A BUDDHIST MANUAL
Psychological Ethics,
FROM THE PALI
OF THE
DHAMMA-SANGANI
Translated by CAROLINE A. F. RHYS DAVIDS, M.A.
[Chapter X.
The Group on Contagion (paramasa-gocchakam).]
[1174] Which are the states that are contagious ?
The Contagion of speculative opinion.
In this connexion,
[1175] What is the '
Contagion of speculative opinion '?
Answer as for the 'Intoxicant of speculative opinion/
viz. :
'
To hold that the world is eternal, or that it is not
eternal,' etc. (§ 1099).
[1176] Which are the states that are not a Contagion ?
Answer as in the case of the '
states that are not Hin-
drances ' (§ 1163).
2
[1177, 1178] Which are the states that are
(a) infected ?
(b) uninfected ?
Answers as in the corresponding answers relating to the
Hindrances (§§ 1164, 1165).
^ The man, according to the Cy. (p. 49), who falls out of
the right attitude toward dhamma, i.e., who loses the
belief in their impermanence, etc., lays himself open to the
infectious touch of speculative views.
^ The one kind of Contagion is always for the sake of
symmetry referred to as plural, e.g., the states afore-named
(te dhamma thapetva). Asl. 385.
[1179, 1180] Which are the states that are
(a) associated with the Contagion ?
(b) disconnected with the Contagion ?
Answers as in the corresponding ansivers relating to the
Hindrances (§§ 1166, 1167).
[1181, 1182] Which are the states that are
(a) themselves Contagious and infected ?
The Contagion itself is both.
(b) infected but not Contagious ?
The states which are infected by the states afore-named
;
that is to say, with the exception of the latter, all co-
Intoxicant states whatever, good, bad and indeterminate,
whether they relate to the worlds of sense, form, or the
formless ; in other words, the five skandhas.
[1183, 1184] Which are the states that are
(a) disconnected with the Contagion, yet infected ?
(b) disconnected ivith the Contagion and uninfected ?
Answers as in the corresponding sections on the Hin-
drances (§§ 1172, 1173).
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