Dhammasangani

Enumeration of Phenomena

400 B.C. | 124,932 words

*english translation* The first book of the Abhidhamma (Part 3 of the Tipitaka). The Dhammasangani enumerates all the paramattha dhamma (ultimate realities) to be found in the world. According to one such enumeration these amount to: * 52 cetasikas (mental factors), which, arising together in various combination, give rise to any one of... * ......

Chapter X - The Group On Contagion

Paramasa-gocchakam

[1]

[1174] Which are the states that are contagious?

The Contagion of speculative opinion.

In this connexion,

[1175] What is the 'Contagion of speculative opinion'?

Answer as for the 'Intoxicant of speculative opinion,'

viz.: 'To hold that the world is eternal, or that it is not eternal', etc. (§ 1099).

[1176] Which are the states that are not a Contagion?

Answer as in the case of the 'states that are not Hindrances' (§ 1163).[2]

[1177, 1178] Which are the states that are

(a) infected?
(b)
uninfected?

Answers as in the corresponding answers relating to the Hindrances (§§ 1164, 1165).

[1179, 1180] Which are the states that are

(a) associated with the Contagion?
(b)
disconnected with the Contagion?

Answers as in the corresponding ansivers relating to the Hindrances (§§ 1166, 1167).

[1181, 1182] Which are the states that are

(a) themselves Contagious and infected?

The Contagion itself is both.

(b) infected but not Contagious?

The states which are infected by the states afore-named; that is to say, with the exception of the latter, all co-Intoxicant states whatever, good, bad and indeterminate, whether they relate to the worlds of sense, form, or the formless; in other words, the five skandhas.

[1183, 1184] Which are the states that are

(a) disconnected with the Contagion, yet infected?
(b)
disconnected with the Contagion and uninfected?

Answers as in the corresponding sections on the Hindrances (§§ 1172, 1173).

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

The man, according to the Cy. (p. 49), who falls out of the right attitude toward dhamma, i.e., who loses the belief in their impermanence, etc., lays himself open to the infectious touch of speculative views.

[2]:

The one kind of Contagion is always for the sake of symmetry referred to as plural, e.g., the states afore-named (te dhamma thapetva). Asl. 385.

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