Ne 2Indicative Subsection

– The Guide

– B. Specification Section

1. Indicative Subsection

PTS vp En 5 2. Herein, what are the sixteen Modes of Conveying?

[They are sixteen modes of the Ninefold Thread as conveying:]

– a Teaching,

– an Investigation,

– a Construing,

– Footings,

– Characteristics,

– a Fourfold Array,

– a Conversion,

– an Analysis,

– a Reversal,

– Synonyms,

– Descriptions,

– Ways of Entry,

– a Clearing Up,

– Terms of Expression,

– Requisites,

– a Co-ordination.

PTS vp Pli 2 Here follows a paraphrasing-verse:

As Teaching, Investigation, Construing,

As Footings, and Characteristics,

Fourfold Array, and then Conversion,

Analysis, Reversal too,

As Synonyms, and as Descriptions,

As Ways of Entry, Clearing Up,

Terms of Expression, Requisites,

And for sixteenth Co-ordination.

These Modes are the Sixteen Conveyings

[And] as to the significance [of each]

A separate statement [follows]

With detailed method-analysis for each one.

PTS vp En 6 3. Herein, what are the five Guide-Lines? [They are:]

– the Conversion of Relishing,

– the Trefoil,

– the Lions’ Play;

– the Plotting of Directions,

– the Hook.

Here follows a paraphrasing-verse:

Conversion of Relishing comes first,

In second place the Trefoil follows,

The Lions’ Play is the name they give

To the Third Guide-Line formula;

The fourth Guide-Line most rare they call

The Plotting of Directions, then

The Hook is what the fifth is termed:

That is how all five Guide-Lines go.

4. Herein, what are the eighteen Root-Terms? They are the nine profitable Root-Terms and nine unprofitable Root-Terms.

Herein, what are the nine unprofitable Root-Terms? [They are:]

– Craving,

– Ignorance;

– Greed,

– PTS vp En 7 Hate,

– Delusion;

– Perception of Beauty,

– Perception of Pleasure,

– Perception of Permanence,

– Perception of Self.

These are the nine unprofitable Root-Terms, wherein all that belongs to the unprofitable side is comprised and collated.

Herein, what are the nine profitable Root-Terms? [They are:]

– Quiet,

– Insight;

– Non-greed,

– Non-hate,

– Non-delusion;

– Perception of Ugliness,

– Perception of Pain,

– Perception of Impermanence,

– Perception of Not-self.

These are the nine profitable Root-Terms, wherein all that belongs to the profitable side is comprised and collated.

Here is a mnemonic for it:

The nine terms Craving and Ignorance

And Greed, Hate and Delusion too

And with Perversions four besides

Do constitute defilement’s plane.

PTS vp Pli 3 The nine terms Quiet and then Insight

With the three Profitable Roots

And Mindfulness-Foundations four

Do constitute the faculties’ plane.

With nine terms on the side of profit

And nine terms on unprofit’s side

Construed, these Root-Terms [thus] do come

[In all] to number eighteen terms.

The Indicative Subsection.

Translated from the Pāḷi by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli , 1977 .

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