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What are determinations (a.k.a. fabrications)? Monks, determinations are threefold: Kati panayye saṅkhārāti? __________ In-breaths and out-breaths are bodily determinations Thinking/pondering are verbal determinations and Perceptions and feelings are mental determinations.
Assāsapassāsā kho āvuso visākha kāyasaṅkhāro.
Vitakkavicārā vacīsaṅkhāro. Saññā ca vedanā ca cittasaṅkhāroti. How are in-breaths and out-breaths bodily determinations, thinking and pondering verbal determinations and perceptions and feelings mental determinations? - In-breaths and out-breaths are a bodily matter, are bound up with the body, therefore in-breaths and out-breaths are bodily determinations. - Earlier having thought and pondered, someone breaks into speech, therefore thinking and pondering are verbal determinations. - Perceiving and feeling is done with the mind, they are things bound up with the mind, therefore perceptions and feelings are mental determinations. |
