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4bvโ˜ฎ๏ธ โ†’ 3. Muditฤ๐Ÿ˜Š
Rejoicing in virtue

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mudita: rejoicing in skillful Dharmas

โœ… one rejoices in virtuous, skillful Dharmas in oneself, in others, or both in oneself and others.
* virtuous skillful Dharma can be a bodily action, a verbal action, or mental action (if you're a mind reader you can rejoice in virtuous thoughts someone is thinking or about to think).
* The skillful Dharma can be from the past, present, or future.
* an action that deliberately avoids unskillful Dharmas, is also a skillful Dharma.
* the person one is observing performing virtuous Dharma is typically, but not necessarily experiencing joy. Example: someone does an action because "it's the right thing to do", but they feel pain instead of joy.
โœ… Mudita is nearly synonymous or the immediate precursor to pamojja and pฤซti in the seven awakening factors 4๐Ÿ˜, and pฤซti in the first two jhฤnas. (AN 5.26, AN 4.125 and AN 4.126)
โœ… Muditฤ can be done concurrently with sati, samฤdhi, 4 jhฤnas (4j๐ŸŒ•), in any posture AN 8.63. Alternatively, one could enter jhฤna samฤdhi directly without using pฤซti, mudita, and abide with or without sukha.
โœ… Mudita as a brahma-vihara 3.๐Ÿ˜Š, in the Buddha's EBT, is in some ways more versatile than pre-Buddhist Mudita, but in other ways more restrictive to bring it into conformity with the Buddha's Dharma that leads to Nirvana instead of just good rebirth in Brahma realm. (see par for the Buddha)
โ›” Mudita is not an indiscriminate rejoicing at someone experiencing joy, especially if they are joyful from performing unskillful Dharmas.


๐Ÿ˜Š muditฤ-sahagatena cetasฤ
๐Ÿ˜Š with a mind that rejoices in skillful Dharmas,
ekaแนƒ disaแนƒ pharitvฤ
pervade [that mind state] in the direction [of the first quarter, without limit].
viharati,
Live in this way.
tathฤ dutiyaแนƒ,
likewise (the) second [quarter],
tathฤ tatiyaแนƒ,
likewise (the) third [quarter],
tathฤ catutthaแนƒ;
likewise (the) fourth [quarter],
iti uddham-adho
Thus above,-below,
tiriyaแนƒ sabbadhi
across, everywhere,
Sabbat-tatฤya
All-places,
sabbฤvantaแนƒ lokaแนƒ
(to the) entire world
๐Ÿ˜Š muditฤ-sahagatena cetasฤ
๐Ÿ˜Š with a mind that rejoices in skillful Dharmas,
vipulena maha-g-gatena
vast, exalted,
appamฤแน‡ena a-verena
unlimited, without-vengeful-animosity,
A-byฤpajjena pharitvฤ
without ill will, pervade [that mind state everywhere].
viharati,
Live in this way.

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1 โ€“ Relevant suttas

AN 3.95 explicit 4bv mudita (not just pamojja-pฤซti) as ceto vimutti links to 7sb pฤซti pamojja

AN 5.161 - AN 5.162: Ostensibly, these two suttas are about how to use 4bv to remove resentment and hatred,
but even though the word 'muditฤ' does not appear,
AN 5.162 is giving 5 very good examples of what mudita means as a brahma vihฤra.


Pe 607: Muditฤbhฤvanฤ pฤซtisukhasampajaรฑรฑฤ kฤritฤ.
Keeping gladness in being is the state of one who acts with happiness,
pleasure, and awareness.


SN 42.13 also has 4bv link into 7sb piti pamojja.
Rejoicing in one's own virtue, leading to 7sb and good rebirth