Atītattika

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (2) · Vol. 41 · Section 1918

[1918] A past phenomenon (dhamma) is a condition for a present phenomenon by object condition (ārammaṇa-paccaya). Having given a gift (dāna), virtue (sīla) … the uposatha observance (uposathakamma) … one reviews (it); one reviews what was formerly well practiced; having emerged from jhāna, one reviews the jhāna. Noble ones (ariyā), having emerged from the path (magga), review the path; they review the fruit (phala); they review the defilements (kilesa) that have been abandoned; they review the defilements that have been suppressed. They contemplate with insight the past eye as impermanent, as suffering (dukkha), as non-self … grief (domanassa) arises. The past ear … the nose, the tongue, the body, forms, sounds, odours, tastes, tangible objects, the base (vatthu) … they contemplate with insight the past aggregates (khandhā) as impermanent, as suffering, as non-self; they relish (them), they delight (in them); on account of that, lust (rāga) arises, wrong view (diṭṭhi) arises, doubt (vicikicchā) … restlessness (uddhacca) … grief arises. The sphere of the infinity of space (ākāsānañcāyatana) is a condition for the sphere of the infinity of consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana) by object condition. The sphere of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana) is a condition for the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana) by object condition. Past aggregates are a condition for the knowledge of the modes of supernormal power (iddhividha-ñāṇa), for the knowledge penetrating the minds of others (cetopariya-ñāṇa), for the knowledge of the recollection of past lives (pubbenivāsānussati-ñāṇa), for the knowledge of (beings') faring according to their kamma (yathākammūpaga-ñāṇa), and for adverting (āvajjana), by object condition.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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