The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

w 24he discerns the other mentality that are associated with that kammaround and defilement round which may be 34, 33, or 32 types.Example Of Discerning Dependent OriginationFor example, when one meditator concentrated and searched atthe time near death and discerned the mentality and matter thereshe saw the kamma object of a woman offering fruit to a Buddhistmonk. Then she further examined the mentality and matter,beginning with the four elements, present while making the offeringof fruit to the Buddhist monk. She then found that that person wasa very poor and uneducated villager who having reflected on herown state of suffering had made an offering to the monk wishingfor a life as an educated woman in a large town.In this case ignorance is the wrong knowledge that "an educatedwoman in a large town" is a reality, the liking and craving for thatlife as an educated woman is craving, the attachment to that life asan educated woman is clinging. The wholesome intentions to offerfruit to a Buddhist monk are the kamma formations and the kammais the kammic force of those kamma formations.In this present life that woman is an educated woman in a largetown in Myanmar. She was able to directly discern with rightview how the kammic force of offering of fruit in her past life hasproduced resultant five aggregates in this present life.When a meditator is able to discern causes and effects in thisway then this knowledge is called paccaya pariggaha –Œöa orKnowledge that discerns the causes of mind and matter.Here is another example. In this case a man while searchingand discerning at the time near death found that around the time ofthe near death impulsion there were four kamma objects competingwith each other. There was one kamma involving teachingBuddhist texts, another involving teaching dhamma, yet another