Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 1

Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 1

ACCORDING TO
KACCANA THERA

TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI BY
BHIKKHU NANAMOLI
Pali Text Society
[Second Grouping]
860. Herein, what [of the] eighteen Root-Terms ?
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[Schedule]
i. (a) Belonging to worlds, (b) disjoined from worlds, (c) belonging
to worlds and disjoined from worlds (Pe 23, no. 1);
ii. (a) expressed in terms of creatures, (b) expressed in terms of
ideas, (c) expressed in terms of creatures and in terms of ideas
(Pe23, no. 8);
iii. (a) knowledge, (b) the knowable, (c) knowledge and the know-
able (Pe 23, no. 4);
iv. (a) seeing, (b) keeping-in-being, (c) seeing and keeping-in-being
(Pe23, no. 5);
v. (a) our own statement, (b) someone else's statement, (c) our
own statement and someone else's statement (Pe 23, no. 7);
vi. (a) the answerable, (b) the unanswerable, (c) the answerable
and unanswerable ;
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vii. (a) action, (b) ripening, (c) action and ripening (Pe 23, no. 2);
860/1 See NettiA quoted in n. 759/1. This Grouping, while drawn from
Pe ch. ii, is nevertheless altered, simplified and improved.
860/2 This triad is not in Pe ch. ii and seems to be drawn from the 3rd section
of Pe ch. iv (Pe 78, line 23 to p. 79, line 22).

viii. (a) the profitable, (b) the unprofitable, (c) the profitable and
unprofitable;
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ix. (a) the agreed, (b) the refused, (e) the agreed and refused
(Pe23, no. 10);
x. Eulogy (cf. Pe 23, no. 9).
[Illustrative Quotations']
[i (a)]
861. Herein, what is that belonging to worlds ?
(For evil action when performed,
Like new milk, does not turn at once;
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It follows, like a lurking spark,
The fool, burning him [later ori\) (Dh. 71; Pe 48).
[162] This is that belonging to worlds.
862. (Bhikkhus, there are these four kinds of goings on a bad way.
Which four ? . . . [all as in §767 down to] . . .
As in its dark half does the moon) (§767).
This is that belonging to worlds.
863. (Bhikkhus, there are these eight worldly ideas. What eight ?
Gain, non-gain, fame, ill-fame, blame, praise, pleasure, pain. These
eight worldly ideas) (A. iv, 157).
This is that belonging to worlds.
[i (b)]
864. Herein, what is that disjoined from worlds ?
( Whose faculties are well and truly quieted,
Like horses by a charioteer well trained,
With [all] conceit abandoned in him, taintless,
Then even to the gods he will be dear) (Dh. 94; Pe 48).
This is that disjoined from worlds.
860/3 This triad is likewise not in Pe ch. ii, and seems to be drawn from the
1st section of Pe ch. iv (Pe p. 74, line 1 to p. 77, line 16, word desitarh).
861/1 The commentary has been followed. Muccatl is glossed there by
parinamati, and it is explained how new milk does not curdle at once (cf. the
milk-curd simile at §453). The negative na at the beginning of the verse
must govern the simile as well, which then fits neatly. Dahantam (one word)
is glossed by vipaccamdnam as a nom. neut . sing. ppr. qualifying karnmam.

865. (Bhikkhus, there are these five faculties disjoined from worlds.
What five ? The faith faculty, the energy faculty, the mindfulness
faculty, the concentration faculty, the understanding faculty. These
five faculties disjoined from worlds) (S. v, 193).
This is that disjoined from worlds.
[i (c)]
866. Herein, what is that belonging to worlds and disjoined from
worlds ? The two verses [beginning]
(After obtaining the human state, two things: . . .(§847).
Here [the words] 'the proper task is any kind of merit' and 'those
who by meritorious performance Have merit made pass on from
heaven to heaven' belong to worlds. But [the words] 'And then
abandoning of [all] the fetters' and 'But those who have abandoned
[all] the fetters Are liberated from old age and death' are disjoined
from worlds.
This is that belonging to worlds and disjoined from worlds.
867. [163] (BhikJchus, when there is consciousness as nutriment there
is the finding of a footing for name-and-form. When there is the
finding of a footing for name-and-form there is renewal of being.
When there is renewal of being there is birth. When there is birth, then
ageing and death have actual being, and also sorrow and lamentation,
pain, grief and despair; that is how there is an origin to this whole
category of suffering (cf. §304). Suppose there were a great tree whose
roots, whether they went downward or around, all brought up nourish-
ment, then in that way, with that nutriment, with that assuming, the
great tree would long remain,
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so too, when there is consciousness as
nutriment there is the finding of a footing for name-and-form . . .
That is how there is an origin to this whole category of suffering )
( )•
This belongs to worlds.
(Bhikkhus, when there is no consciousness as nutriment there is
no finding of a footing for name-and-form. When there is no finding
of a footing for name-and-form there is no renewal of being. When
there is no renewal of being, then ageing and death cease, and also
sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair; that is how there is
867/1 For the simile of the tree see S. ii, 87-8.

a cessation to this whole category of suffering. Suppose there were a
great tree, and then a man came with a spade and a basket, and he cut
down the tree and then he dug all round it, and then he pulled up the
roots even to the very fibres? and then he cut it up bole and branch, and
then he split it, and then he chopped it, and then he dried it in the sun,
and then he burnt it in afire, and then he reduced it to ash,
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and then
he winnowed it in a high wind, and then he let a swift-flowing river
wash it away; in that way the great tree would be cut off at the root,
made like a palm-stump, done away with, and no more inseparable
from the idea of future arising;—so too, when there is no consciousness
as nutriment [164] there is no finding a footing for name-and-form . . .
that is how there is a cessation to this ivhole category of suffering )
( )•
This is disjoined from worlds.
This is that belonging to worlds and disjoined from worlds.