Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 10

Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 10

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KACCANA THERA

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938. [188] Herein, what is eulogy ?
(The Eightfold is the best of paths,
The four states are the best of truths,
Fading of lust the best idea,
And one with vision best of bipeds ) (Dh. 273; Pe 56).
This is eulogy.
939. (Bhikkhus, there are these three foremost things. What three ?
In so far as there are creatures, footless or two-footed or four-footed or
many-footed, or with form or without form or percipient or non-
percipient or neiiher-percipient-nor-non-percipient, of these a Perfect
One is reckoned foremost, reckoned best, reckoned supreme, that is to
say, one accomplished and fully enlightened. In so far as there is
any description of True Ideas, whether determined or undetermined,
of these the fading of lust is reckoned foremost, reckoned best, reckoned
supreme, that is to say, disillusionment of vanity, elimination of thirst,
outguiding of reliance, termination of the round, exhaustion of craving,
fading, ceasing, extinction. In so far as there is any description of
communities, any description of societies, any description of multitudes
gathered together, of these the Community of a Perfect One's hearers is

reckoned foremost, reckoned best, reckoned supreme, that is to say,
the four Pairs of Mature Men, the eight Types of Mature Persons . . .
(see §298) . . .field of merit for the world) (cf. Iti. 87-8; cf. Pe 56).
940. (A Master who all worlds crossed over,
A True Idea on profit's side,
A Lion-Man's society:
These are the most distinguished three) ( ).
(A lily-sheaf of saints is the Community,
The glorious Ideal its knower venerated,
Man's Tamer glorious, possessed of [perfect] vision:
This is the Trinity beyond the world ) ( ).
(A Master without equal [anywhere],
An Ideal with no essentials of existence,
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A glorious Community ennobled
This is the Trinity the most distinguished ) ( ).
( Truly named is the Conqueror Secure
All-Transcendent with Truth for his Ideal,
None other beyond Him. His Comity
Of Noble Ones the wise ever revere.
[189] This is the Trinity beyond the world) ( ).
(The Seer of [all] birth's exhaustion understood
The Path of single [aim],
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compassionate for weal,
And it is by that path that men who cross the flood
Crossed over in the past and will do so infuturo (S. v, 108).
(And even such was He, the best of gods and men,
Whom creatures do adore, hoping for purity ) ( ).
This is eulogy.
[Discussion]
941. Herein, (i (a)) the type of Thread belonging to worlds [in the
second grouping] can be demonstrated by two types of Thread [in
the first grouping], namely by (1) that dealing with corruption and
(2) that dealing with morality.
940/1 l
NirilpaddIia—with no essentials of existence': not in PED in any
form. NettiA:
l
Rdgaparildhddihi nirupaddho' (p. 226). If fm. \/dhd, the
word is simply a variant of nirupadhi, but perhaps connected with parildha.
940/2 k
Ekdyana—of single aim' (lit. 'with a single going') = ekam maggarh
(NettiA, 226). Often rendered by 'the only way' , but besides the context at
M. i, 55, that at M. i, 74 should also be considered, since i t brings out the
meaning more clearly.

(i (b)) the type of Thread dissociated from worlds can be demon-
strated by three types of Thread, namely by [(3) that dealing with
penetration subdivided into] (3a) that dealing with seeing (Pe 39)
and (3b) that dealing with keeping in being (Pe 39), and (4) that
dealing with the Adept.
(i (c)) the type of Thread belonging to worlds and dissociated from
worlds can be demonstrated in so far as regards that belonging to
worlds by either type of Thread to which the word is appropriate,
namely by (1) that dealing with corruption or (2) that dealing with
morality, and in so far as regards that dissociated from worlds it can
be demonstrated by whichever type of Thread the word is appro-
priate to, namely by (3a) that dealing with seeing, (3b) that dealing
with keeping in being, or (4) that dealing with the Adept.
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942. (2) The type of Thread dealing with morality is for counter-
acting (1) the type of Thread dealing with corruption. (3a) The type
of Thread dealing with seeing is for counteracting (2) the type of
Thread dealing with morality. (3b) The type of Thread dealing
with keeping in being is for relinquishing (3a) the type of Thread
dealing with seeing. (4) The type of Thread dealing with the Adept
is for relmquishing (3b) the type of Thread dealing with keeping in
being. (4) The type of Thread dealing with the Adept has [also] the
purpose of a pleasant abiding here and now.
943. (i (b)) the type of Thread dissociated from worlds that is (ii (a))
expressed in terms of creatures can be demonstrated by the [following]
thirty-six types of persons, and they are to be sought for in the
three types of Threads, namely (3a) that dealing with seeing, (3b) that
dealing with keeping in being, and (4) that dealing with the Adept.
944. Herein, (3a) the type of Thread dealing with seeing can be
demonstrated by five types of persons, namely the Single-Seed, the
Clan-to-Clan, the Seven-at-Most, the Follower by Faith, and the
Follower by Ideas.
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The type of Thread dealing with seeing can
be demonstrated by these five types of persons (see Pe 42).
945. (3b) The type of Thread dealing with keeping in being can be
941/1 'And similarly the remaining triads can be combined with the four
basic types in the first Grouping' (NettiA, 227).
944/1 The 3 types of Stream Enterer are given at A. i, 233, the other two
at S. iii, 225 and M. i, 479; but see also Pug. 15-16, where the Follower by
Faith and Follower by Ideas are made applicable only to the Stream-Entry
Path but not to its Fruit. Cf. Pe 42. There seems to be a difference here by
the Netti'a applying dassana ('seeing') to both the Path and Fruit of Stream
Entry.

demonstrated by twelve types of persons, namely by him who is
on the way to verification of the fruit of Once-Return, by the
Once-Returner, by him who is on the way to verification of the
fruit of Non-Return, by the Non-Returner,
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[190] by One Who
Attains Extinction Early On [In His Next Existence], by One
Who Attains Extinction Late [In His Next Existence], by One
Who Attains Extinction Without Promptmg-detenninations, by
One Who Attains Extinction With Prompting-determinations, by
The Up-Streamer Bound For The Not-Junior Gods,
2
by One
Liberated By Faith, by One Attained To Right View, and by a
Bodily Witness.
3
The type of Thread dealing with keeping in being
can be demonstrated by these twelve types of persons (see Pe 42).
946. (4) The type of Thread dealing with the Adept can be demon-
strated by nine types of persons, namely by One Liberated By
Faith,
1
by One Liberated By Understanding,
2
by One Liberated
Through Voidness, by One Liberated Through Signlessness, by
One Liberated Through Dispositionlessness,
3
by One Both-Ways
Liberated,
4
by a Level-Headed One,
5
by a Hermit Enlightened
One,
6
and by a Fully Enlightened One. The type of Thread
dealing with the Adept can be demonstrated by these nine types
of persons (cf. Pe 30-32, 42).
That is how the supramundane type of Thread expressed in terms
of creatures can be demonstrated by these thirty-six types of
persons.
947. (i (a)) The type of Thread belonging to worlds (ii (a)) expressed
945/1 For the first 4 of these, see Pug. 17; They have respectively the Path
and Frui t in each pair of cases.
945/2 For the 5 types of Non-Returner see A. i, 233; Pug. 16-17.
945/3 For these 3 see M. i, 478. Their inclusion here remedies their complete
omission in the Pe.
946/1 Cf. Pug. 14-15, also M. i, 478; 'One Liberated by Faith' is not extended
to the Frui t of Arahantship in the Pitakas, but at Vis. 659 both he and the
'Body-Witness' are.
946/2 'Pafmavimutta—Liberated by Understanding' : see e.g., A. iv, 452-3,
8. i, 191; ii, 121-7; M. i, 477-8; D. ii, 70; Pug 14.
946/3 See §528ff. for the 3 Gateways to Liberation.
946/4 SeeM. i, 477.
946/5 See Ps. i, 101. This is one who attains Arahantship and his death-
moment simultaneously.
946/6 The Hermi t Enlightened One (pacceka-buddha) is one who, in the
period of absence of a Fully Enlightened One and his proclaimed teaching,
penetrates the four Truths for himself and so makes an end of suffering; but
he is unable to communicate his discovery verbally to another.

in terms of creatures can [also] be demonstrated by the [following]
nineteen types of persons, and they are to be sought for among
the types of temperament. Some are of lusting temperament,
some are of hating temperament, some are of deluded temperament;
some are of lusting temperament and hating temperament, some
are of lusting temperament and deluded temperament, some are of
hating temperament and deluded temperament, some are of lusting
temperament and hating temperament and deluded temperament
(cf. Pe 141 and 144-5).
[Then there are:] One of lusting temperament steadied under the
heading of lust, one of hating temperament steadied under the
heading of lust, one of deluded temperament steadied under the
heading of lust, and one of lusting temperament and hating tempera-
ment and deluded temperament steadied under the heading of
lust. [And there are:] one of hating temperament steadied under
the heading of hate, one of deluded temperament steadied under
the heading of hate, one of lusting temperament steadied under
the heading of. hate, and one of lusting temperament and hating
temperament and deluded temperament steadied under the heading
of hate. [And there are:] one of deluded temperament steadied
under the heading of delusion, one of lusting temperament steadied
under the heading of delusion, one of hating temperament steadied
under the heading of delusion, and one of lusting temperament and
hating temperament and deluded temperament steadied under the
heading of delusion. The type of Thread belonging to worlds
expressed in terms of creatures can be demonstrated by these
nineteen types of persons.
948. (2) The type of Thread dealing with morality can be demon-
strated by the types of the virtuous. These [191] types of the
virtuous are the five types of persons, namely [those possessing the
following ideas:]
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natural virtue, virtue as undertaking, confidence
of cognizance (heart), quiet, insight. The type of Thread dealing
with morality can be demonstrated by these five types of persons.
949. By means of these five ideas, (1 (b)) the type of Thread
dissociated from worlds can be demonstrated by the three types of
Thread, namely (3a) that dealing with seeing, (3b) that dealing with
keeping in being, and (4) that dealing with the Adept.
950. (i (c)) That belonging to worlds and dissociated from worlds
948/1 The grammar of this sentence is rather odd: the (neut.) pakatisilam,
etc., are not (masc.) puggala.

(ii (c)) expressed in terms of creatures and in terms of ideas can be
demonstrated in both ways.
951. (iii (a)) Knowledge can be demonstrated by understanding, and
by the understanding faculty, understanding power, training in
the higher understanding, investigation-of-ideas enlightenment
factor, right view, judgment, adjudgment, knowledge about an
idea, knowledge about an inference, knowledge about exhaustion,
knowledge about non-arising, the I-shall-come-to-know-finally-the-
as-yet-not-finally-known faculty, the act-of-final-knowing faculty,
the final-knower faculty, vision, (eye), science, discovery, breadth,
wit (cf. §294); or it can be demonstrated by any designation for
understanding that is appropriate.
952. (iii (b)) The knowable can be demonstrated by the past, future,
and presently-arisen, by the in-oneself and external, by the inferior
and superior, by the far and near, by the determined and undeter-
mined, by the profitable, unprofitable, and undeclared; or in brief
by the six objects [of the six bases in oneself].
953. (iii (c)) Knowledge and the knowable can be demonstrated by
both. And also understanding that is made the object [of sub-
sequent knowledge] is the knowable; and also anything whatever,
whether in-oneself or external, that is made the object [of know-
ledge is the knowable, and] all that can be demonstrated as deter-
mined and undetennined.
954. (iv (a)) seeing and (iv (b)) keeping in being, (v (a)) our own
statement and (v (b)) someone else's statement, (vi (a)) the answerable
and (vi (b)) the unanswerable, (vii (a)) action and (vii (b)) ripening,
and (c) the double form in each instance, can be demonstrated
appropriately by observing how it is demonstrated in the Thread;
or whatever other statement the Blessed One utters can all [be
demonstrated] by observing how it is demonstrated in the Thread
(cf. Pe 42).
955. Cause is twofold as action and as defilements. Defilements
are origin.
956. [192] Herein, defilements. can [only] be demonstrated by (1)
the type of Thread dealing with corruption. Origin can be demon-
strated [both] by (1) the type of Thread dealing with corruption
and by (2) the type of Thread dealing with morality.
957. Herein (viii (a)) the profitable can be demonstrated by four
types of Threads, namely (2) by that dealing with morality, (3a)
that dealing with seeing, (3b) that dealing with keeping in being, and
(4) that dealing with the Adept.

958. (viii (b)) The unprofitable can be demonstrated by (1) the type
of Thread dealing with corruption.
959. (viii (c)) The profitable and unprofitable can be demonstrated
by both [as appropriate].
960. (ix (a)) The agreed can be demonstrated by what the Blessed
One has agreed, which is of five kinds, namely restraint, abandoning,
keeping in being, verification, and what is allowable [explicitly in
the texts] and what is in conformity with that. Whatever is
found in the several planes [beginning with that of the ordinary
man] can be demonstrated by the allowable and what is in
conformity [with it].
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961. (ix (b)) What is refused by the Blessed One can be demonstrated
by the reason for the refusal.
962. (ix (c)) The agreed and refused can be demonstrated by both
[as appropriate].
963. (x) Eulogy can be demonstrated by praise. That should be
understood as of five kinds, namely [praise] of the Blessed One, of
the True Idea, of the Noble Community, of the Training in Noble
Ideas, and success in mundane qualities. That is how eulogy can
be demonstrated.
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964. The plane of the faculties can be demonstrated by nine terms
and the plane of defilements can be demonstrated by nine terms.
So these terms are eighteen: nine profitable terms and nine un-
profitable terms, according as it was said [earlier] 'The eighteen
Root-Terms: where are they to be seen ? In the Pattern of the
Dispensation' (§759).
965. That is why the venerable Maha-Kaccana said:
'With nine terms on the side of profit
And nine terms on unprofit's side
Construed, these Root-Terms [thus] do come
[In all] to number eighteen terms' (§4 end).
The Pattern of the Dispensation is ended.
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960/1 The 'allowable' (kappiya) is, according to NettiA, what is explicitly
stated in the texts, while 'what is in conformity therewith' (anuloma) is what
is compatible with that in the way described under the Principal Appeals to
Authority (§120ff.).

[193] At this point the Guide is completed, which1
was spoken by
Maha-Kaccana, approved by the Blessed One, and chanted at the
original Council.
End of The Guide
965/1 Read Netti, yd.