➥ pema:

• for pema:
  • love
  • affection
  • devotion
  • dedication
• for pemanīya:
  • lovely

➥ pemaṁ: (main article see: pema)

Illustration: pemaṁ, love

Before you saw Ciravāsi’s mother or heard about her, did you have any fondness, attachment, or love for her?

yadā te ciravāsissa mātā adiṭṭhā āsi assutā ahosi ciravāsissa mātuyā chando vā rāgo vā pemaṁ vā ti. (SN iv 329-330)

➥ pemo: (main article see: pema)

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A bhikkhu has not got rid of attachment, fondness, love, thirst, passion, and craving regarding sensuous pleasures

bhikkhu kāmesu avigatarāgo hoti avigatachando avigatapemo avigatapipāso avigatapariḷāho avigatataṇho. (DN iii 238)

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Do what you have to do with my body, as you wish. There will be neither hatred nor love by me [of you] about that [or] on that account.

Yaṁ vo kiccaṁ sarīrena taṁ karotha yadicchatha
Na me tappaccayā tattha doso pemañca hehiti. (Tha 719)

➥ pemato: (main article see: pema)

Illustration: pemato, love

From love come grief and fear. For one who is free of love there is neither grief nor fear.

Pemato jāyati soko pemato jāyati bhayaṁ
Pemato vippamuttassa natthi soko kuto bhayaṁ. (Dhp 213)

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There is great love for sons

Puttesu ca vipulaṁ hoti pemaṁ. (Snp 41)

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Love for sons, bhante, cuts into the skin.

Puttapemaṁ bhante chaviṁ chindati. (Vin.1.83)

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• Do your thoughts go to the one you love, Your Majesty?

Āgamā kho tvaṁ mahārāja yathāpemaṁ ti?

• Bhante, Prince Udāyabhadda is dear to me.

Piyo me bhante udāyibhaddo kumāro. (DN i 50)

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1) Affection is born from affection

pemā pemaṁ jāyati

2) Hatred is born from affection

pemā doso jāyati

3) Affection is born from hatred

dosā pemaṁ jāyati

4) Hatred is born from hatred

dosā doso jāyati

1) How is affection born from affection?

pemā pemaṁ jāyati?

In this regard, someone is likeable, loveable, and dear to another, so when others treat the former as likeable, loveable, and dear, the latter thinks: ‘He who is to me likeable, loveable, and dear is treated by others as likeable, loveable, and dear’ and he therefore evokes affection for them. Thus is affection born of affection.

yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo iṭṭho kanto manāpo taṁ pare iṭṭhena kantena manāpena samudācarantī ti so tesu pemaṁ janeti.

2) How is hatred born from affection?

Kathañca bhikkhave pemā doso jāyati?

In this regard, someone is likeable, loveable, and dear to another, so when others treat the former as unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome, the latter thinks: ‘He who is to me likeable, loveable, and dear is treated by others as unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome’ and he therefore evokes hatred for them. Thus is hatred born of affection.

yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo iṭṭho kanto manāpo taṁ pare aniṭṭhena akantena amanāpena samudācarantī ti. So tesu dosaṁ janeti.

3) How is affection born from hatred?

Kathañca bhikkhave dosā pemaṁ jāyati

In this regard, one person is unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome to another person, so when others treat the former as unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome, the latter thinks: ‘He who is unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome to me is treated by others as unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome’ and he therefore evokes affection for them. Thus is affection born of hatred.

yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo aniṭṭho akanto amanāpo taṁ pare aniṭṭhena akantena amanāpena samudācarantī ti so tesu pemaṁ janeti.

4) How is hatred born from hatred?

Kathañca bhikkhave dosā doso jāyati?

In this regard, one person is unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome to another person, so when others treat the former as likeable, loveable, and dear, the latter thinks: ‘He who is unlikeable, unloveable, and loathsome to me is treated by others as likeable, loveable, and dear’ and he therefore evokes hatred for them. Thus is hatred born of hatred.

yo kho myāyaṁ puggalo aniṭṭho akanto amanāpo taṁ pare iṭṭhena kantena manāpena samudācarantī ti. So tesu dosaṁ janeti. (AN ii 213-4)

Illustration: pema, affection

Those who have a degree of faith in me, a degree of affection for me, are all destined for heaven.

yesaṁ mayi saddhāmattaṁ pemamattaṁ sabbe te saggaparāyaṇā ti. (MN i 141-2)

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The Blessed One has inspired in me

ajanesi vata me bhante bhagavā samaṇesu

• an affection for ascetics

samaṇapemaṁ

• faith in ascetics

samaṇesu samaṇappasādaṁ

• a respect for ascetics

samaṇesu samaṇagāravaṁ. (MN i 368)

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There is profound devotion to and faith in his preceptor

upajjhāyamhi adhimattaṁ pemaṁ hoti adhimatto pasādo hoti. (Vin.1.55)

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One lives in spiritual discipleship under the Teacher or a companion in the religious life of the standing of a teacher such that he is strongly established in shame of wrongdoing and fear of wrongdoing, in devotion and respect

bhikkhu satthāraṁ vā upanissāya viharati aññataraṁ vā garuṭṭhāniyaṁ sabrahmacāraṁ yatthassa tibbaṁ hirottappaṁ paccupaṭṭhitaṁ hoti pemañca gāravo ca. (DN iii 284)

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Out of devotion to and respect for the Blessed One, and out of shame and fear of wrongdoing, we abandoned the after noon meal.

Te mayaṁ bhante bhagavati pemañca gāravañca hiriñca ottappañca sampassamānā evaṁ taṁ divāvikālabhojanaṁ pajahimhā. (MN i 448)

Illustration: pemo, dedication

• A bhikkhu is keenly eager to undertake the training and his dedication to this does not dwindle away in the course of time

sikkhāsamādāne tibbacchando hoti āyatiñca sikkhāsamādāne avigatapemo

• A bhikkhu is keenly eager to make a close study of the teaching and his dedication to this does not dwindle away in the course of time

dhammanisantiyā tibbacchando hoti āyatiñca dhammanisantiyā avigatapemo

• A bhikkhu is keenly eager to eliminate desire and his dedication to this does not dwindle away in the course of time

icchāvinaye tibbacchando hoti āyatiñca icchāvinaye avigatapemo. (DN iii 252)

➥ pemanīyo: (main article see: pema)

Illustration: pemanīyo, lovely

The music of the devas was beautiful, attractive, sensuous, lovely, and intoxicating.

vaggu ca rajanīyo ca kamanīyo ca pemanīyo ca madanīyo ca. (AN iv 263)

➥ pemanīyā: (main article see: pema)

Illustration: pemanīyā, lovely

He speaks words which are gentle, pleasant to hear, lovely…

Yā sā vācā neḷā kaṇṇasukhā pemanīyā… tathārūpiṁ vācaṁ bhāsitā ti. (DN i 4)