➥ mathita:

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  • inward distraction
  • distracted
  • churned
  • oppressed
  • to distract

➥ mathenti: (main article see: mathita)

Illustration: mathenti, distract

Sensuous pleasures―attractive, sweet, and charming―distract the mind through their many different forms.

Kāmā hi citrā madhurā manoramā virūparūpena mathenti cittaṁ. (Snp 50)

Illustration: mathenti, distract

There are many attractive things in the world, on this wide earth. They distract [the mind], it seems, [by promoting] thoughts of lovely objects that are associated with attachment.

Bahūni loke citrāni asmiṁ paṭhavimaṇḍale
Mathenti maññe saṅkappaṁ subhaṁ rāgūpasaṁhitaṁ. (Tha 674)

Illustration: mathenti, distract

Likeable things do not distract his mind, unlikeable things are not considered repulsive. His welcoming and rejecting are scattered, gone to their end, do not exist.

Iṭṭhassa dhammā na mathenti cittaṁ aniṭṭhato no paṭighātameti.
Tassānurodhā athavā virodhā vidhūpitā atthagatā na santi. (AN iv 159-160)

➥ pamathitassa: (main article see: mathita)

Illustration: pamathitassa, distracted

The craving of a person of distracted thoughts, who is full of attachment and contemplates the loveliness [of the female body] will only develop. Such a person reinforces his bondage [to individual existence].

Vitakkapamathitassa jantuno tibbarāgassa subhānupassino
Bhiyyo taṇhā pavaḍḍhati esa kho daḷhaṁ karoti bandhanaṁ. (Dhp 349)

➥ mathitānaṁ: (main article see: mathita)

Illustration: mathitānaṁ, states of inward distraction

Therefore I say with the destruction, fading away, ending, giving up, and relinquishment of all thinking in personal terms, of all states of inward distraction, all illusions of personal identity, all illusions of personal ownership, and of the proclivity to self-centredness, the Perfect One is liberated [from perceptually obscuring states] through being without grasping.

Tasmā tathāgato sabbamaññitānaṁ sabbamathitānaṁ sabbaahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayānaṁ khayā virāgā nirodhā cāgā paṭinissaggā anupādā vimutto ti vadāmī ti. (MN i 486)

➥ mathitā: (main article see: mathita)

Illustration: mathitā, distracted

Being distracted by their various gains, they do not attain inward collectedness.

Lābhālābhena mathitā samādhiṁ nādhigacchantī ti. (Tha 102)

➥ mathito: (main article see: mathita)

Illustration: mathito, oppressed

Just as a noble thoroughbred yoked to a load, enduring a load, oppressed by the excessive burden, does not try to escape from its yoke

Yathā pi bhaddo ājañño dhure yutto dhurassaho
Mathito atibhārena saṁ yugaṁ nātivattati. (Tha 659)

Commentary: saṁ yugan ti attano khandhe ṭhapitaṁ yugaṁ. Saṁ is therefore a possessive pronoun.

Illustration: mathita, churned

The practlce concerning unchurned [milk]

amathitakappo. (Vin.2.301)

Notes:

This practice concerns milk which has passed the stage of being milk but has not arrived at the stage of being cream.

yaṁ taṁ khīraṁ khīrabhāvaṁ vijahitaṁ asampattaṁ dadhibhāvaṁ. (Vin.2.301)