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Corruptions of insight
vipassanūpakkilesa
vipassanūpakkilesa
Learning Path (1) Learning Path
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Stage 7
Insight and letting go
… = insight.” — Lights, rapture and calm can be corruptions of insight (vipassanūpakkilesa) if one grasps them.
Study texts (9) Study text
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What Nibbāna is not
Nibbāna (part 3)
… reached it". At the young udayabbaya-ñāṇa the ten "corruptions of insight" appear (vipassanupakkilesa, Visuddhimagga XX): light (obhāsa), rapture (pīti), tranquillity (passaddhi), happiness (sukha), resolution, energy, clear …
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The four satipaṭṭhānas
Satipaṭṭhāna
… (by groups) 4 udayabbaya arising and passing away — here the ten vipassanupakkilesa appear 5 bhaṅga dissolution — only the passing away still stands out 6 …
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The threshold of the path
Theravāda Abhidhamma · anuloma–gotrabhū–magga–phala
… arising and passing away (udayabbaya-ñāṇa) — as the ten corruptions of insight (vipassanūpakkilesa, Visuddhimagga XX): strong light (obhāsa), rapture (pīti), tranquillity (passaddhi), happiness (sukha) and others. …
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Citta, cetasika and the way to Nibbāna
Abhidhamma · foundation (part 1)
… knowledge of arising and passing away (udayabbaya-ñāṇa) as the ten insight defilements (vipassanūpakkilesa, Visuddhimagga XX): strong light (obhāsa), rapture (pīti), calm (passaddhi), happiness (sukha) and others. …
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How mind works matter
Theravāda Abhidhamma · cittaja-rūpa & iddhi
… its best-known trap. The Visuddhimagga (ch. XX) names ten "corruptions of insight" (vipassanūpakkilesā) — among them light (obhāsa), rapture, calm, happiness. They are genuine fruits of …
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The meditation of the noble ones
Theravāda · concentration, insight & the four stages of awakening
… and lapses of perception occur in worldly samādhi too and among the vipassanupakkilesa. The distinguishing mark of genuine fruition is, according to the tradition, the whole …
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Cetanā, citta and the “flow of prāṇa”
Theravāda Abhidhamma · cetanā, cittaja-rūpa, vāyo-dhātu & kāyaviññatti
… "knowledge of arising and passing away" (udayabbaya-ñāṇa), the ten imperfections of insight (vipassanupakkilesa): illumination, knowledge, rapture, tranquillity, bliss, resolution, exertion, mindful presence, equanimity, attachment. "Vibration" does …
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The sixteen vipassanā ñāṇas
Vipassanā / Visuddhimagga
… perception of rapid successions of citta moments. The ten corruptions of insight (vipassanūpakkilesa) appear as accompanying phenomena (light, rapture). Insight ripens. Path and not-path must now …
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Visuddhimagga — The Path of Purification
Commentary · Buddhaghosa / Nyanatiloka (in German)
German only
… Anfang der Betrachtung des Entstehens und Vergehens aufgestiegenen zehn Trübungen des Hellblicks (vipassanūpakkilesa), wie den Lichtglanz usw., überwindend stellt er die von den Trübungen befreite ’Erkenntnis …