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Nekkhamma

Rreferences:

PTS: Rhys Davids, The Setting up of Mindfulness, note xxi

The 10th Question, Samma Sankappa
Pali MO Hare Horner Punnaji Bodhi Nanamoli Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Thanissaro Walshe Woodward
Nekkhamma Dumping, Giving Up, Renunciation renunciation renunciation

 

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:

Nekkhamma: giving up the world and leading a holy life, renunciation of, or emancipation from worldliness, freedom from lust, craving and desires, dispassionateness, self-abnegation, Nibb¤na Vin I.18...; D I.110 (id.), III.239, 275, 283; M III.129; A I.147...; III.245; IV.186...439 sq.;....
-a-dhimutta bent on self-abnegation...
-a-bhirata fond of renunciation...
-dh¤tu the sphere or element of dispassionateness...
-ninna merging into or bent on a holy life...
-sukha the joy or happiness of Arahantship...
Rhys Davids quotes the Comy (no citation) in DN33, pp208: "All good states are nekkhamma-dh¤tu."

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