YOUTHFUL PLAY ?f A R E A II i The essence of the fully ripened result 57ab Fully ripened is a neutral dharma, Shows beings, not neutral, born later The fully ripened result is a nonobscured neutral dharma, because if it were either virtuous or afflicted it would follow that neither individuals who have severed the roots of virtue nor arhats would possess them, and because if it were obscured neutral it would be illogical to enter the state without remainder from a m ind produced by full ripening The phrase, “shows beings” means that it is included within the stream of an individuals being, because if it were not included, one s particular karmic actions would be wasted or fall upon those who did not them Some results produced by development and causally compatible results are also included within beings continuums, but in contrast with those, the cause of the fully ripened result is n o t neutral There are also absorptions in the dhyana and emanated minds produced by samadhi that are neutral, included in a beings continuum , and born from a not-neutral karma, but unlike those, the fully ripened result is born later than its cause— it is neither immediately following nor simultaneous ii The essence of the causally compatible result 57c Compatible is like its cause The causally com patible result is like or similar to its cause, whether that cause is virtuous, afflicted, or unobscured neutral If it is from a cause o f same status, it m ust have a similar continuum and aspect If it is from a uni versal cause, the aspect is not necessarily similar, but it must be similar in terms of its continuum , level, and whether it is afflicted Therefore, there are four possibilities of things that have a cause of same status but not a universal cause, etc iii The essence of the result of removal 57d 58a Removal is to mentally Extinguish, Removal is attained by mentally, or through distinctive full knowing, extin guishing or abandoning discards Extinguishing is equivalent to cessation It is said to refute that mere nonattainm ent is removal, Purnavardhana explains 194 CAUSES, CONDITIONS, AND RESULTS iv The essence of the personal result 58ab and the result born From something’s power is personal And the result born from or attained through som ething s power is similar to what is made by persons, so it is personal The character base is all composites that have arisen from causes in that manner From the autocommentary: For example, from a lower levels m ind o f training, the samadhi o f the higher; from defiled, undefiled; from the m ind of dhyana the emanated mind There are four possibilities of causally compatible result and personal result v The essence of the dominant result 58cd Composites that aren’t previous are The dom inant of composites only Composites that have n o t previously arisen, prior to the cause itself—com posites that arise at the same time or later than their cause— are the dom inant result o f composite causes The causes are different from the result itself and arise either earlier or at the same time only The word “only” indicates that composites that arise later and noncomposites not have the power to hold or issue results, so they are not presented as having dom inant results There is no result that is born prior to its cause, because that would render the cause meaningless For example, it is impossible to first be a wheel-wielding emperor and later accumulate the karma that produces that result Nor does one see shoots preceding seeds or other results preceding their cause The distinction between personal and dom inant results is whether or not it is the result of a particular agent only For example, a thing that is made is a personal result, and it is also the dom inant result of all composites that are simultaneous or prior to it There are also four alternatives o f personal result and dom inant result The result of removal is a personal result but not a dom inant result Results whose cause has disappeared or been interrupted are dom inant results but not personal Simultaneous or immediately following composites are both Space and nonanalytic cessation are neither 195 YOUTHFUL PLAY * AREA II C The explanation of dharmas common to causes and results This has two topics: Times when causes hold and issue results, and W hat results are produced by how many causes Times when causes hold and issue results This has two points a Holding 59a The five hold a result in the present Th e five latter causes not including the enabling cause hold and attain the power to produce results in, among the three times, the present This is be cause they cease in the second moment, so there is no action o f holding then, and the future is unborn, so there is no action in it The enabling cause also holds its result in the same way, but as it does not necessarily produce a result, it is not mentioned b Issuing 59b—d Two causes issue in the present Two present and past causes issue, And one past cause issues results The two coemergent and concurrent causes, occur at the same time as their results, so they issue their result in the present, or pra- in Sanskrit, which is used in the meaning of first As they issue their result from the first, holding and issuing are at the same time Two types o f present and past causes, the same status and universal causes, issue results.115 Some Tibetans explain that it would be better to translate this line as, “And two through the present and past.” And the one past cause of full ripening issues its result from the past only, because the full ripening does not arise either simultaneously with or immediately following its cause W hat results are produced by how many causes This has two topics: a The mode o f production o f concurrent, and b Nonconcurrent results a The mode of production of concurrent results This has two points 196 CAUSES, CONDITIONS, AND RESULTS i Explanation 60 The afflicted, fully ripened, others, And the first noble respectively Arise from all except full ripening, Universal, those two, and same status Well, how many causes is a dharma produced by? you ask Here there are four types of dharmas: i) those that are afflicted, 2) those produced by full ripening, 3) the others not included in the other three categories— unobscured neutral not produced by full ripening such as the paths o f conduct, crafts, emanated minds; and virtues other than the first undefiled m om ent— and 4) the first noble or first undefiled moment Respectively, the first type arises from all the causes except the cause of full ripening The second is born from all except the universal The third is born from all except for those two, the full ripening and universal And the fourth is born all except for the same status They are born from the rest o f the causes not mentioned They are not born from those causes for the following reasons 1) The afflicted is not born from a cause of full ripening because it is afflicted 2) The fully ripened result is not produced by a universal cause because it is not afflicted 3) The third type is not produced by full ripening or universal cause because it is neither afflicted nor fully ripened 4) The first noble m om ent is not born from same status because there is no prior undefiled of similar class ii Summary 61a This is for m ind and mental factors This is for how the m ind and m ental factors arise b The mode of production of nonconcurrent results 61b The rest are like; exclude concurrent Dharmas that are nonconcurrent formations or have form that are 1) afflicted; 2) produced by full ripening; 3) the remaining— neutrals except the fully ripened and virtues except the first undefiled m om ent— and 4) the form of the first undefiled m om ent are born from the rest of the causes like that earlier m anner o f production, excluding the concurrent cause 1) Discarding the full ripening and concurrent causes, the afflicted are born from four causes 2) Dis carding the universal and concurrent, the fully ripened are born from four causes 3) Discarding the full ripening, universal and concurrent, the remainder 197 YOUTHFUL PLAY * AREA II are born from three causes 4) The forms of the first undefiled m om ent are born from the two causes, the enabling and concurrent causes; they are not born from the remaining four Therefore, there is no dharma at all that is born from only one cause A few words here: The power to penetrate the depths of abhidharmas ocean W ith the sharp eye of m ind that fully distinguishes dharmas According to Yangchen Gawas thought— Does this not come out of the power of habitual imprints? D The explanation of conditions This has two topics: Brief overview, and Explanation Brief overview lc There are four conditions, it is taught Above where it says, “W ithout the causes or conditions,” what are the con ditions? you ask There are four conditions, it is taught in the sutras: the causal condition, immediate condition, objective condition, and dom inant condition The explanation This has four topics: a The essence of each of the four conditions, b W hich conditions operate at which time, c W hich things arise from how many conditions, and d A specific explanation of the immediate condition a The essence of each of the four conditions This has four points i Causal condition Id The one called causal is five causes T he one called the causal condition is any one of the five causes not including the enabling cause It is something that benefits its result Its character base is composite dharmas 198 ... and 4) the first noble or first undefiled moment Respectively, the first type arises from all the causes except the cause of full ripening The second is born from all except the universal The third... is born from all except for those two, the full ripening and universal And the fourth is born all except for the same status They are born from the rest o f the causes not mentioned They are... personal The character base is all composites that have arisen from causes in that manner From the autocommentary: For example, from a lower levels m ind o f training, the samadhi o f the higher; from