What is "feature of beauty" in MN 5?
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1. What is "feature of beauty" in MN 5?
2. Why does the type of person mentioned ("the person who doesn’t have a blemish but does not understand it"), focus on it?
3. And why does that cause them to become infected by lust?
4. Does beauty here refer to physical beauty or something else?
5. Is this *subhanimitta* the same as the *nimitta* for entering jhana?
> Take the case of the person who doesn’t have a blemish but does not
> understand it. You can expect that they will focus on the feature of
> beauty, and because of that, lust will infect their mind. And they
> will die with greed, hate, and delusion, blemished, with a corrupted
> mind.
> MN 5
With footnote from Ven. Sujato:
> “Feature of beauty” is *subhanimitta*. In early Pali, *nimitta* is used
> for a feature or quality of the mind that, when focused on, promotes
> the growth of similar or related qualities. Thus focusing on beauty
> fosters the desire for that beauty.
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Oct 30, 2023, 04:25 AM
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