4. Chapter ii 16 Modes of Conveying: Combined Treatment (Continued) (NE35)

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639. Herein, what is the Mode of Conveying a Co-ordination in Combined Treatment? [It is as follows:]

So let his cognizance be guarded,
Having for pasture right intention,
Giving right view first place through knowing
Rise and fall, transcending drowsing
And lethargy, a bhikkhu may
Abandon all bad destinations.

640. (i) “So let his cognizance be guarded” is the footing for the three kinds of good conduct. (ii) When cognizance is guarded, then, as bodily action, verbal action, and mental action, is guarded.

641. (iii) “Having for pasture right intention”: when right view is kept in being, the noble eight-factored path is kept in being. For what reason? Because it is from right view that right intention is given being, from right intention … [complete as in 600.] … from right deliverance that right knowing and seeing of deliverance is given being.

642. (iv) This is a person without trace left and the extinction element without trace left.

The Mode of Conveying a Co-ordination in Combined Treatment is ended.

643. That is why the venerable Mahā-Kaccāna said:

“Sixteen Conveyings first, Surveying
With Plotting then of the Directions,
And having collected with the Hook,
Three Guide-Lines demonstrate a Thread”.

The Modes of Conveying in Combined Treatment are ended.

Translated from the Pāḷi by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, 1977.

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