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| Table: Rūpa jhāna | ||||
| Cetasika (mental factors) |
First jhāna |
Second jhāna |
Third jhāna |
Fourth jhāna |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kāma / Akusala dhamma(sensuality / unskillful qualities) | secluded from; withdrawn |
does not occur | does not occur | does not occur |
| Pīti(rapture) | seclusion-born; pervades body |
samādhi-born; pervades body |
fades away (along with distress) |
does not occur |
| Sukha(non-sensual pleasure) | pervades physical body |
abandoned (no pleasure nor pain) | ||
| Vitakka("applied thought") | accompanies jhāna |
unification of awareness free from vitakka and vicāra |
does not occur | does not occur |
| Vicāra("sustained thought") | ||||
| Upekkhāsatipārisuddhi(pure, mindful equanimity) | does not occur | internal confidence | equanimous; mindful |
purity of equanimity and mindfulness |
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Prīti (प्रीति, Sanskrit) or Pīti (Pāli) is a mental factor (Pali:cetasika), the third of five comprising the first Jhana of Buddhist meditation. It is translated with the English words joy or rapture but it should be distinguished from pleasure (sukha) or happiness derived from sensual pleasures, worldly attainments etc.
Piti is a very specific joy associated with a state of deep tranquility and concentration called jhana (also spelled dhyana).
As the meditator experiences tranquility samatha and insight vipassana, one of five kinds of joy (piti) will arise.
These are:
- Weak rapture
- Short rapture
- Going down rapture
- Exalting rapture
- Fulfilling rapture
Note only the last two are considered specifically Piti. The first four are just a preparation for the last one, which is the Jhanic factor.
Details
What represent these joys?
- Weak rapture only causes piloerection.
- Short rapture evocates some thunder "from time to time".
- Going down rapture explodes inside the body, like waves.
- Exalting rapture "makes the body jump to the sky".
- Fulfilling rapture seems to be a huge flood of a mountain stream.
See also
- Rapture (Christian use of the term "rapture")
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- Bodhi, Bhikku (2005). In the Buddha's Words. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. pp. 296–8 (SN 28:1-9). ISBN 978-0-86171-491-9.
- "Suttantapiñake Aïguttaranikàyo § 5.1.3.8". MettaNet-Lanka (in Pali). Archived from the original on 2007-11-05. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
- Bhikku, Thanissaro (1997). "Samadhanga Sutta: The Factors of Concentration (AN 5.28)". Access to Insight. Retrieved 2007-06-06.