Aṅguttara Nikāya
VIII. Navaka Nipāta
III. Satt'Āvāsa Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
VIII. The Book of the Nines
Chapter III: Spheres of Beings
Sutta 25
Paññā-Paricita Suttaɱ
Wisdom[1]
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Savatthī, at Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
There he addressed the monks, saying: "Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied;
and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, when the mind of a monk is well heaped around with wisdom,
it is proper for that monk to say:
'I know that birth is destroyed,
the godly life lived,
done is what was to be done
and there is no more life in these conditions.'[2]
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And how, monks, is the mind of a monk
well heaped around with wisdom?
'Passion-free is my mind' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;
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'hatred-free is my mind,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;[ed1]
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'delusion-free is my mind,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;
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'free of any passionate condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;
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'free of any hateful condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;
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'free of any delusive condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;
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'my mind is free of any condition
of return [271] for becoming
in (the worlds of) sense, form and no form,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom.
Verily, monks, when the mind of a monk
is well heaped around with wisdom,
it is proper for that monk to say:
'I know that birth is destroyed,
the godly life lived,
done is what was to be done
and there is no more life in these conditions.'"
[1] The Uddāna reads: saññā, with v.l. paññā.
[2] This is, of course, the affirmation of arahantship.
[ed1] Hare abridges this list.
