Adhiṭṭhāna

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Adhiṭṭhāna (

awakened
.

Pāli Canon texts

While adhiṭṭhāna appears sporadically in the early

Gautama Buddha
's past lives clearly contextualize adhiṭṭhāna within the Theravadin ten perfections.

Digha Nikaya analysis

In the

Buddha
identified the following:

Four kinds of resolve (adhiṭṭhānī): [to gain] (a)
wisdom, (b) truth (sacca), (c) relinquishment (cāga), (d) tranquility (upasama).[4]

Bodhisatta Sumedho

In the late-canonical

Buddhavamsa, the Bodhisatta
Sumedha declares (represented in English and Pali):

And as a mountain, a rock, stable and firmly based,
does not tremble in rough winds but remains in precisely its own place,
so you too must be constantly stable in resolute determination;
going on to the perfection of Resolute Determination, you will attain Self-Awakening.[5]

Yathā'pi pabbato selo acalo suppatiṭṭhito
Na kampati bhusavātehi sakaṭṭhāne'va tiṭṭhati.
Tathe'ca tvampi adhiṭṭhāne sabbadā acalo bhava
Adhiṭṭhānapāramiṃ gantvā sambodhiṃ pāpuṇissasi.[6]

Temiya the Wise

In the late-canonical

devatā advises Temiya to act unintelligent and foolish and to allow himself to be an object of people's scorn.[7]
Understanding the devatā's virtuous intent, Temiya agrees to this and acts as if mute, deaf, and crippled. Seeing these behaviors but finding no physiological basis for them, priests, generals and countrymen decry Temiya as "inauspicious" and plan to have Temiya cast out. When Temiya is sixteen years old, he is ceremonially anointed and then buried in a pit. The account concludes:

... I did not break that resolute determination which was for the sake of Awakening itself. Mother and father were not disagreeable to me and nor was self disagreeable to me. Omniscience [sabbaññuta] was dear to me, therefore I resolutely determined on that itself. Resolutely determining on those factors I lived for sixteen years. There was no one equal to me in resolute determination — this was my perfection of Resolute Determination.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. Rhys Davids, T.W.; Stede, William, eds. (1921–25). "adhiṭṭhāna". The Pali Text Society's Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society. p. 28. As further noted in Rhys Davids & Stede, in the Pali Canon, adhiṭṭhāna can at times be wrongly motivated, connoting "obstinancy," as indicated by the Pali phrase adhiṭṭhāna-abhinivesa-anusayā, "obstinacy, prejudice and bias" (p. 44, "anusaya"
    ).
  2. Goenka, S.N.
    (1995). The Discourse Summaries. Vipassana Research Publications. p. 72.
  3. ISBN 0-86013-072-X
    .
  4. ^ DN 33 1.11(27), translation by Walshe (1995), p. 492, v. 27. Parenthesized Pali and square-bracketed English are in the original.
  5. Buddhavamsa
    IIA.154-5 (trans. Horner, "Buddhavamsa," p. 22).
  6. ^ "Buddhavamsa". Bodhgaya News. II.153-4. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  7. ^ Horner (2000), p. 36 n. 5, comments: "Kings, having to be very harsh, accumulated much demerit leading to Niraya [a Buddhist hell realm]."
  8. ^ For the whole account, see Horner (2000), pp. 36-38. The final quotation is from Horner (2000), pp. 37-38, vv. 17-19.

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