--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...> wrote:

>
> Dear Alex,
> welcome here. Dr. Mehm Tin Mon is an excellent author, also

quoted

> on Dhammastudygroup list. Are you from Myanmar?
>
> > 1) manodvaravajjana: mano: mind. Dvara: doorway. Avajjana:

adverting.

> There are five sense-doors and one doorway, the sixth is the mind-

door.

> There are processes or series of cittas experiencing different
> objects through the six doorways. The first citta of such a

process

> adverts to the object. The manodvaravajjana citta is the first

citta

> of a mind-door process that adverts to the object through the mind-

door.

> --------
> >
> > 2) somanassa-sahagatam nana-sampayuttam asankharika maha-kusala

citta

> --------
> N: There are eight types of kusala cittas of the sense-sphere

which

> are associated with (sahagata) happy feeling (somanassa) or with
> indifferent feeling (upekkhaa), accompanied by wisdom (~naana-
> sampayutta) or without it (~naana-vippayutta), without prompting

or

> instigation (asa.nkhaarika) or with prompting (sasa.nkhaarika).
> When the kusala citta is with prompting it is more sluggish, not

as

> strong as when it is spontaneous, without any prompting.
> The term mahaa-kusala citta is reserved for the kusala cittas of

the

> sense-sphere.
> I hope you will quote more of this excellent book.
> Nina.
>
> Op 19-feb-2007, om 4:11 heeft duriank24 het volgende geschreven:
>
> > I need some help in
> > translating the following pali terms into english?
> >
> > 1) manodvaravajjana, and
> > 2) somanassa-sahagatam nana-sampayuttam asankharika maha-kusala

citta

>
>
>
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>

Thanks nina for your patience with a novice like me. I am from
Singapore. I practise at visuddha meditation centre following the
Pa-auk sayadaw method. I tried to sit an hour a day just to
establish my samatha by doing anapanasati and firm my sitting
posture.

I forgot to ask youthe meaning of ditti gata(ditti is wrong view,
what abt gata, and the other is sense sphere, In a nutshell or
laymen term, what is it?

Metta
Alex