8.
Eighth Method
8.
Exposition of the term associated by what is dissociated
317.
The states that are dissociated from the aggregate of matter - with how many aggregates, with how many sense bases, with how many elements are those states associated?
There is not.
318.
The states that are by the aggregate of feeling...
the states that are by the aggregate of perception...
the states that are by the aggregate of mental activities...
the states that are by the aggregate of consciousness... etc.
the states that are by states with conflict...
of states without conflict, whatever states are dissociated - by how many aggregates, by how many sense bases, by how many elements are those states associated?
There is not.
The six sense bases, birth, ageing and death, and two triads are not obtained.
Fourteen and six at the top - thus these forty-seven phenomena;
Are not obtained in eradication, and by the empty question.
The exposition of the term associated by what is dissociated is eighth.