Cetasikas
  • Book Info
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Universals
    • Contact
    • Feeling
    • Perception
    • Volition
    • Volition in the Cycle of Birth and Death
    • Concentration
    • Vitality and Attention
  • PART 11: The Particulars
    • Applied thinking and Sustained thinking
    • Determination and Energy
    • Right Effort of the eightfold Path
    • Enthusiasm
    • Zeal
  • PART III: Akusala Cetasikas
    • Introduction to Akusala Cittas
    • Ignorance Shamelessness Recklessness and Restlessness
    • Attachment
    • Wrong View
    • Conceit
    • Aversion
    • Envy Stinginess Regret
    • Sloth Torpor and Doubt
    • Different Groups of Defilements Part I
    • Different Groups of Defilements Part II
    • Different Groups of Defilements Part III
  • PART IV: Beautiful Cetasikas
    • Introduction to Sobhana Cetasikas
    • Confidence
    • Mindfulness
    • Moral Shame and Fear of Blame
    • Non-Attachment
    • Non-Aversion
    • Equanimity
    • Six Pairs of Beautiful Cetasikas
    • The Three Abstinences
    • Compassion and Sympathetic Joy
    • Understanding
    • The Stages of Insight
    • Wholesome Deeds
  • Appendix
    • Appendix to Chapter 2
    • Appendix to Chapter 5
    • Appendix to Chapter 8
    • Appendix to Chapter 9
    • Appendix to Chapter 11
    • Appendix to Chapter 12
    • Appendix to Chapter 20
    • Appendix to Chapter 31
    • Appendix to Chapter 34
    • Appendix to Stages of Insight
  • Footnotes
  • Glossary
  • Books
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  1. Appendix

Appendix to Chapter 20

Summarizing the fourteen akusala cetasikas, they are:

  1. ignorance (moha)

  2. shamelessness (ahirika)

  3. recklessness or fear of blame (anottappa)

  4. restlessness (uddhacca)

    The above 4 arise with all akusala cittas

  5. attachment (lobha), arising with eight types of citta, the cittas which are lobha-mūla-cittas, cittas rooted in attachment.

  6. wrong view (diṭṭhi), arising with four types of cittas rooted in

    attachment.

  7. conceit (māna), arising with the four types of cittas rooted in

    attachment which are unaccompanied by wrong view.

  8. aversion (dosa), arising with two types of citta, the cittas which

    are dosa-mūla-cittas, cittas rooted in aversion.

  9. envy (issā)

  10. stinginess (macchariya)

  11. regret (kukkucca)

    The above 3 may or may not arise with the two types of citta rooted in aversion, but they never arise together.

  12. sloth (thīna)

  13. torpor (middha)

    The above 2, may or may not arise with four types of citta rooted in attachment which are prompted, and with one type of citta rooted in aversion which is prompted. Sloth and torpor always arise together.

  14. doubt (vicikicchā) arising with one type of moha-mūla-citta, citta rooted in ignorance

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