Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

een slaughtered expressly for one's own sake)" (M. 55). For if in such a case one should partake of the meat,one would as it were approve the murder of animals, and thus encourage the animal-murderer in hismurderous deeds. Besides, that the Buddha never objected, in ordinary circumstances, to meat-eating may beclearly understood from many passages of the Suttas (e.g. A. V. 44; VIII, 12; M. 55, etc.), as also from theVinaya, where it is related that the Buddha firmly rejected Devadatta's proposal to forbid meat-eating to themonks; further from the fact that 10 kinds of meat were (for merely external reasons) forbidden to the monks,namely from elephants, tigers, serpents, etc.See Amagandha Sutta (Sn.). Early Buddhism and the Taking of Life, by I. B. Horner (WHEEL104).meditation: s. bhávaná, jhána, samádhi.mental action: mano-kamma; s. karma.mental advertence: mano-dvárávajjana; s. ávajjana.mental formation: sankhára (q.v.). s. Tab. II.mental function: citta-sankhára; s. sankhára (2).mental image: s. nimitta, kasina, samádhi.mental obduracy: ceto-khila (q.v.).merit, the 4 streams of: puñña-dhárá (q.v.). - For transference of merit, s. patti-dána.meritorious action: s. puñña, puñña-kiriya-vatthu.message, the 9-fold: of the Buddhasásana, s. sásana.messengers, the 3 divine: s. deva-dúta.method, the right: ñáya, is a name for the 8-fold path (s. magga)mettá: 'loving-kindness', is one of the 4 sublime abodes (brahma-vihára, q.v.).micchá-ditthi, -sankappa, -váca etc.: s. foll.micchá-magga, Atthangika: the 'eightfold wrong path', i.e. (1) wrong view (micchá-ditthi), (2) wrongthought (micchá-sankappa), (3) wrong speech (micchá-vácá), (4) wrong bodily action (micchá-kammanta),(5) wrong livelihood (micchá-ájíva), (6) wrong effort (micchá-váyáma), (7) wrong mindfulness(micchá-sati), (8) wrong concentration (micchá-samádhi). Just as the Eightfold Right Path (sammá-magga),so also here the 8 links are included in the group of mental formations (sankhára-kkhandha; s. khandha). Thelinks 2, 6, 7, 8, are inseparably bound up with every karmically-unwholesome state of consciousness. Oftenare also present 3, 4, or 5, sometimes link 1.micchatta: 'wrongnesses' = prec.middha: 'sloth': Combined with thína, 'torpor', it forms one of the 5 hindrances (nívarana, q.v.). Both may beassociated with greedy consciousness (s. Tab. III and I, 23, 25, 27, 29).middle path: majjhima-patipadá (q.v.).mind: mano (q.v.); cf. náma.mind and corporeality: náma-rúpa (q.v.).