➥ ceteti: (main article see: cetanā)

Illustration: ceteti, is intent upon

When the noble disciple is intent upon going forth from the household life into the ascetic life, he is nearly in leaf, like the celestial coral tree of the Tāvatiṁsa devas.

yasmiṁ samaye ariyasāvako agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajjāya ceteti paṇḍupalāso bhikkhave ariyasāvako tasmiṁ samaye hoti devānaṁva tāvatiṁsānaṁ pāricchattako koviḷāro. (AN iv 118)

Illustration: ceteti, to be intent upon

Bhante, the bhikkhu Vakkali is intent upon deliverance [from perceptually obscuring states].

vakkali bhante bhikkhu vimokkhāya cetetī ti. (SN iii 121)

And how does a spiritually outstanding person think?

Kathañca bhikkhave sappuriso sappurisacintī hoti

In this regard a spiritually outstanding person is not intent upon his own harm, the harm of others, the harm of both.

idha bhikkhave sappuriso nevattavyābādhāya ceteti na paravyābādhāya ceteti na ubhayavyābādhāya ceteti. (MN iii 21)

Those people who were of little faith [in the perfection of the Perfect One’s enlightenment], spoke thus: The ascetic Gotama is extravagant and is intent upon extravagance.

Samaṇo pana gotamo bāhuliko bāhullāya cetetī ti. (Vin.2.197)

Illustration: ceteti, to aspire

With sensation one experiences, with sensation one perceives, with sensation one aspires.

Phuṭṭho bhikkhave vedeti phuṭṭho sañjānāti phuṭṭho ceteti. (SN iv 68)