Human Development
Profitable consciousness in the fine-material sphere
Description:
A total of 5 kinds of consciousness may arise here. These are associated with the jhana factors, that is: (i) with applied thought or inception of thought; sustained thought; happiness, joy or zest; bliss or ease; and concentration. (ii) with sustained thought; happiness, joy or zest; bliss or ease; and concentration. (iii) with happiness, joy or zest; bliss or ease; and concentration. (iv) with bliss or ease and concentration, happiness having faded away. (v) with concentration and equanimity.All 5 give rise to materiality and to postures but not to intimation.
Context:
In Hinayana Buddhism, 89 consciousnesses are enumerated in aggregate (khanda). Of these, 21 are profitable or moral, 12 are unprofitable or immoral and 56 are indeterminate (resultant or functional). The unprofitable all arise in the sphere of sense and desire, whereas profitable and indeterminate arise in sense, fine-material, immaterial and supramundane spheres.< Broader:
Dispositions of consciousness Related:
Formation of merit