25a: The 7th Rains Retreat (Abhidhamma) – 865
4. Disease, hunger, cold, heat, and, when the noble monastic experienced
inconvenience through contact with any of these dangers, he must resist
or put up with them, as such sensations and ailments are conducive to the
arising of the ten modes of wrong conduct by deed, word and thought. He
should protect himself by means of earnest effort (
sammappadhāna
).
In answer to the question the Buddha mentioned these 5 kinds of internal
enemies. Having dealt with these questions, the Buddha proceeded to deal
with the rest of the questions in 9 verses as enumerated below.
5. A noble monastic must always refrain from stealing and lying; he must
wish for the well-being of both those who still have taints of craving (
tasa
)
and those who have already eradicated craving (
thāvara
). He must dispel
all ten modes of wrong deeds, in short, the group of unwholesome deeds,
as they are the associates of Māra.
The four modes of moral conduct as prescribed in this verse are:
Avoidance of stealing and lying, wishing for the well-being of all fellow
men and abandoning of immoral conduct.
6. A noble monastic must not yield to anger (
kodha
) and unrestrained
conceit (
atimāna
). The root causes of these two unwholesome factors are
six in number: ignorance (
avijjā
), wrong attitude (
manasikāra
), self-
conceit (
asmimāna
), lack of sense of conscience (
ahiri
), lack of concern
over the evil consequences of misdeeds (
anottappa
), and distraction
(
uddhacca
). These root causes must be up-rooted or extirpated. In addition,
a sense of affection and hatred must be overcome by a state of balance of
the mind or equanimity.
By this, four practices are described: Anger and conceit must be discarded;
the six root causes of these must be removed; and objects of affection and
hatred must be avoided by means of equanimity.
A noble monastic is required to cultivate comprehension and develop the
ten contemplations. With the force of joyful satisfaction (
pīti
) developed
thereby, the aforesaid enemies, both internal and external must be
abandoned.
This is the Buddha’s exhortation for the expulsion or destruction of
internal and external enemies by means of the contemplation of the ten
(
anussati
) recollections which are the ten contemplations or reflections on
the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha, morality (
sīla
), charity (
cāga
), the