Vipākatika

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (1) · Vol. 40 · Section 1377

[1377] A phenomenon of the nature to produce results (vipākadhammadhamma) is a condition for a phenomenon of the nature to produce results by decisive-support condition (upanissaya-paccaya): object decisive-support (ārammaṇūpanissaya), proximity decisive-support (anantarūpanissaya), natural decisive-support (pakatūpanissaya). Natural decisive-support: depending on faith (saddhā), one gives a gift (dāna) … gives rise to conceit (māna), grasps a view (diṭṭhi); depending on virtue (sīla) … learning (suta) … generosity (cāga) … wisdom (paññā), one gives a gift … gives rise to conceit, grasps a view; depending on lust (rāga) … hatred (dosa), delusion (moha), conceit, view … longing (patthanā), one gives a gift … gives rise to an attainment (samāpatti), kills a living being … causes schism in the Saṅgha … Faith … longing is a condition for faith, for virtue … for longing by decisive-support condition. The preliminary work (parikamma) for the first jhāna is a condition for the first … the preliminary work for the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana) is a condition for the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception; the first jhāna is a condition for the second … the sphere of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana) is a condition for the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception by decisive-support condition … The preliminary work for the first path (magga) is a condition for the first … the preliminary work for the fourth path is a condition for the fourth; the first path is a condition for the second, the second path for the third, the third path for the fourth path by decisive-support condition. Trainees (sekkhā), depending on the path, give rise to the wholesome attainment (kusala-samāpatti) that has not yet arisen … The path is a condition for the trainees' discrimination of meaning (attha-paṭisambhidā) … for skill in the possible and the impossible (ṭhānāṭhāna-kosalla) by decisive-support condition. Killing living beings (pāṇātipāta) is a condition for killing living beings … for wrong view (micchādiṭṭhi) by decisive-support condition … Wrong view is a condition for wrong view … for ill will (byāpāda). The act of matricide (mātughātakamma) is a condition for the act of matricide by decisive-support condition … is a condition for fixed wrong view (niyata-micchādiṭṭhi) by decisive-support condition. Fixed wrong view is a condition for fixed wrong view, for the act of causing schism in the Saṅgha (saṅghabhedakakamma), by decisive-support condition …

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

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