The Sobhana Cittas in Our Life - Thirty asobhana cittas

Both akusala cittas and ahetuka cittas are asobhana cittas, they are not accompanied by sobhana (beautiful) cetasikas. As we have seen, there are twelve types of akusala citta. They are:

         8 types of lobha-mūla-citta (cittas rooted in attachment)

         2 types of dosa-mūla-citta (cittas rooted in aversion)

         2 types of moha-mūla-citta (cittas rooted in ignorance)

 

As regards ahetuka cittas, they are cittas which are not accompanied by any

hetus (roots). When the citta is ahetuka there are no sobhana cetasikas

arising with the citta and thus ahetuka cittas are asobhana. As we have seen,

there are eighteen types of ahetuka citta. Summarizing them, they are : 

 

         10 dvi-pañca-viññānas, which are ahetuka vipākacittas

(the five pairs which are seeing, hearing, etc. )

          2  sampaticchana-cittas, which are ahetuka vipākacittas (one

kusala vipaka and one akusala vipāka).            

          3  santirana-cittas, which are ahetuka vipākacittas (one akusala

vipāka, one kusala vipāka, accompanied by upekkhā, and one kusala vipāka,

accompanied by somanassa).

          1  pañca-dvārāvajjana-citta (five-sense-door-adverting-

consciousness) which is ahetuka kiriyācitta.

          1  mano-dvārāvajjana-citta (mind-door-adverting-consciousness)

which is ahetuka kiriyācitta.

          1  hasituppāda-citta, an ahetuka kiriyācitta which can produce the

smile of the arahat.

  Thus, there are thirty asobhana cittas : twelve akusala cittas and eighteen ahetuka cittas.