[Summary of the constituents of the First Type of Thought (sa ngahavaram or koṭṭhā savāra m).]1 [58] Now, on that occasion the skandhas are four, the spheres (a ya tanani) are two, 1 The constituent dhammas of the first of the eight schemata of "good thoughts (cittangāni) are now rehearsed with reference to class and number. The motive probably was to aid the student either to a conspectus of the psychosis in question, or mnemonically. Thus, if the constituent factors of the thought be regarded under the aspect of classified aggregates (rāsaṭṭhena, or khand hatthena), they all fall under four heads. All that do not belong to the skandhas of feeling, perception, or consciousness, come under the sanskara-skandha. Regarded under the aspect of collocation or conjuncture (a ya tanam), they all fall under two heads, corresponding to the fourth, and to the first, second, and third, of those four skandhas respectively. Regarded under the aspect of phenomena, of non-noümena (sabhavaṭṭhena, suññataṭṭhena, nissattatthena), they all fall under two heads, corresponding to the two preceding. We then come to partial aspects. the sphere of ideation (ma nā - the faculty of ideation, the element of intellection (mano viññāņa dhatu), the sphere of a [purely] mental the element of a [purely] mental state, are each single [factors]. These, or whatever other incorporeal, causally induced states there are on that occasion-these are states that are good. [59] What on that occasion are the four skandhas? The skandhas of feeling, perception, synergies, and consciousness. [60] (i) What on that occasion is the skandha of feeling? The mental pleasure, the mental ease, which there is on that occasion,1 the pleasurable, easeful sensation which is born of contact with thought, the pleasant, easeful feeling born of contact with thought-this is the skandha of feeling that there then is (§§ 3, 10, 18). [61] (ii) What on that occasion is the skandha of perception ? The perception, the perceiving, the state of having perceived, which there is on that occasion-this is the skandha of perception that there then is (§ 4). [62] (iii) What on that occasion is the skandha of synergies? 2 (i) Contact, (ii) volition, 1 The omission in both this and the next answer of the phrase, used in §§ 3 and 4-" born of contact with the appropriate element of representative intellection "-is not noticed in the Cy. K. draws attention to it in a footnote, not at this passage, but at §§ 108-10. The omission is probably accidental. 2 See Introduction to 2nd ed. (iii) application of mind, (vi) self-collectedness, (xii) the faculty of life, (xiii) right views, (xiv) right intention, (xv) right endeavour, (xxi) the power of concentration, (xxii) the power of insight, (xxiii) the power of conscientiousness, (xxiv) the power of the fear of blame, (xxv) disinterestedness, (xxvi) absence of hate, (xxvii) absence of dullness, (xxviii) absence of covetousness, (xxix) absence of malice, (xxx) right views, (xxxi) conscientiousness, xxxii) the fear of blame, (xxxiii) serenity of mental factors, (xxxiv) serenity of mind, (xxxv) buoyancy of mental factors, (xxxvi) buoyancy of mind, (xxxvii) plasticity of mental factors, (xxxviii) plasticity of mind, (xxxix) wieldiness of mental factors, (xli) fitness of mental factors, (xli) fitness of mind, (xliii) rectitude of mental factors, (xliv) rectitude of mind, (xlv) mindfulness, (xlvi) intelligence, (xlvii) quiet, xlviii) intuition, (xlix) grasp, (1) balance. These, or whatever other incorporeal causally induced states there are on that occasion, exclusive of the skandhas of feeling, perception, and consciousness these are the skandha of synergies. [63] (iv) What on that occasion is the skandha of consciousness? The thought which on that occasion is ideation, mind, the heart, that which is clear, ideation as the sphere of mind, as the faculty of mind, the skandha of consciousness, the appropriate element of representative intellection-this is the skandha of consciousness that there then is (§ 6). These on that occasion are the four skandhas. [64] What on that occasion are the two spheres ? The sphere of mind, the sphere of [mental] states. [65] What on that occasion is the sphere of mind (mana yatanam)? Answer as for "thought", § 6, and for the "skandha of consciousness", § 63. [66] What on that occasion is the sphere of [mental] states (dhamma yatanam)? The skandhas of feeling, perception, synergies this is on that occasion the sphere of [mental] states. These are on that occasion the two spheres. [67] What on that occasion are the two elements? The element of representative intellection, the element of [mental] states. [68] What on that occasion is the element of [purely] mental consciousness (m a noviññāṇadhātu)? Answer as for "thought", § 6; cf. §§ 63, 65. [69] What on that occasion is the element of [mental] states (d ham madhātu)? The skandhas of feeling, of perception, of synergies, these are on that occasion the element of [mental] states. These are on that occasion the two elements. [70] What on that occasion are the three nutriments ? 1 The nutriment of contact, the nutriment of volition, the nutriment of consciousness. [71] What on that occasion is the nutriment which is contact (phassa haro)? Answer as for "contact", § 2. [72] What on that occasion is the nutriment which is volition (m a nosañcetanāhāro)? The volition, the willing, the purposiveness which there is on that occasion-this is the representative cogitation that there then is. [73] What on that occasion is the nutriment which is consciousness (viññānā hāro)? 1 These three incorporeal nutriments or foods, together with the fourth or corporeal food, are given in the Sutta Piṭaka: M. i, 261; S. ii, 11. In the A. they are not classified under the Catukka Nipāta; but in the Dasaka Nipāta (A. v, 136) ten species of ā hāro are named, which have no reference to the four. e.g. appropriate action is the ā hāro of health". Buddhaghosa, dwelling on the etymology, calls them not so much conditions as supplementary causal "adducts" (ā - hā r). Given e.g. a living individual, adduce contact, and you get feeling; adduce will, and you get the three "becomings" (in the universe of sense, etc.); adduce consciousness, and you get thinking and name-and-shape (Asl. 153). |