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## Sixteenth Experiment Word ] [215 [1077 Q.] Bhagavan! Are all beings true-mind-practitioners or are they all karma-body-practitioners? [1077 A.] Gautama! (1) All beings are true-mind-practitioners, as well as (false-mind-practitioners, true-false-mind-practitioners, false-false-mind-practitioners, etc., and also vikriya-mixed-body-practitioners and karma-body-practitioners, (thus thirteen categories) are present, (1) or one is a food-body-practitioner, (2) or many are food-body-practitioners, (3) or one is a food-mixed-body-practitioner, (4) or many beings are food-mixed-body-practitioners. These four are broken. If the first broken category of thirteen categories is counted with these, then there are five broken categories / (four broken categories of two combinations) 1. Or one food-body-practitioner and one food-mixed-body-practitioner, 2. Or one food-body-practitioner and many food-mixed-body-practitioners, 3. Or many food-body-practitioners and one food-mixed-body-practitioner, 4. Or many food-body-practitioners and many food-mixed-body-practitioners. These are eight broken categories in relation to the practice of beings. (Including the first broken category, there are nine broken categories.) Discussion - The presentation of the practice pattern in the aggregate beings through the division of the aggregate beings - In this sutra (1077), the broken categories of the text found in relation to the practice in the aggregate beings are described / In the aggregate beings, there is one broken category of thirteen categories - In the aggregate beings, excluding the food and food-mixed, there is one broken category of the remaining 13 categories / The meaning is that many beings are always found to be true-mind-practitioners, false-mind-practitioners, as well as vikriya-mixed-body-practitioners, and also karma-body-practitioners. Hell beings always start vikriya-mixed-body-practice after rebirth, therefore they are always vikriya-mixed-body-practitioners / Plant beings, etc., are always found in interval motion due to disintegration, therefore they are always karma-body-practitioners, but food-body-practitioners are perhaps not found at all; because their interval is possible up to six months at the most. ' That is, it is also possible that not even one food-body-practitioner is found for six months / When they are found, they are minimal, one, two or three, and at the most, thousands (two thousand to nine thousand). Thus, when there is not even one food-body-practitioner and food-mixed-body-practitioner, then there is one broken category of thirteen categories with a plural specific to many beings, because the beings of the said thirteen categories always exist in many forms / The order of the broken categories - First broken category - When one food-body-practitioner is found along with the aforementioned thirteen categories, then there is one broken category / Second broken category - Along with the aforementioned thirteen categories, many 1. Food-body-practitioners are not found for six months / According to the rule, at one time / / 1 / / / are found, at one time, one, two, three, five are found / According to the rule, the most of these are thousands / / 2 //