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Key Terms (2) Key term
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Formless absorption
arūpa-jhāna
arūpa-jhāna
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Fine-material absorption
rūpa-jhāna
rūpa-jhāna
Study texts (2) Study text
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The nine attainments and entering the fruit
Meditation / jhāna (part 4)
… "nine jhānas" are meant the nine successive abidings (navānupubbavihāra): four fine-material absorptions (rūpa-jhāna), four immaterial ones (arūpa-jhāna) and, as the ninth, the cessation of perception and …
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Cetanā, saṅkhāra and the step from avijjā to saṅkhāra
Theravāda Abhidhamma · cetanā, saṅkhāra & dependent origination
… sense sphere and the fine-material sphere (generosity, ethics, meditation up to the rūpa-jhānas); apuññābhisaṅkhāra: "demeritorious formation", unwholesome intention (willing based on greed, hatred, delusion); āneñjābhisaṅkhāra: "imperturbable …