Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

Home | Library | Dictionary index-Oobduracies,the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.).BUDDHIST DICTIONARYobhása: 'effulgence of light', aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassaná), may become a'defilement of insight' (vipassanúpakkilesa); cf. visuddhi, V.object: árammana (q.v.); as condition s. paccaya (2).obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha (q.v.); for the 5 mental obstacles, or hindrances, s. nívarana.odáta-kasina: 'white-kasina-exercise'; s. kasina.ogha: 'floods', is a name for the 4 cankers (ásava, q.v.).ojá: 'nutriment' (synonym of áhára, q.v.), is one of those 8 minimal constituent parts, or qualities, of allcorporeality, to wit: the solid, liquid, heat, motion; colour, odour, taste and nutriment. This is the 'octad withnutriment as the eighth (factor)' (ojatthamaka-kalápa), also called the 'pure eightfold unit'(suddhatthaka-kalápa), being the most primitive material combination. For further details, s. rúpa-kalápa.okkanti: 'conception', lit. 'descent', designates the appearance of the embryo in the mother's womb, i.e. thebeginning of the birth process (játi, q.v.). "Through the concurrence of 3 circumstances arises the embryo.When father and mother have united, ... and the mother has her time, and the 'genius' (metaphorically for thekarma energy) is ready; under these 3 circumstances does the embryo appear" (M. 38).old age: jará (q.v.), is one of the 3 divine messengers (s. devadúta).olfactory organ: s. áyatana.omána: 'inferiority-conceit'; s. mána.once-eater, the practice of the: s. dhutanga.one-group existence: eka-vokára-bhava (q.v.).one-pointedness of mind (citt'ekaggatá): a name for mental concentration (samádhi, q.v.).opapátika: lit. 'accidental' (from upapáta, accident; not from upapatti, as PTS Dict. has); 'spontaneouslyborn', i.e. born without the instrumentality of parents. This applies to all heavenly and infernal beings. "Afterthe disappearing of the 5 lower fetters (samyojana, q.v.), he (the Anágámi) appears in a spiritual world(opapátika) ...."open air, practice of living in the: s. dhutanga.opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' s. pahána.orambhágiya-samyojana: the 'lower fetters', i.e. the first 5 fetters that bind to lower existence; s.samyojana.origination, dependent: paticcasamuppáda (q.v.).