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 8

The cittas which are accompanied by vitakka and vicāra

Both vitakka and vicāra arise with 44 kāmāvacara cittas, the ten dvi-pañcaviññāṇas are excluded.

As regards jhānacittas, vitakka accompanies only the three rūpāvacara cittas of the first stage of jhāna, whereas vicāra accompanies the three rūpāvacara cittas of the first stage of jhāna and the three rūpāvacara cittas of the second stage of jhāna (of the five-fold system), thus, altogether six rūpāvacara cittas. In the cases that the function of paṭisandhi is performed by rūpāvacara vipākacitta, the citta is not always accompanied by vitakka and vicāra. The rūpāvacara vipākacitta of the second stage of jhāna (of the five-fold system) is not accompanied by vitakka, but it is accompanied by vicāra. The rūpāvacara vipākacittas of the subsequent stages of jhāna are not accompanied by vitakka nor by vicāra. As regards arūpāvacara cittas, they are of the same type of citta as the rūpāvacara cittas of the fifth stage of rūpa-jhāna, thus, they are not accompanied by vitakka nor by vicāra.

When lokuttara jhānacittas, lokuttara cittas accompanied by jhāna-factors of the different stages of jhāna, are taken into account, there are forty lokuttara cittas instead of eight. Among these there are eight lokuttara cittas accompanied by the jhāna-factors of the first stage of jhāna, thus these are accompanied by both vitakka and vicāra. The lokuttara cittas accompanied by the jhāna-factors of the second stage of jhāna (of the five-fold system) are accompanied by vicāra but not by vitakka. The lokuttara cittas accompanied by the jhāna-factors of the higher stages of jhāna are without vicāra, since vicāra has been abandoned at those stages. Thus, there are sixteen lokuttara cittas accompanied by vicāra. When cittas are counted as 121 (including forty lokuttara cittas), vitakka accompanies:

  • 44 kāmāvacara cittas

  • 3 rūpāvacara cittas

  • 8 lokuttara cittas

—altogether: 55 cittas

As regards vicāra, this cetasika accompanies:

  • 44 kāmāvacara cittas

  • 6 rūpāvacara cittas

  • 16 lokuttara cittas

—altogether: 66 cittas

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