Equanimity towards formations

saṅkhārupekkhā

Insight (vipassanā) Building on it Stage 7 of 8

Equanimity towards the formations (a stage of insight, the threshold).

On the path: 7 · Insight and letting go — What has to be seen directly for clinging to end? Arising and passing away, the three characteristics, disenchantment, ceasing, letting go. → to this stage in the learning path

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The sixteen vipassanā ñāṇas Vipassanā / Visuddhimagga
Citta, cetasika and the way to Nibbāna Abhidhamma · foundation (part 1)
Interest, choice and not grasping — cetanā and chanda in the web of conditions Theravāda Abhidhamma · study record · cetanā, chanda & gotrabhū
The threshold of the path Theravāda Abhidhamma · anuloma–gotrabhū–magga–phala
What Nibbāna is not Nibbāna (part 3)

Across all traditions

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

Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Paṭhamo bhāgo) · Pāli

Yā ‘‘kati saṅkhārupekkhā samathavasena uppajjanti, kati saṅkhārupekkhā vipassanāvasena uppajjanti . Aṭṭha saṅkhārupekkhā samathavasena uppajjanti. Dasa saṅkhārupekkhā vipassanāvasena uppajjantī’’ti (paṭi. ma. 1.57) evamāgatā nīvaraṇādipaṭisaṅkhāsantiṭṭhanā gahaṇe majjhattabhūtā upekkhā, ayaṃ saṅkhārupekkhā nāma. Yā pana ‘‘yasmiṃ samaye kāmāvacaraṃ kusalaṃ cittaṃ uppannaṃ hoti upekkhāsahagata’’nti (dha. sa. 150) evamāgatā adukkhamasukhasaññitā upekkhā, ayaṃ vedanupekkhā nāma.
Tipiṭaka · Paṭisambhidāmagga · Pāli

suññatavihārasamāpattatthāya …pe… animittavihārasamāpattatthāya uppādaṁ pavattaṁ nimittaṁ āyūhanaṁ paṭisandhiṁ … paṭisaṅkhāsantiṭṭhanā paññā saṅkhārupekkhāsu ñāṇaṁ. Imā dasa saṅkhārupekkhā vipassanāvasena uppajjanti. Kati saṅkhārupekkhā kusalā, kati akusalā, kati abyākatā? Pannarasa saṅkhārupekkhā kusalā, tisso saṅkhārupekkhā abyākatā. Natthi saṅkhārupekkhā akusalā. Paṭisaṅkhāsantiṭṭhanā paññā, Aṭṭha cittassa gocarā; Puthujjanassa dve honti, Tayo sekkhassa gocarā; Tayo ca vītarāgassa, Yehi cittaṁ vivaṭṭati. Aṭṭha samādhissa paccayā, dasa ñāṇassa gocarā; Aṭṭhārasa saṅkhārupekkhā, tiṇṇaṁ vimokkhāna paccayā. Ime aṭṭhārasākārā, Paññā yassa pariccitā; Kusalo saṅkhārupekkhāsu, Nānādiṭṭhīsu na …
Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Dutiyo bhāgo) · Pāli

804 . Tassa taṃ saṅkhārupekkhāñāṇaṃ āsevantassa bhāventassa bahulīkarontassa adhimokkhasaddhā balavatarā nibbattati, vīriyaṃ supaggahitaṃ hoti, sati sūpaṭṭhitā, cittaṃ susamāhitaṃ, tikkhatarā saṅkhārupekkhā uppajjati. Tassa ‘‘dāni maggo uppajjissatī’’ti saṅkhārupekkhā saṅkhāre aniccāti vā dukkhāti vā anattāti vā sammasitvā bhavaṅgaṃ otarati. Bhavaṅgānantaraṃ saṅkhārupekkhāya katanayeneva saṅkhāre aniccāti vā dukkhāti vā anattāti vā ārammaṇaṃ kurumānaṃ uppajjati manodvārāvajjanaṃ.
Tipiṭaka · nidda1 · Pāli

Yā pana ‘‘kālena kālaṃ upekkhānimittaṃ manasi karotī’’ti (a. ni. 3.103) evamāgatā anaccāraddhanātisithilavīriyasaṅkhātā upekkhā, ayaṃ vīriyupekkhā nāma. Yā pana ‘‘kati saṅkhārupekkhā samathavasena uppajjanti, kati saṅkhārupekkhā vipassanāvasena uppajjanti? Aṭṭha saṅkhārupekkhā samathavasena uppajjanti, dasa saṅkhārupekkhā vipassanāvasena uppajjantī’’ti (paṭi. ma. 1.57) evamāgatā nīvaraṇādipaṭisaṅkhāsantiṭṭhanāgahaṇe majjhattabhūtā upekkhā, ayaṃ saṅkhārupekkhā nāma. Yā pana ‘‘yasmiṃ samaye kāmāvacaraṃ kusalaṃ cittaṃ uppannaṃ hoti upekkhāsahagata’’nti (dha. sa. 150) evamāgatā adukkhamasukhasaṅkhātā upekkhā, ayaṃ vedanupekkhā nāma.
Tipiṭaka · psma · Pāli

1:58 . Idāni jātivasena pucchitvā labbhamānavasena vissajjetuṃ kati saṅkhārupekkhā kusalā tiādimāha. Tattha pannarasa saṅkhārupekkhā ti samathavasena aṭṭha, catunnaṃ maggānaṃ tiṇṇaṃ phalānaṃ vasena sattāti pannarasa. Samathavasena aṭṭha saṅkhārupekkhā arahato nīvaraṇapaṭisaṅkhāabhāvato, vitakkavicārādīnaṃ pahānabyāpāraṃ vinā sukhena pahānato ca saṅkhārupekkhānāmassa ananurūpāti katvā tāsaṃ abyākatatā na vuttāti veditabbā. Arahatā pana phalasamāpattiṃ samāpajjantena saṅkhārupekkhaṃ vinā samāpajjituṃ na sakkāti tisso saṅkhārupekkhā abyākatāti vuttā. Appaṇihitasuññatānimittavasena hi arahato tisso saṅkhārupekkhā.

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