Rūpīduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (3) · Vol. 42 · Section 274

[274] A material phenomenon (rūpī dhamma) is a condition for an immaterial phenomenon (arūpī dhamma) by way of decisive-support condition (upanissaya-paccaya): Object decisive-support (ārammaṇūpanissaya), natural decisive-support (pakatūpanissaya). … Natural decisive-support: depending on season (utu) … food (bhojana) … lodging (senāsana), one gives a gift (dāna) … creates a schism in the Saṅgha. Season, food, and lodging are a condition for faith (saddhā) … for the attainment of fruition (phala-samāpatti) by way of decisive-support condition. An immaterial phenomenon is a condition for an immaterial phenomenon by way of decisive-support condition: Object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support (anantarūpanissaya), natural decisive-support. … Natural decisive-support: depending on faith, one gives a gift … virtue (sīla) … … depending on bodily pain (kāyika dukkha), one gives a gift … creates a schism in the Saṅgha. Faith … bodily pain are a condition for faith … for the attainment of fruition by way of decisive-support condition.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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