Vicara

Vicara (Faded) means constant attention; this term indicates in fact the attitude of contemplating practitioner Samatha bhavana and focusing its attention on the object of practice.

This maintenance of the attention does not indicate the concentration by itself. It means that contemplating it made the effort maintain its attention. A comparison is that Vitakka consists in holding a bowl of a hand and that will vicara consists, other, to clean it.

Vicara is a driving factor with the concentration, present in the first jhana.

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