Uddhacca: 8 definitions
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Uddhacca means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
N (Wandering of the mind). The fact to be distracted by thoughts. To have an agitated, scattered and airy spirit.
Part of the Moha Team.
Upset;
Uddhacca is a close friend to moha and it also works together with ahirika and anotappa. Uddhacca is_ restlessness. It spreads and disperses and wanders around. It is said to be like throwing of a stone into a heap of ash. In its presence, citta becomes restless and upset. These 4 akusala cetasikas always arise in all akusala citta. So they are called sabbaakusalasadharana cetasikas.
Uddhacca, translated as restlessness, agitation, excitement or confusion, is another akusala cetasika which arises with each akusala citta.
'restlessness', belongs to the 10 fetters (samyojana), and to the 5 hindrances (nīvarana).
It is one of those 4 mental factors inseparably associated with all unwholesome consciousness (akusala-sādhārana).
Cf. Tab. II.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
uddhacca : (nt.) distraction; flurry; haughtiness.
Uddhacca, (nt.) (substantivised ger. of ud-dharati, ud + dhṛ, cp. uddhaṭa & uddhata. The BSk. auddhatya shows a strange distortion. BSk. uddhava seems to be also a substitute for uddhacca) over-balancing, agitation, excitement, distraction, flurry (see on meaning Dialogues I. 82; Dhs. trsln. 119; Cpd. 18, 45, 83). A. I, 256, 282; III, 375, 421, 449; IV, 87; V, 142, 145, 148; D. III, 234; S. V, 277 sq.; DhSA 260; SnA 492 (in sense of “haughtiness”? for Sn. 702 uṇṇata); Nd1 220, 501; Ps. I, 81, 83; II, 9, 97 sq.; 119, 142, 145, 169, 176; Pug. 18, 59; Dhs. 427, 429 (cittassa), 1159, 1229, 1426, 1482; Vbh. 168, 369, 372, 377; Vism. 137, 469 (= uddhata-bhāva); Sdhp. 459. Together with kukkucca “flurry or worry” u. is enumd. as the 4th of the 5th nīvaraṇa’s and as the 9th of the 10 saṃyojana’s (q. v.), e.g. at D. I, 71, 246; III, 49, 234, 269, 278; S. I, 99; A. I, 3; III, 16; V, 30; Nd2 379; Dhs. 1486. (Page 136)
uddhacca (ဥဒ္ဓစ္စ) [(na) (န)]—
[(1)uddhata+ṇya．hana=gatiyaṃ,uddhaṃ uddhaṃ hanati gacchatīti uddhato,to,hanassa dho,asarapadvittaṃ,cittaṃ,uddhatassa bhāvo uddhacca．,ṭī,169．(2) u+dhu=dhū+tya．tya pa dhūeiea uī apru,asadisadvelā．uddhaṃ dhunāti kampatīti uddhaccaṃ．uddhaṃ uddhaṃ dhūnanaṃ uddhaccaṃ．ka．638．nīti,sutta．1255,1265．(ddhatya-saṃ)]
[(၁)ဥဒ္ဓတ+ဏျ။ ဟန=ဂတိယံ၊ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဟနတိ ဂစ္ဆတီတိ ဥဒ္ဓတော၊ တော၊ ဟနဿ ဓော၊ အသရပဒွိတ္တံ၊ စိတ္တံ၊ ဥဒ္ဓတဿ ဘာဝေါ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ၊၁၆၉။ (၂) ဥ+ဓု=ဓူ+တျ။ တျ ပစ္စည်းကြောင့် ဓူဓာတ်၏ ဦကို အပြု၊ အသဒိသဒွေဘော်လာ။ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဓုနာတိ ကမ္ပတီတိ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စံ။ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဥဒ္ဓံ ဓူနနံ ဥဒ္ဓစ္စံ။ ကစ္စည်းသုတ်။ ၆၃၈။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။ ၁၂၅၅၊၁၂၆၅။ (ေဩာ်ဒ္ဓတျ-သံ)]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+20): Uddhacca Kukkucca, Uddhacca Sutta, Uddhaccabahulatta, Uddhaccabhumi, Uddhaccacariya, Uddhaccacetana, Uddhaccadhika, Uddhaccadosa, Uddhaccadosapahanavacana, Uddhaccaggahana, Uddhaccahetuka, Uddhaccakukkuccabhava, Uddhaccakukkuccabhibhuta, Uddhaccameghathanita, Uddhaccamulaka, Uddhaccaniddesa, Uddhaccanivarana, Uddhaccanugata, Uddhaccanupalakkhita, Uddhaccanupatita.
Full-text (+41): Uddhacca Kukkucca, Uddhaccasila, Uddhaccappadhana, Uddhaccapata, Uddhaccaparilaha, Uddhaccabhumi, Uddhaccaniddesa, Uddhaccapariyutthita, Uddhaccavaha, Uddhaccavamana, Domanassavicikicchuddhaccasampayutta, Uddhaccappajahana, Uddhaccavirahita, Anuddhacca, Uddhaccavikkhambhana, Uddhaccaraja, Uddhaccasamaya, Uddhaccanugata, Uddhaccabahulatta, Vigatuddhacca.
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Abhidhamma in Daily Life (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa) (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa)
Factor 4 - Uddhacca (distraction, restlessness, wavering) < [Chapter 2 - On akusala cetasikas (unwholesome mental factors)]
Chapter 2 - On akusala cetasikas (unwholesome mental factors)
Abhidhamma in Daily Life (by Nina Van Gorkom)
Vipassana Meditation (by Chanmyay Sayadaw)
Part 4 - Mindfulness Of Dhamma < [Chapter 4 - The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness]
Part 5 - Seven Benefits Of Meditation < [Chapter 3 - Seven Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation]
Part 1 - Balancing The Mental Faculties < [Chapter 6 - Nine Ways To Sharpen The Mental Faculties]
Cetasikas (by Nina van Gorkom)
Chapter 14 - Ignorance, Shamelessness, Recklessness And Restlessness < [Part III - Akusala Cetasikas]
Appendix 7 - Appendix To Chapter 20 < [Appendix And Glossary]
Chapter 23 - Different Groups Of Defilements Part III < [Part III - Akusala Cetasikas]
A Survey of Paramattha Dhammas (by Sujin Boriharnwanaket)
Chapter 20 - Associated Dhammas < [Part 2 - Citta]
Appendix 1 - To Citta < [Appendix]
Appendix 2 - To Cetasika < [Appendix]
A Manual of Abhidhamma (by Nārada Thera)
Consciousness Pertaining The Sensuous Sphere < [Chapter I - Different Types of Consciousness]
Diagram XIV < [Chapter VII - Abhidhamma Categories]
52 Kinds of Mental States < [Chapter II - Mental States]