➥ paṭigha:

• for paṭigha:
  • repugnance
  • repulsiveness
  • tangible
  • what is touched
  • physical sensation

Illustration: paṭigha, repugnance

Having thoroughly dispelled the attitude of repugnance towards either internal things or external things.

Ajjhattabahiddhā ca me dhammesu paṭighasaññā suppaṭivinītā. (SN v 315)

Illustration: paṭigha, repugnance

He would not wish for another’s suffering out of anger, or from an attitude of repugnance

Vyārosanā paṭighasaññā nāññamaññassa dukkhamiccheyya. (Snp 148)

➥ paṭighaṁ: (main article see: paṭigha)

Illustration: paṭighaṁ, repugnance

If desire, attachment, hatred, undiscernment of reality, or an attitude of repugnance should arise in regard to visible objects known via the visual sense,

cakkhuviññeyyesu rūpesu uppajjeyya chando vā rāgo vā doso vā moho vā paṭighaṁ vā cetaso tato cittaṁ nivāraye. (SN iv 195)

Illustration: paṭigha, repugnance

The proclivity to attachment should be abandoned in regard to pleasant sense impression.

sukhāya vedanāya rāgānusayo pahātabbo

The proclivity to repugnance should be abandoned in regard to unpleasant sense impression.

dukkhāya vedanāya paṭighānusayo pahātabbo. (SN iv 205)

Illustration: paṭighaṁ, repugnance

And in smelling a foul stench, dispel repugnance for the stench

Athopi ghātvā asuciṁ akantiyaṁ akantiyasmiṁ paṭighaṁ vinodaye. (SN iv 71)

Illustration: paṭigha, repulsiveness

There is the quality of loveliness. Much improper contemplation in that regard is a condition that nourishes both the arising of unarisen sensuous hankering, and the increase and expansion of arisen sensuous hankering.

Atthi bhikkhave subhanimittaṁ. Tattha ayoniso manasikārabahulīkāro ayamāhāro anuppannassa vā kāmacchandassa uppādāya uppannassa vā kāmacchandassa bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya.

There is the quality of repulsiveness. Much improper contemplation in that regard is a condition that nourishes both the arising of unarisen ill will, and the increase and expansion of arisen ill will.

Atthi bhikkhave paṭighanimittaṁ. Tattha ayoniso manasikārabahulīkāro ayamāhāro anuppannassa vā vyāpādassa uppādāya uppannassa vā vyāpādassa bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya. (SN v 64)

Illustration: paṭighaṁ, tangible

Threefold classification of matter

Tividhena rūpasaṅgaho

1) visible and tangible matter;

sanidassanasappaṭighaṁ rūpaṁ

2) invisible and tangible matter;

anidassanasappaṭighaṁ rūpaṁ

3) invisible and intangible matter

anidassanaappaṭighaṁ rūpaṁ. (DN iii 217)

➥ paṭighe: (main article see: paṭigha)

Illustration: paṭighe, what is sensed

People are ensnared by objects of attachment, by what is seen, heard, sensed, and cognised

Upadhīsu janā gathitāse diṭṭhasute paṭighe ca mute ca. (SN i 186)

Comment:

Diṭṭhasute paṭighe ca mute ca stands for the familiar tetrad: diṭṭha, suta, muta, and viññāta.

Illustration: paṭigha, physical sensation

By completely transcending refined material states of awareness, with the vanishing of states of refined awareness involving physical sensation, not focusing upon states of refined awareness involving the external senses, a bhikkhu enters and abides in the state of awareness of boundless space where one perceives that space is boundless.

bhikkhu sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ananto ākāso ti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati. (DN i 183)