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Why is there no
Deliverance
Deliverance
in the Third Dhyana?
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991
Why is there no
Deliverance
in the Third Dhyana?
Word:
thought
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Question:
What is the significance of the absence of Deliverance in the Third Dhyana in relation to the practice of meditation?
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In the practice of meditation, the absence of Deliverance in the Third Dhyana is significant because it is a stage where body consciousness is absent and there is no craving for visible things, which should be opposed in the Third Dhyana. However, the purpose of producing the Third Deliverance is to gladden the mind which the meditation on loathsome things has depressed and to contemplate on an agreeable physical object, which helps to remove or render defilements more distant and to obtain mastery in absorption. The mastery in absorption has the result of producing qualities such as Absence of Contention and supernormal powers of the Aryans. The difference between the Deliverances and the Dominant Ayatanas is that the former only deliver one from the obstacles to liberation, while the latter attains domination of their object, including the view of the object as one desires and the absence of any defilement provoked by the object. The All-Encompassing Ayatanas have Kamadhatu for their object and are realized by an ascetic in the Fourth Dhyana.
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