BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - O -

obduracies, the 5 mental: ceto-khila.

obhāsa: 'effulgence of light', aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassanā), may become a 'defilement of insight' (vipassanūpakkilesa); cf. visuddhi V.

object: ārammana; as condition s. paccaya (2).

obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha; 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).

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.

one-pointedness of mind (citt'ekaggatā): a name for mental concentration (samādhi).

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.

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.