How is
the Understanding Ability Outstanding?
With the development of the
Ability of Understanding,
enthusiasm arises,
with the complete elimination of all sceptical doubt, enthusiasm
also arises,
with the fading of frustration within in all sceptical doubt,
enthusiasm arises,
with the eradication of the mental obstructions of wrong view,
enthusiasm arises,
with the removal of the gross mental obstructions, enthusiasm
indeed arises,
with the dying out of subtle mental obstructions, enthusiasm
also arises,
with extinction of all mental obstructions, enthusiasm arises as
a thunderbolt!
when through this hilarious and energetic enthusiasm, gladness
arises,
then the ability of understanding is outstanding as
understanding due to gladness...
When through gladness, happiness arises, then the ability of
understanding is
outstanding as understanding due to happiness...
when via happiness, tranquillity emerges, then the ability of
understanding is
outstanding due to calmed and stilled tranquillity...
When tranquil, sweet pleasure arises, then the understanding
ability is outstanding
as understanding due to this subtle pleasure of tranquillity ...
When through pleasure illumination arises, then understanding is
outstanding as
understanding due to all pervading and all penetrating
illumination...
When through this all revealing illumination the sense of
urgency arises,
then the understanding ability is outstanding as understanding
due to vivid urgency...
When feeling urgency one concentrates mind, then this ability of
understanding is
outstanding due to this one-pointedly absorbed concentration...
When one now thoroughly trains the mind thus concentrated, then
this ability of
understanding is outstanding as understanding due to right
effort.
When one looks on with complete equanimity at mind thus wielded
into solid focus,
then this unique ability of understanding is outstanding as due
to equanimity.
when as a prime result of equanimity, mind is liberated from
many kinds of mental
obstructions, then the understanding ability is outstanding as
due to liberation.
when the mind is all liberated, this mentally unified state come
to have a one single
function and taste, then the understanding ability is
outstanding as understanding
due to development of just one single unified function and
taste...
When mind is being cultivated and refined, it therefore turns to
what is superior,
namely towards Nibbāna, then verily this ability to
understand is outstanding as
understanding due to turning away from all worldly phenomena of
suffering.
When because of mind remains turned away, then one is now
possessed of the path.
When one, as a consequence, relinquishes both mental
obstructions and all clusters
of clinging, then ability of understanding is quite outstanding
as understanding due
to fully released relinquishment letting all substrates go.
When due to this transcendent mental release, the mental
obstructions and the
clusters of clinging therefore cease with no re-arising trace
remaining, then the
ability of understanding is outstanding as understanding due to
complete ceasing...
More on the supreme Understanding Ability:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Chief_Ability.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pannaa.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Right_Understanding.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Supreme_Understanding.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Revealing_Understanding.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Understanding.htm
Source: Most Venerable Sāriputta - The
General of the Dhamma -
The Canonical: Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga.
IV.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Path-of-Discrimination-2nd-Edition_p_2126.html
