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intrinsic meanings. Likewise greed (
lobha
) is explained in more than 100
terms.
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4. The analytic knowledge of intuition (
paṭibhāna-paṭisambhidā-ñāṇa
). This is
the analytical knowledge that the analytic knowledge of meaning (
attha-
paṭisambhidā-ñāṇa
) has discriminative and comprehensive knowledge about
results; that the analytic knowledge of phenomena (
dhamma-paṭisambhā-ñāṇa
)
has discriminative and comprehensive knowledge about five phenomena
(
dhamma
); that the analytic knowledge of language (
nirutti-paṭisambhidā-ñāṇa
)
has analytical knowledge about words and grammar. Briefly put, it is knowledge
about the three kinds of analytical knowledge, that knowledge which has all
knowledge as object and considers them discriminately. The Buddha became
endowed with this knowledge about the kinds of knowledge as soon as he
became a Buddha.
The analytic knowledge of language (
nirutti-paṭisambhidā-ñāṇa
) and the
analytic knowledge of intuition (
paṭibhāna-paṭisambhidā-ñāṇa
), like the
previous analytic knowledges (
paṭisambhidhā-ñāṇa
), are the great non-
causative consciousness associated with knowledge (
mahā-kiriya-mahā-
kusala-ñāṇa
).
The fourth of the four analytic knowledges (
paṭisambhidhā-ñāṇa
)
discriminately knows the functions of the three other knowledges but is
not able to discharge those functions itself. It is just like a preacher
without a good voice, who is well versed in scriptural knowledge, and who
is unable to preach as well as another good preacher who is gifted with a
good voice but has scanty knowledge of the scriptures.
Two monastics learnt the art of teaching. One is poor in voice but
intelligent; the other had a good voice but is not intelligent. The latter
made a great name everywhere he teaches, the audience had a very good
impression of him and say: “From the way this monastic preaches, he must
be one who has committed to memory the Three Baskets.” When the
learned monastic with a poor voice hears these remarks, he becomes
jealous and says: “Well, you will find whether he is master of the Three
Baskets when you hear him preach next time.” He implies that: “You are
going to hear much the same stuff.” Yet whatever he might say about that
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See the Enumeration of Phenonema (
Dhamma-saṅgaṇī
). [The terms listed are
actually synonyms, rather than explanations.]