Part III. Understanding (Paññā)

• The Aggregates
  • 1 A. Understanding
    • 1.1 (i) What is understanding?
    • 1.2 (ii) In what sense is it understanding?
    • 1.3 (iii) What are its characteristic, etc.?
    • 1.4 (iv) How many kinds of understanding are there?
    • 1.5 (v) How is it developed?
  • 2 B. Description of the Five Aggregates
    • 2.1 The Materiality Aggregate
    • 2.2 The Consciousness Aggregate
      • 2.2.1 The 89 Kinds of Consciousness—see Table III
        • 2.2.1.1 I. Profitable
        • 2.2.1.2 II. Unprofitable
        • 2.2.1.3 III. Indeterminate
      • 2.2.2 The 14 Modes of Occurrence of Consciousness
    • 2.3 The Feeling Aggregate
    • 2.4 The Perception Aggregate
    • 2.5 The Formations Aggregate—see Tables II & IV
      • 2.5.1 According to Association with Consciousness
  • 3 C. Classification of the Aggregates
    • 3.1 Materiality
    • 3.2 Feeling
    • 3.3 Perception, Formations and Consciousness
  • 4 D. Classes of Knowledge of the Aggregates
• The Bases and Elements
  • 1 A. Description of the Bases
  • 2 B. Description of the Elements
• The Faculties and Truths
  • 1 A. Description of the Faculties
  • 2 B. Description of the Truths
    • 2.1 The Truth of Suffering
      • 2.1.1 (i) Birth
      • 2.1.2 (ii) Ageing
      • 2.1.3 (iii) Death
      • 2.1.4 (iv) Sorrow
      • 2.1.5 (v) Lamentation
      • 2.1.6 (vi) Pain
      • 2.1.7 (vii) Grief
      • 2.1.8 (viii) Despair
      • 2.1.9 (ix) Association with the Unloved
      • 2.1.10 (x) Separation from the Loved
      • 2.1.11 (xi) Not to Get What One Wants
      • 2.1.12 (xii) The Five Aggregates
    • 2.2 The Truth of the Origin of Suffering
    • 2.3 The Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
      • 2.3.1 Discussion on Nibbāna
      • 2.3.2 The Truth of the Way
  • 3 General
• The Soil of Understanding—Conclusion: Dependent Origination
  • 1 A. Definition of Dependent Origination
  • 2 B. Exposition
    • 2.1 I. Preamble
    • 2.2 II. Brief Exposition
    • 2.3 III. Detailed Exposition
      • 2.3.1 (1) Ignorance
      • 2.3.2 (2) Formations
        • 2.3.2.1 The 24 conditions
        • 2.3.2.2 How Ignorance is a Condition for Formations
        • 2.3.2.3 No Single Fruit from Single Cause
      • 2.3.3 (3) Consciousness
        • 2.3.3.1 1. Kinds of Mundane Resultant Consciousness
        • 2.3.3.2 2. The Occurrence of Resultant Consciousness
        • 2.3.3.3 3. How Formations are a Condition for Consciousness
      • 2.3.4 (4) Mentality-Materiality
      • 2.3.5 (5) The Sixfold Base
        • 2.3.5.1 1. Mentality as Condition
        • 2.3.5.2 2. Materiality as Condition
        • 2.3.5.3 3. Mentality-Materiality as Condition
      • 2.3.6 (6) Contact
        • 2.3.6.1 How the Sixfold Base is a Condition for Contact
      • 2.3.7 (7) Feeling
      • 2.3.8 (8) Craving
      • 2.3.9 (9) Clinging
        • 2.3.9.1 How Craving is a Condition for Clinging
      • 2.3.10 (10) Becoming (being)
        • 2.3.10.1 How Clinging is a Condition for Becoming
      • 2.3.11 (11)–(12) Birth, Etc.
  • 3 C. The Wheel of Becoming
    • 3.1 (i) The Wheel
    • 3.2 (ii) The Three Times
    • 3.3 (iii) Cause and Fruit
    • 3.4 (iv) Various
• Purification of View
  • 1 Introductory
  • 2 Defining of Mentality-Materiality
    • 2.1 (1) Definition Based on the Four Primaries
      • 2.1.1 (a) Starting with Mentality
      • 2.1.2 (b) Starting with Materiality
    • 2.2 (2) Definition Based on the Eighteen Elements
    • 2.3 (3) Definition Based on the Twelve Bases
    • 2.4 (4) Definition Based on the Five Aggregates
    • 2.5 (5) Brief Definition Based on the Four Primaries
  • 3 If the Immaterial Fails to Become Evident
  • 4 How the Immaterial States Become Evident
  • 5 No Being Apart from Mentality-Materiality
  • 6 Interdependence of Mentality and Materiality
  • 7 Conclusion
• Purification by Overcoming Doubt
  • 1 Introductory
  • 2 Ways of Discerning Cause and Condition
    • 2.1 1. Neither Created by a Creator nor Causeless
    • 2.2 2. Its Occurance is Always Due to Conditions
    • 2.3 3. General and Particular Conditions
    • 2.4 4. Dependent Origination in Reverse Order
    • 2.5 5. Dependent Origination in Direct Order
    • 2.6 6. Kamma and Kamma-Result
    • 2.7 7. No Doer Apart from Kamma and Result
  • 3 Full-Understanding of the Known
• Purification by Knowledge and Vision of What is the Path and What is Not the Path
  • 1 Introductory
    • 1.1 The Fifth Purification
    • 1.2 The Three Kinds of Full-Understanding
  • 2 Insight
    • 2.1 Comprehension by Groups
    • 2.2 Comprehension by Groups—Application of Text
    • 2.3 Strengthening of Comprehension in Forty Ways
    • 2.4 Nine Ways of Sharpening the Faculties, Etc.
    • 2.5 Comprehension of the Material
      • 2.5.1 (a) Kamma-Born Materiality
      • 2.5.2 (b) Consciousness-Born Materiality
      • 2.5.3 (c) Nutriment-Born Materiality
      • 2.5.4 (d) Temperature-Born Materiality
    • 2.6 Comprehension of the Immaterial
    • 2.7 The Material Septad
    • 2.8 The Immaterial Septad
    • 2.9 The Eighteen Principal Insights
    • 2.10 Knowledge of Rise and Fall—I
      • 2.10.1 The Ten Imperfections of Insight
• Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Way
  • 1 Introductory
  • 2 Insight: The Eight Knowledges
    • 2.1 1. Knowledge of Rise and Fall—II
    • 2.2 2. Knowledge of Dissolution
    • 2.3 3. Knowledge of Appearance as Terror
    • 2.4 4. Knowledge of Danger
    • 2.5 5. Knowledge of Dispassion
    • 2.6 6. Knowledge of Desire for Deliverance
    • 2.7 7. Knowledge of Reflection
      • 2.7.1 Discerning Formations as Void
    • 2.8 8. Knowledge of Equanimity about Formations
      • 2.8.1 The Triple Gateway to Liberation
      • 2.8.2 The Seven Kinds of Noble Persons
      • 2.8.3 The Last Three Knowledges are One
      • 2.8.4 Insight Leading to Emergence
      • 2.8.5 The Twelve Similes
      • 2.8.6 The Difference in the Noble Path’s Factors, Etc.
    • 2.9 9. Conformity Knowledge
      • 2.9.1 Sutta References
• Purification by Knowledge and Vision
  • 1 I. Change-of-Lineage, Paths, and Fruits
    • 1.1 The First Path—First Noble Person
    • 1.2 The First Fruition—Second Noble Person
    • 1.3 The Second Path—Third Noble Person
    • 1.4 The Second Fruition—Fourth Noble Person
    • 1.5 The Third Path—Fifth Noble Person
    • 1.6 The Third Fruition—Sixth Noble Person
    • 1.7 The Fourth Path—Seventh Noble Person
    • 1.8 The Fourth Fruition—Eighth Noble Person
  • 2 II. The States Associated with the Path, Etc.
    • 2.1 The 37 states partaking of enlightenment
    • 2.2 Emergence and coupling of the powers
    • 2.3 States to be abandoned
    • 2.4 The Four Functions
      • 2.4.1 The Four Functions in a Single Moment
      • 2.4.2 The Four Functions Described Separately
    • 2.5 Conclusion
• The Benefits In Developing Understanding
  • 1 (vi) What are the benefits in developing understanding?
    • 1.1 A. Removal of the Defilements
    • 1.2 B. The Taste of the Noble Fruit
    • 1.3 C. The Attainment of Cessation
    • 1.4 D. Worthiness to Receive Gifts
  • 2 Conclusion
  • 3 Postscript