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🔗📝notes on 👑8☸ → 2💭 Sammā-saṅkappo: right resolve

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4👑☸ → 👑8☸ → 2💭 Sammā-saṅkappo: right resolve

And what is right resolve? (SN 45.8)


Nekkhamma-saṅkappo,
Renunciation-resolve,
A-byāpāda-saṅkappo,
Non-ill-will-resolve,
A-vihiṃsā-saṅkappo —
Non-harmfulness-resolve



Are metta and karuna equivalent to right resolve?

Or is non-ill will and non-harming broader in meaning?

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhistTexts/comments/1boywi6/are_metta_and_karuna_equivalent_to_right_resolve/

Proof: A-byāpāda is non ill will, not 'metta', as Theravāda Commentary claims

TITWOW syndrome, 'byāpāda': some translators inconsistently interpret that as "good will" or "free of ill will"


What's the difference between 2. byapada and 3. vihimsa?

Woudn't #3 already presuppose #2?

Interesting discussions on this:
https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21818

https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=22424

https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=34760&p=519445#p519445


MN 8 proves difference between those two


MN 8 excellent proof of right resolve showing Abyāpāda is non-ill will, a mental activity and Avihiṃsā is non harming, a physical activity.
byapada (ill will)

is a mental intention wishing some being(s) suffer, are harmed, killed, etc.,

but probably does not include a firm intention for you personally to carry out actions to ensure said beings are harmed.

Whereas with
vi-himsa (very-harmful, cruelty)

there is an intention to carry out a plan to harm being(s),

which is a much more serious karmic consequence if acted upon,

than simply wishing beings are harmed.



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