corresponding to the fourth vipassana jhana

  6. knowledge of terror, bhaya-ñāṇa

  7. knowledge of danger, ādīnava-ñāṇa

  8. knowledge of dispassion, nibbidā-ñāṇa

  9. knowledge of desire for deliverance, mucitukamyatā-ñāṇa

  10. knowledge of reflexion, paṭisankhā ñāṇa

  11. knowledge of equanimity about conditioned dhammas, saṅkhārupekkhā ñāṇa

  12. adaptation or conformity knowledge, anuloma ñāṇa

  13. change-of-lineage knowledge, gotrabhū ñāṇa

  14. path knowledge, magga ñāṇa

  15. fruition knowledge, phala ñāṇa

  16. reviewing knowledge, paccavekkhaṇa ñāṇa

Source: In this very Life, Sayadaw U Pandita, page 270ff. The Progress of Insight; Wisdom Wide and Deep, Shaila Catherine, page 431ff.

19.6. The four noble individuals (ariya-puggala)#

stream-enterer
(sotāpanna)
eradicates 1-3

non-returner
(anāgāmi)
fully eradicates 1–5

1. personality-belief

2. sceptical doubt

3. believe in rules & rituals

once returner
(sakadāgāmi)
weakens 3 and 4

4. sensous craving

5. ill-will

fully liberated person
(arahat)
becomes free from 6–10

6. craving for fine material rebirth

7. craving for immaterial / mind rebirth

8. conceit

9. restlessness

10. ignorance