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DTG080 0014.For those who delight in the extensive, it is explained by dividing into eight objects..For those who delight in the extensive, it is explained by dividing into eight objects..g2.0f

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are the Śrāmaṇa, extensively spoken of as grasping at the Śrāmaṇa, etc., because of grasping at the Śrāmaṇa itself as the Śrāmaṇa. Non-virtuous dharmas are the ten paths of non-virtuous actions, such as killing and taking what is not given, etc., because killing, etc., are only non-virtuous. Unspecified dharmas are the unspecified actions of body, speech, and mind, etc., because it must be determined that they are unspecified themselves, otherwise the actions of body, etc., would not become virtuous or non-virtuous. Worldly dharmas are the five aggregates, the twelve sources, the eighteen elements, the ten paths of virtuous actions, meditation, the immeasurables, and the formless absorptions, etc., because these are worldly themselves. Transcendent dharmas are extensively spoken of from the four meditations up to the eighteen unshared dharmas of the Buddha, because they are included in the noble path, so they are transcendent. Defiled dharmas are spoken of from the five aggregates of appropriation up to the four formless absorptions and the six superknowledges, because these are not the antidotes to the view of self, so they are only defiled dharmas. Undefiled dharmas are spoken of from the four mindfulnesses up to the eighteen unshared dharmas of the Buddha, because these are the antidotes to the view of self, so they are undefiled. Conditioned dharmas are the desire realm, the form realm, the formless realm, and the dharmas that do not belong to the three realms, as well as the aspects of enlightenment, etc., because these are made by the gathering and assembling of conditions, so they are conditioned. Unconditioned dharmas are those that have no arising and no ceasing, and do not appear to change from abiding, such as desire.