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What are the 8 Advantageous Kinds of Consciousness?

1: Unprompted consciousness joined with joy and understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one spontaneously gives with joy a gift.

2: Prompted consciousness joined with joy and understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one, urged by others, gives with joy a gift.

3: Unprompted consciousness with joy, but not understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one spontaneously gives with joy a gift.

4: Prompted consciousness joined with joy, but not understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one, urged on, gives with joy a gift.

5: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity & understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one spontaneously gives yet in indifference.

6: Prompted consciousness joined with equanimity & understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one, urged by others, gives in indifference.

7: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity, but no understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one spontaneously gives in indifference.

8: Prompted consciousness with equanimity, but no understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one, urged on, gives in indifference.

These are the 8 kinds of Advantageous Consciousness of the
Sensuous Sphere (lower worlds). 1 is the best, 8 the lowest.

The delayed effect of these is happiness, joy and pleasure!
There are in total 89 kinds of Consciousness, all mapped here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/table1.htm

Source:  The Path of Purification XIV 81ff:
Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100


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