The Discourse on Elements

2.8. Dissociated and Associated

2 Questions and Answers

Msdiv 317Matter aggregate is dissociated from these states. With how many aggregates, with how many bases and with how many elements are those states associated? With none (1).

Msdiv 318Feeling aggregate is dissociated from these states; Perception aggregate; Mental formation aggregate; Consciousness aggregate … States which are causes of lamentation; States which are not causes of lamentation are dissociated from these states.

With how many aggregates, with how many bases and with how many elements are those states associated? With none (323).

Cognizable base, cognizable element, again life faculty, mentality-materiality, Six bases, birth, ageing, death, two triplets. Those states are not included, Seven states from the first lesser intermediate couplets, ten clusters, Again fourteen greater-intermediate couplets, six last couplets, These also are not included. All these forty-seven states are not included in this negative Chapter together with Chapter 2.14.

Cognizable base, cognizable element, again life faculty, mentality-materiality, Six bases, birth, ageing, death, two triplets. Those states are not included, Seven states from the first lesser intermediate couplets, ten clusters, Again fourteen greater-intermediate couplets, six last couplets, These also are not included. All these forty-seven states are not included in this negative Chapter together with Chapter 2.14.

Discourse on Elements, The Third Book of the Abhidhamma Piṭaka by U Nārada, Mūla Paṭṭhāna Sayadaw of Rangoon, Burma.

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