Aṅguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
XII. Āpāyika Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
III. The Book of the Threes
XII. The Downfall
Sutta 113
Appameyya Suttaɱ
Immeasurable[1]
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, these three sorts of persons
are hard to be found in the world.
What three?
He who is easily measured,
he who is hardly measured,
he who is immeasurable.
§
[245] And of what sort, monks, is
he who is easily measured?
Herein a certain person is frivolous,
empty-headed,
a busybody,
of harsh speech,
loose in talk,
lacking concentration,
unsteady,
not composed,
of flighty mind,
with senses uncontrolled.[2]
This one is called
'easily measured.'
■
And of what sort, monks, is
the person who is hardly measured?
In this case a certain person is not frivolous,
not empty-headed,
no busybody,
not of harsh speech,
not loose in talk,
but concentrated,
steady,
composed,
of one-pointed mind,
with senses well controlled.
This one is called
'hardly measured.'
■
And of what sort, monks,
the person who is immeasurable?
In this case we have a monk
in whom the āsavas are destroyed.
This one is called 'immeasurable.'
These are the three sorts of person
found to exist in the world."
[1] At Pugg. 35.
[2] Cf. K.S. v, 241.
