Dear Nina and friends,

thanks Nina for the commentary.

The commentary relates the agreeable and disagreeable impressions in
the sutta with agreeable and disagreeable cittas. It further says
that "eight types of consciousness accompanied by attachment are
agreeable". In the notes, you added that four with wrong view are
agreeable. Can you help to explain this further, please? Thanks.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, nina van gorkom wrote:
Commentary:
Co: 119. idaanissa taadibhaavalakkha.na.m aacikkhanto
pathaviisamantiaadimaaha.
Now he said, when explaining the characteristic of such nature (of
the highest qualification), ³like the earth² and so on.

i.t.thaani.t.thesu hi arajjanto adussanto taadii naama hoti.
not being attached nor having aversion with regard to the desirable
and the undesirable is ³suchness².

manaapaamanaapaati ettha a.t.tha lobhasahagatacittasampayuttaa
manaapaa naama,
with regard to the words agreeable and disagreeable, here the eight
types of consciousness accompanied by attachment are agreeable,

dve domanassacittasampayuttaa amanaapaa naama.
and two types of consciousness accompanied by unpleasant feeling are
disagreeable*.

citta.m na pariyaadaaya .thassantiiti ete phassaa uppajjitvaa
With reference to the words, when these impressions have arisen, they
do not persistently obsess the mind,

tava citta.m antomu.t.thigata.m karonto viya
and your mind makes just as it were a clenched fist,

pariyaadaaya gahetvaa .thaatu.m na sakkhissanti,
(these impressions that) overwhelm, when you have mastered them, they
cannot stay.

`aha.m sobhaami,mayha.m va.n.naayatana.m pasanna''nti
As regards the words, ³I am beautiful, my appearance is splendid²,

puna attabhaava.m nissaaya chandaraago nuppajjissati.
again, attachment that is dependent on the body does not arise.

guuthagatantiaadiisu guuthameva guuthagata.m. eva.m sabbattha.
As to the expression, ordure and so on, it is truly excrement, filthy
in all respects.

* note: There are eight (a.t.tha) akusala cittas rooted in lobha:
four with pleasant feeling, four with indifferent feeling, four with
wrong view (di.t.thi), four without wrong view, four not induced or
spontaneous(asa²nkhaarika) and four induced (sasa²nkhaarika)
There are two akusala cittas rooted in dosa:
domanassacittasampayuttaa: consciousness accompanied by unpleasant
feeling (that is: citta rooted in aversion or hate). One of them is
not induced(asa²nkhaarika) and one is induced (sasa²nkhaarika).