Aṇguttara Nikāya
X. Dasaka-Nipāta
VI. Sa-Citta Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
X. The Book of the Tens
VI: One's Own Thoughts
Sutta 59
Pabbajjā Suttaṃ
Forthgoing
Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.
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Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:
"Wherefore, monks, thus must ye train yourselves:
Our thought shall be compassed about
as it was when we went forth (from home);[1]
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evil, unprofitable states arising
shall not overpower our thought
and abide therein;
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[1] compassed about with the idea of impermanence
shall our thought become;
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[2] compassed about with the idea of the not-self,
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[3] with the idea of the foul,
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[4] with the idea of the danger (in things)
shall our thought become;
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[5] learning the straight way
and the crooked way in the world[2]
our thought shall be compassed about by the idea of that;
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[6] learning the composition and decomposition of the world
our thought shall be compassed about with that idea;
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[7] knowing the origin and the ending of the world
our thought shall be compassed about by that idea;
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[8] with the idea of abandoning,
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[9] of fading interest,
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[10] of making it to cease
shall our thoughts be compassed about.
Thus, monks, must ye train yourselves.
§
[108]And when a monk's thought is thus compassed about
as at his forthgoing,
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and when evil, unprofitable states arising
do not overpower his thought
and abide therein;
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and when his thought becomes compassed about
with the idea of impermanence
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and when his thoughts become compassed about
with the idea of the not-self,
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with the idea of the foul,
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with the idea of the danger (in things)
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and when his thoughts become compassed about
by learning the straight way
and the crooked way in the world
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and when his thoughts become compassed about
by learning the composition
and decomposition of the world
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and when his thoughts become compassed about
by knowing the origin and the ending of the world
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and when his thoughts become compassed about
by the idea of abandoning,
of fading interest,
of making it to cease
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one of two fruits is to be looked for in him -
either gnosis in this same visible state or,
if there be any remnant,
the fruit of not-returning.'
[1] Yāthā-pabbajja-paricitaṃ = vaḍḍhitaṃ, Comy. UdA. 323 equal to samantato citā (heaped up sill round), suvaḍḍhita. At A. iv, 402, paññāya cittaṃ paricitaṃ = cittācāra-pariyāyena cito vaḍḍhito, Comy.
[2] Lokassa samñ ca visamañ ca = satta-lokassa sucarita-duccaritāni, Comy.
