[97] **"Skilled in all dhammas"** (kusalo sabbadhammānaṃ): one is skilled in all dhammas thus: "All volitional formations (saṅkhārā) are impermanent (anicca)" — one is skilled in all dhammas; "All volitional formations are suffering (dukkha)" — one is skilled in all dhammas; "All dhammas are not-self (anattā)" — one is skilled in all dhammas; "With ignorance as condition, volitional formations [arise]" — one is skilled in all dhammas … "Whatever is subject to origination, all that is subject to cessation" — one is skilled in all dhammas. Thus too one is skilled in all dhammas.
Or else, one is skilled in all dhammas as impermanent, as suffering, as a disease, as a boil, as a dart, as misery, as an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as a calamity, as a disaster, as unpleasant, as a peril, as a menace, as unstable, as fragile, as not lasting, as without protection, as without shelter, as without refuge, as not being a refuge, as empty, as hollow, as void, as not-self, as danger, as subject to change, as without substance, as the root of misery, as murderous, as subject to annihilation, as subject to taints (āsava), as conditioned, as Māra's bait, as subject to birth, as subject to aging, as subject to illness, as subject to death, as subject to sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair, as subject to defilement, as origin, as passing away, as without gratification, as danger, as without escape. Thus too one is skilled in all dhammas.
Or else, one is skilled in the aggregates (khandha), skilled in the elements (dhātu), skilled in the sense bases (āyatana), skilled in dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda), skilled in the establishments of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna), skilled in the right strivings (sammappadhāna), skilled in the bases of spiritual power (iddhipāda), skilled in the faculties (indriya), skilled in the powers (bala), skilled in the factors of awakening (bojjhaṅga), skilled in the path (magga), skilled in the fruits (phala), skilled in Nibbāna. Thus too one is skilled in all dhammas.
Or else, "all dhammas" refers to the twelve sense bases: the eye and forms, the ear and sounds, the nose and odors, the tongue and tastes, the body and tangibles, the mind and mental phenomena. And insofar as lust for the internal and external sense bases has been abandoned, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, not subject to future arising — to that extent too one is skilled in all dhammas. Hence, "skilled in all dhammas."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.