What is The common beautiful factors (sobhanaa saadhaaranaa)?

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What is The common beautiful factors (sobhanaa saadhaaranaa)?

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What is The common beautiful factors (sobhanaa saadhaaranaa)?
Confidence (saddhaa), also called faith, which for a Buddhist means trust in the Three Jewels — the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and in the principles of the Buddha's teachings.

Mindfulness (sati): this is alertness, which makes us aware of what is happening to us, from moment to moment, through the five physical senses and the mind. Mindfulness is essential to insight meditation, when it must be conjoined with a clear comprehension of the suitability, purpose, and conformity with reality of any action. Then it is called right mindfulness (sammaa sati). Usually the average person acts without any form of mindfulness; his acts are prompted by force of habit. Right mindfulness has two functions: one is to increase the power of recollection and the other is to evaluate what is wholesome and what is unwholesome. Right mindfulness is a spiritual faculty that maintains a proper balance of the other faculties — faith, energy, concentration and wisdom.

Shame of evil (hiri) and fear of evil (ottappa) are the opposites of the second and third unwholesome mental factors, already discussed.

Non-attachment (alobha) restrains attachment and fosters generosity.

Good-will (adosa) is synonymous with loving kindness (mettaa). It keeps a person free from resentment and anger.

Equanimity (tatramajjhattaa, upekkhaa) is balance of mind, a quality of neutrality free from attachment and repulsion.

The other twelve common beautiful factors fall into six pairs, one member affecting the "body" of mental factors (kaaya), the other affecting
consciousness as a whole (citta). The six are as follows, the terms themselves indicating their nature:

composure (passaddhi) of the mental factors and consciousness
buoyancy (lakhutaa) of the mental factors and consciousness
pliancy (mudutaa) of the mental factors and consciousness
efficiency (kammaññataa) of the mental factors and consciousness
proficiency (paguññataa) of the mental factors and consciousness
rectitude (ujukataa) of the mental factors and consciousness
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Very interesting concept in Abhidhamma.

It appears to me that when you practice one of them you accomplish all the above 19 mental factors.
For instance, if you practice Satipathana (Sati) you accomplish all 19 beautiful mental factors.If that is the case Satipathana is very rewarding.
Am I correct?
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Any comments from Abhidhamma experts or not-so experts?
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SarathW wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:31 am Any comments from Abhidhamma experts or not-so experts?
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Accoding to non expert like me, if those factors stay for some time and later on u lose after meditation session... whats the use?
I may be slow learner but im at least learning...
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SarathW wrote: Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:38 am ...
In a moment of any conscious experience there will always be the 7 universals:

1) Contact
2) Feeling
3) Perception
4) Volition
5) One-pointedness
6) Life faculty
7) Attention

During Satipaṭṭhāna the following Beautiful Universals will also be present:

1) Faith
2) Mindfulness
3) Shame
4) Fear of wrong
5) Non-greed
6) Non-hatred
7) Neutrality of mind
8) Tranquillity of mental body
9) Tranquillity of consciousness
10) Lightness of mental body
11) Lightness of consciousness
12) Malleability of mental body
13) Malleability of consciousness
14) Wieldiness of mental body
15) Wieldiness of consciousness
16) Proficiency of mental body
17) Proficiency of consciousness
18) Rectitude of mental body
19) Rectitude of consciousness
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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