The 24 Conditional Relations (paṭṭhāna-paccayas)

This well-known set of 24 “conditional relations” (paccayas) is powerful enough when simply recited. When attunements for the energy of each paccaya are requested, the series becomes many times even more potent.

The set of 24 is as follows:

  1. hetu-paccayo: “root condition”
  2. ārammaṇa-paccayo: “object condition”
  3. adhipati-paccayo: “predominance condition”
  4. anantara-paccayo: “contiguity condition”
  5. samanantara-paccayo: “immediacy condition”
  6. sahajāta-paccayo: “co-nascence condition”
  7. aññamañña-paccayo: “mutuality condition”
  8. nissaya-paccayo: “dependence condition”
  9. upanissaya-paccayo: “powerful dependence condition”
  10. purejāta-paccayo: “pre-nascence condition”
  11. pacchājāta-paccayo: “post-nascence condition”
  12. āsevana-paccayo: “repetition condition”
  13. kamma-paccayo: “action condition”
  14. vipāka-paccayo: “action-resultant condition”
  15. āhāra-paccayo: “nutriment condition”
  16. indriya-paccayo: “faculty condition”
  17. jhāna-paccayo: “jhāna condition”
  18. magga-paccayo: “path condition”
  19. sampayutta-paccayo: “association condition”
  20. vippayutta-paccayo: “dissociation condition”
  21. atthi-paccayo: “presence condition”
  22. natthi-paccayo: “absence condition”
  23. vigata-paccayo: “disappearance condition”
  24. avigata-paccayo: “non-disappearance condition”

These together represent all the possible relationships that can obtain between phenomena. They are thus the energies not of things, but of the relationships between things. They are somewhat metaphenomena, in this way. Perhaps this explains their power.

The attunements for jhāna and magga are especially powerful.

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