Controverted PointNatthi puthujjanassa ñāṇanti? Theravādin:But you imply that a worldly man has no analytic discernment, no analytic understanding, no ability to investigate or examine, no faculty of research, no ability to mark well, observe closely, mark repeatedly. Is not the opposite true?Āmantā. Again, you admit, do you not? that there is not one of the fourRūpa-jhānasor of the fourArūpa-jhānasto which a man of the world may not attain, and that he is capable of liberality towards the Brethren as to the four requisites: raiment and so forth. Surely then it is not right to say a worldly man can have no insight.Natthi puthujjanassa paññā pajānanā vicayo pavicayo dhammavicayo sallakkhaṇā upalakkhaṇā paccupalakkhaṇāti? Hetuvādin:If he can have insight, does he by that insight intuit the reality about Ill, eliminate its cause, realize its cessation, develop the Path going thereto? You admit that he does not. Therefore, etc.… .Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… Hetuvādin:nanu atthi puthujjanassa paññā pajānanā vicayo …pe… Shwe Zan Aungpaccupalakkhaṇāti? This SuttaCentral edition was prepared byManfred WierichandVen. Vimalaand proofread byJosephine Tobin. Some changes were introduced:Āmantā. Manfred WierichHañci atthi puthujjanassa paññā pajānanā vicayo …pe… Ven. Vimalapaccupalakkhaṇā, no ca vata re vattabbe—Josephine Tobin“natthi puthujjanassa ñāṇan”ti.

Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Cross-references were linked.Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.Natthi puthujjanassa ñāṇanti? Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Āmantā. Cross-references were linked.Puthujjano paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ samāpajjeyyāti? Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.Āmantā. Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.Hañci puthujjano paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ samāpajjeyya, no ca vata re vattabbe—The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.“natthi puthujjanassa ñāṇan”ti.

This electronic version is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 licence (CC BY-NC 3.0) as found here:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/Puthujjano dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ …pe… All copyright is owned by the Pali Text Society. See also the statement under http://www.palitext.com/ → Publications → Copyright Announcement. For non-commercial use only.tatiyaṁ jhānaṁ …pe… catutthaṁ jhānaṁ …pe… ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samāpajjeyya, viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ samāpajjeyya, puthujjano dānaṁ dadeyya …pe… cīvaraṁ dadeyya, piṇḍapātaṁ dadeyya, senāsanaṁ dadeyya, gilānapaccayabhesajjaparikkhāraṁ dadeyyāti? Āmantā. Hañci puthujjano gilānapaccayabhesajjaparikkhāraṁ dadeyya, no ca vata re vattabbe—“natthi puthujjanassa ñāṇan”ti.

Atthi puthujjanassa ñāṇanti? Āmantā. Puthujjano tena ñāṇena dukkhaṁ parijānāti, samudayaṁ pajahati, nirodhaṁ sacchikaroti, maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Ñāṇakathā niṭṭhitā.