BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - M -
'stinginess', avarice. "There are 5
kinds of stinginess, o monks; regarding the dwelling place, regarding families,
regarding gain, regarding recognition, regarding mental things' (A.IX.49; Pug.
56).
mada
magga
maggāmagga-ñānadassana-visuddhi: 'purification by
knowledge of what is path and not-path', is one of the 7 stages of purification (visuddhi
V).
magga-paccaya: 'path as a condition', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
magical powers: s. iddhi;
abhiññā (1).
mahā-bhūta: the 4 'primary elements', is another name
for the 4 elements (dhātu) underlying all
corporeality..
mahā-brahmāno: the 'great gods', are a class of
heavenly beings in the fine-material world; s. deva, II.
mahaggata
mahāpurisa-vitakka: the 8 'thoughts of a great man', are
described in A.VIII.30, and D.34.
mahā-vipassanā: the 18 'chief kinds of insight'; s.
vipassanā.
maintain: effort to maintain wholesome things; s.
padhāna.
majjhimā-patipadā
mala: 'stains', is a name for the 3 karmically
unwholesome roots (akusala-mūla); greed, hate and delusion (lobha,
dosa, moha).
māna
manasikāra
manāyatana: 'mind-base', is a collective term for all
the different states of consciousness; s. āyatana.
mangala
mano
mano-dhātu
mano-kamma: 'mental action'; s. karma,
kammapatha.
manomayā iddhi: s. iddhi.
manopadosika-deva
manopavicāra
mano-sañcetanā: 'mental volition'; s. āhāra.
manovinñāna-dhātu
Māra
marana
maranāsanna-kamma: s. karma.
maranānussati
marvel: s. pātihāriya.
mastery (regarding the absorptions): s. vasī. - 8
stages of: abhibhāyatana.
material food: kabalinkārāhāra.
matter (corporeality): s. khandha,
rūpa-kalāpa.
matured one, the: gotrabhū.
maturity-knowledge: gotrabhū-ñāna; s. visuddhi VII.
meaning: evident, and to be inferred: s.
neyyatthadhamma.
meat-eating
meditation: s. bhāvanā,
jhāna, samādhi.
mental action: mano-kamma; s. karma.
mental advertence: mano-dvārāvajjana; s.
āvajjana.
mental formation: sankhāra. s.
Tab. II.
mental function: citta-sankhāra; s. sankhāra
(2).
mental image: s. nimitta,
kasina, samādhi.
mental obduracy: ceto-khila.
merit, the 4 streams of: puñña-dhārā. -
For transference of merit, s. patti-dāna.
meritorious action: s. puñña,
puñña-kiriya-vatthu.
message, the 9-fold: of the Buddhasāsana, s.
sāsana.
messengers, the 3 divine: s. deva-dūta.
method, the right: ñāya, is a name for the
8-fold path (s. magga)
mettā: 'loving-kindness', is one of the 4 sublime abodes
(brahma-vihāra).
micchā-ditthi, -sankappa, -vāca etc.: s. micchā-magga.
micchā-magga
micchatta: 'wrongnesses' = prec.
middha: 'sloth': Combined with thīna, 'torpor',
it forms one of the 5 hindrances (nīvarana). Both may be
associated with greedy consciousness (s. Tab. III and I, 23, 25, 27, 29).
middle path: majjhima-patipadā.
mind: mano; cf.
nāma.
mind and corporeality: nāma-rūpa.
mind-base: manāyatana; s. āyatana.
mind-consciousness-element: mano-viññāna-dhātu.
mind-element: mano-dhātu.
mindfulness: sati; s.
satipatthāna.
- Right m.: s. sacca,
magga.
mind-object: dhamma; s. āyatana. -
Contemplation of the, s. satipatthāna (4).
mind-training, 'higher': adhicitta-sikkhā, s.
sikkhā.
miracle: s. pātihāriya.
mirth (in the Arahat): s. hasituppāda-citta.
misapprehension: s. parāmāsa.
misery, contemplation of: dukkhānupassanā; s.
ti-lakkhana.
moha: 'delusion', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (mūla). The best known synonym is
avijjā.
moha-carita the 'deluded-natured'; s. carita.
momentaneity (of existence): s. marana.
monkhood, the fruits of; sāmañña-phala.
monks' community: Sangha; further s.
pabbajjā,
progress of the disciple.
morality: sīla. - Contemplation on, s.
anussati
(4).
morality-training, higher: adhisīla-sikkhā; s.
sikkhā.
moral rules, the 5, 8 or 10: s. sikkhāpada.
muccitu-kamyatā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in the
desire for deliverance'; s. visuddhi VI.6.
muditā: 'altruistic (or sympathetic) joy', is one of the
4 sublime abodes (brahma-vihāra).
mudutā (rūpa, kāya, citta): 'elasticity' (of
corporeality, mental factors, consciousness); s. khandha (I) and
Tab.II.
mūla
multiformity-perceptions: nānatta-saññā; s.
jhāna
(5).
mundane: lokiya.
mutability: Contemplation of: viparināmanupassanā:
see vipassanā.
