VaggaAparinipphannakathā

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 1897

[1897] [Sakavādin:] "Is it only suffering (dukkha) that is fully constituted (parinipphanna)?" [Paravādin:] "Yes." [Sakavādin:] "But was it not said by the Blessed One that whatever is impermanent is suffering — and is not the perfect-knower faculty (aññātāvindriya) impermanent?" [Paravādin:] "Yes." [Sakavādin:] "If whatever is impermanent was said by the Blessed One to be suffering, and the perfect-knower faculty is impermanent, then indeed, good sir, it should not be said: 'It is only suffering that is fully constituted.'" The Discussion of the Not-Fully-Constituted (Aparinipphannakathā). The Twenty-third Chapter (vagga). The summary (uddāna) thereof: Sexual intercourse (methunadhamma) may be engaged in with a single intention; non-humans, in the guise of Arahants, engage in sexual intercourse; the Bodhisatta, by reason of the exercise of sovereign free will (issariyakāmakārikā), goes to perdition (vinipāta), enters a womb, performed the practice of austerities, performed penance under another, professed another teacher; there is non-lust that is a counterfeit of lust (rāga); there is non-hatred that is a counterfeit of hatred; there is non-delusion that is a counterfeit of delusion; there is non-defilement that is a counterfeit of defilement (kilesa); form is not fully constituted; the perfect-knower faculty is not fully constituted. "[The dispensation] made new," extinction (nibbuti), the single intention, form not fully constituted, the perfect-knower faculty not fully constituted. The Great [Fifty] (Mahā), the Fixed Course (Niyāma), the Latent Tendencies (Anusayā), Refutation (Niggaha), with the Minor (Khuddaka) as fifth — crushers of the doctrines of others, composed with the Suttas as their root, an illumination in the dispensation of the Teacher — in the Kathāvatthu Treatise. The Kathāvatthu Treatise (Kathāvatthuppakaraṇa), comprising thirty-five recitation sections (bhāṇavāra), is concluded. ______________

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.