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obduracies, the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.).
obhāsa: 'effulgence
of light', aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassanā), may become a
'defilement of insight' (vipassanūpakkilesa);
cf. visuddhi, V.
object:
ārammaṇa (q.v.); as condition s. paccaya (2).
obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha (q.v.); for the 5
mental obstacles, or hindrances, s.
nīvaraṇa.
odāta-kasiṇa:
'white-kasiṇa-exercise'; s.
kasiṇa.
ogha: 'floods', is a name for the 4 cankers (āsava, q.v.).
ojā: 'nutriment' (synonym of āhāra, q.v.), is one of those 8 minimal
constituent parts, or qualities, of all corporeality, 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 eightfold unit' (suddhaṭṭhaka-kalāpa), being the most primitive
material combination. For further details, s. 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, q.v.).
"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 (q.v.), is one of the 3 divine messengers (s. devadūta).
olfactory organ: s.
āyatana.
omāna: 'inferiority-conceit'; s. māna.
once-eater, the practice of the: s. dhutaṅga.
one-group
existence: eka-vokāra-bhava (q.v.).
one-pointedness of
mind (cittekaggatā): a
name for mental concentration (samādhi,
q.v.).
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 heavenly
and infernal beings. "After the disappearing of the 5 lower fetters (saṃyojana, q.v.), he (the Anāgāmi) appears in a
spiritual world (opapātika)
...."
open air, practice of living in the: s. dhutaṅga.
opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' s. pahāna.
orambhāgiya-saṃyojana:
the 'lower fetters', i.e. the
first 5 fetters that bind to lower existence; s. saṃyojana.
origination, dependent:
paṭiccasamuppāda
(q.v.).
origination of
corporeality: s. samuṭṭhāna.
ottappa : 'moral dread'; s. hiri-ottappa .
overcoming, the 5 kinds of: s. pahāna. - Full understanding consisting in o.;
s. pariññā - the effort to overcome, s. padhāna. -
Overcoming doubt, the purification by; s. visuddhi,
IV.
