V. 16 Modes of Conveying in Separate Treatment (PE5)

XVI. The Ninefold Thread in the Mode of Conveying a Coordination

428. Herein, what is the Mode of Conveying a Coordination?

Regarding what has been condensed,
The proper synonym [and] manner
Of detail should be known as varied:
This Mode Conveys Coordination.

429. Herein, the demonstration of the name condenses, the demonstration of the example is the synonym, and the actual example is the detail. But the detail has to be stated. Like what?

430. [For example:] in the passage (“Bhikkhus, what is not-self … should be abandoned”). This is a condensation.

Herein, what is the coordination? And what should be “abandoned”? (Will and lust for form should be abandoned … down to … for consciousness …) can be given in detail.

As to ignorance, that can be described by simile.

431. [Again for example:] (The supported is liable to dislodgement). And what is the “support”? Craving and view. Herein, the view is ignorance and the craving is determinations. Herein, [to say] “with view as condition, craving” [is the same as saying] “with ignorance as condition, determinations”. Herein, what is “supported” is consciousness, and that [implies] “with determinations as condition, consciousness; … down to … ageing-and-death”. When this has been briefly stated thus the remainder [of the passage] follows, namely (The unsupported has no liability to dislodgement), which is thus the abandoning of the view and the craving. Herein, with cessation of ignorance as view, consciousness no longer, as it did before, lets go this or that idea provocative of lust in order to seize another idea, as in the Monkey Simile, but rather since it has no will and lust for even the least ideas provocative of lust, how is there to be any dislodgement? In the outstanding creatures [the Arahants] cognizance has done with insistence, and consciousness, being without a standing-point, ceases for want of nutriment. With cessation of consciousness, cessation of name-and-form; … down to … cessation of ageing-and-death.

This is a Coordination.

432. Herein, consciousness's dislodgement comes about through lust. When there is no dislodgement, then the former approach to defilement, along with its chattels, which was threefold, has its fires tranquillized. Hence he said (When there is no liability to dislodgement there is tranquillity).

433. Herein, the coordination is this: (One whose body is tranquil feels pleasure. When he is pleased his cognizance is concentrated … down to … there is the knowing and seeing “I am liberated”). The deliverance being due to the exhaustion of taints, he no more reappears. With his reappearance's having no actual coming or going, there is (no here or beyond or in between; this is the end of suffering) , which is the element of extinction without trace left.

434. This [is only what is] coordinated in the middle part of this Thread, and [it is only] its construing in Dependent Arising and in Deliverance; but this does not analyse in detail the meaning of what was stated in brief.

This is called the Mode of Conveying a Coordination.

435. Also the ideas in the type [of Thread] dealing with Corruption must be coordinated only with the type dealing with Corruption, not with any other. Likewise in the case of that dealing with Morality and that dealing with Penetration.

This is the Mode of Conveying a Coordination.

These are the sixteen Modes of Conveying.

The fifth chapter in the valiant Mahā-Kaccayāna the Rose-Apple-Wood dweller's Piṭaka-Disclosure is accomplished.

Translated from the Pāḷi by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, 1964.

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