The Expositor
Translated by rev. Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids Pe Maung Tin
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The opening
CHAPTER I THE FIRST PATH
THE FIRST PATH
Havine thus shown the moral consciousness productive of prosperity in the three forms of rebirth, now to show the transcendental moral consciousness for the transcending of all rebirth, again a beginning is made with ‘which are the states that are moral?’
Herein in what sense is it ‘transcendental’? Because it crosses the world, it crosses over the world, passing beyond the world it stands overpowering it.
‘He cultivatest the Jhana’ means he evolves, produces, develops the ecstatic Jhana of one momentary flash of consciousness.
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About this edition
- The words
- rev. Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids Pe Maung Tin's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The index
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- The scanning library's notice again, and a blank end page with specks (2 blocks)
- Scan specks and lines of scan noise (“%”, “rq”, “eee”, “a a a a a a en aa”) (60 blocks)
- Printer's signature mark at the foot of a page (sheet number) (7 blocks)
- Scan specks and lines of scan noise (“ann” at the foot of a page, between the verse and the footnotes)