Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

Home | Library | Dictionary indexBUDDHIST DICTIONARY-Vvácá:'speech'. On right sp., s. magga (3), sacca (IV.3). - Low talk, s. tiracchána-kathá.vací-kamma: 'verbal action'; s. karma, kamma-patha.vací-sankhára: 'verbal karma-formation', or 'verbal function'.(1) For verbal karma-formation, s. sankhára (I. 1).(2) For verbal function (of mind), i.e. thought-conception and discursive thinking, s. sankhára (I.2).vací-viññatti: s. viññatti.vanishing, Contemplation of: vayánupassaná, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassána, q.v.).vanishing and reappearing: knowledge of the v. and r. of beings according to karma, is identical with thedivine eye (s. abhiññá 5).váritta-síla: 'morality consisting in avoiding' (evil things), as distinguished from 'morality consisting inperforming' (good things). See caritta-varitta.vasí: 'mastery'. Vis.M. IV speaks of 5 kinds of m., which anyone who wishes to develop the absorptions(jhána, q.v.) should acquire first of all, with regard to the 1st absorption, namely: mastery in adverting to it(ávajjana-vasí), in entering it (samápajjana-vasí), in determining it (adhitthána-vasí), in rising therefrom(vutthána-vasí), in retrospection (paccavekkhana-vasí). - (App.)."If wherever, whenever, and for whatever duration desired, one enters the 1st absorption, and at one'sentering it, no slowness is experienced, this is called mastery in entering the absorption, etc. In an analogousway, the 4 remaining kinds are to be explained" (Vis.M. IV, 131f; XXIII, 27ff.).vatta: 1. 'round', 2. 'round of rebirths'.(1) With reference to the dependent origination (paticcasamuppáda, q.v.), Vis.M. XVII speaksof 3 rounds: the karma round (kamma-vatta) comprising the karma-formations and thekarmaprocess (2nd and 10th links); the round of defilements (kilesa-vatta) comprisingignorance, craving and clinging (1st, 8th and 9th links); the round of results (vipáka-vatta)comprising consciousness, mind and corporeality, 6 bases, impression, feeling (3rd-7th links).Cf. paticcasamuppáda (diagram).(2) round of rebirth = samsára (q.v.).vatthu: 'physical base', i.e. the 6 physical organs on which the mental process is based, are the 5 physicalsense-organs and, according to the Com., the heart (hadaya-vatthu, q.v.) as the 6th. This 6th vatthu must notbe confounded with the 6th áyatana, which is a collective name for all consciousness whatever. - (App.).vatthu-káma: 'objective sensuality', the 5 sense-objects; s. káma.vavatthána: 'determining', defining. In its application to insight meditation, this term occurred first in Pts.M.(I, p. 53); but in a verbal form, as a past participle, already in M. 111: tyassa dhammá anupada-vavatthitá