Abhidhamma View : Determination
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:56 am
Dear Members,
Abhidhamma View : Determination
[Presented by Dr.Tep Sastri @ sariputtadhamma/JTN]
A Pali dictionary shows two Pali words that mean determination: adhi.t.thaana and adhimokha. Adhi.t.thaana is listed as one of the Ten Perfections (Paaramii): Giving(daana), Virtue(siila), Renunciation(nekkhamma), Wisdom(pa~n~naa), Energy(viriya), Patience(khanti), Truthfulness(sacca), Determination(adhi.t.thaana), Lovingkindness(mettaa), Equanimity(upekkhaa).
Another rendition of 'adhimokha' is resolution, the act of resolving. No success in the Dhamma practice can be expected without the determination to develop wholesome qualities (kusala dhamma) and abandon unwholesome things.
"Determination is stated immediately after truthfulness; (a) because truthfulness is perfected by determination, since abstinence (from falsehood) becomes perfect in one whose determination is unshakeable; (b) having first shown non-deception in speech, to show next unshakeable commitment to one's word, for a bodhisattva devoted to truth proceeds to fulfill his vows of giving, etc., without wavering; and (c) to show, right after the veracity of knowledge, the complete accumulation of the requisites of enlightenment (bodhisambhaara); for one who knows things 'as they really are' determines upon the requisites of enlightenment and brings them to completion by refusing to vacillate in the face of their opposites."
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The Visuddhimagga ( XIV, 151) gives the following definition of determination: "The act of resolving is resolution. It has the characteristic of conviction. Its function is not to grope. It is manifested as decisiveness. Its proximate cause is a thing to be convinced about. It should be regarded as like a boundary-post owing to its immovableness with regard to the object." And the "Paramattha Manjusa", the commentary to the Visuddhimagga, states that the act of resolving should be understood as the act of being convinced about an object.
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Ptsm I: 26. Resolution(adhimokkha) as the meaning of the faith faculty is to be directly known.
Ptsm V: 56. When he gives attention as impermanent, his cognizance has great resolution. When he gives attention as painful, his cognizance has great tranquillity. When he gives attention as not-self, his cognizance has great wisdom.
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Right Resolve (or Right Intention, samma-sankappa) is the second of the eight path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path, and it belongs to the wisdom division of the path. "... what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill-will, on harmlessness: This is called right resolve." [SN 45.8]
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So it is seen that Determination is extremely important to every earnest Buddhist, not only to a Bodhisattva.
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Love Buddha's dhamma,
yawares/sirikanya
Abhidhamma View : Determination
[Presented by Dr.Tep Sastri @ sariputtadhamma/JTN]
A Pali dictionary shows two Pali words that mean determination: adhi.t.thaana and adhimokha. Adhi.t.thaana is listed as one of the Ten Perfections (Paaramii): Giving(daana), Virtue(siila), Renunciation(nekkhamma), Wisdom(pa~n~naa), Energy(viriya), Patience(khanti), Truthfulness(sacca), Determination(adhi.t.thaana), Lovingkindness(mettaa), Equanimity(upekkhaa).
Another rendition of 'adhimokha' is resolution, the act of resolving. No success in the Dhamma practice can be expected without the determination to develop wholesome qualities (kusala dhamma) and abandon unwholesome things.
"Determination is stated immediately after truthfulness; (a) because truthfulness is perfected by determination, since abstinence (from falsehood) becomes perfect in one whose determination is unshakeable; (b) having first shown non-deception in speech, to show next unshakeable commitment to one's word, for a bodhisattva devoted to truth proceeds to fulfill his vows of giving, etc., without wavering; and (c) to show, right after the veracity of knowledge, the complete accumulation of the requisites of enlightenment (bodhisambhaara); for one who knows things 'as they really are' determines upon the requisites of enlightenment and brings them to completion by refusing to vacillate in the face of their opposites."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... .html#fn-2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Visuddhimagga ( XIV, 151) gives the following definition of determination: "The act of resolving is resolution. It has the characteristic of conviction. Its function is not to grope. It is manifested as decisiveness. Its proximate cause is a thing to be convinced about. It should be regarded as like a boundary-post owing to its immovableness with regard to the object." And the "Paramattha Manjusa", the commentary to the Visuddhimagga, states that the act of resolving should be understood as the act of being convinced about an object.
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Ptsm I: 26. Resolution(adhimokkha) as the meaning of the faith faculty is to be directly known.
Ptsm V: 56. When he gives attention as impermanent, his cognizance has great resolution. When he gives attention as painful, his cognizance has great tranquillity. When he gives attention as not-self, his cognizance has great wisdom.
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Right Resolve (or Right Intention, samma-sankappa) is the second of the eight path factors in the Noble Eightfold Path, and it belongs to the wisdom division of the path. "... what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill-will, on harmlessness: This is called right resolve." [SN 45.8]
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So it is seen that Determination is extremely important to every earnest Buddhist, not only to a Bodhisattva.
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Love Buddha's dhamma,
yawares/sirikanya