..续本文上一页e inner tendency to lust, he casts off the inner tendency to ill-will, eliminates the inner tendency to the opinion-and-conceit of ”I am,” he discards ignorance, produces knowledge, and becomes an ender of suffering here and now."

　　— MN 9

　　Notes

　　1.

　　See § 1.

　　2.

　　Sutta-Nipaata v. 1043.

　　3.

　　See Translator”s Note to § 3 (a), and The Wheel No. 17, page 19 under "Clinging."

　　4.

　　Abraham ben Chisdai, in Ben-hamelekh we-hanasir (The Prince and the Ascetic). This is an old Hebrew version of the "Barlaam and Joasaph" story which unwittingly carried the main features of the Buddha”s life story through a major part of the medieval world. The Hebrew version has several distinct traces not only of the Buddha”s life story, but also of Buddhist ideas, like the one quoted above. Only a comparison of the numerous versions of the "Barlaam and Joasaph" story could decide on whether these ideas were part of the tradition and common to other versions, or whether they originated in the Hebrew author”s mind.

　　5.

　　Trans. by Soma Thera in His Last Performance, Verses of Taalaputa Thera (Colombo 1943; available from Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy). See also the "Fire Sermon" (The Wheel No. 17: "The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye contact is burning. The ear... mind is burning, ideas are burning..."

　　6.

　　See The Wheel No. 15, Dependent Origination, p. 24 ff.

　　7.

　　Paali: aahaara; from aaharati, to take up, to take on to oneself; to bring, carry, fetch.

　　8.

　　Of beings born — bhuutaanam; lit.: of those who have come to existence. — Of beings seeking birth — bhavesinam, lit.: of these seeking existence. The latter term refers, according to the Commentary, in the case of egg-born and womb-born beings, to the period before they have emerged from the egg shell or the membranous sheath. Beings born of moisture (sedaja) or spontaneously (opapaatika) are called "seeking birth" at their first thought moment.

　　9.

　　"Edible food," kabali"nkaaro aahaaro, lit.: "morsel-made food." Comy: "It is a term for the nutritive essence (ojaa) of which boiled rice etc., is the (coarse) basic (vatthu)."

　　10.

　　"Sense-impression" (or contact; phassa) is sixfold: through eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

　　11.

　　"Volitional thought" mano-sancetanaa, is according to Comy. identical with cetanaa, and refers here to kammic volition.

　　12.

　　"Consciousness" (viññaa"na) refers to all types of consciousness.

　　13.

　　The same phrases occur in the monk”s reflection on his alms food, e.g., at MN 2; explained in Visuddhimagga, trans. by Naa.namoli, p. 31 ff.

　　14.

　　That is he has become a non-returner (anaagaami) by eradicating the fetter of sensuous desire (kaamaraaga-samyojana) which, according to Comy. forms a unit with those other fetters which are given up (pahaanekattha) at this stage, i.e., personality belief, skeptical doubt, attachment to rites and rituals, and ill-will.

　　15.

　　Pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feeling.

　　16.

　　This refers to the attainment of sainthood (arahatta).

　　17.

　　Sensual craving, craving for (eternal) existence, craving for self-annihilation.

　　18.

　　oja.t.thamaka-ruupaani, the "basic corporeal octad" (suddha.t.thaka-kalaapa), consisting of the four material elements, and color, smell, taste, and nutritive essence.

　　19.

　　See Note 18.

　　20.

　　At the moment of conception of a human being, three units (kalaapa) of corporeal processes arise in continuity: the body-decad, the sex-decad, and the heart-decad. These decads have in common nine factors: the basic eight (see above) and physical vitality; to these, as the varying tenth factor, is added: body (i.e., bodily sensitivity; kaaya), sex differentiation (bhaava), heart (hadaya; the physical basis of mental activity).

　　21.

　　Sub-Comy: "It is by way of sustaining (upatthambhento; lit.: propping up) that ”food”…

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