The Compilation

Nines

There are, friends, nine-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 nines?

Nine foundations of aggression:

Thinking: 'Disservice has been done to me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice is being done to me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice will be done to me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice has been done to one who is pleasing and loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice is being done to one who is pleasing and loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice will be done to one who is pleasing and loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Service has been done to one who is neither pleasing nor loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Service is being done to one who is neither pleasing nor loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Thinking: 'Service will be done toone who is neither pleasing nor loved by me' he becomes bound up in aggression.

Nine ways of controlling aggression:

Thinking: 'Disservice has been done to me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice is being done to me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice will be done to me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice has been done to one who is pleasing and loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice is being done to one who is pleasing and loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Disservice will be done to one who is pleasing and loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Service has been done to one who is neither pleasing nor loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Service is being done to one who is neither pleasing nor loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Thinking: 'Service will be done to one who is neither pleasing nor loved by me; what can be gained from this situation?' he controls aggression.

Nine Habits of Beings:

There are beings, friends, diverse in body, diverse in perception suchas man, some dieties and some on the path to ruin. This is the first habit of beings.

There are beings, friends, diverse in body, similar in perception, such as the deities in the Brahma group. This is the second habit of beings.

There are beings, friends, similar in body, diverse in perception, suchas the deities of Radiance. This is the third habit of beings.

There are beings, friends, similar in body and similar in perception, such as the deities of Luminescence. This is the fourth habit of beings.

There are beings, friends, without perception, having no personal sense reactions, such as the deities of No-Perception. This is the fifth habit of beings.

There are beings, friends that, passing past all perception of materiality, leaving behind perception of reaction, averting the mind from perception of diversity, thinking 'Unending is space,' experience the Realm of Space. This is the sixth habit of beings.

There are beings, friends that, wholly passing past the Realm of Space, thinking "Unending is Consciousness,' experience the Realm of Consciousness. This is the seventh habit of beings.

There are beings, friends that, wholly passing past the Realm of Consciousness, thinking 'There are No Things There,' experience the Realm Where There is No Thing There. This is the eighth habit of beings.

There are beings, friends that, wholly passing past the Realm of No Things There experience the Realm of Neither-Perception-nor-Non-Perception. This is the Ninth Habit of beings.

Nine unlucky situations when it comes to taking on the Brahma-life:

Here friends, a Tathagata arises in the world, an Arahant #1 High Awakened One, and Dhamma is taught leading to calm, leading to complete putting down of bondage, to the self-awakening proclaimed by the Welcome One; and a being is at this time reborn in Niraya. This is the first unlucky situation when it comes to taking on the Brahma-life.

Again, additionally friends, a Tathagata arises in the world, an Arahant #1 High Awakened One, and Dhamma is taught leading to calm, leading to complete putting down of bondage, to the self-awakening proclaimed by the Welcome One; and a being has at this time got rebirth in the centeral provences, but he is of mistaken views, his seeing warped, thinking: 'There is no giving; there is no making of offerings, there is no having paid homage, there is no pleasant or painful fruition of or consequence from deeds, there is not "This world," there is not "A world herafter," there is not mother, there is not father, there are no spontaneously arising beings, there is no Shaman or Brahman who has got the Highest, who having attained the highest can explain this world and the world beyond from personal experience of super-powers.' This is the seventh unlucky situation when it comes to taking on the Brahma-life.

Again, additionally friends, a being is born in the central provences, and he is smart, no slack-jaw'd driveler, able to recognize the well- from the badly said, but at this time no Tathagata has arisen in the world, no Arahant #1 High Awakened One, and no Dhamma is taught leading to calm, leading to complete putting down of bondage, to the self-awakening proclaimed by the Welcome One. This is the ninth unlucky situation when it comes to taking on the Brahma-life.

Nine habitats, one-after-the-other:

Here friends a bhikkhu, separating himself from sense pleasures, separating himself from unskillful things, still thinking and reacting with the pleasurable enthusiasm born of detachment enters into and makes a habitat of the First Burning,

Then, with thinking and reacting having calmed down, attaining tranquillity, becoming single-minded, without thinking and reacting, with the pleasurable enthusiasm born of Highgetting he enters into and makes a habitat of the Second Burning,

then, dispassionate and detached from enthusiasm, living conscious and aware of bodily sense-reactions suchas those described by the aristocrats when they say 'Detached, with satisfied mind, he lives pleasantly,' he enters into and makes a habitat of the Third Burning

Then, letting go of his former experiences of pleasure and pain, allowing his experience of mental ease and discomfort to subside on their own, without pleasure or pain, with utterly pure detachment of mind, he enters into and mades a habitat of the Fourth Burning.

elevating himself above all perceptions of materiality, allowing perceptions of resistance to subside, and not scrutinizing perceptions of diversity, thinking: 'Un-ending is space.' enters into and makes a habitat of the Space-dimension.

Then, elevating himself completely above the Space-dimension, thinking: 'Un-ending is consciousness.' he enters into and makes a habitat of the Consciousness-dimension.

Then, elevating himself completely above the Consciousness-dimension, thinking: 'There is nothing.' he enters into and makes a habitat of the No-thing-there dimension.

Then, elevating himself completely above the No-thing-there-dimension he enters into and makes a habitat of the Dimension of Neither-perception-nor-non-perception.

Then, elevating himself completely above the Dimension of Neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he enters into and makes a habitat of the ending of perception and sense experience.

Nine endings, one after the other:

The First Burning being attained, perception of sensuality comes to an end.

The Second Burning being attained, thinking and reacting come to an end.

The Third Burning being attained, enthusiasm comes to an end.

The Fourth Burning being attained, in-and-out breathing comes to an end.

The Realm of Space being attained, perception of materiality comes to an end.

The Realm of Consciousness being attained, perception of the Realm of Space comes to an end.

The Realm of No Thing There being attained, perception of the Realm of Consciousness comes to an end.

The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non Perception being attained, perception of the Realm of No Thing There comes to an end.

The Realm of the Ending of Perception and Sense Experience being attained, the Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non Perception comes to an end.

These then, friends,
are those nine-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.