“It is volition (cetana) that I call kamma; for having willed (cetayitva), one acts by body, speech, and mind.” Quoted from ANIII 145, Anguttara Nikaya III 145.
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12/21/2018 慧門師父答 volitional formations.
波浪掀起的波頭, 即是萬象初起之機, 這機似乎無意決擇, 卻有個莫名的意志. 這波頭 (機) 就是型(形)與行的綜合體.
“The Origin of Buddhist Meditation” by Alexander Wynne, 2207 by Rouleedge, p111.
They therefore follow the philosophical presupposition of early Brahminic meditation, i.e. that inner concentration is a means of reversing the process of cosmic creation in one’s mind. Formless meditation and element meditation must have been borrowed from a Brahminic source. Such a Brahminic sources is suggested by the correspondences between the early Brahmnic evidence and the goals of Alara Kalama and Uddaka Rampaputta.
The goal of Alara Kalama (akincanna) corresponds to the Brahminic notion that the unmanifest braman is a state of ‘non-existence’.
The goal of Uddaka Ramaputta (nevasannanasanna)corresponds to the description of unmanifest state of the cosmos in the Nasadiyasukta and the ultimate state of the state of the self in the Mandukya Upanisad, and the aphorism passam na passati corresponds to pasyan vai tan na pasyati used to describe the nondual state of the atman.