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Aṅguttara Nikāya
Chakka Nipāta
X. Ānisaṅsa Vagga

The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sixes
Chapter X: Advantages

Sutta 104

Ukkhittāsika Suttaɱ

Without Reserve (c)

Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.

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[309]

[1][than] Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, if a monk perceive six advantages,
it is enough to establish,
without reserve,
the thought of not-self anent all things.

What six?

Then in any world I shall become no part of it;[1]

all that makes for the "I" in me shall be checked;

all that makes for the "mine" shall be checked;

mine shall be the knowledge that cannot be imparted;

and by me cause shall be rightly discerned
and the causal origin of things."[2]

Verily, monks, if a monk perceive these six advantages,
it is enough to establish,
without reserve,
the thought of not-self anent all things.'

 


[1] Sabbaloke ca atammayo (not made of that) bhavissāmi; see G.S. i, 133 n.

[2] Buddh. Psych. 99.


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