Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
I: Sekha-Bala Vagga

The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha
V. The Book of the Fives
I. The Trainee's Powers

Sutta 6

Akusala-Samāpatti Suttaɱ

Entering

Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

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[5] [632]

[1][pts][olds] (1) "Bhikkhus, there is no entering upon the unwholesome so long as faith is securely settled in [cultivating] wholesome qualities.

But when faith has disappeared and lack of faith obsesses one, then there is the entering upon the unwholesome.

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(2) "There is no entering upon the unwholesome so long as a sense of moral shame is securely settled in [cultivating] wholesome qualities.

But when a sense of moral shame has disappeared and moral shamelessness obsesses one, then there is the entering upon the unwholesome.

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(3) "There is no entering upon the unwholesome so long as moral dread is securely settled in [cultivating] wholesome qualities.

But when moral dread has disappeared and lack of moral dread obsesses one, then there is the entering upon the unwholesome.

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(4) "There is no entering upon the unwholesome so long as energy is securely settled in [cultivating] wholesome qualities.

But when energy has disappeared and laziness obsesses one, then there is the entering upon the unwholesome.

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(5) "There is no entering upon the unwholesome so long as wisdom is securely settled in [cultivating] wholesome qualities.

But when wisdom has disappeared and lack of wisdom obsesses one, then there is the entering upon the unwholesome."