The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

w 168(vsm. IV, 33)Something To Be Careful OfA meditator who develops either upŒcara or appanŒ concentrationas a basis for the development of insight will, when a sufficientdegree of concentration has been developed, begin to see particlesof matter called rèpa kalŒpas when he is discerning the four elements.Then he must continue further to analyse those rèpa kalŒpasand discern in each particle the four primary elements, and also thederived types of matter present according to their individual characteristics,function, manifestation, and proximate cause. When he isable to discern these things this is called knowledge that discernsmateriality (rèpapariccheda –Œöa). At that time he will have realisedand penetrated for himself, by Right View, the Ultimate Realityof materiality.Further to that he must continue to discern each and every individualmental factor (cetasika) that occur together in every momentof consciousness that arises. These groups of mental factors thatoccur together with consciousness we call nŒma kalŒpas or mentalgroups. When he can discern each individual mental factor presentin each mental group (nŒma kalŒpa) according to characteristic, function,manifestation, and proximate cause then this is knowledge thatdiscerns mentality (nŒma pariccheda –Œöa). At that time he willhave realised and penetrated for himself, by Right View, the UltimateReality of mentality.So if a meditator is not able to discern materiality and mentalityin this way then he has not yet achieved the knowledge that discernsmind and matter (nŒma rèpa pariccheda –Œöa).And furthermore if a meditator has not also discerned by directknowledge the nŒmas and rèpas in the past and future then there isno way he can know or see, by direct knowledge, which causes inthe past produced the present nŒmas and rèpas, or which causes in