Five faculties

pañca indriyāni

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Confidence, energy, mindfulness, immersion and wisdom — the five faculties that hold one another in balance and carry the whole development.

On the path: 5 · Hindrances and mental development — What prevents clarity, and what conditions encourage it? The roots, the hindrances, the underlying tendencies, right effort, the faculties and powers. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of five · Help · DN 34 · Groups of five · Distinction · DN 33 · dn33:2.1.95

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

Tipiṭaka · 10 Indriyayamaka · Pāli

Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Itthī indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Puriso indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Jīvitaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Sukhaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Dukkhaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Somanassaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Domanassaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Upekkhā indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Saddhā indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Vīriyaṁ indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Sati indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …pe… Indriyā aññātāvī? Samādhi indriyaṁ? Indriyā cakkhu? …
Kangyur · The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines · English

They will also become skilled in sounds, will become skilled in aggregates, will become skilled in constituents, will become skilled in sense fields, will become skilled in dependent origination, will become skilled in causes, will become skilled in conditions, will become skilled in the true nature of dharmas, will become skilled in knowing higher and lower faculties, will become skilled in knowing the thoughts of others, will become skilled in knowledge of the performance of miraculous power, will become skilled in knowing the divine eye, will become skilled in knowledge that recollects past
Dharmaśāstra · Yājñavalkyasmṛti · Sanskrit

saṃnirudhya indriya-grāmaṃ rāga-dveṣau prahāya ca / bhayaṃ hitvā ca bhūtānām amṛtī-bhavati dvijaḥ //
Old Javanese · Vrhaspatitattva · Old Javanese

atu niṅ indriya sumaṅkalpa ikaṅ viṣaya / apan vit nikaṅ indriya / manaṅkalpa ṅaranya umastv ikaṅ viṣaya / ginṛhīta niṅ indriya / yeka gave niṅ manah / ikaṅ indriya kabeh tan aṅga rakva tan vehĕn iṅ viṣayanya / apan enak niṅ manaṇḍaṅ mamaṅan maṅinum / enak niṅ malakyarabi / enak niṅ maṅrĕṅö tabĕhtabĕhan / kiduṅ gupitgupitan / ya ta dumeh saṅ hyaṅ ātmā jĕnĕk iṅ śarīra / apan sira mamukti rika kabeh // śakaṭopamaṃ pradhānaṃ puruṣo vṛṣabhopamaḥ | īśasārathisaṃyuktaṃ jagad bhramita cakravat || 34 Ikaṅ śarīrāṅkĕn rĕṅgarĕṅga niṅ giliṅan / ikaṅ śubhāśubhakarma ya sinaṅguh jagat / yateka maputĕran riṅ
Jaina scriptures · Tattvārtha(dhigama) Sūtra · English

These five are called wfk, ilati and they arise on the K^ayopasama destruotion-sabsidoaco or tho subsidence, destruction and 0 [ieration of the Sensitive-knowledge- obscuring karmas. SIJTEA 1-1. firSm w w Tadindriya niiidriyd. nimittain. It (is acfiuired) by the help of the indriyas, senses and anindriya, i.e. mind. Indriya is so callo<l because Indra lueaus the -lOtil and the sense-organs are an index or sign of that soul. ntfbfs^ir, Auindriya or Antal.i karauo, mind is so-called to aistingaisb its internal character from the external senses.

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