Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

The Five Methods 311JOYAt first the bare insight worker experiences the suffering of the formations.Through adaptive knowledge of insight he fulfils non-suffering, and developsadoption. The Path and the Fruit bring about joy together. Then the bareinsight worker gains perfection of the ease of the formations. In the secondmeditation, jhana, insight and Path and Fruit bring about joy. In the thirdand the fourth meditations, jhanas, insight, Path and Fruit bring about joy. Inthe Path and the Fruit of the plane of joy, the seven enlightenment factorsarise. The six kinds of enlightenment in the plane of non-joy remove theenlightenment-initial-application-of-thought that is joy.FEELINGAt first the bare insight worker experiences the suffering of the formations.Insight and adaptive knowledge bring about equanimity. Adoption, thePath and the Fruit bring about joy. Then the bare insight worker gainsperfection of the ease of the formations. In the third meditation {jhana),insight, the Path and the Fruit bring about joy. In the fourth meditation(jhana), insight, the Path and the Fruit bring about equanimity.PLANEThere are two kinds of planes: plane of seeing and plane of volition.Here, the Path of Stream-entrance is the plane of seeing. The other threePaths and the four Fruits of the recluse are the plane of volition. Nothaving seen before, one sees now. This is the plane of seeing. One sees(c) Pts.-a. Ill, 586: Vossaggdrammanatd *ti ettha vossaggo nibbdnam. Nibbdnam hisankhatavossaggato paricedgato Vossaggo 'ti vutto, vipassand ca tamsampayuttadhammdca nibbdnaninnatdya ajfhdsayavasena nibbdne patitthitatta nibbdnapatittha nibbdndrammand.Patittha 'pi, hi dlambiyati 'ti drammanam nama hoti. Nibbdne patitthanatthen'eva nibbdndrammand. Annattha pdliyam 'pi hi "Patittha drammanan" 'tivuccati, yath' aha: "Seyyatha 'pi dvuso naldgdram vd tindgdrarh vd sukkharh koldpamterovassikarh puratthimdya ce 'pi disdya puriso ddittaya tinukkdya upasankameyya,labhetha aggi otdram, labhetha aggi drammanam?" 'ti ddi. Tasmd tattha jdtanamdhammdnam vossaggdrammanatdya nibbdna-patitthabhavena hetubhutena uppadito yocittassa ekaggata-sankhdto upacdrappandbhedo avikkhepo, so Samddhi 'ti vipassandtopacchd uppadito nibbedhabhagiyo samddhi niddittho hoti. Tasmd yeva hi, Iti pathamamvipassand pacchd samatho 'ti vuttam.In (x) samathapubbangama vipassand {% above) the abandonment (pahdna) is ofthe five hindrances (panca nivarand) beginning with sense-desire (kdmacchanda) by meansof the first meditation {pathamajjhana). \x\(y)vipassandpubbangama samatha (}} above)the abandonment (pahdna) is of all stain (sabbamala) by means of the concentrationpartaking of penetration (so sabbamalavirahito nibbedhabhagiyo samddhi sesasamddhitoadhikatta adhicittan 'ti vuccati—Pts.-a. I, 228).Sometimes the samatha in (x) is mistakenly equated with that in (y) because theword used in both instances is serenity (samatha). But they are different. While in theone samatha of the first meditation (pathamajjhana) by v/ay of suppression abandonmentis meant, in the other samatha of substitution abandonment is meant—Pts. T, 27: Vikkhambanappahdnahca nivarandnam pathamajjhanam bhavayato, tadangappahdnah caditfhigatanam nibbedhabhagiyarh samddhim bhavayato (==Tadangappahdnah ca ditfhigata-