Nineteen Beautiful Shades of Mind | Ajahn Kovilo
Channel: Clear Mountain Monastery
Date: 30/06/2022

In this session, Ajahn Kovilo gives the month's final talk and Q&A on the five aggregates (khandhā) with special focus on the 19 "universal beautiful mental factors" (sobhaṇasādhāraṇa-cetasikā):
1) faith (Saddhā),
2) mindfulness (sati),
3) conscience (hiri),
4) moral dread (ottappa),
5) non-greed (alobha),
6) non-hatred (adosa = ’lovingkindness’ – mettā),
7) equanimity (tatra-majjhattatā; sometimes referred to as upekkha),
8) tranquillity of the mental body (kāya-passaddhi; tranquillity of the collection of mental concomitants),
9) tranquillity of mind (citta-passaddhi),
10) lightness of mental body (kāya-lahutā),
11) lightness of mind (citta-lahutā),
12) pliancy of mental body (kāya-mudutā),
13) pliancy of mind (citta-mudutā),
14) adaptability of mental body (kāya-kammaññatā),
15) adaptability of mind (citta-kammaññatā),
16) proficiency of mental body (kāya-pāguññatā),
17) proficiency of mind (citta-pāguññatā),
18) rectitude of mental body (kāyujukatā), and
19) rectitude of mind (cittujukatā). 
This talk is the final in a series delving into Chapter One of the book Buddhadhamma by P.A. Payutto. That first chapter can be read here: https://buddhadhamma.github.io/five-aggregates.html

0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Dhamma Talk
28:14 - Q&A -  Why is kaya translated as 'mental body' rather than 'body'?
33:55 - Q&A - How did the Abidharma come to be?
42:58 - Q&A - Can it be said, or did you say - apart from a shift in attitude, that the list of 19 also means each of the 19 themselves contain the other 18 qualities?
44:50 - Outro

Tune in with fellow practitioners every Wednesday evening from 6 - 6:45 pm or Saturday morning from 9:30 am - 11 am for a Dhamma Talk and Q&A with Ajahn Kovilo or Tan Nisabho. Saturday mornings begin with a thirty-minute meditation. Wednesday evening Q&A's are followed by a discussion on Zoom from 6:45 pm - 7:30 pm. See https://www.clearmountainmonastery.org/ or visit https://linktr.ee/clear_mountain_monastery for details. Welcome!

To participate in the Saturday chanting, use the pdf found here: https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/abhayagiri_monastic_foundation_chanting_book_revision_2010.pdf