Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

Home | Library | Dictionary index-Hhabitualkarma: bahula-kamma: s. karma.BUDDHIST DICTIONARYhadaya-vatthu: 'heart as physical base' of mental life. The heart, according to the commentaries as well as tothe general Buddhist tradition, forms the physical base (vatthu) of consciousness In the canonical texts,however, even in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, no such base is ever localized, a fact which seems to have firstbeen discovered by Shwe Zan Aung (Compendium of Philosophy, pp. 277ff.). In the Patth. we findrepeatedly only the passage: "That material thing based on which mind-element and mind-consciousnesselement function" (yam rúpam nissáya manodhátu ca mano-viññána-dhátu ca vattanti, tam rúpam).hána-bhágiya-síla, h.-b.-samádhi, h.-b.-paññá: morality, concentration or wisdom connected with decline.The other three stages are: thiti-bhágiya-síla, etc. morality, etc. connected with a standstill; visesa-bhágiyasíla, etc.: morality, etc. connected with progress; nibbedha-bhágiya síla, etc.: morality, etc. connected withpenetration. Cf. A. IV, 179; VI. X, 71." 'Decline' (hána) is to be understood with regard to the arising of opposing qualities, 'standstill' (thiti) withregard to the standstill of the corresponding attentiveness, 'progress' (visesa) with regard to higher excellency,'penetration' (nibbedha) with regard to the arising of perception and reflection connected with the turningaway (from existence)" (Vis.M. III). Cf. vodána (2).happiness, feeling of h.: s. sukha. - The idea of h. (of the world), s. vipallása.happy courses of existence: s. gati.harmlessness: s. avihimsá.hasituppáda-citta: lit. 'consciousness producing mirth' (smile), is found in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha asa name for the joyful mind-consciousness element (manoviññána-dhátu, Tab. I. 72) arising as functionalconsciousness independent of karma (kiriya-citta), only in the Arahat. - (App.).hate and hatelessness: (dosa, adosa) are two of the 6 karmical roots (múla, q.v.) or root-conditions (hetu;paccaya 1).hate-rooted consciousness: s. Tab. I. (30, 31).hate-natured: dosa-carita; s. carita.health-infatuation: s. mada.hearer (disciple): sávaka (q.v.).heat-element: tejo-dhátu; s. dhátu.hell: niraya (q.v.).hetu: 'cause', condition, reason; (Abhidhamma) root-condition. In sutta usage it is almost synonymous withpaccaya, 'condition', and often occurs together with it ('What is the cause, what is the condition', ko hetu kopaccayo).In Abhidhamma, it denotes the wholesome and unwholesome roots (múla, q.v.). In that sense, as