Aṇguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
13. Gilāna Vagga
The Book of Fives
Sutta 122
Sati-Sūpa-ṭ-ṭhita Suttaṃ
The Well Set-up Mind
Translated from the Pāḷi
by
Michael M. Olds
Once upon a time The Lucky Man Sāvatthī-town revisiting.
There then he addressed the beggars:
"Beggars!"
And the beggars responding: 'Bhante!,'
the Bhagava said:
2. "He, indeed whoever, beggar or beggar-woman, five things brings into existence,
five things make substantial,
of such, one or another of two fruitions are to be anticipated:
either knowing the answer[1] in this seen thing,
or, there being potentialities,[2]
the state of non-returning.
What five?
Here beggars, a beggar has very well internally set up the wisdom of minding
the appearance and retreat of things,
observation of the disadvantages of living in a body,
perception of the revolting in food,
perception of joylessness in all the world,
perception of the instability of all that is own-made.
2. He, indeed whoever, beggar or beggar-woman, five things brings into existence,
five things make substantial,
of such, one or another of two fruitions are to be anticipated:
either knowing the answer in this seen thing,
or, there being potentialities,
the state of non-returning.
[1] Aññā. To know. Specifically in the Dhamma, the knowing of whatever one wishes to know, whenever one wishes to know it. A synonym for Arahantship.
[2] Upadisese. That for which there remains the potential for re-appearance.
