Aṅguttara Nikāya
VIII. Navaka Nipāta
III. Sattāvāsa Vagga

The Book of Nines

Sutta 25

Paññā-Paricita Suttaṃ

Well Built With Wisdom

Translated from the Pāḷi
by
Michael M. Olds

 

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[1][pts][than] I hear tell:

Once upon a time The Lucky Man
Sāvātthi-town revisiting
Anāthapiṇḍika's Jetavana sporting ground.

"When, beggars, a beggar's
heart is well built with wisdom
then a beggar, beggars, may say:

'"Destroyed is rebirth,
lived has been the best of lives,
duty's doings done,
no more is there it'n'at'n."

This I know.'

 

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And how, beggars, is
a beggar's heart
well built with wisdom?

Knowing: 'Free is my heart from passion'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'Free is my heart from anger'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'Free is my heart from confusion'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'Disconnected from passion is my heart'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'Disconnected from anger is my heart'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'Disconnected from confusion is my heart'
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'A non-returning thing
is my heart
to coming again to
the worlds of sense-pleasures'^[1]
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'A non-returning thing
is my heart
to coming again to
the worlds of forms'^[2]
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

Knowing: 'A non-returning thing
is my heart
to coming again to
the formless worlds'^[3]
a beggar's heart
is well built with wisdom.

"When, beggars, a beggar's
heart is well built with wisdom
then a beggar, beggars, may say:

'"Destroyed is rebirth,
lived has been the best of lives,
duty's doings done,
no more is there it'n'at'n."

This I know.'"

 

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^[1] I. Beings living in the kama lokas.

Niraya Hells,
animal bodies,
ghostly realms,
demonic forms,
human beings,
beings that reside with the Four Kings of the Four Directions,
beings that reside with the Gods of the Chamber of the Three and Thirty,
beings that reside in Yama's Paradise,
beings that reside with The Gods of the Heaven of Delight,
beings that reside with The Gods of Creation,
beings that reside with The Gods of Manipulation.

^[2] II. Beings living in the Rūpa Lokas

Beings that reside in Brahma's Retinue,
beings that reside in the Paradise of Māha Brahma,
beings that reside in the Abhassara Realm,
beings that reside in the Subhakinna Realm,
beings that reside in the Vehapphala Realm,
beings that reside in the Asaññā Realm,
beings that reside in the Suddhavasa Realms: Aviha, Attappa, Sudassa, Sudassi, and Akanittha.

^[3] III. Beings of the Arūpa Lokas.

Beings that reside in the Ākāsānañcāyatana: The Realm of Space,
beings that reside in the Viññāṇānañcāyatana: The Realm of Consciousness,
beings that reside in the Ākiñcaññāyatana: The Realm Where Nothings Had,
beings that reside in the N'eva-sanna-nasann'ayatana: The Realm of Neither-Perceiving-Nor-Non-Perceiving.

For details see: The Realms of the Imagination, or A Map of the Mind
and see also
The Buddhist Cosmos, by Punnadhammo Mahāthera.

 

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