Pali formulas and sentences

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Sappatigha-rūpa

'materiality reacting to sense stimuli', refers to the 5 sense-organs āyatana. - Cf. Vibh. II see: Vis.M XIV.

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Santīrana-citta

'investigating consciousness', is one of the stages in the cognitive series.

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Saññā-vipallāsa

'perversion of perception'

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Sankhitta-citta

in the Satipatthana Sutta, signifies the 'contracted' or 'cramped' mind, not the concentrated samāhita mind, as often translated by Western authors.

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Sankhārupekkhā-ñāna

the 'equanimity-knowledge with regard to the constructions of existence', is one of those kinds of knowledge which form the 'purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress' see: visuddhi VI, 8.;It is known by 3 names: in the lowest stage it is called 'knowledge consisting in the desire for deliverance' rnuccitu-kamyatā-ñāna in the middle stage it is called the 'reflecting contemplation' patisankhānupassanāñāna in the last stage, however, i.e. after attaining the summit, it is called the 'equanimity-knowledge with regard to the constructions of existence' Vis.M XXI.

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Sangaha-vatthu

the 4 'ways of showing favour' are generosity, kindly speech, beneficial actions, impartiality A. IV, 32; VIII, 24.

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Samyutta Nikàya

The Samyutta Nikàya is the third book of the Sutta Pitaka, the first division of the Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Buddhism. The word samyutta means ‘connected’ or ‘related’.

Traditionally there is said to be 7762 suttas or discourses in this book, but actually there are 2889. These discourses are arranged roughly according to features they share – subject matter, whether they have verses in them, where they were spoken or the people they were spoken to. A large proportion of the discourses in the Samyutta Nikàya were delivered by the Buddha in Sàvatthi which suggests that this book was arranged in that city.

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Samvejanīya-tthāna

'places rousing emotion', are 4: the place where the Perfect One was born, i.e. the Lumbini-grove near Kapilavatthu, at the present frontier of Nepal; the place where he reached Full Enlightenment i.e. Uruvela, the modern Ureli, and Bodh Gaya, on the Nerañjara-river; the modern Lilanja; the place where he, for the first time, unveiled the Dhamma to the world i.e. the deer-park at Isipatana (Sarnath) near Benares; the place where he entered the final Nibbana i.e. Kushinagar. A. IV, 118.

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Samvega-vatthu

'the sources of emotion', or of a sense of urgency, are 8: birth, old age, disease, death, being 4; the suffering in the lower states of existence being the 5th; further, the misery of the past rooted in the cycle of rebirth, the misery of the future rooted in the cycle of rebirth, the misery of the present rooted in the search after food; Vis.M III.

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Samvara-suddhi

'purity of control', is another name for morality consisting of restraint of the senses indriya-samvara-sīla.

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Samvara-padhāna

'effort to avoid'

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Samuccheda-pahāna

'overcoming by destruction', is the absolute ceasing of certain mental chains of existence samyojana, which takes place by entering into one of the 4 supra-mundane paths of Nobility

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Sampayutta-paccaya

'condition of association', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).

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Sampaticchana-citta

'receptive consciousness', is the mindelement mano-dhātu that follows immediately upon the arising of sense-consciousness visual consciousness, etc., performing on that occasion the function of recciving the sense-object.

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Sammuti-sacca

'conventional truth', is identical with vohāra-sacca see: paramattha-sacca.