Liberation of heart

cetovimutti

Threshold & awakening Building on it Stage 8 of 8

The heart's liberation from greed and hate, often named together with liberation by wisdom (paññāvimutti); as "unshakable" (akuppā) it is the one thing to be realised named in DN 34.

On the path: 8 · Awakening and integration — What does liberation mean in the canonical sense? Nibbāna, conditioned and unconditioned, the four fruits, the fetters, liberation of heart, liberation by wisdom. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of one · Realizing

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Passages where cetovimutti occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Tipiṭaka · Majjhima Nikāya 29 Primary passage

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So tena ñāṇadassanena na attānukkaṁseti, na paraṁ vambheti. So tena ñāṇadassanena na majjati nappamajjati na pamādaṁ āpajjati, appamatto samāno asamayavimokkhaṁ ārādheti. Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ so bhikkhu tāya asamayavimuttiyā parihāyetha. Iti kho, bhikkhave, nayidaṁ brahmacariyaṁ lābhasakkārasilokānisaṁsaṁ, na sīlasampadānisaṁsaṁ, na samādhisampadānisaṁsaṁ, na ñāṇadassanānisaṁsaṁ. Yā ca kho ayaṁ, bhikkhave, akuppā cetovimutti— etadatthamidaṁ, bhikkhave, brahmacariyaṁ, etaṁ sāraṁ etaṁ pariyosānan”ti. Idamavoca bhagavā. Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandunti. Mahāsāropamasuttaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ navamaṁ.

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Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Paṭhamo bhāgo) · Pāli

264 . Catunnampi panetesaṃ brahmavihārānaṃ vipassanāsukhañceva bhavasampatti ca sādhāraṇappayojanaṃ . Byāpādādipaṭighāto āveṇikaṃ . Byāpādapaṭighātappayojanā hettha mettā. Vihiṃsāaratirāgapaṭighātappayojanā itarā. Vuttampi cetaṃ – ‘‘Nissaraṇañhetaṃ, āvuso, byāpādassa yadidaṃ mettā cetovimutti. Nissaraṇañhetaṃ, āvuso, vihesāya yadidaṃ karuṇā cetovimutti. Nissaraṇañhetaṃ, āvuso, aratiyā yadidaṃ muditā cetovimutti. Nissaraṇañhetaṃ, āvuso, rāgassa yadidaṃ upekkhā cetovimuttī’’ti (dī. ni. 3.326; a. ni. 6.13).
Tipiṭaka · pe6 · Pāli

Tattha taṇhārogassa samatho bhesajjaṁ, rāgavirāgā cetovimutti arogaṁ.
Śaivism · yogacintāmaṇi · Sanskrit

hāreṇa tasyāmavasthāyāmīdṛśyeva prajñājāyate | eṣādhīḥ kārya viṣayanirmala jñānarūpatvāt kāryavimuktirityucyate | citta vimukti stridhā | caritārthā me buddhiḥ | guṇāḥ kṛtādhikārā giriśikhara patitā ivagrāvāṇo na punaḥ sthitiṃ yāsyanti | svakāraṇe pralayābhimukhānāmeṣāṃ mohākhya mūlakāraṇābhāvānniḥprayojanavattvācca kutaḥ pravāhaḥ | svātmībhūtaśca me samādhistasmin sati svarūpe pratiṣṭhoha mityetādṛśī trividhā cittavimuktiriti | tadasyāḥ samasta prajñāyāḥ p.
Logic & epistemology · Sphuṭārthā abhidharmakośavyākhyā · Sanskrit

prakarṣita ity arthaḥ. tasyaivāśaikṣasya tadvacanaṃ vimuktivacanaṃ vimuktijñānavacanaṃ ca. nyāyyaṃ na śaikṣasyeti. adhimokṣaḥ saṃskṛtā vimuktir [Tib. 273a] iti. dhātvarthaikatvāt aṃgānāṃ saṃskṛtatvād iti. yathā samyagdṛṣṭyādīni saṃskṛtāni. tathā vimuktir api saṃskṛtaiva gṛhyate nāsaṃskṛtā. visabhāgatvād visadṛśatvāt. dve vimuktī sūtra ukte iti. rāgavirāgāc cetovimuktiḥ. avidyāvirāgāt prajñāvimuktir iti. cetovimuktiḥ prajñāvimuktiś cety arthaḥ. vimuktiskaṃdho 'pi sa eveti. śīlaskandhaḥ. samādhiskandhaḥ prajñāskandhaḥ. vimuktiskandhaḥ. vimuktijñānadarśanaś cety atra draṣṭavyaḥ.

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