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Commentary on the Chapter on Attainment
164. In the first discourse of the fifth, "skilfulness in entering a meditative attainment" means skill in entering upon a meditative attainment having assessed suitability of food and suitability of climate. "Skilfulness in emerging from a meditative attainment" means when the determined time has passed, having become experienced, one rising is called skilled in emergence; such is the skilfulness.
165. In the second, "rectitude" means the state of uprightness. "Gentleness" means the state of softness.
166. In the third, "patience" means endurance-patience. "Meekness" means the state of being well-disposed through the quality of good conduct.
167. In the fourth, softness of speech means the state of being joyful by means of smooth speech. Hospitality means hospitable welcoming with material things or with the teaching.
168. In the fifth, "non-violence" is the preliminary part of compassion. "Purity" means the state of purity by the power of morality. The sixth and seventh are of manifest meaning only.
171. In the eighth, "power of reflection" means the power of reviewing.
172. In the ninth, mindfulness itself is the power of mindfulness by way of unshakeability regarding unmindfulness. Concentration itself is the power of concentration by way of unshakeability regarding restlessness.
173. In the tenth, "serenity" means unified focus of mind. "Insight" means the knowledge that discerns activities.
174. In the eleventh, "failure in morality" means immorality. "Failure in view" means wrong view.
175. In the twelfth, "accomplishment in morality" means the state of perfected morality. "Accomplishment in right view" means the state of having right view. By that, right view of the ownership of action, right view of meditative absorption, right view of insight, right view of the path, right view of fruition - thus all fivefold right view is included.
176. In the thirteenth, "purification of morality" means morality that causes one to reach purification. "Purification of view" means right view of the four paths that causes one to reach purification, or even the fivefold right view.
177. In the fourteenth, "purification of view" means right view itself that causes one to reach purification. "And striving in accordance with one's view" means energy associated with the lower path. Because that is indeed conformable to that view, it is said "striving in accordance with one's view."
178. In the fifteenth, "non-contentment in regard to wholesome qualities" means the state of non-contentment in regard to wholesome mental states, except for the path of arahantship.
179. In the sixteenth, "forgetfulness" means the state of unmindfulness. "Lack of full awareness" means the state of not knowing.
180. In the seventeenth, mindfulness has the characteristic of non-floating. Full awareness has the characteristic of rightly understanding.
The Chapter on Attainment is the fifth. The third fifty is finished.