Kusaladhaṁnidadesa

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Yamaka (1) · Vol. 38 · Section 9

[9] Whatever phenomena (dhammā) are wholesome (kusala), do they all have the wholesome root as their root (kusalamūlamūlaka)? Yes (āmantā). Or: whatever [phenomena] have the wholesome root as their root, are all those phenomena wholesome? Form originated by the wholesome (kusalasamuṭṭhānaṃ rūpaṃ) has the wholesome root as its root but is not wholesome; [the wholesome both has the wholesome root as its root and is wholesome.] Whatever phenomena are wholesome, do they all have the same one root as their root by way of the wholesome root (kusalamūlena ekamūlamūlaka)? Yes. Or: whatever [phenomena] have the same one root as their root by way of the wholesome root, are all those phenomena wholesome? Form originated by the wholesome has the same one root as its root by way of the wholesome root but is not wholesome; the wholesome both has the same one root as its root by way of the wholesome root and is wholesome. Whatever phenomena have the same one root as their root by way of the wholesome root, do they all have mutual roots as their root by way of the wholesome root (kusalamūlena aññamaññamūlamūlaka)? The roots that arise together as wholesome roots both have the same one root as their root and have mutual roots as their root; the remaining phenomena conascent (sahajāta) with the wholesome roots have the same one root as their root by way of the wholesome root, but do not have mutual roots as their root. Or: whatever [phenomena] have mutual roots as their root by way of the wholesome root, are all those phenomena wholesome? Yes. ___________

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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