Dear Keren,
pasaada: brightness, purity, faith, satisfaction. It has several meanings.
In the Tiika to the Visuddhimagga under saddhaa, confidence, the description
of purity is used. Saddhaa, and purity of citta go together, because
confidence is confidence in wholesomeness and in an object worthy of
confidence.
The Expositor (I, Part IV, Chapter I, 119) states about saddha:
<... It has purifying or aspiring as its characteristic. As the
water-purifying gem of the universal monarch thrown into water causes
solids, alluvia, waterweeds and mud to subside and makes the water clear,
transparent and undisturbed, so faith arising discards the hindrances,
causes the corruptions to subside, purifies the mind and makes it
undisturbed: the mind being purified, the aspirant of noble family gives
gifts, observes the precepts, performs the duties of "uposatha" and
commences bhaavanaa.>
Text Visuddhimagga Ch XIV, 140 and tiika:
<Text Vis.: It is manifested as non-fogginess,

N: The Tiika explains that it removes impurity of the accompanying dhammas,
or that its function is the purifying of a person, and thus, its function is
purifying (pasaadana).
In Pali the term pasaada that is used here means both clearness and
confidence.>
I think this explains Ven. Bodhi's choice of words.
Nina.


op 21-07-2005 07:53 schreef keren_arbel op keren_arbel@...:

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> Dear Nina,
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> Thank you for your helpful comments. What do you think about Bodhi's
> translation which says:
> "a bhikkhu enters and abides in the second jhaana, which has self
> confidence and signless of mind without applied..."
> I assume that he translate sampasaadana.m as "self confidence".
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> Thanks in advance,
> Keren.
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