Bare Insight

Hi Azita, All

In this morning’s Zoom discussion you quoted the following passage from a footnote to para 14 of Ch XV of The Path of Purification (a translation of the Visuddhimagga):

“7. There are eighty-one mundane sorts of consciousness; and since there is no path or fruition without jhāna, when the four paths and four fruitions are multiplied by the five jhānas, there are forty kinds of supramundane consciousness: 81+40 = 121.”

As regards the words “there is no path or fruition without jhāna”, I believe this is explained by the following passage from Ch 1 of A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma (a translation of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha, emphasis added by me):

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