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goes to another's wife, destroys villages, destroys towns, deprives mother of life, deprives father of life, deprives Arahant of life, with malicious intent, the Tathagata's blood produces, breaks the Saṅgha. Relying on ill-will, relying on delusion, relying on conceit, relying on wrong view, relying on aspiration, one kills living beings, one breaks the Saṅgha. Lust, ill-will, delusion, conceit, wrong view, aspiration are conditions for lust, for ill-will, for delusion, for conceit, for wrong view, for aspiration by way of decisive support. Killing living beings is a condition for killing living beings by way of decisive support. Killing living beings is a condition for taking what is not given, for sexual misconduct, for false speech, for slanderous speech, for harsh speech, for idle chatter, for covetousness, for ill-will, for wrong view by way of decisive support. Taking what is not given is a condition for taking what is not given, for sexual misconduct, for false speech, for wrong view, for killing living beings by way of decisive support. Sexual misconduct, false speech, slanderous speech, harsh speech, idle chatter, covetousness, ill-will, wrong view are conditions for wrong view by way of decisive support. Wrong view is a condition for killing living beings, for taking what is not given, for sexual misconduct, for false speech, for slanderous speech, for harsh speech, for idle chatter, for covetousness, for ill-will by way of decisive support. Matricide is a condition for matricide by way of decisive support. Matricide is a condition for parricide, for killing an Arahant, for causing blood to flow, for causing a schism in the Saṅgha, for fixed wrong view by way of decisive support. Parricide is a condition for parricide, for killing an Arahant, for causing blood to flow, for causing a schism in the Saṅgha, for fixed wrong view, for matricide by way of decisive support. Killing an Arahant is a condition for killing an Arahant, for causing blood to flow, for causing a schism in the Saṅgha, for fixed wrong view, for matricide, for parricide by way of decisive support. Causing blood to flow is a condition for causing blood to flow, for causing a schism in the Saṅgha, for fixed wrong view, for matricide, for parricide, for killing an Arahant by way of decisive support. Causing a schism in the Saṅgha is a condition for causing a schism in the Saṅgha, for fixed wrong view, for matricide, for parricide, for killing an Arahant, for causing blood to flow by way of decisive support. ... Fixed wrong view is a condition by way of decisive support for fixed wrong view. Fixed wrong view is a decisive support for the act of matricide... for the act of killing an Arahant... for the act of causing blood to flow... for the act of causing a schism in the Sangha. (A wheel should be made.) (1) An unwholesome phenomenon is a condition by way of decisive support for a wholesome phenomenon. Natural decisive support: Relying on greed, one gives alms, observes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhana, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal powers, generates attainments. Relying on hatred... Relying on delusion... Relying on conceit... Relying on wrong view... Relying on longing, one gives alms, observes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhana, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal powers, generates attainments. Greed... hatred... delusion... conceit... wrong view... longing... are conditions by way of decisive support for faith... for morality... for learning... for generosity... for wisdom. Having killed a living being, for the sake of counteracting that, one gives alms, observes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhana, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal powers, generates attainments. Having taken what is not given... Having spoken falsely... Having spoken divisively... Having spoken harshly... Having engaged in idle chatter... Having broken into a house... Having plundered property... Having committed a single-house robbery... Having waylaid travelers... Having gone with another's wife... Having committed village destruction... Having committed town destruction, for the sake of counteracting that, one gives alms, observes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhana, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal powers, generates attainments. Having deprived one's mother of life, for the sake of counteracting that, one gives alms, observes precepts, performs Uposatha duties. Having deprived one's father of life... Having deprived an Arahant of life... by a malicious mind... Having caused blood to flow from the Tathāgata, ... having split the Sangha, for the purpose of counteracting that, he gives a gift, he undertakes precepts, he performs the Uposatha ceremony. (2) An unwholesome phenomenon is a condition for an indeterminate phenomenon by way of strong dependence condition – immediate strong dependence, natural strong dependence. Immediate strong dependence – an unwholesome (action) is a condition for rising up (from jhāna/samāpatti) by way of strong dependence condition. Natural strong dependence – relying on lust, he torments and afflicts himself, he experiences suffering rooted in seeking. Relying on hatred... delusion... conceit... wrong view... craving, he torments and afflicts himself, he experiences suffering rooted in seeking. Lust... hatred... delusion... conceit... wrong view... craving are a condition for bodily pleasure... for bodily pain... for the attainment of fruition by way of strong dependence condition. Unwholesome kamma is a condition for its result by way of strong dependence condition. (3) An indeterminate phenomenon is a condition for an indeterminate phenomenon by way of strong dependence condition – object strong dependence, immediate strong dependence, natural strong dependence. Object strong dependence – an Arahant reviews the fruition, making it weighty, he reviews Nibbāna, making it weighty, Nibbāna is a condition for fruition by way of strong dependence condition. Immediate strong dependence – previous previous resultant indeterminate, functional indeterminate aggregates are a condition for subsequent subsequent resultant indeterminate, functional indeterminate aggregates by way of strong dependence condition. Life-continuum for advertence... functional consciousness for rising up (from jhāna/samāpatti)... the Arahant's adaptation for the attainment of fruition... the functional consciousness of the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception for the attainment of fruition for one rising from cessation is a condition by way of strong dependence condition. Natural strong dependence – bodily pleasure is a condition for bodily pleasure, for bodily pain, for the attainment of fruition by way of strong dependence condition. Bodily pain is a condition for bodily pleasure, for bodily pain, for the attainment of fruition by way of strong dependence condition. Season/climate for bodily pleasure, For bodily suffering, for fruition attainment, it is a condition by way of strong support. Food, for bodily pleasure, for bodily suffering, for fruition attainment, it is a condition by way of strong support. Lodging, for bodily pleasure, for bodily suffering, for fruition attainment, it is a condition by way of strong support. Bodily pleasure… bodily suffering… climate… food… lodging, for bodily pleasure, for bodily suffering, for fruition attainment, it is a condition by way of strong support. Fruition attainment, for bodily pleasure, it is a condition by way of strong support. An Arahant, relying on bodily pleasure, generates unarisen functional attainment, enters into arisen attainment, discerns formations as impermanent, as suffering, as not-self. Bodily suffering… climate… food… lodging, relying on them, generates unarisen functional attainment, enters into arisen attainment, discerns formations as impermanent, as suffering, as not-self. (1) An indeterminate phenomenon, for a wholesome phenomenon, is a condition by way of strong support – strong support by object, strong support by contiguity, strong support by nature. Strong support by object – trainees review the fruition, making it weighty; they review Nibbāna, making it weighty. Nibbāna, for the change of lineage… for purification… for the path, is a condition by way of strong support. Strong support by contiguity – advertence, for wholesome aggregates, is a condition by way of strong support. Strong support by nature – relying on bodily pleasure, one gives alms, undertakes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhāna, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal knowledge, generates attainment. Bodily suffering… climate… food… lodging, relying on them, one gives alms, undertakes precepts, performs Uposatha duties, generates jhāna, generates insight, generates the path, generates supernormal knowledge, generates attainment. Bodily pleasure… bodily suffering… climate… food… lodging… Of faith… Of morality… Of learning… Of generosity… Of wisdom… is a condition by way of decisive support. (2) Undetermined phenomenon for unwholesome phenomenon is a condition by way of decisive support – object decisive support, contiguity decisive support, natural decisive support. Object decisive support – making the eye important, he enjoys and delights in it; making that important, lust arises, wrong view arises. The ear… The nose… The tongue… The body… Forms… Sounds… Smells… Tastes… Tangibles… The base… Making the resultant undetermined, the functional undetermined aggregates important, he enjoys and delights in them; making that important, lust arises, wrong view arises. Contiguity decisive support – advertence for unwholesome aggregates is a condition by way of decisive support. Natural decisive support – relying on bodily pleasure, he takes life,