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Cognitive process
citta-vīthi
citta-vīthi
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Abhidhamma · Stage 4
The course of an act of cognising
… the descent of consciousness as the condition for name-and-form. Components Cognitive series (citta-vīthi) — the ordered sequence of moments Series-free (vīthimutta) — moments outside every series …
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Citta, cetasika and the way to Nibbāna
Abhidhamma · foundation (part 1)
… note on khaṇa); Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary (khaṇa). 1.d The process of consciousness (citta-vīthi) — 17 moments The starting position – bhavaṅga: as long as no active …
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Abhidhamma master manual · 89 cittas
Abhidhamma
… 8. IV The causal process of consciousness The seventeen-moment process of consciousness (citta-vīthi) At every sense stimulus, within a single instant of perception, the mind runs …
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The sixteen vipassanā ñāṇas
Vipassanā / Visuddhimagga
… up is the switch from passive basic consciousness (bhavaṅga) to active cognition (citta-vīthi). This three-second algorithm prevents the identification with an "I" from booting up (the …
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Cetanā, citta and the “flow of prāṇa”
Theravāda Abhidhamma · cetanā, cittaja-rūpa, vāyo-dhātu & kāyaviññatti
… sense event is furthermore not a single moment but an ordered sequence (citta-vīthi): out of the life-continuum (bhavaṅga) there first emerges the adverting to the sense …
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A guide through the Abhidhamma Piṭaka
Abhidhamma · Nyanatiloka (in German)
German only
… Wurzelbedingungen nicht unmittelbar aufeinander folgen, sondern erscheinen in verschiedenen Reihen von Bewusstseinsprozessen (citta-vithi), von dem jeder erneut mit der Phase des Aufmerkens (avajjana) beginnen muss. 136. …
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Visuddhimagga — The Path of Purification
Commentary · Buddhaghosa / Nyanatiloka (in German)
German only
… gilt nämlich nicht die Einteilung des (normalen) Zeitablaufs (einer Serie der Bewußtseinsstadien; citta-vīthi): im ersten Erreichungsmoment der Vollen Sammlung, in den weltlichen Höheren Geisteskräften (abhiññā; XIIf), …