Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

sense stimuli; and also the physical sense-objects as impinging (or making animpact) on the sense-organs. All other corporeality is appatigha, non-reacting andnon-impinging. These 2 terms have been variously rendered as resistant and not,responding and not, with and without impact.pátiháriya: 'miracle', marvel. Three marvels are ascribed to the Buddha: the marvel of magic(iddhi-p.), the marvel of mind-reading (ádesaná-p.) and the marvel of instruction(anusásaní-p.). In D. 11, the Buddha says that he sees danger in the first two and thereforeabhors them. In A. III, 61, the 'marvel of instruction' is called the one 'more noble andsublime'. For iddhi-pátiháriya, see D. 25. See also yamakapátiháriya.patikkúla-saññá: s. káyagatá-sati.pátimokkha: 'Disciplinary Code', is the name of the code of monk's rules, which on allfull-moon and new moon days is recited before the assembled community of fully ordainedmonks (bhikkhu).See The Patimokkha, Romanized Páli text and transl. by Ñánamoli Thera(Bangkok 1966, Mahámakut Buddhist Bookshop).pátimokkha-samvara-síla: 'morality consisting in restraint with regard to the DisciplinaryCode' (Pátimokkha, s. prec.). For details, s. síla.patinissaggánupassaná: 'contemplation on abandonment', is one of the 18 kinds of insight(vipassaná q.v.). Further cf. the 16th exercise of anapana-sati (q.v.).patipadá: 1. 'Road', 'path'; for instance in dukkhanirodha-gáminí-patipadá, 'the road leadingto the extinction of suffering' (= 4th Noble Truth); majjhima-patipadá, 'the Middle Way'.2. 'Progress' (see also the foll. article). There are 4 modes of progress to deliverance: (1)painful progress with slow comprehension (dukkhá patipadá dandhábhiññá), (2) painfulprogress with quick comprehension, (3) pleasant progress with slow comprehension, (4)pleasant progress with quick comprehension. In A. IV, 162 it is said:(1) "Some person possesses by nature excessive greed, excessive hate, excessivedelusion, and thereby he often feels pain and sorrow; and also the 5 mentalfaculties, as faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom (s. indriya15-19) are dull in him; and by reason thereof he reaches only slowly the immediacy(ánantariya, q.v) to the cessation of all cankers.(2) Some person possesses by nature excessive greed, etc., but the 5 mentalfaculties are sharp in him and by reason thereof he reaches quickly the immediacyto the cessation of all cankers ....(3) "Some person possesses by nature no excessive greed, etc., but the 5 mentalfaculties are dull in him, and by reason thereof he reaches slowly the immediacy tothe cessation of all cankers ....(4) 'Some person possessess by nature no excessive greed, etc., and the mental