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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: ārammana (q.v.); as condition s. paccaya
(2).
obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha
(q.v.); for the 5 mental obstacles, or hindrances, s. nīvarana.
odāta-kasina: 'white-kasina-exercise'; s. kasina.
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' (suddhatthaka-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 karma 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. dhutanga.
one-group existence: eka-vokāra-bhava (q.v.).
one-pointedness of mind (citt'ekaggatā): 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 (samyojana,
q.v.), he (the Anāgāmi) appears in a spiritual world (opapātika)
...."
open air, practice of living in the: s. dhutanga.
opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' s. pahāna.
orambhāgiya-samyojana: the 'lower fetters', i.e. the
first 5 fetters that bind to lower existence; s. samyojana.
origination, dependent: paticcasamuppāda (q.v.).
origination of corporeality: s. samutthāna.
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.