- This is said with tongue in cheek, since in the Thai system of Bud-
dhist scholarship the ninth grade of Pãli studies is the highest level of
achievement. - The Pãåimokkha is the basic code of monastic discipline. It com-
prises 227 rules of conduct and is usually recited rule by rule before an
assembly of monks every fortnight. - Ti-lakkhana are the three fundamental characteristics inherent in
all conditioned phenomena, that is, they are inherently impermanent
and unstable (anicca), bound up with pain and suffering (dukkha), and
devoid of anything which can be identified as “self” (anattã). - Rãgataõhã (see Note #19, page 473)
6. That is, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness or Satipaååhãna: rýpa
(body), vedanã (feelings), citta (mental states), and dhamma (mental
phenomena). - Kho nu hãso kim ãnando (“why all this laughter, why all the joy”)
is taken from Dhammapada verse 146:
Why all this laughter, why all the joy,
When the world is always burning?
Since you are shrouded in darkness,
Why not seek the light?
8. The suddhãvãsa, or Pure Abodes, are the five highest realms of the
brahma world. After death, an Anãgãmï will be reborn in one of the
Pure Abodes, there to attain Nibbãna, and thus never to return to this
world again.
9. Appanã samãdhi, or “full absorption”, is a state into which the citta
‘converges’, or ‘drops’, once it has become fully integrated with the object
of meditation. Upon reaching the appanã or base level of samãdhi, the
meditation object and awareness of body, mind, and environment all
disappear. (see Note #33, page 475) - Ãcariya Mun was diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. He
died on November 10, 1949.
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