VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA Cessation that is analytic Is a removal They are distinct The other cessation blocks arising Forever; it s nonanalytic Composite dharmas are the five Skandhas of form, et cetera Just these are time, the bases for talk, Emancipatible, and grounded The defiled is the aggregates O f grasping and is disputed, too They re suffering, origin, and the world, Locus o f views, existence, too The skandha o f form: five faculties, Five objects, the imperceptible Supports o f consciousnesses are The eye, et cetera— lucid forms 10 Two types o f form, or twenty types, And there are the eight types o f sound, And taste is sixfold, scent is fourfold, Touch is elevenfold in nature 11 Distracted, and mind-free as well, Virtue or non, continuous, And caused by the great sources: this Is called the imperceptible 12 The sources are the elements O f earth and water, fire and air Their functions are to hold, et cetera They are hard, wet, and hot, and moving 13 According to the worlds conventions, Color and form are considered earth, Water, and fire The atmosphere Is the element itself, and like those, too AREA I * 14 Only these faculties and objects Are called ten bases and elements Feelings experience Conception Is the perception o f attributes 15 Formation differs from four skandhas These three and imperceptibles And noncomposites are called the Sense base and element of dharmas 16 Consciousness is distinctly knowing The sense base of m ind is also that, And also seven elements— Six consciousnesses and the mind 17 Six consciousnesses that have just Immediately past are mind To establish the support of the sixth, We posit eighteen elements 18 O ne aggregate, one sense base, and O ne element include them all It’s by their nature— they not Possess another’s entity 19 O f course there are two eyes, et cetera, But since their type, sphere, consciousness Are similar, they’re just one element To beautify, they come in pairs 20 The meaning o f aggregate is heaped, Sense base means the gate for arising, And element means family Delusions, faculties, and interests Are threefold, so the three are taught: The aggregates, et cetera 21 Because they are the root of quarrels And cause samsara and the order, Feeling and conception are taught As different aggregates than factors THE ELEMENTS VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 22 Since noncomposites not suit Aggregate’s meaning, they are not taught The order is by coarse, all-afflicted, The pot, and so forth, the realms’ meanings 23 The object is present, so first five The object is source-derived, so four Since at great distance or since quickly, O r else in order o f location 24 O ne is specific and the main, And one has many dharmas, the highest, So one is called sense base o f form, And one is called sense base o f dharma 25 The eighty thousand aggregates O f Dharm a the Sage taught are all Words or are names, and thus they are Included in form or in formation 26 Some say their length equals the treatise, O r depends on aggregates, et cetera But aggregates o f Dharm a taught Correspond to antidotes for conduct 27 Likewise the other aggregates, Sense bases, or else elements: Examine their own characters; Include them in what has been explained 28 Openings are the element O f space— they’re light and dark, it’s claimed The element of consciousness Is defiled consciousness, arising’s basis 29 The showable here is form alone The obstructive is the ten with form Eight neutral are just those except For form and sound The others are threefold AREA I * THE 30 They all are in the Desire realm The Form realm has fourteen: except The elements of scent and taste, A nd the nose and tongue consciousnesses 31 The Formless realm has elements O f mind, dharma, m ind consciousness Those three are defiled or undefiled And those remaining are defiled 32 Those which consider and examine: Five elements o f consciousness The final three are of three types Those which remain are free o f both 33 The nonconceptual have no thoughts That recognize or that remember These two distract the m ind s full knowing O r are all memory in mind 34 The seven elements of m ind And half of dharma, too, have focus The nine are not appropriated: Those eight and sound Nine others: twofold 35 Touch has two types The other nine W ith form and part o f the element O f dharmas, too, are source-derived The ten with form, conglomerates 36 The cutter and that which is cut Are four external elements, As are the burnt and that which weighs The burner and weighed are disputed 37 The five internal are produced By ripening and development Sound is not ripened The compatible And ripening produce eight unobstructive ELEMENTS VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 38 Others are threefold One has substance The last three are a moment The eye And element o f consciousness: Gained singly or together, too 39 Twelve are internal, except form, And so forth Dharm a must be active The remaining are inactive, too— That which does not perform its function 40 Ten are discards o f meditation Five also The last three, three types Seeing does not discard the unafflicted, N or form, nor what is not born from the sixth 41 The eye and part o f the element O f dharma are views: they are eightfold Five minds concurrent with five consciousnesses, N ot thoughts that recognize, are not view 42 The eye sees form when it is active Supported consciousness does not, Because a form that is obstructed C annot be seen, or so they claim 43 Both of the eyes can see, as well, Because they both can clearly see The eye, ear, and m ind not meet Their objects Three perceive elsewise 44 The nose and other two perceive An object that in size is equal The last s support is past The five Arise together with them, too 45 Because when those change, they change, too, The eye and so on are the supports Because o f that and being specific, Those indicate the consciousnesses ... sound The others are threefold AREA I * THE 30 They all are in the Desire realm The Form realm has fourteen: except The elements of scent and taste, A nd the nose and tongue consciousnesses 31 The. .. Five also The last three, three types Seeing does not discard the unafflicted, N or form, nor what is not born from the sixth 41 The eye and part o f the element O f dharma are views: they are... see The eye, ear, and m ind not meet Their objects Three perceive elsewise 44 The nose and other two perceive An object that in size is equal The last s support is past The five Arise together