[405] Which phenomena (dhammā) are wholesome?
On the occasion when there has arisen a wholesome mind (citta) belonging to the sense sphere (kāmāvacara), accompanied by joy (somanassa), associated with knowledge (ñāṇa), with prompting (sasaṅkhārena) … accompanied by joy, dissociated from knowledge … accompanied by joy, dissociated from knowledge, with prompting … accompanied by equanimity (upekkhā), associated with knowledge … accompanied by equanimity, associated with knowledge, with prompting … accompanied by equanimity, dissociated from knowledge … accompanied by equanimity, dissociated from knowledge, with prompting — having a form as its object (rūpārammaṇa) … or a dhamma as its object, or regarding whatever [object] it may be — on that occasion, with ignorance (avijjā) as condition there is a volitional formation (saṅkhāra); with the volitional formation as condition, consciousness (viññāṇa); with consciousness as condition, name (nāma); with name as condition, the sixth sense base (chaṭṭhāyatana); with the sixth sense base as condition, contact (phassa); with contact as condition, feeling (vedanā); with feeling as condition, confidence (pasāda); with confidence as condition, resolution (adhimokkha); with resolution as condition, existence (bhava); with existence as condition, birth (jāti); with birth as condition, aging and death (jarāmaraṇa). Thus is the origin (samudaya) of this whole mass of suffering (dukkha).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.