[470] **"A person makes a decision in the world"** (vinicchayaṃ kūrute jantu loke): "Decision" (vinicchaya) — there are two decisions: decision through craving (taṇhā) and decision through view (diṭṭhi-vinicchaya).
How does one make a decision through craving? Here, for a certain person, wealth that has not arisen does not arise, and wealth that has arisen goes to destruction. He thinks thus: "By what means, indeed, does wealth that has not arisen not arise for me, and does wealth that has arisen go to destruction?" Then he thinks thus: "While I am devoted to indulgence in liquor, spirits, and intoxicants, a basis for heedlessness, wealth that has not arisen does not arise for me, and wealth that has arisen goes to destruction; while I am devoted to roaming the streets at unseemly hours, wealth that has not arisen does not arise for me, and wealth that has arisen goes to destruction; while I am devoted to frequenting shows, while I am devoted to indulgence in gambling, a basis for heedlessness, while I am devoted to association with bad friends, wealth that has not arisen does not arise for me, and wealth that has arisen goes to destruction; while I am devoted to idleness, wealth that has not arisen does not arise for me, and wealth that has arisen goes to destruction." Having made knowledge (ñāṇa) thus, he does not pursue the six channels of the dissipation of wealth (apāyamukha). Thus too he makes a decision through craving. Or else, he sets about his livelihood by farming, or by trade, or by cattle-keeping, or by archery, or by royal service, or by one or another craft. Thus too he makes a decision through craving.
How does he make a decision through view? When the eye has arisen, he knows: "My self has arisen." When the eye has disappeared, he knows: "My self has disappeared; my self has departed." Thus too he makes a decision through view. When the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, a form, a sound, a smell, a taste, a tangible object has arisen, he knows: "My self has arisen." When the tangible object has disappeared, he knows: "My self has disappeared; my self has departed." Thus too he makes a decision through view — he generates it, produces it, engenders it, brings it forth.
**"A person"** (jantu): a being, a man, a youth … a human. **"In the world"**: in the world of the states of loss … in the world of the sense bases (āyatana). Hence, "a person makes a decision in the world."
Therefore the Blessed One said:
"That which they say in the world is pleasant and unpleasant —
in dependence on that, desire (chanda) springs up;
having seen non-existence and existence in forms,
a person makes a decision in the world."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.