Yoniso Manasikara

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Yoniso-manasik¤r¤

PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, Part I: Kindred Sayings with Verses, IV: The M¤ra Suttas, #4, Mrs. Rhys Davids, trans., p 131.

PTS: Dialogues of the Buddha, Part III, #33: The Recital, Rhys Davids, trans, pp 218.

WP: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33: The Chanting Together, Walshe, trans, pp490

The Book of the Gradual Sayings I: The Book of the Threes, #68: Thos of Other Views, Woodward, trans., pp182

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
Yoniso-manasik¤r¤	Mentally tracing back to the womb, or point of origin, source				wise, thorough	wise, thorough	systematized attention	systematic thought		thorough attention	systematic attention

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:**
Yoni: 1. the womb. - 2. origin, way of birth, place of birth, realm of existence; nature, matrix. There are four yonis or ways of being born or generation, viz. a¼Àaja oviparous creation, jal¤buja viviparous, sa¸sedaja moisture-sprung, opap¤tika spontaneous: M I.73; D III.230... - Freq. in foll. combns: tiracch¤na- the class of animals, the brute creation A I.37, 60; V.269...; n¤ga- birth among the N¤gas S III.240 sq. (in ref. to which the 4 kinds of birth, as mentioned above, are also applied); ... (niraya-n¤ga-yoni); pasu-=tiracch¤na- ...; pis¤ca- world of the Pis¤cas S I.209; peta- the realm of the Petas... -kamma- K. as origin A III.186.... - 3. thoroughness, knowledge, insight.... -ayoni superficiality in thought S I.203 ("muddled ways" Mrs. Rh. D.). -yoniso (abl.) "down to its origin or foundation," i. e. thoroughly, orderly, wisely, properly, judiciously S I.203 ("in ordered governance" K.S. I.259); D I.118 (wisely).... Opp. ayoniso disorderly improperly.... - Esp. frequent in phrase yoniso manasik¤ra "fixing one's attention with a purpose or thoroughly," proper attention, "having thorough method in one's thought" (K.S. I.259).... - Opp. ayoniso manasik¤ra disorderly or distracted attention D III.273...

SN.I.iv:4: 'Mayhaµ kho bhikkhave yoniso manasik¤r¤ yoniso sammappadh¤n¤ anuttar¤ vimutti anuppatt¤ anuttar¤ vimutti sacchikat¤//'
Mrs. Rhys Davids: 'It is by systematic thought, by systematic right effort, bhikkhus, that I have won supreme emancipation, that I have realized supreme emancipation.' MO: "It is through mentally tracing things back to their origins, by making the effort to track paths to their sources, beggars, that I have reached incomparable freedom, seen incomparable freedom with my own eyes."