Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

consciousness.(6) "There are beings ... reborn in the sphere of boundless consciousness. This is the 6th abode ofconsciousness.(7) There are beings... reborn in the sphere of nothingness. This is the 7th abode ofconsciousness"About the 3 last-named spheres, s. jhána (5-7). Cf. sattávása.In D. 33 there are mentioned 4 viññána-tthiti, apparently in the sense of 'bases' of consciousness, namely:corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations, which in S. XXII, 53 are further explained.viññatti: (lit. 'making known') 'intimation', is an Abhidhamma term for bodily expression (káya-viññatti) andverbal expression (vací-viññatti), both belonging to the corporeality-group. They are produced by theco-nascent volition, and are therefore, as such, purely physical and not to be confounded with karma (q.v.),which as such is something mental. Cf. Kath. 80, 100, 101, 103, 194 (s. Guide V). - (App.)."One speaks of 'bodily expression', because it makes known an intention by means of bodily movement, andcan itself be understood by the bodily movement which is said to be corporeal." 'Verbal expression' is so called because it makes known an intention by means of a speech-produced noise"(Vis.M. XIV).vipacitaññu (or vipañcitaññu): 'one who realizes the truth after explanation.' Thus is called one who realizesthe truth only after detailed explanation of that which already had been said to him in a concise form. Cf.ugghatitaññu.vipáka: 'karma-result', is any karmically (morally) neutral mental phenomenon (e.g. bodily agreeable orpainful feeling, sense-consciousness, etc. ), which is the result of wholesome or unwholesome volitionalaction (karma, q.v.) through body, speech or mind, done either in this or some previous life. Totally wrong isthe belief that, according to Buddhism, everything is the result of previous action. Never, for example, is anykarmically wholesome or unwholesome volitional action the result of former action, being in reality itselfkarma. On this subject s. tittháyatana, karma, Tab. I; Fund II. Cf. A. III, 101; Kath. 162 (Guide, p. 80).Karma-produced (kammaja or kamma-samutthána) corporeal things are never called kamma-vipáka, as thisterm may be applied only to mental phenomena.vipáka-paccaya: 'karma-result condition' is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).vipallása: 'perversions' or 'distortions'. - ''There are 4 perversions which may be either of perception(saññá-vipallása), of consciousness (citta v.) or of views (ditthi-v.). And which are these four? To regardwhat is impermanent (anicca) as permanent; what is painful (dukkha) as pleasant (or happiness-yielding);what is without a self (anattá) as a self; what is impure (ugly: asubha) as pure or beautiful'' (A. IV, 49). - SeeManual of Insight, by Ledi Sayadaw (WHEEL 31/32). p.5."Of the perversions, the following are eliminated by the 1st path-knowledge (sotápatti): the perversions ofperception, consciousness and views, that the impermanent is permanent and what is not a self is a self;further, the perversion of views that the painful is pleasant, and the impure is pure. By the 3rdpath-knowledge (anágámitá) are eliminated: the perversions of perception and consciousness that the impureis pure. By the 4th path-knowledge (arahatta) are eliminated the perversions of perception and consciousnessthat the painful is pleasant" (Vis.M. XXII, 68).viparinámánupassaná: 'contemplation of change' (of all things), is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight(vipassaná, q.v.).