Suddhasaṅkhāravāra

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Yamaka (1) · Vol. 38 · Section 1203

[1203] "For whomever the bodily formation (kāya-saṅkhāra) arises, did the verbal formation (vacī-saṅkhāra) cease for him?" "Yes." "Or rather, for whomever the verbal formation did cease, does the bodily formation arise for him?" "For all [beings] at the moment of the dissolution of mind (citta) and at the moment of the arising of mind apart from in-and-out breathing, for those who have attained cessation (nirodha-samāpanna), and for non-percipient beings (asaññasattā) — for them the verbal formation did cease, but the bodily formation does not arise for them. At the moment of the arising of in-and-out breathing, for them the verbal formation did cease and the bodily formation arises.¹ …" Just as in the section on arising (uppāda-vāra) the questions [combining] the past with the present have been analyzed both in the affirmative (anuloma) and in the negative (paccanīya), so too in the section on arising and cessation (uppāda-nirodha-vāra) the questions [combining] the past with the present should be analyzed both in the affirmative and in the negative. — ¹ [Editorial note in Pali, Siam Raṭṭha edition:] "From here onward it is easily understood; therefore it should be understood that it is not analyzed [in full]. Herein this is the distinction: the paired questions on the bodily formation and the mental formation (citta-saṅkhāra) are like the preceding; but in the paired questions on the verbal formation and the mental formation, in the place of 'apart from in-and-out breathing' one should read 'apart from thought-conception and discursive thought (vitakka-vicāra)', and in the place of 'of in-and-out breathing', 'of thought-conception and discursive thought.'"

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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