The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

of how to discern Dependent Origination according to the fifthmethod and the first method.Sixteen KnowledgesAfter discerning Dependent Origination the meditator continuesto develop insight up to the attainment of nibbŒna.There are sixteen insight knowledges (–Œöa) which need to beattained progressively in order to attain nibbŒna.The first knowledge is nŒma rèpa pariccheda –Œöa or theknowledge that discerns mind and matter. This has been explainedabove when we explained how to discern mind and matter.The second knowledge is paccaya pariggaha –Œöa or knowledgethat discerns the causes of mind and matter. This too has beenexplained above when we explained how to discern mind and matterin the past, present, and future and how to discern DependentOrigination.After the meditator has developed the first two knowledges heneeds to again discern all mentality, all matter, and all the factorsof dependent origination according to their individualcharacteristics, functions, manifestations, and proximate causes inorder to make these two knowledges complete. It is difficult toexplain this in a brief way so if you wish to know the details it isbest to learn them at the time of actually practising.The third insight knowledge is sammasana –Œöa or theknowledge that comprehends formations in groups. Thedevelopment of this knowledge involves the dividing of conditionedphenomena into two groups as mentality and matter, or five groupsas the five aggregates, or twelve groups as the twelve bases, or eighteengroups as the eighteen elements, or as twelve groups accordingto the twelve links of Dependent Origination. After that the medita-w 27