Aṅguttara Nikāya
IX. Navaka Nipāta
II. Sīhanāda Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
IX. The Book of the Nines
Chapter II: The Lion Roar
Sutta 16
Saññā Suttaɱ
Thoughts
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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[1][than][upal][olds] Thus have I heard:
At Savatthī the Exalted One said:
"Monks, these nine thoughts,[1] when made become,
made much of,
are very fruitful and of great advantage,
merging and ending in the deathless.
What nine?
The thought of foulness,
of death,
of the repulsiveness of food,
of universal wretchedness,
of impermanence,
of ill in impermanence,
of no self in ill,
of renunciation,
of freedom from passion.
Monks, these nine thoughts,
when made become,
made much of,
are very fruitful and of great advantage,
merging and ending in the deathless."
