Sunday, March 19, 2006

Analysis of the aggregate of matter

9)
Matter is the five organs, the five objects.
and non-informative;
eye and so are a refined matter,
supporting their consciousnesses.

10)
Form is twofold and twenty-fold;
sound has eight aspects,
taste has six aspects, smell four aspects,
eleven types of touch.

11)
Distracted, even unconscious,
whatever is connected with virtue and non-virtue
become a cause of the four great elements
that is called “non-informative.”

12)
The elements are the elements of earth,
water, fire, and wind;
established as the activities of bearing, and so on,
hard, moist, warming and motile.

13)
In mundane convention,
color and shape are called “earth”;
so too are water and fire; the wind
is the element, similar with those.

14 [a/b])
Only those organs and the objects,
are asserted to be the ten gateways and elements.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Addictive Aggregates

7 c/d)
...they are temporal, the basis of discourse,
with certainty of release, with a foundation.


8)
Also whatever is with effluent, those
are addictive aggregates, those also are embattled,
suffering, origin, basis of perishing ,
location of views, becoming.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Conditioned and unconditioned, with and without effluents

4)
Phenomena are with effluents and without effluents.
Apart from the path, the conditioned
are with effluents. Why? Those
will always increase effluvia.

5)
Without effluents: the truth of the path,
and also the three kinds of unconditioned;
space and the two cessations.
Now then, space is unhindered.

6)
What is cessation by individual analysis?
It is individual separation.
Permanent hindrance to arising
is the other cessation without individual analysis.

7)
Also those conditioned phenomena,
the five aggregates of matter and so on,