24 PYITSEE

24 Pyit See Pa Htan, twenty-four conditional relations

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It is the last novel feature of the Abhidhamma method contributed by the final book of the Pitaka, the Patthana and is a set of twenty-four conditional relations laid down for the purpose of showing how the ultimate realities are welded into orderly processes.

This scheme of conditions supplies the necessary complement to the analytical approach that dominates the earlier books of the Abhidhamma.

The method of analysis proceeds by dissecting apparent wholes into their component parts, thereby exposing their voidness of any indivisible core that might qualify as self or substance.

The synthetic method plots the conditional relations of the bare phenomena obtained by analysis to show that they are not isolated self-contained units but nodes in a vast multi-layered web of inter-related, inter-dependent events.

Taken in conjunction, the analytical method of the earlier treatises of the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the synthetic method of the Patthana establish the essential unity of the twin philosophical principles of Buddhism, non-self or egolessness (anatta) and dependent arising or conditionality (paticca samuppada).

Thus the foundation of the Abhidhamma methodology remains in perfect harmony with the insights that lie at the heart of the entire Dhamma.

Here are demonstrations about these 24 conditional relations.