BUD510 MW2 Modes/Mental Events Ch 5 Omnipresent & Object-determining ME

Question 1

FIVE OMNIPRESENT MENTAL FACTORS (सर्वत्रग ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་)

Answer 1

संस्कृत དབུ་ཅན་

1 १ ༡ वेदना vedanā ཚོར་བ་ tshor ba feeling
2 २ ༢ संज्ञा saṃjñā འདུ་ཤེས་ ‘du shes discrimination
3 ३ ༣ चेतना cetanā སེམས་པ་ sems pa impulse
4 ४ ༤ स्पर्श sparśa རེག་པ་ reg pa contact
5 ५ ༥ मनस्कार manaskāra ཡིད་བྱེད་ yid byed mental engagement

All 5 OME must be present to experience an object of primary mind, like a sovereign and their entourage.

Question 2

OMF

Feeling

Answer 2

1 १ ༡ वेदना vedanā ཚོར་བ་ tshor ba feeling
That which is of the nature of experience.

7th of 12 nidāna

Question 3

OMF

Discrimination

Answer 3

2 २ ༢ संज्ञा saṃjñā འདུ་ཤེས་ ‘du shes discrimination
That which apprehends characteristics.

Question 4

OMF

Impulse

Answer 4

3 ३ ༣ चेतना cetanā སེམས་པ་ sems pa impulse
The expression of mental function in the phase when the mind moves towards an object.

Equivalent: Intention

Likened to magnet, most importantly mental event. More generalized apprehension compared to mental engagement.

2nd of 12 nidāna

Question 5

OMF

Contact

Answer 5

4 ४ ༤ स्पर्श sparśa རེག་པ་ reg pa contact
The full sensing of the change in the sense faculty in accordance with pleasant or painful feelings occurring due to the meeting of object, sense faculty, and mental engagement.

5th of 12 nidāna

Question 6

OMF

Mental Engagement

Answer 6

5 ५ ༥ मनस्कार manaskāra ཡིད་བྱེད་ yid byed mental engagement
Apprehending the particular object of focus to which the mind is directed, again and again.

Similar to impulse, but more focused and repeated apprehension.

Question 7

5 OBJECT-DETERMINING MENTAL EVENTS (विनियित ཡུལ་ལ་བྱེད་པ་)

Answer 7

संस्कृत དབུ་ཅན་

1 १ ༡ छन्द chanda འདུན་པ་ ‘dun pa striving/aspiration
2 २ ༢ अधिमोक्ष adhimokṣa མོས་པ་ mos pa conviction
3 ३ ༣ स्मृति smṛti དྲན་པ་ dran pa recollection
4 ४ ༤ समाधि samādhi ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ ting nge ‘dzin meditative concentration
5 ५ ༥ प्रज्ञा prajñā ཤེས་རབ་ shes rab supreme knowledge
- dran shes (dran pa/mindfulness + shes bzhin/Saṃprajanya/alertness) स्मृति संप्रजन्य

Question 8

ODMF

Striving, Aspiration

Answer 8

1 १ ༡ छन्द chanda འདུན་པ་ ‘dun pa striving/aspiration
Pursuing an intended object

9th of 12 nidāna (grasping)

Question 9

ODMF

Conviction

Answer 9

2 २ ༢ अधिमोक्ष adhimokṣa མོས་པ་ mos pa conviction

Apprehending something about which certainty has been obtained as just so.

Question 10

ODMF

Recollection

Answer 10

3 ३ ༣ स्मृति smṛti དྲན་པ་ dran pa recollection

Not forgetting familiar objects.

Question 11

ODMF

Meditative Concentration

Answer 11

4 ४ ༤ समाधि samādhi ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ ting nge ‘dzin meditative concentration
A one-pointed mind concerning the object to be examined.

Question 12

ODMF

Supreme Knowledge

Answer 12

5 ५ ༥ प्रज्ञा prajñā ཤེས་རབ་ shes rab supreme knowledge
Fully distinguishing specifically and generally characterized phenomena.

• dran shes (dran pa/mindfulness + shes bzhin/Saṃprajanya/alertness) स्मृति संप्रजन्य