Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
VII: Saññā Vagga

The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha
V. The Book of the Fives
VII. Perceptions

Sutta 62

Dutiya Saññā Suttaɱ

Perceptions (2)

Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

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[1][pts][olds] "Bhikkhus, these five perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as their consummation.

What five?

The perception of impermanence,
the perception of non-self,
the perception of death,
the perception of the repulsiveness of food,
and the perception of non-delight in the entire world.

[80] These five perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as their consummation."