Venerable Bhante Sobhana,
Op 27-dec-2010, om 4:29 heeft sakyaputtiyo@... het volgende
geschreven:

> can you please share your knowledge about 'yonisomanasikara'.

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N: Manasikaara has several meanings. It can refer to the cetasika
manasikaara, attention, that accompanies every citta. It can also
refer to: the citta that is the five-sense-door adverting-
consciousness which is the first citta of a sense-door process
adverting to the object that has impinged on the relevant sense-door.
Thirdly, it refers to the mind-door adverting-consciousness,
manodvaaraavajjana-citta. In the sense-door process this citta (the
manodvaaraavajjanacitta) performs the function of determining,
votthapana, and it is followed by kusala cittas or akusala cittas (in
the case of non-arahats). In the mind-door process it performs the
function of adverting to the object that has impinged on the mind-
door and it is followed by kusala cittas or akusala cittas.
Yoniso means: in the right way, thoroughly. Yono means womb, origin,
nature, matrix. When the votthapanacitta is followed by kusala
cittas, and also when the manodvaaraavajjanacitta is followed by
kusala cittas there is yoniso manasikaara, right attention. When they
are followed by akusala cittas there is unwise attention, ayoniso
manasikaara.
Usually the series of kusala cittas and akusala cittas are seven in
number. They are called javana-cittas.
Cittas succeed one another extremely fast and therefore we cannot
actually pinpoint when there the citta manasikaara arises. Nor can we
control it, it has already arisen before we know it. It is because of
accumulations of wholesome or unwholesome inclinations that there are
conditions for the arising of kusala cittas and akusala cittas. For
example, we may dislike loud sounds and when we hear it the dislike
has already arisen before we realise it. There is already unwise
attention. This process goes on the whole day. After seeing visible
object or hearing sound, javana-cittas arise very shortly afterwards
and usually there is unwise attention. There may be attachment to the
object accompanied by indifferent feeling and this may be unnoticed.
After akusala cittas have fallen away there may be another mind-door
process with mindfulness of the akusala cittas that have just fallen
away. Then there is wise attention, yoniso manasikaara. When we have
listened to the Dhamma and wisely considered it there are conditions
for the arising of mindfulness of whatever reality appears, be it
kusala or akusala. The eightfold path can be developed that
eventually leads to the end of unwise attention.
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with respect,
Nina.

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