[772] A fine-material-sphere phenomenon (rūpāvacaro dhammo) is a condition for a fine-material-sphere phenomenon by decisive-support condition (upanissaya-paccaya): proximity-decisive-support (anantarūpanissaya), natural decisive-support (pakatūpanissaya) … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on fine-material-sphere faith (saddhā), one produces fine-material-sphere jhāna; one produces superknowledge (abhiññā) … attainment (samāpatti). In dependence on fine-material-sphere virtue (sīla) … wisdom (paññā), one produces fine-material-sphere jhāna … superknowledge … attainment. Fine-material-sphere faith … wisdom is a condition for fine-material-sphere faith … for wisdom by decisive-support condition. The first jhāna is a condition for the second jhāna by decisive-support condition; the second jhāna for the third jhāna; the third jhāna is a condition for the fourth jhāna by decisive-support condition.
A fine-material-sphere phenomenon is a condition for a non-fine-material-sphere phenomenon (na-rūpāvacaro dhammo) by decisive-support condition: object-decisive-support (ārammaṇūpanissaya), proximity-decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on fine-material-sphere faith, one gives a gift (dāna); virtue … the uposatha observance (uposathakamma); one produces fine-material-sphere jhāna, insight (vipassanā), the path (magga), superknowledge … attainment; one conceives conceit (māna), grasps a view (diṭṭhi). In dependence on fine-material-sphere virtue … wisdom, one gives a gift … conceives conceit, grasps a view. Fine-material-sphere faith … wisdom is a condition for non-fine-material-sphere faith … for wisdom, for lust (rāga), for longing (patthanā), for bodily pleasure (kāyika sukha), for bodily pain (kāyika dukkha), for the path, for the attainment of fruition (phalasamāpatti) by decisive-support condition.
A non-fine-material-sphere phenomenon is a condition for a non-fine-material-sphere phenomenon by decisive-support condition: object-decisive-support, proximity-decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on non-fine-material-sphere faith, [one gives] a gift … virtue, the uposatha observance; one produces non-fine-material-sphere jhāna, insight, the path, superknowledge … attainment; one conceives conceit, grasps a view. In dependence on non-fine-material-sphere virtue … wisdom, [one gives] a gift … one conceives conceit, grasps a view. Non-fine-material-sphere faith … wisdom is a condition for non-fine-material-sphere wisdom, for lust, for longing, for bodily pleasure, for bodily pain, for the path, for the attainment of fruition by decisive-support condition.
A non-fine-material-sphere phenomenon is a condition for a fine-material-sphere phenomenon by decisive-support condition: proximity-decisive-support, natural decisive-support … Natural decisive-support: in dependence on non-fine-material-sphere faith, one produces fine-material-sphere jhāna … superknowledge … attainment. In dependence on non-fine-material-sphere virtue … lodging (senāsana), one produces fine-material-sphere jhāna … superknowledge … attainment. Non-fine-material-sphere faith … lodging is a condition for fine-material-sphere faith … for wisdom by decisive-support condition. The preliminary work (parikamma) for the first jhāna is a condition for the first jhāna by decisive-support condition … for the fourth jhāna … the preliminary work for the divine eye (dibbacakkhu), for the divine-ear element (dibbasotadhātu), for the knowledge of the modes of psychic 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 (yathākammupaga-ñāṇa) … the preliminary work for the knowledge of the future (anāgataṃsa-ñāṇa) is a condition for the knowledge of the future by decisive-support condition.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.