Cetasikas

First edition, author: Nina van Gorkom, ISBN 1897633 18 1, 416 pages, 216mm x 135mm, hardback, price £24, Publication date 1st April 1999.

Description:
Cetasika means 'belonging to the mind'. It is a mental factor which accompanies consciousness (citta) and experiences an object. There are 52 cetasikas. This book gives an outline of each of these 52 cetasikas and shows the relationship they have with each other. It will help the student have more understanding of the intricate operations of the mind enabling the development of good qualities and the eventual eradicatication of all defilements. It will help to understand that citta and cetasika act according to their own conditions and that an abiding agent (soul or self) is not to be found. The book assumes some previous knowlege of Buddhism.
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Contents:

Preface*Introduction*

Part I: The Universals:

Chapter I: Contact (phassa)*Chapter 2: Feeling (vedan)*Chapter 3: Perception (sa) *Chapter 4: Volition (cetan)*Chapter 5: Volition in the Cycle of Birth and Death*Chapter 6: Concentration (ekaggat)*Chapter 7: Vitality (jvitindriya) and Attention (manasikra)

Part II: The Particulars (Pakiak)

Chapter 8: Applied thinking (vitakka), sustained thinking (vicra)*Chapter 9: Determination (adhimokkha) and Energy (viriya)* Chapter 10: Right Effort of the eightfold Path*Chapter 11: Enthusiasm (pti)*Chapter 12: Zeal (chanda)

Part III: Akusala Cetasikas

Chapter 13 : Introduction*Chapter 14: Ignorance, Shamelessness, Recklessness and Restlessness*Chapter 15: Attachment (lobha)*Chapter 16: Wrong View (dihi)*Chapter 17: Conceit (mna)*Chapter 18: Aversion (dosa)*Chapter 19: Envy (iss), Stinginess (macchariya), Regret (kukkucca)*Chapter 20: Sloth (thna), Torpor (middha) and Doubt (vicikicch)*Chapter 21: Different Groups of Defilements Part I*Chapter 22: Different Groups of Defilements Part II*Chapter 23: Different Groups of Defilements Part III

Part IV: Beautiful Cetasikas (Sobhana Cetasikas)

Chapter 24: Introduction*Chapter 25: Confidence (saddh)*Chapter 26: Mindfulness (sati)*Chapter 27: Moral Shame and Fear of Blame (hiri and ottappa)*Chapter 28: Non-Attachment (alobha)*Chapter 29: Non-Aversion (adosa)*Chapter 30: Equanimity (tatramajjhattat)*Chapter 31: Six Pairs of Beautiful Cetasikas; tranquillity of body, kya-passaddhi; tranquillity of mind, citta-passaddhi; lightness of cetasikas, kya-lahut; lightness of citta, citta-lahut; pliancy of cetasikas, kya-mudut; pliancy of citta, citta-mudut; wieldiness of cetasikas, kya-kammaat; wieldiness of citta, citta-kammaat; proficiency of cetasikas, kya-pguat; proficiency of citta, citta-pguat; uprightness of cetasika, kya-ujukat; uprightness of citta, citta-ujukat*Chapter 32: The Three Abstinences (virati-cetasikas); abstinence from wrong speech, vaci-duccarita virati; abstinence from wrong action, kya-duccarita virati; abstinence from wrong livelihood, jva-duccarita virati*Chapter 33: Compassion (karu) and Sympathetic Joy (mudit)*Chapter 34: Understanding (pa) Chapter 35: The Stages of Insight Chapter 36: Wholesome Deeds

Appendix 1: Appendix to Chapter 2, Feelings*Appendix 2: Appendix to chapter 5* Appendix 3: Appendix to Chapter 8*Appendix 4: Appendix to Chapter 9* Appendix 5: Appendix to Chapter 11*Appendix 6: Appendix to chapter 12* Appendix 7: Appendix to Chapter 20, Summary of Akusala Cetasikas *Appendix 8: Appendix to chapter 31, Nineteen Sobhana Cetasikas which accompany each Sobhana Citta: Six Sobhana Cetasikas which do not accompany each Sobhana Citta*Appendix 9: The Stages of Insight Three stages of tender insight (tarua vipassan)*Glossary*Index

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