Awareness & Direct Knowing
"When, with regard to these six bases, the defilements of awareness (cetaso upakkilese, defilement of the mind) are abandoned, then the mind is inclined to renunciation. The mind fostered by renunciation feels malleable for the direct knowing of those qualities worth realizing." [SN 27.7 Cetana Sutta]
Briefly, the Pali 'ceto', or 'cetaso', means mind (or awareness, according to venerable Thanissaro Bhikkhu).
cetaso ekodibhāvam = unification of mind; stilling of awareness
cetaso vūpasamo = pacified mind
vimokkho hoti cetaso = release of mind
cetaso ca līnatta.m = sluggishness of awareness
cetaso vikkhepa.m = derangement of mind
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Direct knowledge (Abhiññā) is never mentally fabricated or concocted by craving, wrong views or ignorance (lobha/tanha, ditthi/avijjā). When direct knowing arises, all properties (dhātu), all sense media, all sensed objects, aggregates and phenomena are seen, as they truly are, with detachment.
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