Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

thinking, wisdom based on: cintámayapaññá: s. paññá.thiti-bhágiya-síla, -samádhi, -paññá: 'static morality, static concentration, static wisdom'; s.hána-bhágiya-síla.thought, thought-conception: s. vitakka.thought, Right: sammá-sankappa; .s. sacca, magga.ties, the 4: gantha (q.v.).ti-hetu-patisandhika: s. patisandhi.ti-lakkhana: the '3 charactcristies of existence', or signata, are impermanency (anicca, q.v.), suffcring ormisery (dukkha, q.v.; s. sacca, dukkhatá), not-self (anattá, q.v.)."Whether Perfect Ones appear in the world, or whether Perfect Ones do not appear in the world, it stillremains a firm condition, an immutable fact and fixed law: that all formations are impermanent, that allformations are subject to suffering, that everything is without a self'' (A. III, 134)."What do you think, o monks: Is corporeality (rúpa) permanent or impermanent? - Impermanent, o VenerableOne. - Are feeling (vedaná), perception (saññá), mental formations (sankhára) and consciousness (viññána),permanent or impermanent? - Impermanent, o Venerable One."But that which is impermanent, is it something pleasant or painful? - It is painful, o Venerable One."But, of what is impermanent, painful and subject to change, could it be rightly said, 'This belongs to me, thisam I, this is my ego'? - No, Venerable One."'I'herefore, whatever there is of corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness,whether past, present or future, one's own or external, gross or subtle, lofty or low, far or near, of all thesethings one should understand, according to reality and true wisdom: 'This does not belong to me, this am Inot, this is not my ego' " (S. XXII, 59)."In one who understands eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and all the remaining formations as impermanent,painful and not-self, in him the fetters (samyojana, q.v.) are dissolved" (S. XXXV, 53).It is the full comprehension of the 3 characteristics by direct meditative experience which constitutesliberating insight. About their relation to the three gateways ot liberation', s. vimokkha I .For further details, s. anicca, dukkha, anattá, vipassaná.Literature: The Three Signata, by Prof. O. H. de A. Wijesekera (WHEEL 20). - The Three BasicFacts of Existence: I-III (WHEEL BPS), Vis.M. XX, 13ff. 18ff; XXI, 47f, 67f.ti-pitaka: ' T he Three Bascets', is the name for the 3 main divisions of the Páli Canon: the Basket ofDiscipline (Vinaya Pitaka), the Basket of Discourses (Sutta Pitaka) and the Basket ot Philosophy(Abhidhamma Pitaka).tiracchána-kathá: 'low talk', lit. 'beastly talk', is the name in the sutta-texts for the following: "Talk aboutkings and robbers, ministers and armies, danger and war, eating and drinking, clothes and dwellings, garlandsand scents, relations, chariots, villages and markets, towns and districts, women and heroes, street talks, talksby the well, talk about those departed in days gone by, tittle-tattle, talks about world and sea, about gain andloss" (A.X, 69 etc.).In the commentaries 4 further kinds are enumerated, thus bringing the number to 32, as mostly counted,namely: talk about sensuous enjoyment, self-mortification, eternity and self-annihilation.