Cetasikaduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (4) · Vol. 43 · Section 103

[103] A phenomenon (dhamma) that is a mental factor (cetasika) is a condition for a phenomenon that is a mental factor by decisive-support condition (upanissaya-paccaya): object decisive-support (ārammaṇūpanissaya), proximity decisive-support (anantarūpanissaya), natural decisive-support (pakatūpanissaya) … Natural decisive-support: aggregates (khandhā) that are mental factors are a condition for aggregates that are mental factors by decisive-support condition. The root should be asked. The three decisive-supports: aggregates that are mental factors are a condition for mind (citta) by decisive-support condition. The root should be asked. The three decisive-supports: aggregates that are mental factors are a condition for aggregates that are mental factors and for mind by decisive-support condition. A phenomenon that is not a mental factor is a condition for a phenomenon that is not a mental factor by decisive-support condition: object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: depending on season (utu) … food (bhojana) … lodging (senāsana) … mind, one gives a gift (dāna) … one causes a schism in the Saṅgha. Season … food … lodging … mind is a condition for faith (saddhā) … for wisdom (paññā), for lust (rāga) … for aspiration (patthanā), for bodily pleasure, for bodily pain, for the path (magga), for the attainment of fruition (phala-samāpatti) by decisive-support condition. A phenomenon that is not a mental factor is a condition for a phenomenon that is a mental factor by decisive-support condition: object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: depending on season … food … lodging … mind, one gives a gift. Three; similar to the first course (paṭhamagamana), without any difference. A phenomenon that is a mental factor and a phenomenon that is not a mental factor are a condition for a phenomenon that is a mental factor by decisive-support condition: three.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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