Buddha teachings

CATUPAṬISAMBHIDĀ IN THERAVĀDA 
~ By Bhikkhu Kusalaguṇa (Le Xuan Do) ~

The fourfold analytical knowledge (catu-paṭisambhidā) is an integrated set of knowledge gained by the noble persons (ariya) who had developed necessary conditions eligible for this distinctive attainment.

The fourfold analytical knowledge consists of:
(1) The analytical knowledge of result
(attha-paṭisambhidā),
(2) The analytical knowledge of cause (dhamma-paṭisambhidā),
(3) The analytical knowledge of language (nirutti-paṭisambhidā), and
(4) The analytical knowledge of knowledge (paṭibhāna-paṭisambhidā).

The noble persons who possess these kinds of knowledge are able to penetratingly understand the four types of ultimate realities (paramattha-dhammā), namely,
consciousness (citta),
mental concomitants (cetasika),
matters (rūpa) and
Nibbāna, the unconditioned element, and are capable of elucidating them with lucid language and exposition.

The Buddha, Venerable Sāriputta and other great noble disciples were real legends in this field of comprehension and explanatory dexterity, as evidently described in the Pāḷi literature.

Each of the fourfold analytical knowledge possesses different analyticities. The analytical knowledge of result has the power to understand fully the so-called resultant phenomena including all cause-produced things, meanings of the Buddha’s Word classified into nine categories such as
sutta (discourses in prose),
geyya (discourses in prose and verse) and so on, and the unconditioned element, Nibbāna.

Similarly, the analytical knowledge of cause has the ability to know various causative phenomena that comprise all result-generating causes, the Buddha’s Word, and the Noble Path leading to the realization of Nibbāna.

The attainment of the fourfold analytical knowledge is nothing but the accomplishment of collectively conditioning factors accumulated in both the past and present lives.

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