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Analysis of The Way of Salvation. 



Book 1. — Morality. 



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1 Stanza, uttered by The Exalted One, which is both text and substance of 



the whole work 

 The question, put by some deity, to which that stanza was the answer 



2 Brief comment on the text of the deity's question 



3 The answer, now in its proper sequence, is repeated 



4 Buddhaghosa's preface, in five stanzas, to the Visuddhi-magga 



5 Comment on the title, Visuddhi-magga 



6 Brief comment on The Exalted One's stanza. It implies six things as re- 



quisite for Nibbana: Morality, Concentration, mother-wit and skill and 

 the Higher Wisdom, and strenuousness 

 Allegory: the man with the cleaver 



7 Since mother-wit does not have to be acquired, and on the other hand 



since strenuousness merely implies constancy and since skill merely im- 

 plies heedfulness, — therefore it is under the heads of the three remaining 

 things — Morality and Concentration and Higher Wisdom — that Buddha 

 in this stanza sets forth the way of salvation 



8 These three heads form a triad which suggests nine triads akin with it, 



each also conducive to Nibbana. Each member of the primary triad — 

 Morality and Concentration and Higher Wisdom — suggests respectively 

 one member of each of the nine triads 



9 Triad 1. of higher disciplines: discipline of the Higher Morality, discipline 



of the Higher Concentration, discipline of the Higher Wisdom 



10 Triad 2. of beauties or beneficialnesses : beneficialness of The Religion 



at the outset, in its course, and in its consummation 



11 Triad 3. of bases: Morality is basis of the three vijjas; Concentration is 



basis of the six supernormal powers; wisdom is basis of the four pati- 

 sambhidas 



12 Triad 4. of avoidances and practice: avoidance of two extremes (low 



pleasures and self-mortification) and practice of the golden mean (middle 

 path) 



13 Triad 5. of means of escape: escape from hell, from the world of sense, 



from all existences 



14 Triad 6. of abandonments of evil tendencies: abandonment of their ele- 



ments, abandonment by temporary stopping, abandonment by extirpation 



15 Triad 7. of forces counteracting the evil tendencies: forces counteracting 



actual transgression, counteracting the arising of the tendencies, counter- 

 acting the last residue of them 



16 Triad 8. of cleansings from minor evil tendencies: of behavior, of lusts, 



of false views 



17 Triad 9. of instrumentalities: for attaining the First and Second Path, 



the Third Path, the Fourth Path 



18 Summary of the nine triads and suggestion of others 



