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abandoning Abhidhamma absorption according adverting applied thought apprehending Arahant Arahantship arisen arising ascetic attainment base consisting beginning bhikkhu Blessed bliss bodily body bones Brahma breathe Buddha Buddhaghosa called cessation characteristic clinging colour commentary concentration condition consciousness contemplation craving death defilements deities dependent origination Dhamma direct-knowledge divine eye earth kasina Elder enlightenment enlightenment factor equanimity factors faculty feeling fine-material firstly five aggregates formations fruition function greed happiness head hairs immaterial impermanent in-breaths individual essence insight jhana kamma kinds of becoming knowledge life-continuum lovingkindness materiality meaning meditation subject mental mentality-materiality mind Nāga ness nibbana Noble nutriment occurs Once-return out-breaths owing P. T. S. Dict pain Pali path Patimokkha perception purification rebirth rebirth-linking recollection root-cause sense sense sphere sense-desire Sinhalese special qualities Stream-entry suffering supernormal power supramundane sustained thought Sutta temperament things tion Tipitaka understanding understood unprofitable venerable sir Vibhanga virtue visible Visuddhimagga void words