➥ mada:

• for mada:
  • exuberance
• for madanīya:
  • intoxicating
• for matta:
  • intoxicated

➥ mado: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: mado, exuberance

In the youth of beings, there is an exuberance on account of youth, intoxicated with which they misconduct themselves by way of body, speech, and mind.

Atthī bhikkhave sattānaṁ yobbane yobbanamado yena madena mattā kāyena duccaritaṁ caranti vācāya duccaritaṁ caranti manasā duccaritaṁ caranti. (AN iii 72)

In the health of beings, there is an exuberance on account of health, intoxicated with which they misconduct themselves by way of body, speech, and mind.

Atthi bhikkhave sattānaṁ ārogye ārogyamado yena madena mattā kāyena duccaritaṁ caranti vācāya duccaritaṁ caranti manasā duccaritaṁ caranti. (AN iii 72)

In the life of beings, there is an exuberance on account of life, intoxicated with which they misconduct themselves by way of body, speech, and mind.

Atthi bhikkhave sattānaṁ jīvite jīvitamado yena madena mattā kāyena duccaritaṁ caranti vācāya duccaritaṁ caranti manasā duccaritaṁ caranti. (AN iii 72)

Illustration: mado, exuberance

When I reflected thus my exuberance on account of youth was completely abandoned.

Tassa mayhaṁ bhikkhave iti paṭisañcikkhato yo yobbane yobbanamado so sabbaso pahīyi. (AN i 146)

When I reflected thus my exuberance on account of health was completely abandoned.

Tassa mayhaṁ bhikkhave iti paṭisañcikkhato yo ārogye ārogyamado so sabbaso pahīyi. (AN i 146)

When I reflected thus my exuberance on account of life was completely abandoned.

Tassa mayhaṁ bhikkhave iti paṭisañcikkhato yo jīvite jīvitamado so sabbaso pahīyī'ti. (AN i 146)

Illustration: mada, exuberance

Intoxicated with the exuberance on account of youth a bhikkhu gives up the training and returns to lay life.

Yobbanamadamatto vā bhikkhave bhikkhu sikkhaṁ paccakkhāya hīnāyāvattati.

Intoxicated with the exuberance on account of health a bhikkhu gives up the training and returns to lay life.

Ārogyamadamatto vā bhikkhave bhikkhu sikkhaṁ paccakkhāya hīnāyāvattati

Intoxicated with the exuberance on account of life a bhikkhu gives up the training and returns to lay life.

jīvitamadamatto vā bhikkhave bhikkhu sikkhaṁ paccakkhāya hīnāyāvattatī' ti. (AN i 147)

Illustration: mada, exuberance

A sage, living the religious life, abstaining from sexual intercourse, who, though a youth, is not attached in any way, abstaining from [any form of] exuberance and from negligence [in the practice], freed [from individual existence], the wise know him as truly a sage.

Muniṁ carantaṁ virataṁ methunasmā yo yobbane nopanibajjhate kvaci
Madappamādā virataṁ vippamuttaṁ taṁ vāpi dhīrā muniṁ vedayanti. (Snp 218)

➥ madāya: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: madāya, exuberance

Properly reflecting, you should use almsfood not for fun, not for exuberance, not for the sake of comeliness and good looks, but just for the maintenance and nourishment of this [wretched human] body for restraining its troublesomeness, for supporting the religious life.

Paṭisaṅkhā yoniso āhāraṁ āhāreyyāsi neva davāya na madāya na maṇḍanāya na vibhūsanāya yāvadeva imassa kāyassa ṭhitiyā yāpanāya vihiṁsūparatiyā brahmacariyānuggahāya. (MN iii 134)

➥ madamatto: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: madamatto, intoxicated

Intoxicated with my superior parentage, wealth, and authority, I walked the earth intoxicated with the form and complexion of my body.

Jātimadena mattohaṁ bhogaissariyena ca
Saṇṭhānavaṇṇarūpena madamatto acārihaṁ. (Tha 423)

➥ madanīyā: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: madanīyā, intoxicating

Sensuous pleasures are intoxicating

Madanīyā kāmā. (DN ii 234)

➥ madanīyaṁ: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: madanīyaṁ, intoxicating

I see no single visible object so attractive, so sensuous, so intoxicating, so captivating, so infatuating, so obstructive to the reaching of unsurpassed safety from [the danger of] bondage [to individual existence], as the sight of a woman.

Nāhaṁ bhikkhave aññaṁ ekarūpampi samanupassāmi yaṁ evaṁ rajanīyaṁ evaṁ kamanīyaṁ evaṁ madanīyaṁ evaṁ bandhanīyaṁ evaṁ mucchanīyaṁ evaṁ antarāyakaraṁ anuttarassa yogakkhemassa adhigamāya yathayidaṁ bhikkhave itthirūpaṁ. (AN iii 68)

Illustration: madanīyo, intoxicating

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)

➥ majjī: (main article see: mada)

Illustration: majjī, intoxicated; madanīyesu, intoxicating

May my mind not be intoxicated with intoxicating things

Mā me madanīyesu dhammesu cittaṁ majjī ti. (AN ii 120)