Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

310 VimuttimaggaMISCELLANEOUS TEACHINGS*The following are the miscellaneous teachings here: insight, initial applicationof thought, joy, feeling, plane, faculty, emancipation, defilements, twoattainments in concentration.SERENITY AND INSIGHTInsight is of two kinds, namely, of the method of serenity and of bareinsight. Q. What is insight by way of serenity? Having acquired concentration,one overcomes the hindrances by concentration-strength, and oneunderstands form after one penetrates name by way of the factors of meditation,jhana. Here beginning with concentration one proceeds to insight.Bare insight: One overcomes the hindrances through understandingstrength.One discerns name after form has been penetrated by way of thebodily formations. Beginning with insight, he develops serenity. 1INITIAL APPLICATION OF THOUGHT ANDBARE INSIGHTBare insight is with initial application of thought. In the first meditation,jhana, the Path and the Fruit of insight are with initial application of thought.In the third meditation, jhana, insight and adoption are with initial applicationof thought, and the Path and the- Fruit are without initial application of thought.The Path in the plane of initial application of-thought fulfils the eight factorsof the Path. In the plane that is without initial application of thought, sevenfactors remove consideration.* The section preceding this, owing to unintelligibility, is untranslated.1. (a) A. II, 157; Pts. II, 92-6: Idh' dvuso bhikkhu samathapubbangamam vipassanambhaveti, tassa samathapubbangamam vipassanam bhavayato maggo sanjayati. So tarnmaggarh dsevati bhaveti bahulikaroti, tassa tarn maggam dsevato bhavayato bahulikarotosafinojandni pahlyanti, anusaya byantihonti.Puna ca param dvuso bhikkhu vipassandpubbangamam samatham bhaveti, tassavipassandpubbangamam samatham bhavayato maggo sanjayati. So tarn maggamdsevati. . . ; tassa tarn maggarh dsevato . . . anusaya byantihonti. . .• % Katham samathapubbangamam vipassanam bhavetH Nekkhamma-vasena cittassaekaggata avikkhepo samddhi, tattha jdte dhamme aniccato anupassanatthena vipassand,dukkhato anupassanatthena vipassand, anattato anupassanatthena vipassand. Itipathamam samatho, pacchd vipassand; tena vuccati—samathapubbangamam vipassanambhaveti...tJ Katham vipassandpubbangamam samatham bhaveti? Aniccato anupassanatthenavipassand, dukkhato anupassanatthena vipassand, anattato anupassanatthena vipassand;tattha jdtanam dhammdnan ca vossaggdrammanatd cittassa ekaggata avikkhepo samddhi.Iti pathamam vipassand pacchd samatho; tena vuccati—vipassandpubbangamamsamatham bhaveti.(b) Nekkhamma is explained as kdmdnam nissaranam—(1) A. Ill, 245: Idha bhikkhavebhikkhuno kdmam manasikaroto kdmesu cittarh na pakkhandati, na ppasidati na santitthatina vimuccati, nekkhammam kho pan! assa manasikaroto nekkhamme cittarhpakkhandati pasidati santitthati vimuccati. Tassa tarn cittarh sukatam subhavitarhsuvutthitarh suvimuttam suvisamyuttam kdmehi, ye ca kdmapaccaya uppajjanti dsavdvighdtaparildha, mutto so tehi, na so tarn vedanam vediyati. Idam akkhdtam kdmdnamnissaranam. (2) It. 61; Kamdnam-etam nissaranam yad-idam nekkhammam.