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offences with their respective background cases, such as: ‘This is an
offence of a light nature; this is an offence of a grievous nature; this is a
retrievable offence, this is an irretrievable offence; this is a definitely
demeritorious offence, this is merely a nominal offence; this is an offence
redeemable with the pardoning by the aggrieved party; this is an offence
redeemable with the pardoning by the sect of monastics concerned; this is
an offence redeemable by the Saṅgha as a body, etc.’ All these in the
Discipline will, after I am gone, remain as your teacher, discharge the
function of the teacher himself.
Ānanda, while I am living, I have taught you the Discourses encompassing
the thirty-seven constituents of Awakening, comprising the four methods
of steadfast mindfulness, the four right endeavours, the four bases of
psychic power, the five faculties, the five powers, the seven factors of
Awakening, the eight constituents of the path, together with their details.
All these, under the Discourses will, after I am gone, remain as your
teacher, discharging the function of the teacher himself.
Ānanda, while I am living, I have taught you the Abhidhamma specifying
in minute detail: ‘These are the five aggregates, the twelve sense spheres,
the eighteen elements, the four truths, the twenty-two faculties, the nine
root causes, the four nutriments, the seven kinds of contact, the seven
kinds of sensation, the seven kinds of perception, the seven kinds of
volition, the seven classes of consciousness. And, of these phenomena,
which I have taught you, classifications enumerating them under
phenomena pertaining to the sense sphere, to the form realm, to the
formless realm; phenomena that are included in the round of resultants;
phenomena that are mundane, phenomena that are supermundane.’ Thus,
beginning from an enumeration of the phenomena, such as the aggregates
(
khandha
), the edifice of the Abhidhamma has been built up for you with
an infinite variety of methods of analyses and syntheses comprising the
Conditional Relations (
Paṭṭhāna
). All these, under the Abhidhamma will,
after I am gone, remain as your teacher, discharging the function of the
teacher himself.
These doctrines that I have taught you over 45 Rains Retreat (
vassa
),
constituting the Dhamma,
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number 84,000 units. These 84,000 units of
Dhamma factors are still with you. The Realised One is the teacher that
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In the present context these are the Three Baskets (
Piṭaka
), the Five Collections
(
Nikāya
), or the traditonal nine divisions.