3.10.13.2

Lesson 3.10.13.2 Tikapaṭṭhāna – Paṭiccavāro, Part Two – Completing the Section with Answers

Forty-nine determining questions, ensuing from logical arrangements with the combination of all three qualities of kusala, akusala and abyākata, provide the first step to examine in more detail all twenty-four conditions or relations (paccayā) thus resulting in 1176 enquiries. But in order to ascertain an even more thorough procedure and a completeness of the examination, all these questions need to be applied in ‘positive, direct’ order (paccayānulomaṃ) and in ‘negative, reverse’ order (paccayapaccanīyaṃ), i.e., in the combination of ‘positive and negative’ with positive preceding (paccayānulomapaccanīyaṃ) and lastly with the foregoing negative as ‘negative and positive’ order (paccayapaccanīyānulomaṃ). Then once this procedure of the different ‘orders’ has been applied ‘by Ones’ — as conditions also combine with one another — then combinations of the twenty-four paccayā have to be analysed ‘by Twos’, ‘by Threes’, etc. The side-by-side table of this lesson tries to present a complete but succinct overview of the ‘permutation method’ of the Tikapaṭṭhānapāli.