Saturday morning Visuddhimagga the scholar think the Vi can be taken as the commentary.

Vi is considered as the concepts commentary to the entire canons. Vi was composed by the Buddhaghosa before he started to write the commentary. When he came to Sri Lanka, Sir Lanka monks asked him to show the capacity/his knowledge of the Buddhism by writing the book. Because of that reason, he wrote the book by the name of Vi. He has to write the book with the cover entire of the Buddhism. this topic has been taken by him from the statements of the Buddha to the Gods in sumutyanikaya. The whole visudhi is based on the statements of the Buddha which as the follows: The question is Anto jat bahi jat Jatya jatito paj Tam tam gotama pucchmi Ko imam vijataye jatam. There are ties inside and outside People are tied by the ties I ask that who un-tied this ties? The answer given by the Buddha: Sla patittha maro sapaa, Cittam paan ca, bhvaye Atapi nipaki Bhikkhu So imam vijatayi jatam One who has the wisdom basing on Sila, development mind and wisdom, so that man unties (release) these ties (defilements). The monk who has the effort, strive on sila, development mind and wisdom is the one of wisdom persons who unties these ties. There are three important, sila, samadhi and panna. So Buddha has taken this three terms to explain the whole teachings of the Buddha. sila, samadhi and panna related the noble eightfold path. In other word, sila, samadhi and panna means the noble eightfold path which is path leading to the liberation, the liberation means vishudi. Vishudimagga means the path to liberation/purification. In vi, there are three main sections under this three name sila, samadhi and pa. Sla, under the sila, the ethical teachings of the Buddha. Samdhi, the teachings belong to meditation which are available in different discourses of the Buddha. Pa contain all the doctrinal teachings of the Buddha, such as Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, paticcasamuppada, Kamma, gunabhava and also all 37 factors of enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya dhamma 37). Evaluate Visuddhimaggaas as a complete short commentary to Buddhist teachings.

Sila section: Boddhaghose related all the ethical teachings of the Buddha. Sila is considered the disciplines teachings. To get the more disciplinal details of the Sila, Visuddhimagga special related all disciplines available sutta pitaka and vinaya pitaka. All the teachings related the sila, he categries into four groups under the name of Sila . Catu samvara sla: 1ptimokkh samvara sla 2 indriya samara sla 3jiva prisuddhi sla 4.Paccaya sannissita sla 1ptimokkh samvara sila 'morality consisting in restraint with regard to the Disciplinary Codes/ rules for the Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni.' 2 indriya samvara sila: 'morality consisting of purity of restraint of the senses' 3 jiva parisuddhi sila: morality consisting in purification of livelihood. It is divided into and monk and layman livelihood. The Buddhaghost explain the livelihood given in the different discourse of the Buddha, in the digha nikaya, silacada vada contains different conducts related the livelihood. There are the Buddha taught some wrong livelihoods accepted by temporarily Brahman. The Buddha advised the disciplines to give up this bad livelihood which is explained in details under jiva parisuddhi sila. The Buddha taught Monks and nuns to restrain the sense, all the teachings taken by the Buddhaghosa explain in details under jiva parisuddhi sila. There are six senses, the people get the defilements under the senses. The defilements arise from the mind, monk should restrain their senses. The Buddha find the way/ taught the doctrines how to restrain the senses. Cakkhun rupam disav na nimittagghi Hotha nmubbyam aggahi hotha When you see the rupa, you take the sense into your mind. little marks Nmubbyam: The different part of the body. Something attraction, you take all the body, on the other hand, you take the particular part of the Body, you think more and more of that. Then producing the different defilements in your mind. How to restraint? See just see, hear just hear, smell just smell. 4Paccaya sannissita sila. 'morality consisting in the wise use of the monk's requisites'. Four things: Related four things, there are so many disciplines. Pinapada, there are rules for the bowel, eating the food. The rules related into the rob, medicine, meal. Samdhi section: It is particular very important for the practical meditation. Vi explain the two kind of meditation: samatha and vipassana. Samatha, the Buddhaghosa explains the suitable meditation object. 40 objects Dasa Kasima Dasa asakha

Dasa anussati Catu brahma vihare Catudhau varathane Ahane pakkula sanna

The Buddha taught 40 principal meditation objects = kammatthna: Kammatthna literally means: Place of work, basis of action leading to the various degrees of mental meditational absorption jhna. These 40 classic and orthodox meditation subjects are: I. The 10 Kasina exercises: Kasina = 'Entirety'. All 4 jhnas possible.. 1: Earth kasina, 2: Water kasina, 3: Fire kasina, 4: Wind kasina, 5: Blue kasina, 6: Yellow kasina, 7: Red kasina, 8: White kasina, 9: Light or consciousness kasina, 10: Space kasina. II. The 10 perceptions of disgust: asubha-saa: 1st Jhna possible: A swollen & bloated corpse, a bluish livid corpse, a rotting corpse, a cut-up & split corpse, a gnawed corpse, a hacked corpse, a spread scattered corpse, a bloody corpse, a corpse of maggots, a skeleton. III. The 10 contemplations: remembrances or recollections anussati: 1: On the Buddha, 2: The Dhamma, 3: Noble Sangha community, 4: Morality, 5: Generosity, 6: Heavenly divine beings, 7: Death, 8: Body, 9: In-and-out-breathing: 4 jhnas possible!, 10: Peace. IV. The 4 divine abodes or infinite states brahma-vihra: 1: All-embracing friendliness = mett, 2: Pity = karun, 3: Mutual joy = mudit, 4: Equanimity = upekkh: All 4 jhnas successively possible. V. The 4 formless spheres arpyatana: based on the 4th jhna: 1: The infinitude of space, 2: The infinitude of consciousness, 3: Empty nothingness, 4: Neither-perception-nor-non-perception. VI. Perception of the loathsomeness of food hre patikkla-sa: VII. Defining Analysis of the four great elements dhtu-vavatthna:.

Those are the objects suitable for the meditation. Buddhaghosa explain the personality to whom are suitable. according the mental inclination/ temperament of the people, the objects for meditation are divided into different groups. According to their own nature, their behavior is different. So meditation on the love kindness is

suitable for more anger, he can control their mind. So the Buddhaghosa explain how to start the meditation and give the more details of objects for the meditation and posture of the meditation: sitting, laying, walking, walking. Their particular characteristic of posture are given, how to sit down for meditation: sit cross, relax the body. Sila paridhota panna Panna paridhota silam Yattha silam tattha panna Yattha panna tattha silam Immoral: lobha, dosa, moha, akusala, unwholesome actions. Moral: alobha, dosa, moha, kusala, wholesome actions. First you should reduce the akusala and cultivate the kusala, then meditate. All the merit come from the sila. ) Samatha meditation is known as citta bhvana.= Dhyana, absorption, Vipassana meditation is known as paa bhvana. As the result of samatha, you can have dhyana absortion, 5 rupa and 4 arupa.

There are five Jhanas belong the rupajjhana in the sutta tipitaka. Patha Dutiyajjhana tatuyajjhana catutthajjhana panccamajjhana There are four jhanas belong the arupajjhna. kasanancayatana Ninna naucayatana Akincancannayatana Nevasanna nasanayetana Five the knowledge can be attained by the samatha meditation: Panca abhinna: high knowledge. pubbhenivasa Dibba cakkhua=cutapapta Dibba sota Iddhi vidha Para citta vijanana
Not only these absorptions rupa and arupa but also 5 mundane lokiya powers or higher knowledge can be attained from samatha. (1) magical powers (iddhi-vidha), (2) divine ear (dibba-sota),

(3) penetration of the minds of others (parassa ceto-pariya-na), (4) remembrance of former existences (pubbe-nivsnussati), (5) divine eye (dibba-cakkhu), =

yath-kammpaga-na or cutpapta-na),
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the last section is the very important known as Panna bhumi niddesa. Paticcasamuppada.

there are Different interpretation Paticca by the different of the Buddhist schools. Paticca is difficult to see and understand. ven the Buddha himself presented the different way to explain the Path. In Vi, buddhaghosa presented the path. In Theravada we can find the path only in Vi.