Ahetuka Cittas which are Unknown in Daily Life - Three ahetuka kiriyacittas
1. Pañca-dvārāvajjana-citta (five-door-adverting
consciousness)
2. Mano-dvārāvajjana-citta (mind-door-adverting-
consciousness), which performs the function of
adverting to the object through the mind-door
when it arises in the mind-door process and
which performs the function of votthapana
(determining the object) when it arises in the
sense-door process
3. Hasituppāda-citta (smile-producing-consciousness)
Those who are not arahats can have only seventeen of the eighteen ahetuka
cittas. These seventeen types of ahetuka citta arise in our daily life. When an
object impinges on one of the five senses, the pañca-dvārāvajjana-citta (the
five-door-adverting consciousness) turns towards the object through that
sense-door. This citta is followed by pañca-viññāna (one of the ten cittas
which are the ''five pairs'') which experiences the object, by sampaticchana-
citta which receives it, by santīrana-citta which investigates it and by
votthapana-citta which determines the object and then by akusala cittas or
kusala cittas. When the cittas of the sense-door process have fallen away the
object is experienced through the mind-door. The mano-dvārāvajjana-citta
adverts to the object through the mind-door and is then followed by akusala
cittas or kusala cittas. There is 'unwise attention' (ayoniso manasikāra) to the
object which is experienced if akusala cittas arise, and there is 'wise
attention' (yoniso manasikāra) to the object if kusala cittas arise. For
example, when we see insects there may be dislike and then there are dosa-
mūla-cittas, cittas rooted in aversion. Thus there is unwise attention. The
dosa may be so strong that one wants to kill the insects; then there is akusala
kamma. If one realizes that killing is akusala and one abstains from killing,
there are kusala cittas and thus there is wise attention. If one studies
Dhamma and develops vipassanā, insight, it is a condition that there is more
often wise attention. When we are mindful of the nāma or rūpa which
appears through one of the sense-doors or through the mind-door, there is
wise attention at that moment.