VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA The Peaks that forbearance destroys, Are discards just o f seeing O n others, O f seeing and meditation W hat forbearance Does not destroy are just o f meditation As me, mine; permanent and ceasing; As nonexistent; overesteeming The low; and viewing what is not cause O r path as such: these are five views Since clinging to Ishvara, et cetera, As cause, initially mistakes Them to be permanent and self, Just seeing suffering discards it Among three views, there are four errors, Since they’re mistaken, since they’re thoughts That judge, since they exaggerate M ind and conception, from their power 10 The prides are seven Nine types, three Destroyed by seeing, meditation Discards o f m editation are Entangled with killing and so forth 11 Craving destruction, too In nobles, The prides, et cetera, that think “me”— Developed by view— not occur N or does nonvirtuous regret 12 The views and doubts that one discards By seeing suffering and cause And simultaneous and unmixed Ignorance are the universals 13 O f these, the nine can focus higher, Excluding two views W hat arises Along with them is universal As well, attainm ent not included 54 AREA V 14 Wrong views and doubts discarded by Seeing cessation and the path, Concurrent and plain ignorance: These six take the undefiled as sphere 15 Cessation that is of their level Because paths can be mutual causes, The paths o f the six and nine levels Are objects o f whose sphere they are 16 Desire does not, since its discarded Nor hatred, since they not harm Since they are peace, pure, and supreme, Pride does not, nor does overesteeming 17 The universal kernels can Develop through a focus on Any that is o f their own level Nonuniversal, on own class 18 N ot those whose sphere is high or stainless Since those are not made mine, since anti The ones concurrent with one, then Develop through concurrence with that 19 In higher, all neutral In Desire, The personality, extreme, And simultaneous ignorance The rest here are nonvirtuous 20 Desire, aversion, and delusion In Desire are the roots of nonvirtue There are three roots of neutral: craving, And ignorance, intelligence 21 Others act dually, loftily, So they are not The Bàhyaka Propose these four: craving, view, pride, Delusion From ignorance, three dhyanists * THE KERNELS 55 VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 22 Categorical, distinguishing, And questioning, and the declining Responses answer queries on death, Rebirth, superior, self or other 23 O ne is tied down to things toward which Desire and anger, pride as well, O f both the past and present have Arisen but not been abandoned 24 The future mental tie to all The others tie in their own time The nonarising, to all times All that remain tie one to all 25 The times always exist, it was said Since two, objects exist, result Because they say these all exist, They’re called Those W ho Say All Exists 26 They’re four, called thing and character And state and relative dependence The third is best, because the times Are there presented through their action 27 They’d block W hat’s it? N ot different, N ot logical as time If they Exist, why don’t they arise and perish? So deep are the natures o f dharmas 28 Suffering is seen, they’ve been discarded; Still other universals bind them The first has been abandoned, yet Still tied by stains whose sphere it’s in 29 Those o f Desire, discards o f seeing Suffering and cause, of meditation, Are in the sphere o f their own three, O f one of Form, o f stainless, too 56 AREA V 30 And those o f Form are in their own, Three low, one high, and stainless, too Those of the Formless, in the sphere O f these three o f three realms, of stainless 31 Discards o f seeing path and cessation, Are in the same spheres, plus their own The undefiled are in the sphere O f three realms’ last three and the stainless 32 Two ways the afflicted can have kernels; The unafflicted, through development O u t o f delusion, doubt; from that, Wrong view, then personality 33 From that, extreme, then overesteeming Discipline, overesteeming view For ones own view, there’s pride, attachment, And hate for others, in this order 34 The kernels being not abandoned, The object being present near, And inappropriate attention Fulfill the causes o f afflictions 35 In Desire, defilements are the afflictions Except delusion, and the entanglers In Form and Formless, kernels alone Are the defilements of existence 36 Since they are neutral and look inward O n levels o f equipoise, they’re one The root is ignorance, so it Is taught as a separate defilement 37 The floods and yokes are like that, too, But views are separate, since they’re sharp N ot as defilements— without helpers, They not tend to put, it’s claimed ?f T H E KERNELS 57 VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF ABHIDHARMA 38 Those just explained and ignorance, W ith views divided into two, Are grasping Ignorance produces No clinging, and it is combined 39 Since they are subtle, since connected, Since they develop in two ways, Since they pursue, because o f these, They are explained to be the kernels 40 Because they put and ooze, because They carry away, attach, and grasp: These are the explanations of The words defilement and so forth 41 W hen these are classified as fetters, Et cetera, they’re taught as five types Alike in substance, overesteeming, The two views are a separate fetter 42 Since they are both nonvirtuous only, And are autonomous, it’s taught That jealousy and stinginess Are fetters separate from those 43 There are five that lead to the lowest The two prevent transcendence o f Desire The three will send one back The three include the gates and roots 44 N ot having any desire to go, W rong path, and doubt about the path Prevent one from arriving at Liberation, so these three are taught 45 There are just five that lead to higher: The two desires of Form and Formless, Excitement, pride, delusion, too Three bonds by force o f the three feelings 58 ... Since they develop in two ways, Since they pursue, because o f these, They are explained to be the kernels 40 Because they put and ooze, because They carry away, attach, and grasp: These are the. .. intelligence 21 Others act dually, loftily, So they are not The Bàhyaka Propose these four: craving, view, pride, Delusion From ignorance, three dhyanists * THE KERNELS 55 VERSES ON THE TREASURY OF... cessation, Are in the same spheres, plus their own The undefiled are in the sphere O f three realms’ last three and the stainless 32 Two ways the afflicted can have kernels; The unafflicted, through