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likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, across, everywhere, in every way, the entire world, he dwells pervading with a mind accompanied by loving-kindness, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill-will. With a mind accompanied by compassion, he dwells pervading one direction, likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, across, everywhere, in every way, the entire world, he dwells pervading with a mind accompanied by compassion, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill-will. With a mind accompanied by sympathetic joy, he dwells pervading one direction, likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, across, everywhere, in every way, the entire world, he dwells pervading with a mind accompanied by sympathetic joy, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill-will. With a mind accompanied by equanimity, he dwells pervading one direction, likewise the second, likewise the third, likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, across, everywhere, in every way, the entire world, he dwells pervading with a mind accompanied by equanimity, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility, without ill-will. 700. Of the four immeasurables, how many How many are wholesome, how many unwholesome, how many indeterminate…etc… how many with refuge, how many without refuge? 1. Triads 701. May be wholesome, may be indeterminate. The three immeasurables are associated with pleasant feeling; equanimity is associated with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. May be a result, may be a state leading to results, may be neither a result nor a state leading to results. May be clung-to and clingable, may be not-clung-to and not-clingable. Uncorrupted, corruptible. The three immeasurables may be with initial application and sustained application, may be with only sustained application, may be without initial application and without sustained application; equanimity is without initial application and without sustained application. The three immeasurables may be accompanied by joy, may be accompanied by pleasure, not accompanied by equanimity, may not be describable as accompanied by joy; equanimity is accompanied by equanimity. Not to be abandoned by seeing, nor by development. Not having causes to be abandoned by seeing, nor by development. May be leading to accumulation, may be neither leading to accumulation nor leading to diminution, neither trainee nor adept, exalted, not describable as having a limited object, nor as having an exalted object, nor as having an immeasurable object. Middling, undetermined, not describable as having a path as object, nor as having a path as cause, nor as having a path as dominant factor. May be arisen, may be unarisen, may be arising. May be past, may be future, may be present. Not describable as having a past object, nor as having a future object, nor as having a present object. May be internal, may be external, may be internal and external, having an external object, invisible and unresisting. 2. Dyads 702. Loving-kindness is a root; the three immeasurables are not roots, rooted, associated with roots. Loving-kindness is both a root and rooted; the three immeasurables are not describable as both a root and rooted, but are rooted and not a root. Loving-kindness is both a root and associated with roots; the three immeasurables are not describable as both a root and associated with roots, but are associated with roots and not a root. The three immeasurables are not roots, but are rooted; loving-kindness is not describable as not a root and rooted, nor as not a root and unrooted. With conditions, conditioned, not manifest, without impact, formless, worldly, knowable by some, not knowable by some, not defilements, with defilements, dissociated from defilements, not to be said as both defilements and with defilements, with defilements but not defilements, not to be said as both defilements and associated with defilements, associated with defilements but not defilements. Dissociated from defilements, yet with defilements. Not fetters, not ties, not floods, not yokes, not hindrances, not clingings, with object, not consciousness, mental factors, associated with consciousness, conjoined with consciousness, arisen from consciousness, co-existent with consciousness, following consciousness, conjoined with and arisen from consciousness, conjoined with, arisen from, and co-existent with consciousness, conjoined with, arisen from, and following consciousness, external, not clinging, may be clung to, may not be clung to. Not clingings, not defilements, not to be abandoned by seeing, not to be abandoned by development, not having causes to be abandoned by seeing, not having causes to be abandoned by development. The three immeasurables may be with initial application, may be without initial application; equanimity is without initial application. The three immeasurables may be with sustained application, may be without sustained application; equanimity is without sustained application. The three immeasurables may be with rapture, may be without rapture; equanimity is without rapture. The three immeasurables may be accompanied by rapture, may not be accompanied by rapture; equanimity is not accompanied by rapture. The three immeasurables are accompanied by pleasure, equanimity is not accompanied by pleasure. Equanimity is accompanied by equanimity, the three immeasurables are not accompanied by equanimity, not belonging to the sense-sphere, belonging to the form-sphere, not belonging to the formless-sphere, included, not leading to liberation, indeterminate, with a superior, peaceful. The section of questions. The analysis of the immeasurables is finished.