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A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C - Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, 1900 - Complete Book

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Which are the states that are [1170] (a) both themselves Hhidrances and associated with Hindrances ? The following pairs are both themselves Hindrances and associated with Hindrances : Sensual desire in conjunction with ignorance, and conversely. Ill-will in conjunction with ignorance, and conversely. Stolidity and torpor, 1 Excitement taken successively, in conjunction with '^^T'orry, ignorance, and conversely. Perplexity, 315 taken successively, in conjunction with ignorance, and conversely. Sensual desire, lU-wfll, Stolidity and torpor. Excitement, Worry, Perplexity, [1171] {h) associated with Hindrances, hut not themselves Hindrances ? The states which are associated with the [six afore- mentioned] states, the latter themselves being excepted ; in other words, the four skandhas. Which are the states that are [1172] (a) disconnected with the Hindrances, hut favour- able to them ? The states which are disconnected with those [six] states afore-named, that is to say, co-Intoxicant states, good, bad and indeterminate, whether they relate to the worlds of sense, form or the formless ; in other words, the five skandhas. [1173] (b) disconnected with the Hindrances and unfavour- able to them ^ The Paths that are the Unincluded, and the Fruits of the Paths, and uncompounded element.-^ 1 Worry and perplexity are discarded in the First Path ; sensual desire and ill-will in the Third Path; stolidity, torpor and ignorance in the Fourth. Asl. 384. Insight into the presence or absence of the (five) Hindrances is termed, in A. i. 272, manosoceyyam. [Chapter X. The Group on Contagion (par amasa-gocchakam).p [1174] Which are the states that are contagious ? The Contagion of speculative opinion. In this connexion, [1175] What is the ' Contagion of speculative opinion '? Answer as for the 'Intoxicant of speculative opinion/ viz. : ' To hold that the world is eternal, or that it is not eternal,' etc. (§ 1099). [1176] Which are the states that are not a Contagion ? Answer as in the case of the ' states that are not Hin- drances' (§ 1163). 2 [1177, 1178] Which are the states that are (a) infected ? (b) uninfected ? Answers as in the corresponding answers relating to the Hindrances (§§ 1164, 1165). ^ The man, according to the Cy. (p. 49), who falls out of the right attitude toward dhamma, i.e., who loses the belief in their impermanence, etc., lays himself open to the infectious touch of speculative views. ^ The one kind of Contagion is always for the sake of symmetry referred to as plural, e.g., the states afore-named (te dhamma thapetva). Asl. 385. 317 [1179, 1180] Which are the states that are (a) associated with the Contagion ? (b) disconnected with the Contagion ? Answers as in the corresponding ansivers relating to the Hindrances (§§ 1166, 1167). [1181, 1182] Which are the states that are (a) themselves Contagious and infected ? The Contagion itself is both. (b) infected but not Contagious ? The states which are infected by the states afore-named ; that is to say, with the exception of the latter, all co- Intoxicant states whatever, good, bad and indeterminate, whether they relate to the worlds of sense, form, or the formless ; in other words, the five skandhas. [1183, 1184] Which are the states that are (a) disconnected with the Contagion, yet infected ? (b) disconnected ivith the Contagion and uninfected ? Answers as in the corresponding sections on the Hin- drances (§§ 1172, 1173). [Chapter XI. The Great Intermediate Set of Pairs (mahantara- dukam).]^ [1185, 1186] Which are the states that have (a) a concomitant object of thought P The four skandhas. (h) no concomitant object of thought ? All form,^ and uncompounded element. [1187, 1188] Which are the states that are {a) of the intellect ?^ Cognition applied to sense-impressions ; the element of ideation and the element of ideational cognition. (h) not of the intellect ? The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses ; all form, moreover, and uncompounded element. [1189, 1190] Which are the states that are (a) involved in the life of sense ^^ ' ^ ff^A 1 Cf Chapter III. of this book. The Cy. refrains from any remarks on the answers in this chapter. 2 Sarammana. 3 See p. 169 :' ' void of idea.' See K. V. 404. * Citta. See § 1022. 'Cognition applied,' etc., is in the original cakkhuvinnanam and the rest. When ' sense ' drops out of account in the following pairs, I have reverted to the approximately synonymous term * thought.' s Cetasika. See § 1022. 319 The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses. (b) not involved in the life of sense ? Intellect and all form and uncompounded element. [1191, 1192] Which are the states that are (a) associated tvith thought ? The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses. (b) disconnected with thought ? All form and uncompounded element. (Thought must not be described as associated or dis- connected with itself.)^ [1193, 1194] Which are the states that are (a) conjoined with thought ? ^ (b) detached from thought ? Answers as in §§ 1191, 1192 respectively, (Thought must not be described as conjoined with, or detached from itself.) [1195, 1196] Which are the states that are (a) sprung from thought t ^ The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses ; bodily and vocal intimation ; or whatever other form there be which is born of thought, caused by thought, sprung from thought, whether it be in the spheres of sights, sounds, smells, tastes,* or the tangible, the elements of space or fluidity, the lightness, plasticity or wieldiness of 1 This refinement in the Buddhist Logic of Terms is usually expressed by the brief parenthesis governed by thapetva, excepting. See, e.g., § 984 et seq, ^ Citta-samsattha. ' I.e., in a condition of continuity, immediate contiguity, with thought.' Asl. 49. The con- trary -visamsattha = * not in the condition of continuity, immediate contiguity, with thought, although proceeding in unity with it.' Ibid. ^ Citta-samutthana. Cf § 667. * Easayatanam has been omitted in the text, appar- ently by inadvertence. 320 form, the integration or subsistence of form, or bodily nutriment. {h) not sprung from thought? Thought; also every other kind of form, and uncom- pounded element. [1197, 1198] Which are the states that (a) come into being together ivith thought ?^ The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses ; bodily and vocal intimation. (h) do not come into being together with thought t Thought ; also all other kinds of form,^ and uncom- pounded element. [1199, 1200] Which are the states that are (a) consecutive to thought 1^ (b) not consecutive to thought ? Answers as in the two foregoing answers respectively, [1201, 1202] Which are the states that are {a) conjoined with aiid sprung from thought ?^ The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses. (b) not conjoined with and sprung from thought P Thought itself ; all form also, and uncompounded element. ^ Citta-sahabhuno. ^ I.e., except the two modes of intimation, which are reckoned as * form.' See § 596. ^ Cittanuparivattina. * Citta-samsattha-samutthana. The Cy. reads this and the terms in the two following pairs as dvandva com- pounds. ^ The negative in the text is not distributed, and the compound of attributes qualifying * states ' must be taken conjunctively. This is borne out by the answer. Cf §§ 1196, 1198, also p. 204, n. 1. Saha-bhuno is parsed as saha bhavanti, not bhuta. Asl. 49. 321 [1203, 1204] Which are the states that {a) are conjoined with and sprung from ^ and that come into being together loith, thought ? (b) are not such as are conjoined with and sprung from and as come into being together with thought ?^ Answers as in the two foregoing answers respectively. [1205, 1206] Which are the states that are (a) conjoined with and sprung from and 'consecutive to thought ? (b) not conjoined with, sprung from and consecutive to thought? Answers as in the two foregoing ansivers. [1207, 1208] Which are the states that are (a) of the self / The spheres of the five senses and of ideation. (b) external t The spheres of the five objects of sense and of ideas. ^ [1209, 1210] Which are the states that are (a) derived? The spheres of the five senses . . . and bodily nutri- ment.^ (b) not derived ? The four skandhas, the four great phenomena and un- compounded element. [1211-1212] Which are the states that are (a) the issue of grasping ?