kirk5a wrote:
So says the commentary to the Visuddhimagga. Page 639 of the PDF version by Bhikkhu Nanamoli.
OK, so says Dhammapala. But thank you for this. I looked at the reference to 'vism xx' and neglected to look more carefully at the cite reference below it.
robertk wrote:13. “First it has to be seen by inference according to the texts. Afterwards it gradually comes to be seen by personal experience when the knowledge of development gets stronger” (Vism-mhþ 790).
As the quote included the actual full reference to the tika (Vism-mhp 790) it is rather unfair to conclude that this is an inaccurate citation .
I suppose what is puzzling is the question of what this snippet of commentary informs the discussion. If I may, the expected standard would be to first give the text the fn. points to (Vism. XX, 22):
- [COMPREHENSION OF THE MATERIAL]
22. While comprehending materiality he should see how materiality is generated,[13] that is to say, how this materiality is generated by the four causes beginning with kamma. Herein, when materiality is being generated in any being, it is first generated from kamma. For at the actual moment of rebirthlinking of a child in the womb, first thirty instances of materiality are generated in the triple continuity, in other words, the decads of physical [heart-]basis, body, and sex. And those are generated at the actual instant of the rebirth-linking consciousness’s arising. And as at the instant of its arising, so too at the instant of its presence and at the instant of its dissolution.
Then the fn. cited as you had given:
- 13. “First it has to be seen by inference according to the texts. Afterwards it gradually comes to be seen by personal experience when the knowledge of development gets stronger” (Vism-mhṭ 790).
But I cannot, at a glance of the previous page of this thread, see what this post is aimed at in the context of a discussion which ended two months prior to it. Even your underlined emphasis does not make this clearer. I can only assume that it is the syntax of this fn. itself that fits some other point you are making?
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