Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

The Five Methods 267MUNDANE AND SUPRAMUNDANECONDITIONED ARISINGQ. How, through discernment? A. There are two kinds of conditionedarising: mundane conditioned arising and supramundane conditioned arising.Here, that which begins from ignorance is mundane. Q. What is supramundaneconditioned arising? A. Ill depends on ill. Confidence dependson confidence. Joy depends on joy. Rapture depends on rapture. Calmdepends on calm. Bliss depends on bliss. Concentration depends onconcentration. Right views depend on right Views. Aversion depends onaversion. Dispassion depends on dispassion. Freedom depends on theknowledge of the freedom of extinction. This is called supramundaneconditioned arising. 1FOUR KINDS OF CONDITIONED ARISINGAgain, four kinds of conditioned arising are taught thus: the defilementactionis cause; seed is cause; doing is cause; common action is cause.Q. What is meant by "defilement-action is cause"? A. It is thatwhich begins from ignorance. What is meant by "seed is cause"? It islikened to the succession of seed and bud. What is meant by "doing iscause" ? It is likened to the change of material qualities. What is meantby "common action is cause"? It is likened to earth, snow, mountain, seasun and moon.There is another teaching. Common action is not a cause. Materialqualities, consciousness, states and caloricity are causes. There is nocommon action, according to the teaching of the Blessed One thus:With none is kamma shared, none can rob it,and by itself comes the fruit of meritThus one should know through discernment.THROUGH COMPREHENSIONQ. How, through comprehension? A. There are four kinds of comprehension: aggregate-comprehension, sense-organ-comprehension, elementcomprehensionand truth-comprehension. Here, ignorance, the formations,1. There is another classification of conditioned arising at Netti. 67: Es' ev' anto dukkhassati paticcasamuppado. So duvidho: lokiko ca lokuttaro ca. Tattha lokiko: avijjdpaccayasamkhdrd ydva jardmarand, lokuttaro: sllavato avippatisdro jayati ydva ndparam itthattaydti pajdndti. See p. 229, note 1 (c), and last note of appendix.2. Not traced. Cp. Sv. I, 37: Kammassakd hi satta, attano kammdnurupam eva gatimgacchanti, rteva pita puttassa kammena gacchati, na putto pitu kammena, na matd puttassa,na putto mdtuyd, na bhatd bhaginiya, na dcariyo antevdsino, na antevdsi dcariyassakammena gacchati.