AREA I * 46 The body can not have a lower eye The eye can not see forms of higher Neither the consciousness Their forms, And two o f body, too, on any 47 The ear is similar, as well The three are all of their own level The consciousness o f body is lower, O wn level M ind is indefinite 48 Two consciousnesses, five external N oncom pound dharmas are permanent O ne part of dharmas and those taught As the internal twelve are faculties THE ELEMENTS This completes the first area called “Teachings on the Elements” from the Verses of the Treasury ofAbhidharma 'Teachings on the faculties Five exercise their power over Four meanings Four over two, its claimed The five and eight, over all-afflicted And over the utterly pure For power to focus on their own O r all objects, six faculties For power over femaleness and maleness: The body’s female and male faculties For power to maintain one’s likeness, The all-afflicted, and the pure; Life, feelings, and five faculties O f faith and so forth are proposed To attain high, higher, and nirvana, Et cetera, there are faculties of Producing all-knowing, all-knowing, Aiid having all-knowing as well There are as many faculties as The m ind’s supports, distinctions, and That which maintains, those which afflict, Gatherers, and the utterly pure VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA O r as supports for entry, birth, Remaining, and enjoying there are Fourteen, and likewise for the reverse There are the other faculties The faculty o f suffering Is any unpleasant bodily feeling Pleasant is pleasure O n third dhyana The m ind s is the faculty of pleasure O n others, it is mental pleasure Unpleasant feelings in the m ind Are unhappiness, and neutral feelings Are middling since both are thought-free O n the paths o f seeing, meditation, And o f nonlearning, nine are three Three stainless Those with form, life force, And suffering are defiled Nine twofold 10 Life force is fully ripened Twelve Are twofold, except the last eight And mental unhappiness That one M ust have full ripening Ten twofold: 11 M ind, other feelings, faith, so forth Eight virtuous Unhappiness Is twofold M ind and other feelings Are threefold, and the rest are onefold 12 Except the stainless, in Desire Except male, female faculties, And sufferings: in Form In Formless There are none with form, nor any pleasures 13 M ind and three feelings are threefold The two discard unhappiness By meditation, nine Five not Discarded, also Three are not 12 AREA II # 14 In Desire, at first one gains the two Full ripened N ot miraculous birth— W ith that, six, seven, or else eight There are six in Form and one above 15 W hen dying in Formless, just life force And m ind and neutral feeling cease In Form, eight cease W ith miraculous Birth in Desire, ten, nine, or eight 16 In gradual deaths, the four will cease In virtuous, add five to all Two outer results are gained with nine The two with seven, eight, or nine 17 Because its possible to attain Arhat with eleven, it is taught O ne who possesses neutral feeling, Life force, or m ind must have the three 18 Those who have pleasure or body, four, And five have those whove eyes, et cetera, O r mental pleasure Those who have Suffering, seven, and the female 19 Faculty and so forth have eight Those with the faculty of having All-knowing have eleven W ith Producing all-knowing, thirteen 20 Those w ithout virtue who’ve the fewest Have eight: life, body, feelings, mind The childish of the Formless likewise Have neutral, life force, mind, and virtues The most that one could have is nineteen Except the stainless, with two organs; And nobles who are attached could have All but one organ and two stainless THE FACULTIES 13 ... Gatherers, and the utterly pure VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA O r as supports for entry, birth, Remaining, and enjoying there are Fourteen, and likewise for the reverse There are the other... 'Teachings on the faculties Five exercise their power over Four meanings Four over two, its claimed The five and eight, over all-afflicted And over the utterly pure For power to focus on their own... There are the other faculties The faculty o f suffering Is any unpleasant bodily feeling Pleasant is pleasure O n third dhyana The m ind s is the faculty of pleasure O n others, it is mental pleasure