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The Ten Mental Factors Mahabhumika Dharmas - List

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The ten mental factors are common to all consciousnesses and form part of the Sthaviravāda Sarvastivada tradition.

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The Ten Mental Factors Mahabhumika Dharmas - List

Mental factors are aspects of the mind that apprehend the quality of an object and have the ability to colour the mind.
The fundamental distinction between the mind and mental events is that the mind apprehends an object as a whole, whereas mental events apprehend an object in its particulars. If we perceive a table, then the perception of the table itself would be related to the mind, whereas the particular characteristics of that table would be the object of perception for the mental events.
So, a waterfall, first, we have an immediate perception of the table. After that, we have certain feelings, make certain judgments, involved with that particular perception.
Those things called mental events.
Different traditions have different but similar lists of mental factors.

The Ten Mental Factors Mahabhumika Dharmas

01. Contact or touch. Sparśa or Phassa.

Part of the five sense-contacts (phassa-pancaka) and the five omnipresent mental events which additionally includes thought (Citta).
By connecting an object, the organ and the primary consciousness, activates the organ, i.e. the organ is transformed into an entity with the ability to act as a basis for feelings of pleasure, pain and indifference. It is the cause of feeling.

02. Feeling or sensation. Vedanā.

Part of the five sense-contacts (phassa-pancaka) and five omnipresent mental events which additionally include thought (Citta).
Vedanā is an experience of pleasure, pain or indifference. Feeling experiences the results of past actions and can lead to reactions of attachment, aversion, closed-mindedness, etc.

03. Perception. Saṃjñā or Sanna.

Part of the five sense-contacts (phassa-pancaka) and five omnipresent mental events which additionally includes thought (Citta).

04. Volition, intention or will. Cetanā.

Part of the five sense-contacts (phassa-pancaka) and five omnipresent mental events which additionally include thought (Citta).
Cetanā is the conscious and automatic motivating element that causes the mind to involve itself with and apprehend its object. It is action, karma. It makes the mind engage in what is constructive, destructive and neutral.

05. Attention. Manasikāra.

Part of the five omnipresent mental events.

07. Mindfulness. Smṛti.

Part of the five object-determining factors.

07. Mindfulness. Smṛti.

08. Desire or intention (to act). Chanda.

Part of the five object-determining factors, Chanda functions to direct the primary mind and mental factors with which it is associated to the object and to actually apprehend the object. It focuses and holds the mind on an object without allowing it to move elsewhere.

09. Decision. Adhimokṣa.

Part of the five object-determining factors.

10. Samādhi. Mental concentration. it also called Ekaggata, one-pointedness.

Part of the five object-determining factors.

Synonyms/tags: five omnipresent mental events, five object-determining factors




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