VaggaJarāmaraṇavipākotikathā

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 1169

[1169] Sakavādin: Is aging and death (jarāmaraṇa) a result (vipāka)? Paravādin: Yes. S: Is aging and death something to be experienced as pleasant, to be experienced as painful, to be experienced as neither painful nor pleasant; associated with pleasant feeling (vedanā), associated with painful feeling, associated with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling; associated with contact (phassa), associated with feeling, associated with perception (saññā), associated with volition (cetanā), associated with mind (citta); having an object (sārammaṇa)? Do adverting (āvajjanā), ideation (ābhoga), consideration (samannāhāra), attention (manasikāra), volition, aspiration (patthanā), and resolve (paṇidhi) exist for it? P: It should not be said so. … S: Is it not rather that aging and death is not to be experienced as pleasant, not to be experienced as painful, … that it is without an object (anārammaṇa), and that for it there is no adverting … no resolve? P: Yes. S: If aging and death is not to be experienced as pleasant, not to be experienced as painful, … if it is without an object, and for it there is no adverting … no resolve, then indeed you should not say, "Aging and death is a result."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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