Bhāvanāduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (4) · Vol. 43 · Section 598

[598] A phenomenon to be abandoned by development (bhāvanāya pahātabbo dhammo) is a condition for a phenomenon to be abandoned by development by decisive-support condition (upanissaya-paccaya): object decisive-support (ārammaṇūpanissaya), proximity decisive-support (anantarūpanissaya), natural decisive-support (pakatūpanissaya) … Natural decisive-support: lust (rāga) to be abandoned by development … hatred (dosa), delusion (moha), conceit (māna) … longing (patthanā) is a condition for lust to be abandoned by development, for hatred, for delusion, for conceit, for longing, by decisive-support condition. A phenomenon to be abandoned by development is a condition for a phenomenon not to be abandoned by development (na-bhāvanāya pahātabbo dhammo) by decisive-support condition: object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on lust to be abandoned by development, one gives a gift (dāna) … gives rise to an attainment (samāpatti), kills a living being … causes schism in the Saṅgha; in dependence on hatred to be abandoned by development … delusion … conceit … longing, one gives a gift … gives rise to an attainment, kills a living being … causes schism in the Saṅgha. Lust to be abandoned by development … longing is a condition for faith (saddhā) … for wisdom (paññā), for lust not to be abandoned by development, for hatred, for delusion, for wrong view (diṭṭhi), for longing, for bodily pleasure (kāyika sukha), for bodily pain (kāyika dukkha), for the path (magga), for the attainment of fruition (phalasamāpatti), by decisive-support condition. A phenomenon not to be abandoned by development is a condition for a phenomenon not to be abandoned by development by decisive-support condition: object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on faith, one gives a gift … gives rise to an attainment, adopts wrong view; in dependence on virtue (sīla) … wisdom, lust not to be abandoned by development, hatred, delusion, conceit, wrong view, longing, bodily pleasure, bodily pain … a lodging (senāsana), one kills a living being … causes schism in the Saṅgha. Faith … a lodging is a condition for faith … for wisdom, for lust not to be abandoned by development, for hatred, for delusion, for wrong view, for longing, for bodily pleasure, for bodily pain, for the path, for the attainment of fruition, by decisive-support condition. A phenomenon not to be abandoned by development is a condition for a phenomenon to be abandoned by development by decisive-support condition: object decisive-support, proximity decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on faith, one gives rise to conceit; in dependence on virtue … wisdom, lust … longing, bodily pleasure, bodily pain … a lodging, one gives rise to conceit. Faith … a lodging is a condition for lust to be abandoned by development, for hatred, for delusion, for conceit, for longing, by decisive-support condition.

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

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