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PTS: Dialogs of the Buddha III, #33: The Recital, T.W. and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., pp201
WP: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33: The Chanting Together, M. Walshe, trans., pp479
PTS: The Middle Length Sayings, I: 33: Applications of Mindfulness, horner, trans., pp77
PTS: Woodward, The Book of the Gradual Sayings, V: The Book of the Tens, VII, pp144
The Pali Line: High Getting High
and The Great Master's Satisfaction Pastures
ATI: The Five Mental Hindrances and their Conquest
ATI: Frames of Reference
Bhante Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, Puremind Press, pp 7-9
Pali | MO | Hare | Horner | Punnaji | Bodhi | Nanamoli | Rhys Davids | (Mrs)Rhys Davids | Thanissaro | Walshe | Woodward | Nyanaponika Thera |
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th¨na-middha | lazy ways and inertia | sloth and torpor | sloth and torpor | Lethargy and drowsiness | sloth and torpor | sloth and torpor | sloth and torpor | sloth and torpor | Sloth and Torpor | sloth-and-torpor | sloth-and-torpor | Sloth and Torpor |
Th¨na: [Sk. sty¤na; orig. pp. of sty¤yate to become hard, to congeal; stei.r¤ (cp. also thira)=Gr. ste/as grease, tale; Lat. st¨po to compress; also Sk. stimita (motionless) = P. timi; st¨ma (slow), Mhg. st¨m; Goth. etc. stains = E. stone; Gr. sti_fos (heap); Lat. st¨pes (pale); Ohg. st¨f=E. stiff] stiffness, obduracy, stolidity, indifference... Together with middha it is one of the 5 hindrances (n¨vara¼¤ni) to Arahantship... Def. as cittassa akamma¾¾at¤, unwieldiness or impliability of mind (=immobility); as citta-gela¾¾aµ morbid state of mind ("psychosis").
-middha sloth and drowsiness, stolidity and torpor; two of the 5 n¨vara¼¤ni...; D I.71, 246; III.49, 234, 269, 278; S I.99; III.106; V.277 sq.; A III.69 sq.; 421. |
PED on Line (no diacriticals): "Thina" PED on Line (no diacriticals): "Middha" |
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