Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c33.s3.104

v2.c33.s3.104

The M. contend that the same object may be the cause of both rāga (attachment) and virāga (detachment) and as one may follow the other immediately, it may be stated that kusala is the anantarapaccaya (contiguous cause) of akusala and vice versa. The Th. point out that cultivation of kusalamūla must be made deliberately (yoniso manasikaroto) while that of akusalamūla does not require any such thinking (ayoniso manasikaroto), and also that *nekkhammasaññā* (renunciating thought) does not always follow *kāmasaññā* (worldly thought) and *vice versa*, and so *kusalāmūla* cannot be regarded generally as the contiguous cause of *akusalāmūla* and *vice versa*.¹