Sunday, January 26, 2014

citta:စိတၱ (န) (တီ-ကိတ္) (√စိတ္+တ) အၾကံ။ သိတတ္ေသာ စိတ္။

citta:စိတၱ (န) (တီ-ကိတ္) (√စိတ္+တ)
အၾကံ။ သိတတ္ေသာ စိတ္။
စိေႏၲတီတိ စိတၱံ။ အာရမၼဏံ ဝိဇာနာတီတိ အေတၳာ။
 citta:'mind','consciousness','state of consciousness',is a synonym of mano (q.v.) and viññāṇa (s.khandha and Tab.1).Dhs.divides all phenomena into consciousness (citta),mental concomitants (cetasika,q.v.) and corporeality (rūpa).

In adhicitta,'higher mentality',it signifies the concentrated,quietened mind,and is one of the 3 trainings (s.sikkhā).The concentration (or intensification) of consciousness is one of the 4 roads to power (s.Iddhipāda ).

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