The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

w 17Then several moments of bhavaºga consciousness arise.Then if a wholesome mind door thought process of the sensualplane arises with the same object as the eye door process thenthere occurs mind door adverting consciousness(manodvŒravajjana) in which the meditator can discern 12 typesof mentality.Then there occurs 7 impulsion consciousnesses (javana citta)in which the meditator can discern either 34, 33, or 32 types ofmentality.Then there occurs 2 registration consciousnesses (tadaramanacitta) in which the meditator can discern either 34, 33, or 32 typesof mentality.After discerning this the meditator starts to discern all thedifferent types of mentality that occur in every consciousness inthese eye door and mind door processes beginning with eitherconsciousness, contact, or feeling and then discerning one by oneeach of the other types of mentality until he can discern all mentalitythat is present in each consciousness in both processes.Then after the meditator can discern these processes and thementality present there in the case of the eye base he continues todiscern the same in a similar way in each of the other four sensebases; the ear, the nose, the tongue, and the body. So by this stagehe will have developed the ability to discern the mentalityassociated with wholesome consciousnesses.Then next after that the meditator needs to learn how to discernthe mentality in unwholesome consciousnesses. To be able to dothis he simply takes the same objects as he did in the examplesgiven earlier and pays unwise attention to each of them.When the meditator attains this stage in meditation he has