These, or whatever other incorporeal, causally induced states there are on that occasion—these are states that are good. [Summary, cf. § 58 et seq.] the skandhas are four, [147a] Now, on that occasion the spheres are two, the elements are two, the nutriments are three, the faculties are seven,1 the Jhana is fivefold, the Path is fourfold, the powers are six,2 mention between av yā pādo and hiri. Its absence from the third type of thought is involved in the qualifying phrase "disconnected with knowledge ", just as "insight 66 absence of dullness", etc., are. Cf. K. In 147a the Path is said to be fourfold only. 1 That of "insight" being omitted. 2 See preceding note. the causes are two,1 contact, etc. [Continue as in § 58.] [148] What on that occasion is the skandha of synergies? The content of the sanskara-skandha is the same as in the First Type of Thought, § 62,2 with the following omissions: "The faculty of insight," These are omitted as incompatible with the quality "disconnected with knowledge." * These, or whatever other incorporeal, etc. * [Here ends] the Third Type of Thought.3 IV. [149] Which are the states that are good? When a good thought concerning the sensuous universe has arisen by instigation, a thought which is accompanied by gladness, disconnected with knowledge, and having as its object a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, a touch, a [mental] state, or what not, then there is contact, etc. [continue as in § 147]-these, or whatever other incorporeal, causally 1 Absence of dullness" being omitted. 2 In the text the reader is referred to § 62 without reservation, and is thereby landed in inconsistencies. K. enumerates the content of the skandha in full, omitting all those factors which are incompatible with a thought divorced from knowledge. I have thought it sufficient to name only these excluded factors. 3 Placed erroneously in the text after § 147. These, or whatever other incorporeal, causally induced states there are on that occasion-these are states that are good. [Summary, cf. § 58 et sen the skandhas are four, [147a] Now, on that occasion the spheres are two, the elements are two, the nutriments are three, the faculties are seven,1 the Jhana is fivefold, the Path is fourfold, ā mention between a vy a pado and hir the third type of thought is involved in "disconnected with knowledge", just as of dullness", etc., are. Cf. K. In 147a fourfold only. 1 That of "insight" being omitted. 2 See preceding note. [152] What on that occasion is feeling? The mental [condition] neither pleasant nor unpleasant, which, on that occasion, is born of contact with the appropriate element of [purely] mental consciousness; the sensation, born of contact with thought, which is neither easeful nor painful; the feeling, born of contact with thought, which is neither easeful nor painful-this is the feeling that there then is. [Continue as in §§ 4-8.] 1 " [153] What on that occasion is indifference? Answer as in preceding reply, omitting the phrase born of contact with the appropriate element of purely mental consciousness [154] What on that occasion is the faculty of indifference? Answer as in preceding reply. Continue as in §§ 19-57. [Summary.] [154a] Now, on that occasion the skandhas are four, the spheres are two, the elements are two, the nutriments are three, the faculties are eight, the Jhana is fourfold,2 the Path is fivefold, the powers are seven, the causes are three, 66 1 Substituted for " zest" and ease", §§ 9, 10. 66 66 2 Consisting presumably in " applied and sustained thought, indifference (superseding "zest and ease ") and selfcollectedness". Cf. § 83. The last-named attitude of mind does not usually figure in the Piṭakas as the culminating (or other) stage of Jhāna (cf. § 160 et seq.). In the AbhidhammatthaSangaha, however, it does occur as such, and side by side also with "indifference". JPTS., 1884, p. 3; Compendium, p. 89: individualization." contact, etc., etc. [cf. § 58], the sphere of mental states is a single factor, the element of mental states is a single factor. These, or whatever other incorporeal, causally induced states there are on that occasion-these are states that are good.. [Continue as in §§ 59-61.] [155] What on that occasion is the skandha of synergies? Answer as in § 62, omitting "joy "1 Emptiness" Section [Continue as in the Summary and "Emptiness of the First Type of Thought.] [Here ends] the Fifth Type of Thought. VI. [156] Which are the states that are good? When a good thought concerning the sensuous universe has arisen, accompanied by indifference, associated with knowledge, by instigation, and having, as its object, a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, a touch, a [mental] state, or what not, then there is contact, etc. [Continue as in the Fifth Type of Thought.] [Here ends] the Sixth Type of Thought. VII. [157] Which are the states that are good? When a good thought concerning the sensuous universe has arisen, accompanied by indifference, disconnected with knowledge, and having, as its object, a sight, a sound, a smell, a taste, a touch, a [mental] state, or what not, then there is contact, etc. * 1 K. gives the skandha in full, omitting "zest", zest and indifference being mutually exclusive. |