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According to the obtainable conditions, In their own form. Without expanding in this way, To show the reversal concisely, The compilers of the Dhamma, Extracted the conditions of the wholesome, and so on, In the direct order, In the manner of "a wholesome phenomenon, Is a condition for a wholesome phenomenon, By way of the object condition," and so on. These conditions, however, Are in terms of aggregates, Not in terms of individual conditions. Therefore, those shown in aggregates, Should be distinguished and understood. All these twenty-four conditions, Are included in eight conditions. Which eight? Object, Co-arising, Support, Pre-nascence, Post-nascence, Kamma, Food, Faculty. How? Excluding these eight, Because of the conditions, in the remaining sixteen, the root condition, the mutual condition, the resultant-jhāna-path conjoined condition, these six conditions, being entirely co-nascent, and being conditions only for the co-nascent, are included in the co-nascent condition. The immediately contiguous condition, the immediately contiguous repetition condition, the absence condition, the separation condition, these five, however, having arisen and ceased, being conditions only for those arising immediately after, due to the characteristic of a supportive condition through proximity, are included in the supportive condition. The supportive condition is twofold, due to co-nascent and pre-nascent distinctions. Therein, the co-nascent supportive condition, being a supportive condition only for the co-nascent, is included in the co-nascent condition. The pre-nascent supportive condition is included in the pre-nascent condition. The dominance condition is also twofold, due to co-nascent dominance and object dominance. Therein, the co-nascent dominance, being a dominance condition only for the co-nascent, is included in the co-nascent condition. The object dominance is indeed a supportive object, and due to the characteristic of a supportive object, is included in the supportive condition. The dissociation condition is threefold, due to co-nascent, pre-nascent, and post-nascent distinctions. Therein, the co-nascent dissociation, being a dissociation condition only for the co-nascent, is included in the co-nascent condition. The pre-nascent dissociation, having arisen earlier, being a condition for those arising later, is included in the pre-nascent. The post-nascent dissociation, having arisen later, being a condition for those arising earlier, in the manner of supporting, is included in the post-nascent condition. The presence condition and the absence condition, being established in six distinctions each, due to the co-nascent, pre-nascent, post-nascent, nutriment, and faculty, in presence and absence. Therein, the co-nascent presence and absence, being a presence and absence condition only for the co-nascent, are included in the co-nascent condition. The pre-nascent, having arisen earlier, being a condition for those arising later, are included in the pre-nascent condition. The post-nascent, having arisen later, These sixteen conditions, by way of supporting things that arose earlier, are included in the post-nascence condition. Nutriment, being material nutriment, is included in the nutriment condition. Faculty, being the material life faculty, is included in the faculty condition. Thus, these sixteen conditions, it should be understood, are included in these eight conditions. Moreover, among these eight conditions, there is indeed inclusion of one another. For the object condition, stated at the beginning, is twofold, by way of dominant and non-dominant. Therein, the dominant, by way of the characteristic of object-support, is included in the support condition. The non-dominant is simply the object condition itself. The kamma condition too is twofold, by way of co-nascence and diverse-moment. Therein, co-nascent kamma, being a condition only for things co-nascent with itself, is included in the co-nascence condition itself. Diverse-moment kamma is twofold, by way of strong and weak. Therein, strong kamma, being a condition only by being a support for resultant states, is included in the support condition. However, strong kamma is a condition for material phenomena, and weak kamma is a condition for immaterial phenomena, only by way of the diverse-moment kamma condition. The nutriment condition too is twofold, by way of material and immaterial. Therein, immaterial nutriment is a condition only for things co-nascent with itself, and is included in the co-nascence condition. Material nutriment is not a condition for things co-nascent, pre-nascent, or post-nascent. However, having passed its own moment of arising, and having attained duration, it accomplishes the function of nutriment, and is the nutriment condition itself. The faculty condition too is twofold, by way of material and immaterial. Therein, the immaterial faculty condition accomplishes the function of a faculty condition only for things co-nascent with itself, and is included in the co-nascence condition itself. However, the material faculty condition is twofold, by way of internal and external. Therein, the internal faculty condition, having arisen earlier, is a faculty condition for co-arising states such as eye-consciousness, etc., and is included in the pre-nascence condition itself. The external faculty condition is the material life- The faculty, it is only in the sense of maintaining for those born together, not in the sense of generating, thus it is only a faculty condition. Thus, these eight conditions are to be understood as including each other as well. This, firstly, is the method of inclusion among the eight conditions, both for the remaining sixteen and for the eight themselves, in terms of mutual relationship. Now, among these eight conditions, which ones are included in each of the twenty-four conditions, those are to be understood. There, firstly, in the first of the eight, the object condition, only the object condition is included, not the remaining twenty-three. In the second, the co-nascent condition, the root condition, the co-nascent dominance condition, the co-nascent condition, the mutual condition, the co-nascent dependence condition, the co-nascent kamma condition, the result condition, the co-nascent nutriment condition, the co-nascent faculty condition, the absorption condition, the path condition, the associated condition, the co-nascent dissociation condition, the co-nascent presence condition, the co-nascent absence condition, these fifteen conditions are included. In the third, the strong dependence condition, the dominance-related object condition, the object-related dominance condition, the immediately contiguous strong dependence condition, the habitual condition, the diverse-moment powerful kamma condition, the absence condition, the absence-of-absence condition, these nine conditions are included. In the fourth, the pre-nascent condition, the pre-nascent dependence condition, the pre-nascent condition, the pre-nascent faculty condition, the pre-nascent dissociation condition, the pre-nascent presence condition, the pre-nascent absence condition, these six conditions are included. In the fifth, the post-nascent condition, the post-nascent condition, the post-nascent dissociation condition, the post-nascent presence condition, the post-nascent absence condition, these four conditions are included. In the sixth, the kamma condition, only the diverse-moment kamma condition is included. In the seventh, the nutriment condition, only in terms of edible food, the nutriment condition, the nutriment presence condition, the nutriment absence condition, these three conditions. are included. In the eighth, the conditions of the life faculty of form, the condition of the faculty-entity, and the condition of non-separation from the faculties, these three conditions are included. Thus, knowing which conditions are included in each of these eight conditions, it should be understood that those which are included in each are indeed included in its count. Thus, based on these eight conditions that encompass all conditions, in these forty-nine questions in the negative section, these fifteen questions beginning with "Is a wholesome state a condition for a wholesome state by way of object-condition?" are extracted and explained. There, the four questions beginning with wholesome: wholesome for wholesome, wholesome for unwholesome, wholesome for indeterminate, wholesome for wholesome and indeterminate; likewise the unwholesome questions; but the indeterminate for indeterminate, the indeterminate for wholesome, the indeterminate for unwholesome, these three beginning with indeterminate; wholesome and indeterminate for wholesome; likewise for indeterminate; unwholesome and indeterminate for unwholesome; likewise for indeterminate, these four ending with dual-rooted-one. In the first question, all the conditions that should be present are included, and three conditions are stated. In the second, two; in the third, five; in the fourth, only one; in the fifth, three; in the sixth, two; in the seventh, five; in the eighth, only one; in the ninth, seven; in the tenth, three; in the eleventh, three; in the twelfth, two; in the thirteenth, four; in the fourteenth, two; and in the fifteenth, also four. These are stated as "co-arisen, post-arisen" without saying "by way of co-arisen condition." The reason for this, we will explain later. In summary here, there are only six divisions of conditions: one, two, three, four, five, and seven. This is the division of questions in the negative section of the question series in the highest sense, and the division of conditions shown by including those conditions. For in the twenty-four negative conditions beginning with "Not by way of root-condition," no further questions or conditions are found beyond this in even a single negative condition. They are obtainable.