The Compilation

Ones and Twos

I HEAR TELL:

Once Upon a Time, Bhagava, roaming around Malla-country with some 500 Bhikkhus, arrived at Pava the capital of the Mallas where he revisted Cunda the smith.

At this time a new meeting hall had just been built and had not yet been formally used, and the Mallas of Pava thought that it would be an auspicious thing if it were to have first been used by the Bhagava, so they invited him to do so, and he consented.

Then the Malas prepared the hall by spreading it with carpets and seats and water for washing the feet, and when the hall had been properly prepared they informed the Lucky Man, who prepared his bowl and robes and, with that large company of Bhikkhus, went to the newly built and prepared meeting hall. Then, after washing his feet, Bhaggava sat down next to the center pole, facing East. The Bhikkhus arranged themselves with their backs to the western wall, facing east, behind Bhagava. The Mallas of Pava sat down with their backs to the Eastern wall, facing West, Bhagava and the Bhikkhus.

Then Bhagava instructed and inspired the Mallas of Pava with Dhamma talk, and when the night was far gone, he indicated to them that they should take leave.

After that, noticing that the company of Bhikkhus was especially alert, he arranged his robes, assumed the lion posture, and instructed Sariputta to discourse on Dhamma especially for the Bhikkhus. And this is the talk, so we are told, given at that time by Sariputta:

"The Nigantha, Nathason, friends has recently deceased, and since his death the Niganthas have fallen apart and live quarreling amongst each other, using a variety of wounding words and wrangling phrases such as:

"You don’t understand this Dhamma, I do."
"How could someone like you know about this Dhamma?"
"You hold wrong view. It is I who have right view."
"I am speaking to the point, you are not."
"You are putting last what ought to come first, and first what ought to come last."
"What you’ve been expounding so long, is completely disproved."
"Your challenge has been met."
"You are proved to be wrong."
"Straighten up your act."
"Get out of this one if you can."

The ruckus is such that even the lay followers are fed up.

And what is the reason for this?

It is because the Dhamma of the Niganthas was Poorly Taught,
being Taught by one who was not a Fully Englightened One.
And now that Nathason has gone,
the group is without cohesion and has no leadership.

But here, friends, Dhamma has been well taught
by one who is supremely enlightened,
and about this Dhamma we should all speak in agreement
that the Dhamma will last for many a long day.

To that end, friends,
I will set forth this compilation of Dhammas taught by the Bhaggava
about which we should all speak in agreement:

Ones

There are, friends, one-part Dhammas
consummately taught by the Bhagava,
that #1-Consummately-Awakened-One,
an Arahant who knows and sees.
In this situation,
let us all gather together as one,
undivided,
so that this Best of Lives
will stay on track
and stand for a long time
as a benefit to the many,
as a pleasure for the many,
out of compassion for the world,
for the benefit and pleasure of dieties and man.
What are these ones?

What is the One Dhamma?

All beings are maintained by food.

All beings are maintained by confounding.

These then, friends,
are those one-part Dhammas
consummately taught by the Bhagava,
that #1-Consummately-Awakened-One,
an Arahant who knows and sees.
In this situation,
let us all gather to gether as one,
undivided,
so that this Best of Lives
will stay on track
and stand for a long time
as a benefit to the many,
as a pleasure for the many,
out of compassion for the world,
for the benefit and pleasure of dieties and man.

Twos

There are, friends, two-part Dhammas
consummately taught by the Bhagava,
that #1-Consummately-Awakened-One,
an Arahant who knows and sees.
In this situation,
let us all gather together as one,
undivided,
so that this Best of Lives
will stay on track
and stand for a long time
as a benefit to the many,
as a pleasure for the many,
out of compassion for the world,
for the benefit and pleasure of dieties and man.
What are these twos?

Name and Form:
There is Name and there is Thingness.

There is Blindness and
there is Thirst for Living

Views:
belief in fundamental existance,
belief in no fundamental existance

Corrupting forces:
No sense of shame,
no fear of blame

Stabilizers of the world:
Sense of shame,
fear of blame

Rough Going,
Bad Company.

Smooth Going,
Good Company.

Skill in the rules regarding offenses,
skill in rehabilitation from offenses.

Skill in attaining,
skill at emerging from attainment.

Skill in knowledge of The Elements,
skill in applying the mind to them.

Skill in knowledge of the spheres,
skill in Downbound Confounded Rebounding Conjuration.

Skill in knowledge of what supports and what does not support.

Straight forwardness and diffidence.

Patience and gentleness.

Friendliness and a kindly reception.

Non-injury and being unsoiled.

Forgetfulness and lack of self-knowledge.

Remembering and self-knowledge.

Lack of Authority over and guarding of the sense doors,
immoderate eating.

Authority over and guarding of the sense doors,
moderate eating.

The Power of Examining the Details,
The Power of Development.

The Power of Mind,
the Power of Getting High.

Calm,
Looking into things.

The Sign of Calm,
The Sign of Exertion.

Exertion and equanimity.

Ethical Culture and Complete View.

Incomplete Ethical Culture and Incomplete View.

Purified Ethical Culture and Purified View.

The Purity of one's View and
the purity of the path taken in accordance with that view.

Anxiety and
the urgency of the stand taken to get back on track
by the experiencer thereof.

Not taking one's stand on skillful Dhamma,
non-turning away and making exertion.

Vision and Freedom.

Knowledge of destruction,
knowledge of non-reproduction

These then, friends,
are those two-part Dhammas
consummately taught by the Bhagava,
that #1-Consummately-Awakened-One,
an Arahant who knows and sees.
In this situation,
let us all gather to gether as one,
undivided,
so that this Best of Lives
will stay on track
and stand for a long time
as a benefit to the many,
as a pleasure for the many,
out of compassion for the world,
for the benefit and pleasure of dieties and man.