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Obduracies: the 5 mental: ceto-khila
Obhāsa: 'effulgence of light', aura, appearing
at times during deep insight vipassanā
may become a 'defilement of insight' vipassanūpakkilesa; cf.
visuddhi V.
Object: Ārammana,
as condition see: paccaya 2.
Obstacles: the 10 o. of meditation:
palibodha, for the 5 mental obstacles,
or hindrances, see: nīvarana
Odāta-kasina: 'white-kasina-exercise'; see:
kasina
Ogha: 'floods', is a name for the 4 fermentations
āsava.
Ojā: 'nutriment' synonym of
āhāra, is one of those 8 minimal constituent
parts, or qualities, of all materiality, to wit: the solid, liquid, heat,
motion; colour, odour, taste and nutriment. This is the 'octad with nutriment
as the eighth factor' ojatthamaka-kalāpa
also called the 'pure 8-fold unit' suddhatthaka-kalāpa
being the most primitive material combination. For further details, see:
rūpa-kalāpa.
Okkanti: 'conception', lit. 'descent', designates
the appearance of the embryo in the mother's womb, i.e. the beginning of the
birth process jāti.;Through the concurrence
of 3 circumstances arises the embryo. When father and mother have united,...
and the mother has her time, and the 'genius' metaphorically for the kamma
energy is ready; under these 3 circumstances does the embryo appear;
M. 38.
Old age: jarā,
is one of the 3 divine messengers see: devadūta
Olfactory organ: s.
āyatana.
Omāna: 'inferiority-conceit'; see:
māna
Once-eater: the practice of the: see:
dhutānga.
One-group existence:
eka-vokāra-bhava
One-pointedness of mind:
citt'ekaggatā a name for mental
concentration samādhi.
Opapātika: lit. 'accidental' from upapāta
accident; not from upapatti as PTS
Dict. has; 'spontaneously born', i.e. born without the instrumentality of
parents. This applies to all divine and infernal beings.;After the disappearing
of the 5 lower mental chains samyojana,
he the Anāgāmi appears in a spiritual world
opapātika...
Open air: practice of living in the: see:
dhutānga
Opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' see:
pahāna
Orambhāgiya-samyojana: the 'lower
mental chains', i.e. the first 5 mental chains that bind to lower existence;
see: samyojana
Origination: dependent:
paticcasamuppāda
Origination of materiality:
s. samutthāna
Ottappa: 'Fear of Wrongdoing'; see:
hiri-ottappa
Overcoming: the 5 kinds of: see:
pahāna- Full understanding consisting
in o.; see: pariññā - the effort
to overcome, see: padhāna- Overcoming
doubt, the purification by; see: visuddhi
IV.