The Tree of Enlightenment

factors accompanied by definite wrong views about the nature
of the object. ese can also be called the presence of correct
knowledge, the absence of correct knowledge, and the presence
of erroneous knowledge.
Finally, in the classification according to volition, there is a
twofold division into automatic and volitional consciousness – in
other words, moments of consciousness that are automatic in
nature, and moments that have an intentional element.
Let us now look at the sense-sphere consciousness (kamavachara).
ere are fifty-four types of consciousness in this category,
which divide into three groups:
e first group consists of twelve factors that are karmically
active and that have unwholesome karmic potential. e twelve
can be subdivided into factors conditioned by one of the three
unwholesome conditions of greed, ill-will, and delusion.
e second group consists of eighteen reactive or passive factors
of consciousness, which can be further broken down into
those that are resultant and those that are functional. Fifteen
of the eighteen are resultant, and refer in general terms to experiences
that are agreeable or disagreeable, the result of wholesome
or unwholesome factors experienced through the five physical
senses and the sixth mental sense. e remaining three are
functional, having no karmic potential and not being the consequence
of karmically active wholesome or unwholesome factors.
e third category consists of twenty-four wholesome factors
of consciousness that are karmically active and thus have karmic
potential conditioned by non-greed, non-ill-will, and nondelusion.
Within the class of sense-sphere consciousness, therefore,
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