(lit. 'name'): 'mind', mentality.
This term is
generally used as a collective name for the 4 mental groups (arūpino khandha),
viz.
Within the 4th link (nāma-rūpa)
in the formula of the paticcasamuppāda (q.v.), however, it applies only
to karma-resultant (vipāka) feeling and perception and a few
karma-resultant mental functions inseparable from any consciousness.
As it is
said (M.9; D.15; S.XII.2): "Feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā),
intention (cetanā), contact (phassa), mental advertence (manasikāra):
this, o brother, is called mind (nāma)."
With the addition of 2
more mental factors, namely, mental vitality (jīvita) and concentration (samādhi),
here 'stationary phase of mind' (cittatthiti), these 7 factors are said
in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha to be the inseparable mental factors in any state
of consciousness.
For the complete list of all the 50 mental constructions of the sankhāra-kkhandha
(not including feeling and perception), s. Tab. II.

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