Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

296 Vimultimaggasees the arising and the passing away of the mind. In the same way, withthe object of suffering and the object of not-self. Thus he should discernthrough duality.(c) THROUGH UNDERSTANDINGQ. How, through understanding? A. Having discerned the impermanenceof form, he arouses the mind together with the object of impermanence[456] and sees the arising and the passing away of the mind. Thusthrough the understanding of insight, he sees the breaking up of many mindstates.He discerns the impermanence of feeling, perception, the formationsand consciousness, and arouses the state of mind that conforms to the objectof impermanence, and sees the arising and the falling away of mind-states.Thus he sees again and again the breaking up of mind-states. Thus throughunderstanding he sees the breaking up of many states. Likewise, he discernsill and not-self. Thus having understood, he grasps breaking up. Thatobject of ill and breaking up makes for intentness. Intent on the formationsalways, he attains to well-being every moment. Through this understanding,that yogin, independent of another, knows the whole world by itself (andas unenduring) as a poppy seed on the point (of an awl), 1 and:that" in everyconcentrated thought-moment there is the change of arising, stability anddestruction. 2 :SIMILES OF DRUM-SOUND, TOWN OF G0DS, LiGHTNlNGAt this time the yogin again sees as it is taught in the stanzas thus:Depending on each other do the twocalled name and form, by nature cany on.When one breaks up the other also breaks;together do they always start their course.The five states of form, odour and the rest,rise not form eye, and also not from forms;yet are not different from the set of two.The states conditioned from a cause arise,like the sound when a drum is struck.The states of form, odour and the rest,rise not from ear, and also not from sounds;yet are not different from the set of two.The five states of form, odour and the rest,rise not from nose and also not from smell;1. Cp. Sn. 625: Vdri pokkharapatte va, dragge-r-iva sdsapo,Yo na lippati kdmesu, tarn aharh brumi brdhmanam.2. Cp. I, 152: Uppado panndyati vayo panndyati thitassa anfiathattam panndyati. Imdnikho bhikhhaye tini sankhatassa sankhatalakkhandni ti.