an-ābhoga (668)

an-ābhoga
Entry 668, Page 22, Col. 2

(anABoga, an-ABoga)
an-ābhoga¦ (see ābhoga and sābhoga), (1) adj., effortless: crucial is Dbh 67.10 ff., where a boat, before it reaches the open sea, is sābhoga-vāhana, traveling with (human) effort; when it reaches the open sea it is anābho- gavāhano vātamaṇḍalīpraṇīto, traveling without effort, borne along by a tornado, and goes in a single day farther than it could go in a hundred years by all effortful traveling (sarvasābhogavāhanatayā, i.e. by rowing etc.). So, by the knowledge of the Omniscient (sarvajñajñānena), because this knowledge is effortless (automatic, spontane- ous: jñānānābhogatayā), a Bodhisattva gets in a single moment farther than he could get in 100,000 kalpas by his former effortful activity (pūrvakeṇa sābhogakarmaṇā). Again, in Sūtrālaṃkāra ix. 18--19, a Buddha's activities proceed without ābhoga, effortlessly, spontaneously, like music from instruments that are not being played, or jewels that shine without labor. So understand anābhoga- buddhakāryāpratiprasrabdaḥ Mvy 411, (a Tathāgata is) never ceasing from spontaneous (Tib. Ihun grub pa, self- created; not contrived by human labor, Jäschke) Buddha- activities, and the same cpd. prefixed to -cakram LV 423.3 (see apratipraśrabdha); automatic Śikṣ 7.15; °ga-vāhanaḥ Bbh 260.18, bringing automatically; mahākaruṇopāyakau- śalyānābhogagatena prayogena Laṅk 42.8, by praxis that effortlessly (spontaneously) arrives at great compassion and skill in devices; sometimes best rendered by impassive (not involving or subject to any effort), anābhogaprekṣikayā with impassive look Śikṣ 268.1; (see s.v. ābhoga for Dbh 64.16;) prob. impassive in Bbh 317.3, and 350.12 bodhi- sattvānām anābhogo nirnimitto vihāraḥ, which is con- trasted with (and higher than) their sābhoga (effortful) vihāra (346.14); cf. Lévi, Sūtrāl. i.7 n.7; (2) subst. m., non-effort, impassivity: anābhoge tathā siddhiḥ Mmk [Page023-a+ 71] 116.24; svabhāvānābhogābhyāṃ ca vigacchanti Dbh 48.21, and they pass away by natural process and without effort (na caiṣāṃ kaścid vigamayitā, and no one makes them pass away); as one of the samādhy-āvaraṇāni, Dharmas 118, see s.v. ābhoga; (3) adverbs, without effort, effortlessly, anābhogataḥ Dbh 56.19; Śikṣ 12.1; anābhogena pariniṣpa- dyante, are automatically perfected, Dbh 58.9; (4) m., n. of a yakṣa: Māy 52.

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