Nevertheless, it is in the Dhyanas, and notably in the Fourth Dhyana, that the path is most easily
cultivated
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to read. A note on the Path will therefore be found here. ***
A Summary Note on the Path.
1. There is acquisition of the "roots of good which produce deliverance" (moksabhdgtya kusalamula, iii. 44c, iv. 124, vi. 24c, vii. 30, 34)--which are thoughts or actions inspired by the desire for deliverance (Nirvana)--in an existence preceding the immediate preparation of the Path (vi. 24d).
2. There is acquisition of the dryavamsas, vi. 5-8), moral qualities which make a perfect monk. In principle, it is considered that entry to the Path presupposes the quality of a monk, certainly the Pratimoksasamvara, the quality of Upasaka (iv, English translation p. 598, 680).
3. There is then the cultivation of the contemplation or visualization of loathsome things (asubhdbhdvand) and the application of the mindfulness of breathing (dndpdnasmrti)
(vi. 9-13), through which one triumphs over desire and distraction, and through which one becomes capable of entering into bhdvand or samddhiy absorption.
4. There is "application of mindfulness" or "application of the prajnd, the speculative consciousness, due to mindfulness" (smrtyupasthdna, vi. 14-16). The ascetic understands, in a still imperfect manner, the specific and general characteristics of the
body, of sensation, of the mind, and of dharmas in general.
5. Then there takes place the acquisition of the four "roots of good" {kusalamula) which are called "leading to penetration," nirvedhabhdgiya (vi. 17-25). These are smrtyupasthdnas of a higher nature, the highest of which, the laukikdgradharmas, "the Supreme Worldly Dharmas/' or meditation, leads directly to the pure seeing of the truths, to abhisamaya.
The nirvedhabhdgiyas are the preparatory path (prayogamdrga)
? par excellence; all of the exercises which precede it are the distant preparatory path. There now comes the Path properly so-called, the path of the abandoning of the klesas or defilements (the prahdnamdrga).
6. There is abhisamaya (vi. English translation p. 897, 946) or satyabhisamaya, "comprehension of the Truths. " This is a pure or andsrava prajnd, that is to say a prajfld free from any error (viparydsa, v. 9) and any defilement (rdga, etc. ), which grasps the general characteristics (sdmdnyalaksana, ii, English translation p. 240) of the Truths. The Truths are defined, vi. 2, 3; each one is made up of four "aspects" (dkdras) vii. 13; "comprehension" is therefore gradual (anupurva), vi. 27.
Abhisamaya is made up of sixteen thoughts, or sixteen moments of thought.
The ascetic first sees the Truth of Suffering relating to Kamadhatu. This seeing consists of two moments. In the first, duhkhe dharmajndnaksdnti (vi. 26a), the ascetic destroys any doubt that may remain relating to the suffering of Kamadhatu: this first moment is a "patience" (ksdnti), which expels a certain category of klesa; this is a path of abandoning (prahdnamdrga) or an "irresistible" path (dnantaryamdrga), v. 6l, vi. 28,65. This first moment is samayktvaniyamdvakranti (vi. English translation p. 896) and makes the ascetic an Aryan, a candidate for the first result.
The second moment, all doubt having disappeared relating to suffering of Kamadhatu, is called duhkhe dharmajndna: this is a perfect "knowledge/' The difference between a "patience", ksanti, and "knowledge," jndna, is explained vii. l. In the second moment, the ascetic who, in the first moment, cut off the "possession" (prdpti, ii. 36c) of a certain category or group of klesas, takes possession of the "destruction" relating to these kiefas (destruc- tion = nirodha, pratisamkhyanirodha, nirvana, ii. English transla- tion p. 207, 280). The ascetic is therefore delivered from these klesas: the second moment is thus a path of deliverance (vimukti- mdrga) (vi. 28, 61, 65).
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In the third and fourth moments, the ascetic sees the Truth of Suffering relating to the suffering of the two higher spheres. There are the same four moments for each Truth: in all sixteen moments, eight moments of ksdnti, eight moments oijndna. The four moments of jfidna relating to Kamadhatu are dharmajnana; the four moments relating to the higher spheres are anvayajndna (vii. 3,6,8).
7. The first fifteen moments of abhisamaya make: up the "path of seeing," satyadarsanamdrga or darsanamarga, because they are the first (pure) seeing of the Truths (vi. 28c). This is the dharmacakra (vi. 54), very rapid, of such a type that it is difficult for a saint capable of reading the thoughts of others to follow the progress of an ascetic who has entered darsanamarga (vii. 6b).
The eight ksdntis or "paths of abandoning'* (prahdnamarga) which are found here bring about the abandoning (v. English translation p. 775, 854, 861), in a definitive manner, of a certain category of klesa-the klesa which is "wrong seeing" (drsti) by its nature (satkdyadrsti, etc. , i. 40c, iv. ll, v. 4, vi. 58, vii. 36), the so-called avastuka klesa--\Ax3& a certain attachment, rdgaf the rdga which is in direct relationship with the drsti (v. 33).
In the sixteenth moment, which is the first moment of the path of meditation (bhdvandmdrga), the ascetic acquires the first result, the result of Srotaapanna (on the results or "fruits," see v. 70, vi. 51),andof the sixth parijnd (v. 54). His deliverance is assured and rapid: he will obtain Nirvana after seven (or after fourteen) rebirths at the most, vi. 34a. Nevertheless, if the ascetic, before having entered the path of darfana, has not got rid of, through a worldly path of meditation {laukika bhavanamdrga) (see Para. 8 below), the klesas which can only be abandoned by the path of meditation (bhavanamdrga), he will remain, upon leaving the path of seeing, bound by innumerable klesas: the path of darsana, in sum, cuts off only the drstis, the idea of self, etc. ; it does not cut off the rdga or attachment which one experiences through agreeable sensations, which, as opposed to the idea of self, are real; it also leaves intact hatred (dvesa), etc. (v. 5a, i. 40), which only the
? path of meditation can cut off.
8. The path of meditation, bhdvand, is by nature punah punardmukhtkarana, abhydsa, repeated contemplation, or "medita- tion" (On the different definitions of bhdvand, bhdvayati, see ii. 59, iv. l23c, v. 29, 60d, vi. 5a, 70, vii. ll, 20, 27).
This path is pure or impure; as pure, it can only be cultivate by an ascetic who has trodden the path of darsana.
Let us now consider the ascetic who, although bound by all of the bonds to be abandoned through meditation {bhdvandheyak- lesa), leaves the path of seeing and enters the pure path of meditation.
This path consists of the repeated contemplation of the Truths. Through this contemplation, the ascetic will abandon, in sequence, the nine categories (strong-strong, strong-medium, strong-weak, medium-strong . . . vi. 33) of the klesas relating to Kamadhatu, relating to each of the Four Dhyanas (stages or heavens of Rupadhatu), and relating to each of the four states or four existences {upapatti) of the so-called "formless" or nonmaterial absorptions which make up Arupyadhatu (on the distinction between samapattidhyana and upapattidhyana, see viii. l); for example, he abandons all rdga (attachment or craving) first with respect to the sense pleasures, and then with respect to the delight or satisfaction that he experiences in the First Dhyana.
The abandoning of each of these categories (nine for each of the nine spheres) makes up a "moment" of abandoning or of relinquishment (prahdna or dnantaryamdrga) and a moment of deliverance (vimuktimdrga): in which moment the ascetic takes possession of the destruction of this category. In distinction to the path of seeing, these two moments are moments of "knowledge,"
jndna; there are no "patiences," ksdnti, in the path of meditation (v. 65d).
The ascetic who obtains the abandoning of the sixteenth category of the klesas of Kamadhatu (avarabhdgiya, v. 43) becomes a Sakrdagamin (vii. 35c); he will be reborn no more than once in
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Kamadhatu; he who has obtained the abandoning of the nine categories of the same defilements becomes an Anagamin (vi. 34); he will not be reborn again in Kamadhatu.
The path of abandoning through which the ascetic abandons the ninth category (weak-weak) of the klesas which are attached to the highest sphere of existence--the fourth Arupya, naivasamjndnd- samjndyatana, or simply Bhavagra-bears the name of Vajropama- samadhi (vi. 44d). It is followed by a "path of deliverance" in which the ascetic takes possession of the destruction of all the klesas or dsravas. The ascetic, endowed with the highest of the parijnds (v. 69c), is henceforth an Arhat, an Asaiksa. He possesses ksayajndna (vi. 44d) and, since he is "immovable," anutpddajndna (vi. 50) [On the different types of Arhat, the falling away of an Arhat, see vi. 56-60].
9. The name visesamdrga, the path of excellence or the excellent path, or the path of the progress, is given to the "paths" (that is to say to the moments of thought) which are better (visispa) than the result already obtained (v. 6l, vi. 32, 65).
The theory of the four paths, prayoga, dnantarya, vimukti, and visesa, is applied to many spiritual processes, for example to the acquisition of the visesas (that is to say of the spiritual qualities, guna, whose acquisition depends on the Dhyanas): acquisition of the divine eye and of the abhijnas (vii. 42), acquisition of the abhibhvdyatanas (viii. 35), etc. One process particularly worthy of notice is indriyasamcdra (vi. 4lc, 57c, 58b, 60), through which the ascetic "transforms" or "perfects" the moral faculties (indriya) of faith, etc. , making them sharp {tiksna). The classification of the Saints (Sraddhanusarin, etc. , vi. 29, 63) rests on the distinction between sharp and blunt or weak (mrdu) faculties.
10. Nevertheless, without having "seen" the Truths through a pure prajnd, without having "uprooted" the "wrong views" (satkdyadrspi, the idea of a self, etc. ), in other words, by completely remaining a Prthagjana (vi. 26a, p. 944), an ascetic can become detached (vairagya) from Kamadhatu, from Rupadhatu, and from the first three stages of Arupyadhatu.
? In addition to the pure (anasrava) or transworldly (lokottara) or Aryan path-which is "seeing the Truths/' darsanamdrga, or "repeated seeing, meditating on the Truths," bhdvandmdrga--there is an impure (sdsrava, samala) or worldly (laukika) path which is called a "worldly path of meditation," laukika bhdvandmdrga. In this path the ascetic does not progress through "attention bearing on the true nature of things" (tattvamanasikdra) or by grasping their common characteristics (sdmdnyalaksana, impermanence, etc. ); he will not think of "suffering" in and of itself, an abstraction created from the "self" or of "another" who suffers; etc. The ascetic becomes disgusted with Kamadhatu, he "detests" (vidu- sana) Kamadhatu, which is coarse, painful, an obstacle; he considers the First Dhyana as excellent, etc. (vi. 49,61). In this way he obtains, in two successive moments (a moment of abandoning and a moment of deliverance), the abandoning of each of the nine categories of klesa which attach themselves to Kamadhatu. And the same for the successive stages.
a. It is evident that a person born in Kamadhatu, and consequently defiled through birth by all the klesas proper to this sphere of existence, cannot uproot these same klesas by means of thoughts pertaining to the sphere of Kamadhatu. The ascetic should therefore raise himself above his natural state (firakrtyavas- tha) in order to become disgusted (vairagya) with Kamadhatu. As long as he is not disgusted with it, he cannot enter into the First Dhyana, since it is this very same disgust which causes him to enter the First Dhyana. The ascetic should therefore enter a state of absorption which is called andgamya (v. 66, vi. 44d, 61c, viii. 22c) and which is the "threshold", the frontier {sdmantaka) of the First Dhyana: it is in this state that he is delivered from the klesas of Kamadhatu. He rises above the First Dhyana in order to free himself from the klesas of the First Dhyana, and into the "threshold" of the Second Dhyana and so on (viii. 21d). In order to deliver himself, by means of the worldly path of meditation, from the klesas of a certain sphere, he should, on the one hand, aspire to a higher sphere, and on the other hand, enter into the threshold of the higher sphere. Consequently the ascetic cannot, by means of
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the worldly path, free himself from the highest stage of existence, or Bhavagra.
b. The worldly path, if it puts the ascetic in possession of the destruction (nirodha) of the klesas, or of "disconnection from the klesas" (visamyoga), only gives him a worldly possession (laukikt prdpti) of this "disconnection" (vi. 46a). This possession is not definitive. The gods of the world of Brahma are Prthagjanas who are provisionally liberated from the activation of the klesas of Kamadhatu.
It is normal for an ascetic to have cultivated the worldly path of meditation before entering the path of the pure seeing of the Truths. Who of us, in the course of the infinite number of rebirths, has not obtained the Dhyanas by the worldly path? All beings, in certain periods of chaos, are reborn in the heavens of the Dhyanas (viii. 38).
One should therefore distinguish, on the one nand, the ascetic who obtains all the results in the sequence in which they nave been explained above (Para. 8), Srotaapanna, Sakrdagamin, Anagamin; and on the other hand, the ascetic who, before entering the path of seeing, is already liberated by the worldly path from the lower categories of the klesas of Kamadhatu or of all of the categories of klesas of Kamadhatu (bhuyovttaraga, vitaraga or kamavitaraga). Such an ascetic, when he has trodden the Path of Seeing, does not become a Srotaapanna; he becomes a Sakrdagamin or an Ana- gamin according to the case. And he possesses, thanks to the Path of Seeing, the transworldly and worldly possession of the destruction of the klesas previously abandoned by the worldly path (vi. 29c, 55).
The Buddha gave a memorable example of this method: he was a Prthagjana when he came to the Bodhi Tree (iii. 41a), but a Prthagjana who had cultivated the worldly path to its extreme limit, who had no more attachment except to Bhavagra, the fourth state of Arupyadhatu. He thus obtained the quality of Arhat-- which for him was the quality of Samyaksambuddha-in thirty-two moments of thought (ii. 44a, vi. 24a): sixteen moments of "com-
? prehension of the Truths" {abhisamaya, see above Para. 6), which made him an Anagamin freed from all existence with the exception of Bhavagra; and eighteen moments (nine paths of abandoning, and nine of deliverance) of the path of meditation on the Truths, which destroy the klesas relating to Bhavagra.
11. It is normal for the ascetic, after having achieved the path of the Seeing of the Truths, to cultivate the worldly path of meditation.
Once he is a Srotaapanna, he frees himself from Kamadhatu through the worldly path: nevertheless his possession of the destruction of the klesas of Kamadhatu is a transworldly posses- sion (vi. 46, 53c). The worldly path immediately places him in possession of results superior to those of a Srotaapanna.
a. The ascetic who is detached from Kamadhatu through the worldly path can cultivate the "Path of Seeing" by entering into Dhyana; nothing is easier for him, since he "possesses" the Dhyanas and can "manifest" or actualize them (sammukhikartum) at will.
b. The ascetic who is not detached from Kamadhatu through
Path of Seeing. And he will be able, in this same anagamya, to cultivate to the end, as far as the acquisition of the result of Arhat, the pure path of the meditation of the Truths [Whereas the impure path of meditation is made up of the successive acquisition of the Dhyanas and Arupyas].
Nevertheless, it is in the Dhyanas, and notably in the Fourth Dhyana, that the path is most easily cultivated (v. 66a, vi. 24a, 47c).
c. The pure path is absent from Kamadhatu (ii. 12, viii. 5).
d. Every pure path of meditation is also absent from the Fourth Arupya; it is therefore in a lower sphere (notably, the Third Arupya) that the ascetic--when the ascetic is a god of a certain class--will be delivered from the klesas of the Fourth Arupya (viii. 20a).
the worldly path, will enter anagamya in order to cultivate the 1
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e. The types of beings who are capable of cultivating the path (vi. 55).
12. One can obtain the quality of Arhat without having cultivated the Dhyanas. Even more so the "absorption of the destruction of ideas and sensations" (samjndveditanirodhasamdo patti) (ii. 43,iv. 54,56,vi. 43,63,64,viii. 27c,33a)isnotindispensa- ble. However, it possesses great advantages, as do all the Dhyanas. The "qualities" {guna) consisting of knowledge (jndnamaya) and of absorption (samddhimaya), such as arand, pranidhijndna, the vimoksas, sunyatdsamddhi, sunyatdsunyatdsamddhi, etc. (Chapter VII and VIII), are accessories of the path.
13. Vasubandhu does not forget to refer his model of the path to the old mystical chart of Buddhism: the bodhipdksikas, the mdrgdngas, the bodhyangas, the three skandhas, etc. (vi. 67).
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note 1. The first two results are obtained only by an andgamya. The third can be obtained in the six spheres (vi. English translation note 397).
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The Latent Defilements
o m. Homage to the Buddha.
We said that the world, in all its variety, arises from action
(iv. l). Now it is by reason of the anusayas} or latent defilements, that 2
actions accumulate: in the absence of the anusayas, actions are not capable of producing a new existence. Consequently
la. The roots of existence, that is, of rebirth or of action, are the
1 anusayas
When a klesa* or defilement enters into action, it accomplishes ten operations: 1. it makes solid its root, its prdpti--the possession that a certain person already had of the kief a (ii. 36,38a)--preventing it from being broken; 2. it places itself in a series (that is, it continues to reproduce itself); 3. it accommodates its field, rendering the person (dsrava, ii. 5, 6,44d) fit for the arising of the klesa; 4. it engenders its offspring, that is, the upaklesas (v. 46): hatred engenders anger, etc. ; 5. it leads to action; 6. it aggregates its causes, namely, incorrect judgment; 7. it causes one to be mistaken with regard to the objea of consciousness; 8. it bends the mental series towards the object or towards rebirth (iii. 30); 9. it brings about a falling away of good; and
10. it becomes a bond (bandhana, v. 45d) and prevents surmounting of 5
the sphere of existence to which it belongs.
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How many anusayas are there? There are, in all, six.
What are they?
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lc-d. Six: attachment, and then anger, pride, ignorance,
6 false views, and doubt.
The words "and then (tathd)" serve to show that it is by reason of attachment that the others "take up their abode" (anusayana, v. 17) in the object. We shall explain this point later.
ld-2a. These six make seven through the division of attachment.
There is the anusaya of attachment to pleasure or sensual 7
desire (kdmardgdnusaya); the anusaya of anger; the anusaya of attachment to existence; the anusaya of pride; the anusaya of ignorance; the anusaya of erroneous views; and the anusaya of doubt (vicikitsd)*
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What does the expression kdmardganusaya signify? Is there an anusaya called kdmardgai Or is there an anusaya of kdmardga distinct from kdmardgai
If one says that kdmardga is an anusaya, one then contradicts
the Sutra which says, "The person who does not long dwell with
his mind in the prey of (paryavasthita) attachment to pleasure;
who, when the wrapping {paryavasthdna) of attachment is about
to be produced, knows well how to depart from it, for this person
the wrapping which is attachment, perfectly destroyed of its life
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force, is abandoned along with its anusaya" To say that
attachment is abandoned at the same time as its anusaya is to say that attachment and its anusaya are two distinct things.
If one explains kamaraganusya as the anusaya of kdmardga, one must make the anusaya a thing not associated with the mind (ii. 35) (and consisting of the possession, prdpti, ii. 36, of the kdmardga). But such a theory is in contradiction to the Abhidharma (Jndna- prasthdna, TD 26, p. 946b25 and following) which teaches that "kdmardganusaya is associated with (i. e. , can be accompanied by) three sensations, that of pleasure, satisfaction, and indifference
(ii. 7). " Now a dharma not associated with the mind cannot be
accompanied by these sensations.
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? According to the Vaibhasikas, kdmardgdnusaya is an anusaya called kdmaraga; it is the attachment itself which is anusaya; and the same for the other defilements: doubt {vicikitsd) is the anusaya of doubt.
But the Sutra which we have just quoted says that one abandons kdmaraga along with its anusaya. Hence the anusaya is
1 not kdmaraga}
The Vaibhasikas answer: The expression "with its anusaya* should be explained as "with its anubandha\ that is, "with its
12
consequences. " Or rather the Sutra uses the word anusaya in the
sense of "possession" because possession is the cause of the
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anusaya (ii. 35, trans, p. 208).
expresses itself literally and not figuratively, says that the anusaya is the klesa or defilement itself. Consequently the anusayas are associated with the mind.
(Besides this argument from authority, there is an argument from inference:)
"Because they defile the mind, because they hinder, because they are in contradiction with good, and yet because good appears,
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This means that because of the anusayas, the mind is defiled; good which has not arisen is hindered from arising, and one falls away from good already arisen; consequently the anusayas are not dharmas disassociated from the mind.
But, one would say, some dharmas disassociated from the mind can have a similar effect.
No, for if the anusayas were disassociated from the mind, they
would always be present; and, consequently, if we suppose that
they have a similar effect, then good would never be able to arise.
Now it is a fact that it does arise. Thus the anusayas are not 15
But again, the masters who consider the anusayas as disasso- ciated from the mind do not attribute this threefold activity
the anusayas are not disassociated from the mind. "
disassociated from the mind.
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But the Abhidharma, which always
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(defiling the mind, etc. ) to the anusayas, but to the klesa itself (that is, to the paryavasthdna, the active defilement; and this is not always present).
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The Sautr&ntika theory is best.
Kamaraganusaya means "anufaya of kdmardga\ But the
anus ay a is neither associated with the mind, nor disassociated from
it: for it is not a separate thing (dravya). What is called anusaya is
the kleSa itself in a state of sleep, whereas the paryavasthdna is the
klesa in an awakened state. The sleeping klesa is the non-manif-
ested klesa, in the state of being a seed; the awakened klesa is the
manifested klesa, the klesa in action. And by "seed" one should
understand a certain capacity to produce the klesa, a power
belonging to the person engendered by the previous klesa. In this
same way there exists in a certain person the capacity of producing
a consciousness of memory, a capacity engendered by a conscious-
ness of preception; in this same way the capacity to produce rice,
which belongs to the plant, the shoot, the stalk, etc. , is engendered
16 by the rice seed.
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The masters
dharma distinct from the klesa itself, disassocated from the mind and called an anusaya, must admit a dharma existing in and of itself, disassociated from the mind and the cause of memory. And the same would hold for the plant.
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[The Sarvastivadins answer]. You do not have the right to explain "anusaya of kdmardga" for the Sutra clearly teaches that anusaya is kdmardga itself.
for whom the seed of the kleia is a certain
The Satsatkasutra says, "This person has agreeable sensation, 1
and rdgdnufaya" * [From all evidence, the Sutra understands that, at the moment of agreeable sensation, there is active desire (rdga): and it designates this active desire by the name of anufaya].
But the Sutra says, "He has rdgdnusaya\" it does not say, "He
? then has ragdnufaya. " [At the moment of agreeable sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna. In other words, at the moment of the agreeable sensation, there is active rdga, awakened desire;] when this sensation ends, desire becomes dormant: then there is only the anusaya of desire, dormant desire, the seed of future awakened desire.
Or rather, we would say, when the Sutra says rdgdnusaya, it means rdga: the first is the effect of the second, and the cause can be designated by the name of its effect.
The examination of this chance problem is finished. Let us return to our subject.
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What is this division that the Sutra sets up, attachment to agreeable objects (kdmardga) and attachment to existence (bhavardga)? What is attachment to existence?
2b. Attachment to existence arises from the two Dhatus.
Attachment to Rupadhatu and to Arupyadhatu is called bhavardga, attachment to existence [in opposition to kdmardga, attachment to agreeable objects,--kdmas or kdmagunas,--which is attachment proper to Kamadhatu, iii. 3c-d].
Why is the name of attachment to existence (bhavardga) reserved for attachment to the two higher Dhatus?
2c-d. It is so called because it is turned within, and in order
19 to avoid the idea that these two Dhatus are deliverance.
The School explains: In general, the attachment of the beings in these two Dhatus is with regard to absorption (samdpatti), (or more precisely, to "enjoyable" dhyana, asvddanasamprayuktadhydna, viii. 6). One says "in general" because these beings also have attachments with regard to their palaces, vimdnas, etc.
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This attachment, being an absorption, is turned within. This is why it alone receives the name of attachment to existence.
Further, certain persons imagine that the two Dhatus consti- tute deliverance: this is why the Blessed One gives the name "attachment to existence" to the attachment which has these two Dhatus for its object.
(According to us), existence (bhava) means the person. Beings in absorption enjoy both the absorption itself and their own persons. Being freed from attachment to pleasures, they only enjoy their own persons and not external objects. This is why attachment to the two higher Dhatus is called attachment to existence (bhavaraga).
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According to the Abhidharma (Jnanaprasthana, TD 26, p. 943a27), these six anusayas make ten. How is this?
3. There are five (erroneous) views: a belief in a self
(satkayadrsti), false views (mithyddrsti), a belief in the
extremes (antagrahadrsti), the esteeming of views (drstipa-
ramarsa), and the esteeming of morality and ascetic
practices (silavrataparamarsa): thus there are ten anus- 20
ayas.
By dividing views (drsfi) into five, there are six anusayas, for a total of ten anusayas\ five which are not views by nature, namely desire, anger, pride, ignorance and doubt; and five which are views, satkayadrsti, etc.
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In addition the Abhidharma (Jnanaprasthana, ibid. ) teaches
that these ten anusayas make up thirty-six anusayas in Kamadhatu,
thirty-one anusayas in Rupadhatu, and thirty-one anusayas in 11
Arupyadhatu: in all ninety-eight anusayas.
Thirty-two of the thirty-six anusayas of Kamadhatu are abandoned by Seeing the Truths (see i. 40, iv. 11-12).
? 4. With the exception of three or two views, ten, seven,
seven, eight anusayas are abandoned in Kamadhatu by the 22
Seeing of Suffering and the three other Truths respectively.
All of the above mentioned anufayas are, in Kamadhatu, abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering.
Seven are abandoned through the Seeing of Arising and through the Seeing of Extinction, with the exception of a belief in a self, a belief in the extremes, and the esteeming of morality and ascetic practices.
Eight are abandoned through the Seeing of the Path, with the exception of satkdyadrsti and antagrdhadrsti
This makes thirty-two anusayas abandoned through Seeing, because the mere Seeing of the Truths suffices to abandon them.
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Namely desire, anger, ignorance and pride: because one who has seen the Truths then abandons them through Meditation on the Path.
In this way satkdyadrsti, the view of self and of things pertaining to a self, is unique, being susceptible of being abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering; and the same for antagrdhadrsti, the belief in extremes.
False views is of four types, abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering, Arising, Extinction, and the Path; the same for the esteeming of bad views and doubt.
The esteeming of morality and ascetic practices is of two types, being susceptible of being abandoned through 1. ) the Seeing of Suffering and 2. ) the Path.
Desire, anger, pride, and ignorance are of five types, being abandoned through the Seeing of each of the Truths, and through Meditation.
5a. Four are abandoned through Meditation.
What is the characteristic or definition of the anusayas
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susceptible of being abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering? . . What is the def initon of the anusayas susceptible of being
abandoned through Meditation?
When it is possible to abandon the object (dlambana) of an
anusaya through the Seeing of a certain Truth, it is said that this 24
anusaya can be abandoned through the Seeing of this Truth. The others are abandoned through Meditation.
There are thus twelve views, four doubts, five desires, five angers, five ignorances, and five prides: in all thirty-six anusayas in Kamadhatu.
5b-c. The same, with the exception of the angers, for Rupadhatu.
The same sorts of anusayas, with the exception of the five angers, make up the thirty-one anusayas of Rupadhatu.
5c. The same in Arupyadhatu.
The same thirty-one.
5d. In this way, there are ninety-eight.
The Abhidharmikas {Jnanaprasthana, TD 26, p. 929c2) say that the six anusayas make ninety-eight through the differences of their aspect, their mode of expulsion (ii. 52b), and their sphere of existence (their Dhatu).
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Among the ninety-eight anusayas, eighty-eight are abandoned through Seeing because they are struck, destroyed through the
? "patiences" (ksantis, vi. 25d), and ten are abandoned through Meditation because they are struck by the "knowledges" (jndnas)P Is this a strict rule with regard to abandoning through Seeing and Meditation?
6a-c. When they arise in Bhavagra (the highest state of Arupyadhatu), the anus ay as which are struck by the ksantis are abandoned through Seeing and through Meditation.
The word "ksantis" refers to the dharmajndnaksdntis and the anvayajndnaksdntis (vi. 26c).
Among the anusayas which are struck by the ksantis, those which are in Bhavagra are abandoned only by Seeing, for only anvayajndnak- sdntis causes them to be abandoned. [Only the Aryans, through the pure path, abandon these anusayas] (vi. 45c).
Those in the eight bhumis (i. e. , Kamadhatu, Rupadhatu and the first three stages of Arupyadhatu) are abandoned either through Seeing or through Meditation: Aryans abandon them solely through Seeing, and not through Meditation, by means of the dharmajndnaksdntis or the anvayajndnaksdntis accordingly as they belong to the anusayas of Kamadhatu or of the higher spheres, whereas Prthagjanas abandon them only through Meditation, and not though Seeing, for these anusayas can be abandoned through a worldly knowledge (lokasamvrtijndna, vii. 9).
6c-d. The anusayas which are not struck by the ksantis are only abandoned through Meditation.
The anuSayas which are struck by the "knowledges" (jndnas), at whichever stage they belong, are only abandoned through Meditation, whether they belong to an Aryan or to a Prthagjana. In fact, an Aryan abandons them through andsrava jnana meditation, or pure knowledge, whereas a Prthagjana abandons them through a worldly knowledge (lokasamvrtijndna).
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Some other masters maintain that non-Buddhists (bdhyaka) cannot abandon the anusayas abandoned through Seeing. For the Mahdkarmavibhdgasutra teaches that erroneous views are active among the non-Buddhists in Kamadhatu, although they may be "detached" (vitardga, that is, having abandoned the attachments of Kamadhatu, attachments that one abandons through Meditati- on.
I considered that, without the aid of an outline which would elucidate uncertain points, the Sixth Chapter would be truly awkward
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to read. A note on the Path will therefore be found here. ***
A Summary Note on the Path.
1. There is acquisition of the "roots of good which produce deliverance" (moksabhdgtya kusalamula, iii. 44c, iv. 124, vi. 24c, vii. 30, 34)--which are thoughts or actions inspired by the desire for deliverance (Nirvana)--in an existence preceding the immediate preparation of the Path (vi. 24d).
2. There is acquisition of the dryavamsas, vi. 5-8), moral qualities which make a perfect monk. In principle, it is considered that entry to the Path presupposes the quality of a monk, certainly the Pratimoksasamvara, the quality of Upasaka (iv, English translation p. 598, 680).
3. There is then the cultivation of the contemplation or visualization of loathsome things (asubhdbhdvand) and the application of the mindfulness of breathing (dndpdnasmrti)
(vi. 9-13), through which one triumphs over desire and distraction, and through which one becomes capable of entering into bhdvand or samddhiy absorption.
4. There is "application of mindfulness" or "application of the prajnd, the speculative consciousness, due to mindfulness" (smrtyupasthdna, vi. 14-16). The ascetic understands, in a still imperfect manner, the specific and general characteristics of the
body, of sensation, of the mind, and of dharmas in general.
5. Then there takes place the acquisition of the four "roots of good" {kusalamula) which are called "leading to penetration," nirvedhabhdgiya (vi. 17-25). These are smrtyupasthdnas of a higher nature, the highest of which, the laukikdgradharmas, "the Supreme Worldly Dharmas/' or meditation, leads directly to the pure seeing of the truths, to abhisamaya.
The nirvedhabhdgiyas are the preparatory path (prayogamdrga)
? par excellence; all of the exercises which precede it are the distant preparatory path. There now comes the Path properly so-called, the path of the abandoning of the klesas or defilements (the prahdnamdrga).
6. There is abhisamaya (vi. English translation p. 897, 946) or satyabhisamaya, "comprehension of the Truths. " This is a pure or andsrava prajnd, that is to say a prajfld free from any error (viparydsa, v. 9) and any defilement (rdga, etc. ), which grasps the general characteristics (sdmdnyalaksana, ii, English translation p. 240) of the Truths. The Truths are defined, vi. 2, 3; each one is made up of four "aspects" (dkdras) vii. 13; "comprehension" is therefore gradual (anupurva), vi. 27.
Abhisamaya is made up of sixteen thoughts, or sixteen moments of thought.
The ascetic first sees the Truth of Suffering relating to Kamadhatu. This seeing consists of two moments. In the first, duhkhe dharmajndnaksdnti (vi. 26a), the ascetic destroys any doubt that may remain relating to the suffering of Kamadhatu: this first moment is a "patience" (ksdnti), which expels a certain category of klesa; this is a path of abandoning (prahdnamdrga) or an "irresistible" path (dnantaryamdrga), v. 6l, vi. 28,65. This first moment is samayktvaniyamdvakranti (vi. English translation p. 896) and makes the ascetic an Aryan, a candidate for the first result.
The second moment, all doubt having disappeared relating to suffering of Kamadhatu, is called duhkhe dharmajndna: this is a perfect "knowledge/' The difference between a "patience", ksanti, and "knowledge," jndna, is explained vii. l. In the second moment, the ascetic who, in the first moment, cut off the "possession" (prdpti, ii. 36c) of a certain category or group of klesas, takes possession of the "destruction" relating to these kiefas (destruc- tion = nirodha, pratisamkhyanirodha, nirvana, ii. English transla- tion p. 207, 280). The ascetic is therefore delivered from these klesas: the second moment is thus a path of deliverance (vimukti- mdrga) (vi. 28, 61, 65).
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In the third and fourth moments, the ascetic sees the Truth of Suffering relating to the suffering of the two higher spheres. There are the same four moments for each Truth: in all sixteen moments, eight moments of ksdnti, eight moments oijndna. The four moments of jfidna relating to Kamadhatu are dharmajnana; the four moments relating to the higher spheres are anvayajndna (vii. 3,6,8).
7. The first fifteen moments of abhisamaya make: up the "path of seeing," satyadarsanamdrga or darsanamarga, because they are the first (pure) seeing of the Truths (vi. 28c). This is the dharmacakra (vi. 54), very rapid, of such a type that it is difficult for a saint capable of reading the thoughts of others to follow the progress of an ascetic who has entered darsanamarga (vii. 6b).
The eight ksdntis or "paths of abandoning'* (prahdnamarga) which are found here bring about the abandoning (v. English translation p. 775, 854, 861), in a definitive manner, of a certain category of klesa-the klesa which is "wrong seeing" (drsti) by its nature (satkdyadrsti, etc. , i. 40c, iv. ll, v. 4, vi. 58, vii. 36), the so-called avastuka klesa--\Ax3& a certain attachment, rdgaf the rdga which is in direct relationship with the drsti (v. 33).
In the sixteenth moment, which is the first moment of the path of meditation (bhdvandmdrga), the ascetic acquires the first result, the result of Srotaapanna (on the results or "fruits," see v. 70, vi. 51),andof the sixth parijnd (v. 54). His deliverance is assured and rapid: he will obtain Nirvana after seven (or after fourteen) rebirths at the most, vi. 34a. Nevertheless, if the ascetic, before having entered the path of darfana, has not got rid of, through a worldly path of meditation {laukika bhavanamdrga) (see Para. 8 below), the klesas which can only be abandoned by the path of meditation (bhavanamdrga), he will remain, upon leaving the path of seeing, bound by innumerable klesas: the path of darsana, in sum, cuts off only the drstis, the idea of self, etc. ; it does not cut off the rdga or attachment which one experiences through agreeable sensations, which, as opposed to the idea of self, are real; it also leaves intact hatred (dvesa), etc. (v. 5a, i. 40), which only the
? path of meditation can cut off.
8. The path of meditation, bhdvand, is by nature punah punardmukhtkarana, abhydsa, repeated contemplation, or "medita- tion" (On the different definitions of bhdvand, bhdvayati, see ii. 59, iv. l23c, v. 29, 60d, vi. 5a, 70, vii. ll, 20, 27).
This path is pure or impure; as pure, it can only be cultivate by an ascetic who has trodden the path of darsana.
Let us now consider the ascetic who, although bound by all of the bonds to be abandoned through meditation {bhdvandheyak- lesa), leaves the path of seeing and enters the pure path of meditation.
This path consists of the repeated contemplation of the Truths. Through this contemplation, the ascetic will abandon, in sequence, the nine categories (strong-strong, strong-medium, strong-weak, medium-strong . . . vi. 33) of the klesas relating to Kamadhatu, relating to each of the Four Dhyanas (stages or heavens of Rupadhatu), and relating to each of the four states or four existences {upapatti) of the so-called "formless" or nonmaterial absorptions which make up Arupyadhatu (on the distinction between samapattidhyana and upapattidhyana, see viii. l); for example, he abandons all rdga (attachment or craving) first with respect to the sense pleasures, and then with respect to the delight or satisfaction that he experiences in the First Dhyana.
The abandoning of each of these categories (nine for each of the nine spheres) makes up a "moment" of abandoning or of relinquishment (prahdna or dnantaryamdrga) and a moment of deliverance (vimuktimdrga): in which moment the ascetic takes possession of the destruction of this category. In distinction to the path of seeing, these two moments are moments of "knowledge,"
jndna; there are no "patiences," ksdnti, in the path of meditation (v. 65d).
The ascetic who obtains the abandoning of the sixteenth category of the klesas of Kamadhatu (avarabhdgiya, v. 43) becomes a Sakrdagamin (vii. 35c); he will be reborn no more than once in
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Kamadhatu; he who has obtained the abandoning of the nine categories of the same defilements becomes an Anagamin (vi. 34); he will not be reborn again in Kamadhatu.
The path of abandoning through which the ascetic abandons the ninth category (weak-weak) of the klesas which are attached to the highest sphere of existence--the fourth Arupya, naivasamjndnd- samjndyatana, or simply Bhavagra-bears the name of Vajropama- samadhi (vi. 44d). It is followed by a "path of deliverance" in which the ascetic takes possession of the destruction of all the klesas or dsravas. The ascetic, endowed with the highest of the parijnds (v. 69c), is henceforth an Arhat, an Asaiksa. He possesses ksayajndna (vi. 44d) and, since he is "immovable," anutpddajndna (vi. 50) [On the different types of Arhat, the falling away of an Arhat, see vi. 56-60].
9. The name visesamdrga, the path of excellence or the excellent path, or the path of the progress, is given to the "paths" (that is to say to the moments of thought) which are better (visispa) than the result already obtained (v. 6l, vi. 32, 65).
The theory of the four paths, prayoga, dnantarya, vimukti, and visesa, is applied to many spiritual processes, for example to the acquisition of the visesas (that is to say of the spiritual qualities, guna, whose acquisition depends on the Dhyanas): acquisition of the divine eye and of the abhijnas (vii. 42), acquisition of the abhibhvdyatanas (viii. 35), etc. One process particularly worthy of notice is indriyasamcdra (vi. 4lc, 57c, 58b, 60), through which the ascetic "transforms" or "perfects" the moral faculties (indriya) of faith, etc. , making them sharp {tiksna). The classification of the Saints (Sraddhanusarin, etc. , vi. 29, 63) rests on the distinction between sharp and blunt or weak (mrdu) faculties.
10. Nevertheless, without having "seen" the Truths through a pure prajnd, without having "uprooted" the "wrong views" (satkdyadrspi, the idea of a self, etc. ), in other words, by completely remaining a Prthagjana (vi. 26a, p. 944), an ascetic can become detached (vairagya) from Kamadhatu, from Rupadhatu, and from the first three stages of Arupyadhatu.
? In addition to the pure (anasrava) or transworldly (lokottara) or Aryan path-which is "seeing the Truths/' darsanamdrga, or "repeated seeing, meditating on the Truths," bhdvandmdrga--there is an impure (sdsrava, samala) or worldly (laukika) path which is called a "worldly path of meditation," laukika bhdvandmdrga. In this path the ascetic does not progress through "attention bearing on the true nature of things" (tattvamanasikdra) or by grasping their common characteristics (sdmdnyalaksana, impermanence, etc. ); he will not think of "suffering" in and of itself, an abstraction created from the "self" or of "another" who suffers; etc. The ascetic becomes disgusted with Kamadhatu, he "detests" (vidu- sana) Kamadhatu, which is coarse, painful, an obstacle; he considers the First Dhyana as excellent, etc. (vi. 49,61). In this way he obtains, in two successive moments (a moment of abandoning and a moment of deliverance), the abandoning of each of the nine categories of klesa which attach themselves to Kamadhatu. And the same for the successive stages.
a. It is evident that a person born in Kamadhatu, and consequently defiled through birth by all the klesas proper to this sphere of existence, cannot uproot these same klesas by means of thoughts pertaining to the sphere of Kamadhatu. The ascetic should therefore raise himself above his natural state (firakrtyavas- tha) in order to become disgusted (vairagya) with Kamadhatu. As long as he is not disgusted with it, he cannot enter into the First Dhyana, since it is this very same disgust which causes him to enter the First Dhyana. The ascetic should therefore enter a state of absorption which is called andgamya (v. 66, vi. 44d, 61c, viii. 22c) and which is the "threshold", the frontier {sdmantaka) of the First Dhyana: it is in this state that he is delivered from the klesas of Kamadhatu. He rises above the First Dhyana in order to free himself from the klesas of the First Dhyana, and into the "threshold" of the Second Dhyana and so on (viii. 21d). In order to deliver himself, by means of the worldly path of meditation, from the klesas of a certain sphere, he should, on the one hand, aspire to a higher sphere, and on the other hand, enter into the threshold of the higher sphere. Consequently the ascetic cannot, by means of
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the worldly path, free himself from the highest stage of existence, or Bhavagra.
b. The worldly path, if it puts the ascetic in possession of the destruction (nirodha) of the klesas, or of "disconnection from the klesas" (visamyoga), only gives him a worldly possession (laukikt prdpti) of this "disconnection" (vi. 46a). This possession is not definitive. The gods of the world of Brahma are Prthagjanas who are provisionally liberated from the activation of the klesas of Kamadhatu.
It is normal for an ascetic to have cultivated the worldly path of meditation before entering the path of the pure seeing of the Truths. Who of us, in the course of the infinite number of rebirths, has not obtained the Dhyanas by the worldly path? All beings, in certain periods of chaos, are reborn in the heavens of the Dhyanas (viii. 38).
One should therefore distinguish, on the one nand, the ascetic who obtains all the results in the sequence in which they nave been explained above (Para. 8), Srotaapanna, Sakrdagamin, Anagamin; and on the other hand, the ascetic who, before entering the path of seeing, is already liberated by the worldly path from the lower categories of the klesas of Kamadhatu or of all of the categories of klesas of Kamadhatu (bhuyovttaraga, vitaraga or kamavitaraga). Such an ascetic, when he has trodden the Path of Seeing, does not become a Srotaapanna; he becomes a Sakrdagamin or an Ana- gamin according to the case. And he possesses, thanks to the Path of Seeing, the transworldly and worldly possession of the destruction of the klesas previously abandoned by the worldly path (vi. 29c, 55).
The Buddha gave a memorable example of this method: he was a Prthagjana when he came to the Bodhi Tree (iii. 41a), but a Prthagjana who had cultivated the worldly path to its extreme limit, who had no more attachment except to Bhavagra, the fourth state of Arupyadhatu. He thus obtained the quality of Arhat-- which for him was the quality of Samyaksambuddha-in thirty-two moments of thought (ii. 44a, vi. 24a): sixteen moments of "com-
? prehension of the Truths" {abhisamaya, see above Para. 6), which made him an Anagamin freed from all existence with the exception of Bhavagra; and eighteen moments (nine paths of abandoning, and nine of deliverance) of the path of meditation on the Truths, which destroy the klesas relating to Bhavagra.
11. It is normal for the ascetic, after having achieved the path of the Seeing of the Truths, to cultivate the worldly path of meditation.
Once he is a Srotaapanna, he frees himself from Kamadhatu through the worldly path: nevertheless his possession of the destruction of the klesas of Kamadhatu is a transworldly posses- sion (vi. 46, 53c). The worldly path immediately places him in possession of results superior to those of a Srotaapanna.
a. The ascetic who is detached from Kamadhatu through the worldly path can cultivate the "Path of Seeing" by entering into Dhyana; nothing is easier for him, since he "possesses" the Dhyanas and can "manifest" or actualize them (sammukhikartum) at will.
b. The ascetic who is not detached from Kamadhatu through
Path of Seeing. And he will be able, in this same anagamya, to cultivate to the end, as far as the acquisition of the result of Arhat, the pure path of the meditation of the Truths [Whereas the impure path of meditation is made up of the successive acquisition of the Dhyanas and Arupyas].
Nevertheless, it is in the Dhyanas, and notably in the Fourth Dhyana, that the path is most easily cultivated (v. 66a, vi. 24a, 47c).
c. The pure path is absent from Kamadhatu (ii. 12, viii. 5).
d. Every pure path of meditation is also absent from the Fourth Arupya; it is therefore in a lower sphere (notably, the Third Arupya) that the ascetic--when the ascetic is a god of a certain class--will be delivered from the klesas of the Fourth Arupya (viii. 20a).
the worldly path, will enter anagamya in order to cultivate the 1
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e. The types of beings who are capable of cultivating the path (vi. 55).
12. One can obtain the quality of Arhat without having cultivated the Dhyanas. Even more so the "absorption of the destruction of ideas and sensations" (samjndveditanirodhasamdo patti) (ii. 43,iv. 54,56,vi. 43,63,64,viii. 27c,33a)isnotindispensa- ble. However, it possesses great advantages, as do all the Dhyanas. The "qualities" {guna) consisting of knowledge (jndnamaya) and of absorption (samddhimaya), such as arand, pranidhijndna, the vimoksas, sunyatdsamddhi, sunyatdsunyatdsamddhi, etc. (Chapter VII and VIII), are accessories of the path.
13. Vasubandhu does not forget to refer his model of the path to the old mystical chart of Buddhism: the bodhipdksikas, the mdrgdngas, the bodhyangas, the three skandhas, etc. (vi. 67).
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note 1. The first two results are obtained only by an andgamya. The third can be obtained in the six spheres (vi. English translation note 397).
? CHAPTER FIVE
The Latent Defilements
o m. Homage to the Buddha.
We said that the world, in all its variety, arises from action
(iv. l). Now it is by reason of the anusayas} or latent defilements, that 2
actions accumulate: in the absence of the anusayas, actions are not capable of producing a new existence. Consequently
la. The roots of existence, that is, of rebirth or of action, are the
1 anusayas
When a klesa* or defilement enters into action, it accomplishes ten operations: 1. it makes solid its root, its prdpti--the possession that a certain person already had of the kief a (ii. 36,38a)--preventing it from being broken; 2. it places itself in a series (that is, it continues to reproduce itself); 3. it accommodates its field, rendering the person (dsrava, ii. 5, 6,44d) fit for the arising of the klesa; 4. it engenders its offspring, that is, the upaklesas (v. 46): hatred engenders anger, etc. ; 5. it leads to action; 6. it aggregates its causes, namely, incorrect judgment; 7. it causes one to be mistaken with regard to the objea of consciousness; 8. it bends the mental series towards the object or towards rebirth (iii. 30); 9. it brings about a falling away of good; and
10. it becomes a bond (bandhana, v. 45d) and prevents surmounting of 5
the sphere of existence to which it belongs.
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How many anusayas are there? There are, in all, six.
What are they?
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lc-d. Six: attachment, and then anger, pride, ignorance,
6 false views, and doubt.
The words "and then (tathd)" serve to show that it is by reason of attachment that the others "take up their abode" (anusayana, v. 17) in the object. We shall explain this point later.
ld-2a. These six make seven through the division of attachment.
There is the anusaya of attachment to pleasure or sensual 7
desire (kdmardgdnusaya); the anusaya of anger; the anusaya of attachment to existence; the anusaya of pride; the anusaya of ignorance; the anusaya of erroneous views; and the anusaya of doubt (vicikitsd)*
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What does the expression kdmardganusaya signify? Is there an anusaya called kdmardgai Or is there an anusaya of kdmardga distinct from kdmardgai
If one says that kdmardga is an anusaya, one then contradicts
the Sutra which says, "The person who does not long dwell with
his mind in the prey of (paryavasthita) attachment to pleasure;
who, when the wrapping {paryavasthdna) of attachment is about
to be produced, knows well how to depart from it, for this person
the wrapping which is attachment, perfectly destroyed of its life
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force, is abandoned along with its anusaya" To say that
attachment is abandoned at the same time as its anusaya is to say that attachment and its anusaya are two distinct things.
If one explains kamaraganusya as the anusaya of kdmardga, one must make the anusaya a thing not associated with the mind (ii. 35) (and consisting of the possession, prdpti, ii. 36, of the kdmardga). But such a theory is in contradiction to the Abhidharma (Jndna- prasthdna, TD 26, p. 946b25 and following) which teaches that "kdmardganusaya is associated with (i. e. , can be accompanied by) three sensations, that of pleasure, satisfaction, and indifference
(ii. 7). " Now a dharma not associated with the mind cannot be
accompanied by these sensations.
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? According to the Vaibhasikas, kdmardgdnusaya is an anusaya called kdmaraga; it is the attachment itself which is anusaya; and the same for the other defilements: doubt {vicikitsd) is the anusaya of doubt.
But the Sutra which we have just quoted says that one abandons kdmaraga along with its anusaya. Hence the anusaya is
1 not kdmaraga}
The Vaibhasikas answer: The expression "with its anusaya* should be explained as "with its anubandha\ that is, "with its
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consequences. " Or rather the Sutra uses the word anusaya in the
sense of "possession" because possession is the cause of the
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anusaya (ii. 35, trans, p. 208).
expresses itself literally and not figuratively, says that the anusaya is the klesa or defilement itself. Consequently the anusayas are associated with the mind.
(Besides this argument from authority, there is an argument from inference:)
"Because they defile the mind, because they hinder, because they are in contradiction with good, and yet because good appears,
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This means that because of the anusayas, the mind is defiled; good which has not arisen is hindered from arising, and one falls away from good already arisen; consequently the anusayas are not dharmas disassociated from the mind.
But, one would say, some dharmas disassociated from the mind can have a similar effect.
No, for if the anusayas were disassociated from the mind, they
would always be present; and, consequently, if we suppose that
they have a similar effect, then good would never be able to arise.
Now it is a fact that it does arise. Thus the anusayas are not 15
But again, the masters who consider the anusayas as disasso- ciated from the mind do not attribute this threefold activity
the anusayas are not disassociated from the mind. "
disassociated from the mind.
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But the Abhidharma, which always
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(defiling the mind, etc. ) to the anusayas, but to the klesa itself (that is, to the paryavasthdna, the active defilement; and this is not always present).
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The Sautr&ntika theory is best.
Kamaraganusaya means "anufaya of kdmardga\ But the
anus ay a is neither associated with the mind, nor disassociated from
it: for it is not a separate thing (dravya). What is called anusaya is
the kleSa itself in a state of sleep, whereas the paryavasthdna is the
klesa in an awakened state. The sleeping klesa is the non-manif-
ested klesa, in the state of being a seed; the awakened klesa is the
manifested klesa, the klesa in action. And by "seed" one should
understand a certain capacity to produce the klesa, a power
belonging to the person engendered by the previous klesa. In this
same way there exists in a certain person the capacity of producing
a consciousness of memory, a capacity engendered by a conscious-
ness of preception; in this same way the capacity to produce rice,
which belongs to the plant, the shoot, the stalk, etc. , is engendered
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dharma distinct from the klesa itself, disassocated from the mind and called an anusaya, must admit a dharma existing in and of itself, disassociated from the mind and the cause of memory. And the same would hold for the plant.
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[The Sarvastivadins answer]. You do not have the right to explain "anusaya of kdmardga" for the Sutra clearly teaches that anusaya is kdmardga itself.
for whom the seed of the kleia is a certain
The Satsatkasutra says, "This person has agreeable sensation, 1
and rdgdnufaya" * [From all evidence, the Sutra understands that, at the moment of agreeable sensation, there is active desire (rdga): and it designates this active desire by the name of anufaya].
But the Sutra says, "He has rdgdnusaya\" it does not say, "He
? then has ragdnufaya. " [At the moment of agreeable sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna. In other words, at the moment of the agreeable sensation, there is active rdga, awakened desire;] when this sensation ends, desire becomes dormant: then there is only the anusaya of desire, dormant desire, the seed of future awakened desire.
Or rather, we would say, when the Sutra says rdgdnusaya, it means rdga: the first is the effect of the second, and the cause can be designated by the name of its effect.
The examination of this chance problem is finished. Let us return to our subject.
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What is this division that the Sutra sets up, attachment to agreeable objects (kdmardga) and attachment to existence (bhavardga)? What is attachment to existence?
2b. Attachment to existence arises from the two Dhatus.
Attachment to Rupadhatu and to Arupyadhatu is called bhavardga, attachment to existence [in opposition to kdmardga, attachment to agreeable objects,--kdmas or kdmagunas,--which is attachment proper to Kamadhatu, iii. 3c-d].
Why is the name of attachment to existence (bhavardga) reserved for attachment to the two higher Dhatus?
2c-d. It is so called because it is turned within, and in order
19 to avoid the idea that these two Dhatus are deliverance.
The School explains: In general, the attachment of the beings in these two Dhatus is with regard to absorption (samdpatti), (or more precisely, to "enjoyable" dhyana, asvddanasamprayuktadhydna, viii. 6). One says "in general" because these beings also have attachments with regard to their palaces, vimdnas, etc.
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This attachment, being an absorption, is turned within. This is why it alone receives the name of attachment to existence.
Further, certain persons imagine that the two Dhatus consti- tute deliverance: this is why the Blessed One gives the name "attachment to existence" to the attachment which has these two Dhatus for its object.
(According to us), existence (bhava) means the person. Beings in absorption enjoy both the absorption itself and their own persons. Being freed from attachment to pleasures, they only enjoy their own persons and not external objects. This is why attachment to the two higher Dhatus is called attachment to existence (bhavaraga).
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According to the Abhidharma (Jnanaprasthana, TD 26, p. 943a27), these six anusayas make ten. How is this?
3. There are five (erroneous) views: a belief in a self
(satkayadrsti), false views (mithyddrsti), a belief in the
extremes (antagrahadrsti), the esteeming of views (drstipa-
ramarsa), and the esteeming of morality and ascetic
practices (silavrataparamarsa): thus there are ten anus- 20
ayas.
By dividing views (drsfi) into five, there are six anusayas, for a total of ten anusayas\ five which are not views by nature, namely desire, anger, pride, ignorance and doubt; and five which are views, satkayadrsti, etc.
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In addition the Abhidharma (Jnanaprasthana, ibid. ) teaches
that these ten anusayas make up thirty-six anusayas in Kamadhatu,
thirty-one anusayas in Rupadhatu, and thirty-one anusayas in 11
Arupyadhatu: in all ninety-eight anusayas.
Thirty-two of the thirty-six anusayas of Kamadhatu are abandoned by Seeing the Truths (see i. 40, iv. 11-12).
? 4. With the exception of three or two views, ten, seven,
seven, eight anusayas are abandoned in Kamadhatu by the 22
Seeing of Suffering and the three other Truths respectively.
All of the above mentioned anufayas are, in Kamadhatu, abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering.
Seven are abandoned through the Seeing of Arising and through the Seeing of Extinction, with the exception of a belief in a self, a belief in the extremes, and the esteeming of morality and ascetic practices.
Eight are abandoned through the Seeing of the Path, with the exception of satkdyadrsti and antagrdhadrsti
This makes thirty-two anusayas abandoned through Seeing, because the mere Seeing of the Truths suffices to abandon them.
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Namely desire, anger, ignorance and pride: because one who has seen the Truths then abandons them through Meditation on the Path.
In this way satkdyadrsti, the view of self and of things pertaining to a self, is unique, being susceptible of being abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering; and the same for antagrdhadrsti, the belief in extremes.
False views is of four types, abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering, Arising, Extinction, and the Path; the same for the esteeming of bad views and doubt.
The esteeming of morality and ascetic practices is of two types, being susceptible of being abandoned through 1. ) the Seeing of Suffering and 2. ) the Path.
Desire, anger, pride, and ignorance are of five types, being abandoned through the Seeing of each of the Truths, and through Meditation.
5a. Four are abandoned through Meditation.
What is the characteristic or definition of the anusayas
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susceptible of being abandoned through the Seeing of Suffering? . . What is the def initon of the anusayas susceptible of being
abandoned through Meditation?
When it is possible to abandon the object (dlambana) of an
anusaya through the Seeing of a certain Truth, it is said that this 24
anusaya can be abandoned through the Seeing of this Truth. The others are abandoned through Meditation.
There are thus twelve views, four doubts, five desires, five angers, five ignorances, and five prides: in all thirty-six anusayas in Kamadhatu.
5b-c. The same, with the exception of the angers, for Rupadhatu.
The same sorts of anusayas, with the exception of the five angers, make up the thirty-one anusayas of Rupadhatu.
5c. The same in Arupyadhatu.
The same thirty-one.
5d. In this way, there are ninety-eight.
The Abhidharmikas {Jnanaprasthana, TD 26, p. 929c2) say that the six anusayas make ninety-eight through the differences of their aspect, their mode of expulsion (ii. 52b), and their sphere of existence (their Dhatu).
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Among the ninety-eight anusayas, eighty-eight are abandoned through Seeing because they are struck, destroyed through the
? "patiences" (ksantis, vi. 25d), and ten are abandoned through Meditation because they are struck by the "knowledges" (jndnas)P Is this a strict rule with regard to abandoning through Seeing and Meditation?
6a-c. When they arise in Bhavagra (the highest state of Arupyadhatu), the anus ay as which are struck by the ksantis are abandoned through Seeing and through Meditation.
The word "ksantis" refers to the dharmajndnaksdntis and the anvayajndnaksdntis (vi. 26c).
Among the anusayas which are struck by the ksantis, those which are in Bhavagra are abandoned only by Seeing, for only anvayajndnak- sdntis causes them to be abandoned. [Only the Aryans, through the pure path, abandon these anusayas] (vi. 45c).
Those in the eight bhumis (i. e. , Kamadhatu, Rupadhatu and the first three stages of Arupyadhatu) are abandoned either through Seeing or through Meditation: Aryans abandon them solely through Seeing, and not through Meditation, by means of the dharmajndnaksdntis or the anvayajndnaksdntis accordingly as they belong to the anusayas of Kamadhatu or of the higher spheres, whereas Prthagjanas abandon them only through Meditation, and not though Seeing, for these anusayas can be abandoned through a worldly knowledge (lokasamvrtijndna, vii. 9).
6c-d. The anusayas which are not struck by the ksantis are only abandoned through Meditation.
The anuSayas which are struck by the "knowledges" (jndnas), at whichever stage they belong, are only abandoned through Meditation, whether they belong to an Aryan or to a Prthagjana. In fact, an Aryan abandons them through andsrava jnana meditation, or pure knowledge, whereas a Prthagjana abandons them through a worldly knowledge (lokasamvrtijndna).
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Some other masters maintain that non-Buddhists (bdhyaka) cannot abandon the anusayas abandoned through Seeing. For the Mahdkarmavibhdgasutra teaches that erroneous views are active among the non-Buddhists in Kamadhatu, although they may be "detached" (vitardga, that is, having abandoned the attachments of Kamadhatu, attachments that one abandons through Meditati- on.
