1.1. Mātikā of Triplets (DS1.1)

States that are good, bad, indeterminate.

States that are associated with pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neutral feeling.

States that are results; that have resultant quality; that are neither.

States that are grasped at and favourable to grasping; that are not grasped at but are favourable to grasping; that are neither.

States that are vitiated and vicious; that are not vitiated but are vicious; that are neither.

States that have applied and sustained thinking; sustained thinking only; neither.

States that are accompanied by zest; by happiness; by indifference.

States that are to be put away by vision; by culture; by neither.

States, the moral roots of which are to be put away by vision; by culture; by neither.

States going to building up; going to pulling down; going to neither.

States of one in training; of the adept; of one who is neither.

States that are limited, sublime, infinite.

States that have a limited object; a sublime object; neither.

States that are base; of medium worth; excellent.

States that are of a wrongfulness fixed as to consequences; that are of a righteousness fixed as to consequences; that do not entail fixed consequences.

States that have the Path as object; whose moral root is the Path; whose dominant influence is the Path.

States that have arisen; that have not arisen; that are bound to arise.

States that are past; present; future.

States that have the past as their object; the present as their object; the future as their object.

States that belong to one's self; are external to one's self; are belonging or external to one's self.

States that have for an object one's self; an object external to one's self; an object that is both.

States that are visible and reacting; invisible and reacting; neither.

Here end the triplets.

A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, a translation of the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, Compendium of States or Phenomena, by Caroline A.F. Rhys Davids and D. Litt., M.A..

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