The Characteristic of Lobha - Eight types of lobha-mūla-citta

It is useful to learn the Pāli terms and their meaning, because the English

translation does not render the meaning of realities very clearly.

 

The eight types of lobha-mūla-citta are:

 

1. Accompanied by pleasant feeling, with wrong view, unprompted.  

(Somanassa-sahagatam ditthigata-sampayuttam, asankhārikam ekam)

 

2. Accompanied by pleasant feeling, with wrong view, prompted.

(Somanassa-sahagatam, ditthigata-sampayuttam, sasankhārikam ekam)

 

3. Accompanied by pleasant feeling, without wrong view, unprompted.      

(Somanassa-sahagatam, ditthigata-vippayuttam , asankhārikam ekam )

 

4. Accompanied  by pleasant feeling, without wrong view, prompted.

(Somanassa-sahagatam, ditthigata-vippayuttam, sasankhārikam ekam)

 

5. Accompanied by indifferent feeling, with wrong view, unprompted.

(Upekkhā-sahagatam, ditthigata-sampayuttam, asankhārikam ekam)

 

6. Accompanied by indifferent feeling, with wrong view, prompted.

(Upekkhā-sahagatam, ditthigata-sampayuttam, sasankhārikam ekam)

 

7. Accompanied by indifferent feeling, without wrong view, unprompted.

(Upekkhā-sahagatam, ditthigata-vippayuttam, asankhārikam ekam)

 

8. Accompanied by indifferent feeling, without wrong view, prompted.

(Upekkhā-sahagatam, ditthigata-vippayuttam, sasankhārikam ekam)


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