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I: ‘THE CLOG-BOUND SUTTA’……………………………………….. 1

Inconceivable Is the Beginning, Bhikkhus………………………….. 1

There Will Come a Time, Bhikkhus……………………………………. 3

Suppose, Bhikkhus, a Dog Was Clog-Bound……………………….. 5

The Uneducated Ordinary Person……………………………………… 5

The Uneducated Person…………………………………………………… 6

The Ordinary Person……………………………………………………….. 6

Who Does Not See Noble Ones…………………………………………. 7

Who Is Unskilled and Undisciplined…………………………………… 8

Restraint Discipline……………………………………………………………… 8

Abandonment Discipline……………………………………………………….. 9

Who Does Not See True Men………………………………………….. 10

Regards the Five Aggregates as Self……………………………….. 10

Similes on the Identity View…………………………………………………. 11

The Twenty Types of Identity View………………………………………… 11

Annihilation View……………………………………………………………. 12

Eternity View…………………………………………………………………. 13

He Merely Goes Round the Five Aggregates…………………….. 14

Wishing for Rebirth……………………………………………………………. 15

The Educated Noble Disciple…………………………………………… 15

Two Types of Noble Disciple………………………………………………… 16

Eight Noble Individuals………………………………………………………. 16

The Educated Noble Disciple Trainee……………………………………… 16

Does Not Regard the Five Aggregates as Self…………………… 18

He Does Not Go Round the Five Aggregates…………………….. 18

Endnotes Chapter I (sutta references etc.)……………………………… 20

II: ‘THE SECOND CLOG-BOUND SUTTA’………………………………… 29

The Dog Near the Post…………………………………………………… 29

This Is Mine, This I Am, This Is My Self ………………………. 29

He Is Near the Five Clinging-Aggregates…………………………. 30

For a Long Time this Mind Has Been Defiled…………………….. 30

The Fantastic Picture…………………………………………………….. 31

The Fantastic Animal Realm…………………………………………… 31

The Variety of Temperament……………………………………………….. 32

The Parsimonious Millionaire……………………………………………… 34

The Two Brothers…………………………………………………………… 34

Endnotes Chapter II (sutta references etc.)………………………………. 36

III: THE WORKINGS OF KAMMA………………………………………….. 37

The Buddha’s Knowledge of Kamma & Result 37

The Lion’s Roar………………………………………………………………… 37

The Heart of The Buddha’s Teaching………………………………………. 38

The Workings of the Mind……………………………………………………. 39

Definition of Kamma………………………………………………………….. 39

Unwholesome and Wholesome Volition…………………………………… 40

Impossible and Possible Results……………………………………………. 40

The Buddha’s Knowledge of the Possible and Impossible……………… 42

The Resultant Dhammas……………………………………………………… 42

Table 1: The Resultant Consciousnesses……………………………….. 44

Unwholesome and Wholesome Kamma…………………………………… 44

Unwholesome Consciousness………………………………………….. 44

Unprompted and Prompted…………………………………………………. 45

Greed-Rooted Consciousness……………………………………………….. 46

Table 2a: Mental Phenomena of Greed-Rooted Consciousness…….. 46

Hatred-Rooted Consciousness………………………………………………. 46

Table 2b: Mental Phenomena of Hatred-Rooted Consciousness……. 47

Delusion-Rooted Consciousness……………………………………………. 48

Table 2c: Mental Phenomena of Delusion-Rooted Consciousness…. 48

Unwholesome Resultants…………………………………………………….. 48

Table 1a: Unwholesome Resultant Consciousness……………………. 52

Ignorance and Craving and the Roots…………………………………….. 52

Table 5a: Death and Rebirth………………………………………………. 50

Wholesome Consciousness……………………………………………… 54

Non-Greed- and Non-Hatred Rooted Consciousness……………………. 55

Knowledge-Dissociated and Knowledge-Associated…………………….. 56

The Five Types of Knowledge…………………………………………….. 56

Unprompted and Prompted…………………………………………………. 58

Inferior and Superior…………………………………………………………. 58

Inferior and Superior; the Roots and Resultants………………………. 60

Table 1f: Inferior & Superior Wholesome Kamma,

Their Roots & Resultant Rebirth-Linking……………………… 61

Table 1b: The Wholesome Resultant Unrooted Consciousness…….. 62

Table 1c: The Rooted Sensual-Sphere Resultant Consciousness…… 63

The Merit-Work Bases……………………………………………………… 64

Offering………………………………………………………………………… 64

The Workings of Offering……………………………………………………. 65

Knowledge-Dissociated……………………………………………………… 65

Table 3a: Mental Phenomena of Knowledge-Dissociated Consciousness 65

Knowledge-Associated……………………………………………………… 67

Table 3b: Mental Phenomena of Knowledge-Associated Consciousness 67

The Inferior Offering……………………………………………………….. 67

The Superior Offering………………………………………………………. 68

Morality……………………………………………………………………….. 69

The Five Precepts……………………………………………………………… 70

The Eight Precepts…………………………………………………………….. 72

The Ten Precepts………………………………………………………………. 72

The Bhikkhu’s Morality……………………………………………………….. 73

The Workings of Morality Training……………………………………….. 74

Knowledge-Dissociated…………………………………………………… 74

Knowledge-Associated……………………………………………………. 76

Inferior Morality……………………………………………………………. 77

Superior Morality………………………………………………………….. 78

Meditation……………………………………………………………………. 80

Samatha Meditation…………………………………………………………… 80

The Fourfold and Fivefold Jhanas………………………………………… 81

Table 3c: Mental Phenomena of Exalted Consciousness……………… 83

The Workings of Samatha Meditation……………………………………. 83

Inferior Samatha Meditation…………………………………………….. 83

Superior Samatha Meditation……………………………………………. 85

The Light of Wisdom……………………………………………………….. 86

Insight Meditation……………………………………………………………… 86

The Three Characteristics………………………………………………….. 87

The Two Preparatory Insight Knowledges……………………………… 88

The Objects for Insight…………………………………………………….. 89

The Five Clinging-Aggregates…………………………………………… 89

Ultimate Materiality………………………………………………………….. 90

The Four Great Essentials………………………………………………… 91

Derived Materiality………………………………………………………… 91

Concrete Derived Materiality…………………………………………… 91

Unconcrete Derived Materiality……………………………………….. 92

Knowing and Seeing Ultimate Materiality……………………………… 92

The Twelve Characteristics…………………………………………….. 93

The Three Types of Material Compactness…………………………. 93

Analysis of Ultimate Materiality……………………………………….. 94

The Four Origins of Materiality……………………………………….. 95

Kamma-Born Materiality……………………………………………. 95

Consciousness-Born Materiality…………………………………… 96

Temperature-Born Materiality…………………………………….. 98

Nutriment-Born Materiality……………………………………….. 100

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………… 101

Table 4: The Twenty-Eight Types of Materiality…………………….. 103

Ultimate Mentality………………………………………………………….. 103

Knowing and Seeing Ultimate Mentality……………………………… 104

The Four Types of Mental Compactness…………………………… 105

Dependent Origination……………………………………………………. 107

Knowing and Seeing the Three Characteristics………………………. 109

The Sixteen Insight Knowledges………………………………………… 109

The Workings of Insight Meditation……………………………………. 112

Inferior Insight Meditation……………………………………………… 112

Superior Insight Meditation……………………………………………. 115

Wholesome Resultants………………………………………………………. 116

Wholesome Kamma and Ignorance/Craving……………………………. 116

The Courses of Kamma…………………………………………………….. 117

The Ten Unwholesome Courses of Kamma…………………………….. 117

The Three Unwholesome Bodily Kammas………………………. 117

To Be a Killer………………………………………………………………….. 117

To Be a Thief…………………………………………………………………. 118

To Be One Who Engages in Sexual Misconduct………………………… 119

The Four Unwholesome Verbal Kammas………………………… 120

To Be a Liar…………………………………………………………………… 120

To Be a Slanderer……………………………………………………………. 120

To Be a Speaker of Harshness…………………………………………….. 121

To Be a Prattler………………………………………………………………. 121

The Three Unwholesome Mental Kammas……………………… 122

To Be Covetous………………………………………………………………. 122

To Harbour Ill-Will…………………………………………………………… 123

To Hold Wrong View………………………………………………………… 124

The Results of Unwholesome Kamma……………………………. 125

The Results of Unwholesome Bodily Kamma…………………………… 125

The Results of Unwholesome Verbal Kamma…………………………… 125

The Results of Unwholesome Mental Kamma………………………….. 125

The Trivial Results of Unwholesome Kamma………………………… 125

A Course of Unwholesome Kamma…………………………………….. 125

The Ten Wholesome Courses of Kamma………………………………… 128

The Three Wholesome Bodily Kammas………………………….. 128

To Be Kind and Compassionate…………………………………………… 128

Not to Be a Thief…………………………………………………………….. 129

Not to Be One Who Engages in Sexual Misconduct……………………. 129

The Four Wholesome Verbal Kammas……………………………. 130

Not to Be a Liar………………………………………………………………. 130

Not to Be a Slanderer……………………………………………………….. 131

Not to Be a Speaker of Harsh Speech……………………………………. 131

Not to Be a Prattler………………………………………………………….. 131

The Three Wholesome Mental Kammas…………………………. 132

Not to Be Covetous………………………………………………………….. 133

Not to Harbour Ill-Will………………………………………………………. 133

To Hold Right View………………………………………………………….. 133

The Results of Wholesome Kamma……………………………….. 134

The Results of Wholesome Bodily Kamma………………………………. 134

The Results of Wholesome Verbal Kamma……………………………… 134

The Results of Wholesome Mental Kamma……………………………… 134

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….. 135

Knowledge and Conduct …………………………………….. 135

Conduct………………………………………………………………………… 136

Knowledge…………………………………………………………………….. 139

The Results……………………………………………………………………. 139

Insufficient Knowledge……………………………………………………. 139

King Pasenadi…………………………………………………………….. 140

The Bhikkhu Sati…………………………………………………………. 140

Saccaka the Philosopher………………………………………………… 140

Insufficient Conduct……………………………………………………….. 140

Mahadhana Lord-Son……………………………………………………. 141

King Ajatasattu…………………………………………………………… 142

Born in an Unsuitable Place……………………………………………. 142

The Twelve Categories of Kamma …………………………… 142

Time of Effect………………………………………………………………… 143

Table 5b: The Five-Door Process…………………………………………. 144

Mental Phenomena of the Five-Door Process………………… 145

Table 5c: The Mind-Door Process………………………………………… 146

Mental Phenomena of the Mind-Door Process………………. 148

Presently-Effective Kamma…………………………………………… 149

Subsequently-Effective Kamma…………………………………….. 149

The Venerable Devadatta…………………………………………………. 150

Indefinitely-Effective Kamma……………………………………….. 151

Lapsed Kamma……………………………………………………………. 152

Uncountable Kammas……………………………………………………….. 152

Conditions for Present Result……………………………………………… 155

Present Result from Wholesome Kamma……………………………… 155

The Field of Gold………………………………………………………… 157

Present Result from Unwholesome Kamma…………………………… 159

The Venerable Angulimala…………………………………………….. 159

The Cattle Butcher……………………………………………………….. 159

The Workings of Kamma Past, Present, and Future………………… 161

The Six Workings of Past Kamma………………………………………… 161

Past Kamma, Past Result…………………………………………………. 162

Past Kamma, No Past Result…………………………………………….. 162

Past Kamma, Present Result……………………………………………… 162

Past Kamma, No Present Result…………………………………………. 162

Past Kamma, Future Result………………………………………………. 163

Past Kamma, No Future Result………………………………………….. 163

The Four Workings of Present Kamma…………………………………… 164

Present Kamma, Present Result…………………………………………. 164

Present Kamma, No Present Result…………………………………….. 164

Present Kamma, Future Result………………………………………….. 164

Present Kamma, No Future Result……………………………………… 165

Two Workings of Future Kamma………………………………………….. 165

Future Kamma, Future Result……………………………………………. 166

Future Kamma, No Future Result……………………………………….. 166

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….. 167

Order of Effect………………………………………………………………. 168

Weighty Kamma………………………………………………………….. 168

Unwholesome Weighty Kamma…………………………………………… 168

The Three Views that Deny the Workings of Kamma……………….. 169

The Inefficacy View……………………………………………………… 169

The Rootlessness View………………………………………………….. 170

The Non-Existence View………………………………………………… 171

The Weightiest Unwholesome Kamma…………………………………. 171

Wholesome Weighty Kamma………………………………………………. 173

The Four Means to Power………………………………………………… 173

Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta……………………………….. 174

Kaladevila the Hermit……………………………………………………. 174

Brahma Sahampati………………………………………………………. 175

The Venerable Devadatta…………………………………………….. 175

Table 5d: The Jhana-Attainment Process……………………………… 176

Table Id: Fine-Material Sphere Resultant Consciousness…………… 178

Immaterial-Sphere Resultant Consciousness………………. 178

Habitual Kamma………………………………………………………….. 179

Unwholesome Habitual Kamma…………………………………………… 179

Wholesome Habitual Kamma………………………………………………. 180

Near Death Kamma…………………………………………………….. 180

Unwholesome Near-Death Kamma……………………………………….. 180

Queen Mallika………………………………………………………………. 180

Wholesome Near-Death Kamma………………………………………….. 181

Tambadathika the Executioner………………………………………….. 181

The Mind at Death…………………………………………………………… 181

Accomplished Kamma…………………………………………………………………….. 183

Function of Effect…………………………………………………………… 184

Productive Kamma………………………………………………………. 184

The Comfortable Elephant…………………………………………………. 185

Rich through Wrong Livelihood…………………………………………… 186

The Kannamunda Devi……………………………………………………… 186

Reinforcing Kamma……………………………………………………… 187

Frustrating Kamma………………………………………………………. 188

King Bimbisara……………………………………………………………….. 188

Bhikkhus Reborn as Heavenly Musicians………………………………… 189

King Ajatasattu……………………………………………………………….. 189

The Slave-Woman Khujjuttara…………………………………………….. 189

Kamma Frustrates in the Course of Life…………………………………. 190

Certain Kammas Frustrate and Others Reinforce………………………. 190

Queen Mallika…………………………………………………………………. 190

Interceptive Kamma…………………………………………………….. 192

Spoilt Devas…………………………………………………………………… 192

King Ajatasattu……………………………………………………………….. 192

The Venerable Devadatta…………………………………………………… 192

Bahiya Daruciriya…………………………………………………………….. 193

The Venerable Angulimala…………………………………………………. 194

The Hunter Sunakhavajika…………………………………………………. 194

Intercepts — No Result — Forbids……………………………………… 194

The Venerable Mahamoggallana………………………………………. 195

The Venerable Cakkhupala…………………………………………….. 195

Intercepts — No Result — Allows………………………………………. 195

Queen Samavati………………………………………………………….. 196

The Five Hundred Bhikkhus……………………………………………. 196

Intercepts — Own Result…………………………………………………. 198

Mara Dusi………………………………………………………………….. 198

King Kalabu……………………………………………………………….. 200

The Principle of Identity………………………………………………….. 201

The Venerable Devadatta…………………………………………………… 202

The Venerable Ledi Sayadaw’s Explanation…………………………….. 202

Identical Interceptive Kamma……………………………………………… 203

The Three Bhikkhus……………………………………………………….. 203

The Ghost Nanda………………………………………………………….. 205

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….. 205

Achievement and Failure………………………………………………….. 207

Achievement………………………………………………………………….. 208

Failure………………………………………………………………………….. 208

The Workings of Achievement and Failure……………………………. 209

Achievement Disables Unwholesome Kammas……………….. 209

Destination Achievement Disables Unwholesome Kammas………….. 209

Tambadathika the Executioner………………………………………… 209

Appearance Achievement Disables Unwholesome Kammas…………. 210

Time Achievement Disables Unwholesome Kammas…………………. 210

Good and Bad Friendship………………………………………………… 210

The Wheel-Turning King……………………………………………….. 211

A Ruler’s Good Example……………………………………………… 211

Deterioration of Human Life…………………………………………… 212

The Supreme Good Friend…………………………………………….. 213

The Venerable Annasikondanna…………………………………….. 213

The Venerable Sariputta and the Venerable Mahamoggallana… 213

King Ajatasattu…………………………………………………………. 214

The Devotee Gavesi……………………………………………………. 214

Means Achievement Disables Unwholesome Kammas………………… 215

Pukkusati…………………………………………………………………….. 215

Tambadathika the Executioner………………………………………….. 216

The Venerable Angulimala……………………………………………….. 216

The Supreme Means Achievement……………………………………… 217

The Venerable Mahamoggallana………………………………………. 217

Means Achievement Produces Only Happiness………………………. 217

Failure Enables Unwholesome Kammas…………………………. 218

Destination Failure Enables Unwholesome Kammas………………….. 218

Appearance Failure Enables Unwholesome Kammas………………….. 218

Time Failure Enables Unwholesome Kammas………………………….. 219

Means Failure Enables Unwholesome Kammas………………………… 219

The King’s Favourite…………………………………………………………. 220

Failure Disables Wholesome Kammas……………………………. 221

Destination Failure Disables Wholesome Kammas…………………….. 221

King Ajatasattu……………………………………………………………… 221

Appearance Failure Disables Wholesome Kammas……………………. 221

The Island King…………………………………………………………….. 222

Time Failure Disables Wholesome Kammas…………………………….. 222

Means Failure…………………………………………………………………. 222

Mahadhana Lord-Son……………………………………………………… 223

How You Avoid Failure……………………………………………………… 223

Achievement Enables Wholesome Kammas……………………. 226

Destination Achievement Enables Wholesome Kammas……………… 226

The Venerable Pancasila Samadaniya………………………………….. 226

Appearance Achievement Enables Wholesome Kammas…………….. 227

Time Achievement Enables Wholesome Kammas……………………… 227

The Venerable Mahasona…………………………………………………. 227

The Venerable Vattabbaka-Nigrodha…………………………………… 228

Means Achievement Enables Wholesome Kammas……………………. 229

The Venerable Culasudhamma………………………………………….. 229

The Innocent Minister……………………………………………………….. 230

Endnotes Chapter III (sutta references etc.)……………………………. 231

IV: THE SMALL KAMMA-ANALYSIS SUTTA’……………………. 255

Inferior and Superior Human Beings……………………………………. 255

The Fourteen Ways………………………………………………………….. 256

One Is a Killer……………………………………………………………… 256

The Venerable Mahamogallana’s Past Parricide………………………… 257

One Is Not a Killer……………………………………………………….. 259

Long-Lived Bhikkhus………………………………………………………… 260

The Virtuous Venerable PancasiIa Samadaniya………………………… 260

Ayuvaddhana Kumara Lives Long………………………………………… 261

One Is a Tormentor……………………………………………………… 263

Mischievous Nanda…………………………………………………………… 263

The Cruel Bird-Catcher……………………………………………………… 264

One is Not a Tormenter………………………………………………… 264

The Healthy Venerable Bakula…………………………………………….. 265

One is Angry, Very Irritable………………………………………….. 268

Scowling Pancapapi………………………………………………………….. 269

Abusive Suppabuddha………………………………………………………. 269

The Avenging Courtesan…………………………………………………… 270

One is Not Angry, Not Irritable……………………………………… 271

The Loving-Kind Venerable Subhuti……………………………………… 271

The Golden Venerable Mahakaccana……………………………………… 275

One Harbours Envy………………………………………………………. 277

The Envious Venerable Tissa………………………………………………. 277

One Does Not Harbour Envy………………………………………….. 280

Happy Uruvela Kassapa…………………………………………………….. 280

One Does Not Make Offerings……………………………………….. 282

The Miserly Brahmin Todeyya…………………………………………….. 283

One Makes Offerings……………………………………………………. 284

The Venerable Sivali…………………………………………………………. 284

One Is Stubborn and Proud…………………………………………… 287

The Scavenger Sunita……………………………………………………….. 287

The Barber Upali……………………………………………………………… 288

One Is Not Stubborn, Not Proud 290

The Highborn Venerable Bhaddiya……………………………………….. 290

One Is Not an Inquirer…………………………………………………. 292

Stupid Prince Suppabuddha……………………………………………….. 293

One Is an Inquirer……………………………………………………….. 295

The Inquiring Venerable Mahakotthika………………………………….. 296

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….. 299

Endnotes Chapter IV (sutta references etc.)…………………………….. 301

V: CREATING A HUMAN BEING………………………………………. 303

Introduction…………………………………………………………………… 303

Suppose, Bhikkhus, a Painter, or a Maker of Pictures……… 304

The Jealous Venerable Jambuka’s Picture………………………………. 305

Cincamanavika’s Picture…………………………………………………….. 307

Grudging Culasubhadda’s Picture…………………………………………. 308

Mahapaduma Paccekabuddha’s Picture………………………………….. 310

Princess Sumana’s Picture………………………………………………….. 312

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………. 313

VI: THE UNWORKING OF KAMMA……………………………………… 315

Is Materiality Permanent or Impermanent?………………….. 315

Impermanence………………………………………………………………. 315

Suffering ……………………………………………………………… 316

Non-Self ……………………………………………………………… 316

Clinging to Suffering……………………………………………………….. 316

Therefore, Bhikkhus, Any Whatsoever Materiality…………. 316

Materiality…………………………………………………………………….. 317

Materiality Past, Future, or Present………………………………………. 317

Materiality Internal or External…………………………………………… 318

Materiality Gross or Subtle………………………………………………… 318

Materiality Inferior or Superior…………………………………………… 319

Materiality Far or Near……………………………………………………… 319

Feelings……………………………………………………………………….. 319

Feelings Past, Future, or Present…………………………………………. 319

Feelings Internal or External……………………………………………… 320

Feelings Gross or Subtle…………………………………………………… 320

Feelings Inferior or Superior……………………………………………… 321

Feelings Far or Near………………………………………………………… 321

The Comprehension Knowledge…………………………………………. 321

The Arise & Perish Knowledge…………………………………………… 322

The Dissolution-Contemplation Knowledge……………………………. 322

Thus Seeing, Bhikkhus………………………………………………… 323

The Educated Noble Disciple is Disenchanted………………… 323

The Danger of the Workings of Kamma………………………………… 325

Equanimity Towards the Five Aggregates……………………………… 326

The Four Perversions………………………………………………………. 326

Contemplating Voidness…………………………………………………… 327

The Five Voidness Similes…………………………………………………. 327

Void of Self and Anything Belonging to Self…………………………… 328

Let One Look on the World as Void, Mogharajah…………………….. 328

Divorce from the Five Aggregates……………………………………….. 329

His Mind Retreats, Retracts, and Recoils……………………………….. 329

Seeing Nibbana as Peaceful……………………………………………….. 330

Path and Fruition……………………………………………………………. 330

Table 3d: Mental Phenomena of Supramundane Consciousness.. 331

The Four Path Knowledges……………………………………………….. 331

Stream Entry……………………………………………………………… 332

Once-Return………………………………………………………………. 333

Non-Return……………………………………………………………….. 333

Arahant…………………………………………………………………….. 334

The Unworking of Kamma………………………………………………… 334

Table 5e: The Path Process……………………………………………….. 336

The Reviewing Knowledges…………………………………… 338

Table le: Supramundane Resultant Consciousness…………………… 339

Done Is What Needs to Be Done…………………………………… 339

The Two Types of Parinibbana…………………………………………… 341

Consciousness Established and Unestablished………………………… 342

Consciousness Established………………………………………………… 342

Birth………………………………………………………………………… 342

Five-, Four-, and Single-Constituent Existence…………………….. 343

The Stream of Consciousness…………………………………………. 344

Consciousness Unestablished…………………………………………….. 345

Table 3e: Dependent Origination from Life to Life……………………. 345

No Establishment in Nibbana……………………………………………… 346

Things Impossible for Consciousness to Do…………………………… 346

Where Does the Arahant Go?…………………………………………….. 347

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………. 348

Just As, Bhikkhus, a Lotus Blue, Red or White …………. 348

Endnotes Chapter VI (sutta references etc.)……………………………. 349

Appendix 1: The Forty Meditation Subjects…………………… 359

Appendix 2: The Lineage of Buddhas……………………………. 361

Editor’s Note (Second Revised Edition)…………………………………. 363

Editor’s Note (First Edition)……………………………………………….. 366

Pali Spelling………………………………………………………………….. 366

Diacritics and Inflection…………………………………………………….. 366

Pali Compounds……………………………………………………………… 366

Reference to The Buddha, etc…………………………………………….. 367

Translations………………………………………………………………….. 367

Individual Words and Phrases…………………………………………….. 367

—Beer & Wine Liquor(sura-meraya-majja)…………………………… 367

—Conscience (hiri)…………………………………………………………. 368

—Dependent Origination and ‘Because of Ignorance’, etc………….. 368

—Faith (saddha).……………………………………………………………. 369

—Kammic Potency(kamma-satti).……………………………………….. 370

—Materiality (rupa)…………………………………………………………. 370

—Mentality (nama)…………………………………………………………. 370

—Possessiveness (macchariya)…………………………………………… 371

—Shame (ottappa)…………………………………………………………. 371

—Sympathetic Joy(mudita)……………………………………………….. 371

Endnotes Editor’s Note……………………………………………………… 373


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