Re: vibhuta in AN 11.10

On the Niddesa passage, I would translate:

*When materiality is transcended, contacts do not function*:
*Materiality* is the four great elements and materiality that depends on
the four great elements. *When materiality is transcended*: materiality
is transcended in four ways — by transcending through knowing, by
transcending through evaluating, by transcending through abandoning and
by transcending through going beyond.

How is materiality transcended by transcending through knowing ? He
knows materiality. He knows and sees that any and all materiality is the
four great elements and materiality that depends on the four great
elements. In this way materiality is transcended by transcending through
knowing.

How is materiality transcended by transcending through evaluating ?
After making materiality known in this way, he evaluates materiality. he
evaluates it as impermanent, suffering, etc. . . . as arising, as
ceasing, as subject to greedy attachment, as inferior, as something to
depart from. In this way materiality is transcended by transcending
through evaluating.

How is materiality transcended by transcending through evaluating ?
After evaluating materiality in this way, he abandons passion and desire
for materiality, he dispels it, makes an end of it, annihilates it. For
this was said by the Lord: 'Monks, abandon passion and desire for
materiality. In this way materiality will have been abandoned, cut off
at the root, its foundation will have been removed, it will be
annihilated, it will not be able to arise in the future. In this way
materiality is transcended by transcending through evaluating.

How is materiality transcended by transcending through going beyond ?
Materialities (forms) have been transcended, have been revealed, have
been passed beyond, have been gone beyond, have been surpassed by one
who has obtained the four formless attainments. In this way materiality
is transcended by transcending through going beyond. By these four
causes materiality is transcended.

*When materiality is transcended, contacts do not function*: when
materiality has been transcended, revealed, passed beyond, gone beyond,
surpassed <in the formless attainments> the five kinds of contact do not
function: eye contact, ear contact, nose contact, tongue contact, bodily
contact. So when materiality is transcended, contacts do not function.

Lance Cousins