Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw - Abhidhamma.com

3. saddha (faith)
4. sati (mindfulness)
5. . hiri (modesty)
6. ottappa (discretion)
7. tatramajjhattata (balance of mind)
8. kayapassaddhi (composure of mental properties)
9. cittapassadhi (composure of mind)
10. kayalahuta (buoyancy of mental properties)
11. cittalahuta (buoyancy of mind)
12. Kayamuduta (pliancy of mental properties)
13. citta muduta (pliancy of mind)
14. kayakammannata (adaptability of mental properties)
15. cittakammannata (adaptability of mind)
16. kayapagunnata (proficiency of mental properties)
17. cittapagunnata (proficiency of mind)
18. kayujkata (rectitude of mental properties)
19. cittujukata (rectitude of mind)
20. sammavaca (right speech)
21. sammakammanta (right action)
22. sammaajiva (right livelihood)
(the immediately preceding three are called the Three Abstinences)
23. karuna (pity)
24. mudita (appreciation)
(the last two are called the two Illimitables or Appamanna).
4. Phassa means contact, and contact means the faculty of pressing the object
(arammana), so as to cause the agreeable or disagreeable sap (so to speak) to come
out. So it is the main principle or prime mover of the mental properties in the
uprising. If the sap cannot be squeezed out, then all objects (arammana) will be of
no use.
5. Vedana means feeling, or the faculty of tasting the sapid flavour thus squeezed out
by the phassa. All creatures are sunk in this vedana.
6. Sanna means perception, or the act of perceiving. All creatures become wise
through this perception, if they perceive things with sufficient clearness in
accordance with their own ways, custom, creed, and so forth.
7. Cetana means volition or the faculty of determining the activities of the mental
concomitants so as to bring them into harmony. In the common speech of the
world we are accustomed to say of one who supervises a piece of work that he is
the performer or author of the work. We usually say: "Oh, this work was done by
So-and-so", or "This is such and such a person's great work". It is somewhat the
same in connection with the ethical aspects of things. The volition (cetana) is
called the doer (kamma), as it determines the activities of the mental concomitants,
or supervises all the actions of body, of speech, and of mind. As every kind of
prosperity in this life is the outcome of the exertions put forth in work performed
with body, with speech and with mind, so also the issues of new life or existence
are the results of the volition (asynchronous volition is the name given to it in the
Patthana, and it is known by the name of Kamma in the actions of body, speech
and mind) performed in previous existences. Earth, water, mountains, trees, grass
and so forth, are all born of Utu, the element of warmth and they may quite
properly be called the children or the issue of the warmth- element. So also living
creatures may be called the children or the issue of volition, or what is called
Kamma-dhatu, as they are all born through Kamma.
8. Ekaggata means concentration of mind. It is also called Right Concentration
(samadhi). It becomes prominent in the Jhanasampatti the attainment of the
supernormal modes of mind called Jhana.