Aṅguttara-Nikāya
II. Dukanipāta
IX. Dhamma Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
II. The Book of the Twos
IX. Conditions[134]
Suttas 86-96
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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Sutta 86
[86.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Emancipation of heart
and emancipation of insight.
These are the two."
Sutta 87
[87.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Energy and one-pointedness.[135]
These are the two."
Sutta 88
[88.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Name and form.
These are the two."
Sutta 89
[89.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Knowledge and release.
These are the two."
Sutta 90
[90.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
This is "vibhava" un-becoming. The view that there is no becoming. This is not the ending of becoming.
—p.p.
The view of becoming
and that of non-becoming.[136]
These are the two."
Sutta 91
[91.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Shamelessness and disregard of sin.
These are the two."
Sutta 92
[92.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Shame and fear of sin.
These are the two."
Sutta 93
[93.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Stubbornness
and friendship with the bad.
These are the two."
Sutta 94
[94.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Suavity
and friendship with the lovely.
These are the two."
Sutta 95
[95.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Skill in knowledge of the elements[137]
and skill in paying attention.
These are the two."
Sutta 96
[96.1][olds] "Monks, there are these two conditions.
What two?
Skill in knowing offences
and rehabilitation from them.'
These are the two."
[134] Cf. the list at Dialog. iii, 205; Expos. ii, 499 ff.
[135] Paggāha (= viriyaṅ) avikkhepo = citt'ekaggataṅ. Comy.
[136] Eternalism and annihilationism.
[137] Dhātu-kusalatā = aṭṭhārasa-dhātuyo dhātū ti jānanaṅ. Comy. Cf. D. iii, 212; Dial. iii, 205 n
