[1218] S. Is the form element (rūpadhātu) an existence (bhava), a destination (gati), … an acquisition of individuality (attabhāvapaṭilābha)?
P. Yes.
S. Is form (rūpa) an existence, a destination, … an acquisition of individuality?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. Is there kamma (kamma) that leads to the form element?
P. Yes.
S. Is there kamma that leads to form?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. Are there beings (sattā) who attain to the form element?
P. Yes.
S. Are there beings who attain to form?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. In the form element, are beings born, do they age, die, pass away, and reappear?
P. Yes.
S. In form, are beings born, do they age, die, pass away, and reappear?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. In the form element, are there form, feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), volitional formations (saṅkhārā), and consciousness (viññāṇa)?
P. Yes.
S. In form, are there form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. Is the form element five-constituent existence (pañcavokārabhava)?
P. Yes.
S. Is form five-constituent existence?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. Material phenomena (rūpino dhammā) are the form element, and form exists in the sense-sphere element (kāmadhātu) — is it so?
P. Yes.
S. Then is that very sense-sphere element itself the form element?
P. It should not be said thus. …
S. Is that very sense-sphere element itself the form element?
P. Yes.
S. Is a person (puggala) endowed with sense-sphere existence (kāmabhava) endowed with two existences — with sense-sphere existence and with form-sphere existence (rūpabhava)?
P. It should not be said thus. …
End of the Discussion of the Form Element (Rūpadhātukathā).
Discussion of the Formless Element (Arūpadhātukathā)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.