Aṇguttara Nikāya
Sattaka Nipāta
V. Mahāyañña-Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sevens
Chapter V: The Great Sacrifice
Sutta 42
Satta Samādhi-Parikkhāra Suttaṃ
The Adorning[1]
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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[1][olds][upal]'Monks, these seven are the adornments of concentration.
What seven?
Right view,
right resolve,
right speech,
right action,
right livelihood,
right effort,
right mindfulness.
Verily, monks, one-pointedness[2] of mind,
which is adorned by these seven things,
is called Ariyan right concentration
with its approach[3] just thus,
its adornment just thus.'
[1] Parikkhāra, D. ii, 216; iii, 252; M. iii, 71.
[2] Ekaggatā
[3] Sa-upaniso.
