Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

246 VimuttimaggaAGGREGATE OF FEELINGQ. What is the aggregate of feeling? A. From the point of characteristic,feeling is of one kind, as being experienced by the mind only. Fromthe point of sense-organ, it is of two kinds thus: bodily and mental. Fromthe point of intrinsic nature, it is of three kinds: blissful feeling, painful feeling,feeling that is neither blissful nor painful. 1 From the point of the Law, itis of four kinds: meritorious, demeritorious, retributive and objective. Fromthe point of faculties, there are five kinds, namely, pleasure-faculty, painfaculty,joy-faculty, grief-faculty, indifference-faculty. 2 From the point ofblack and white, it is of six kinds, namely, cankerous feeling of pleasure,non-cankerous feeling of pleasure, cankerous feeling of pain, non-cankerousfeeling of pain, cankerous feeling of neither pain nor pleasure, non-cankerousfeeling of neither pain nor pleasure. From the point of method, it is of sevenkinds thus: feeling born of eye-contact, of ear-contact, of nose-contact, oftongue-contact, of body-contact, contact of mind-element, contact of mindconsciousness.Fully one hundred and eight kinds of feeling are fulfilled.Six states of feeling are aroused from craving; six from renunciation; sixfrom grief-craving; six from grief-renunciation; six from equanimity-craving;six from equanimity-renunciation. Six times six are thirty-six, and in thethree divisions of time, these thirty-six are increased three times. This is calledthe aggregate of feeling. 3AGGREGATE OF PERCEPTIONQ. What is the aggregate of perception? A. From the point of characteristic,perception is single, because only the mind apprehends objects. From thepoint of black and white, it is of two kinds, namely, perception-reversal andperception-non-reversal. 4 From the point of demerit, it is of three kinds,namely, lustful-perception, hating-perception and harming-perception. Fromthe point of merit, it is of three kinds, namely, renunciation-perception, nonhating-perceptionand non-harming-perception. 5 From the point of notknowing the significant nature of sense-organ, it is of four kinds, namely,the perception of the ugly as beautiful, of ill as well, of impermanence asnon-impermanence, of not-self as self. From the point of knowing the significantnature of sense-organ, it is of four kinds, namely, perception of the1. S. IV, 231-32: Katamd ca bhikkhave dve vedand. Kdyikd ca cetasikd ca. Imd vuccantibhikkhave dve vedand. Katamd ca bhikkhave tisso vedand. Sukhd vedand dukkhd vedandadukkhamasukhd vedand. Imd vuccanti bhikkhave tisso vedand.2. Ibid. 232: Katamd ca bhikkhave pahca vedand. Sukhindriyam dukkhindriyam somanassindriyamdomanassindriyam upekkhindriyam. Imd vuccanti bhikkhave pahca vedand.3. S. IV, 232: Katamd ca bhikkhave chattimsa vedand. Cha gehasitani somanassani chanekkhammasitani somanassani cha gehasitani domanassani cha nekkhammasitani domanassanicha gehasitd upekkhd cha nekkhammasitd upekkhd. Imd vuccanti bhikkhavechattimsa vedand.4. Sahhd vipalldsa, sahhd avipalldsa.5. D. Ill, 215: Tisso akusala-sahhd. Kdma-sahhd, vydpada-sannd, vihimsd sahhd.Tisso kusala-sahha, Nekkhamma-sahhd, avydpada-sahhd, avihimsd-sahhd.