Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

1: The Book of the Ones

1. Obsession of the Mind - 63

1"Bhikkhus, I do not see even a single thing that so causes unarisen wholesome qualities to arise and arisen unwholesome qualities to decline as fewness of desires. [n.53] Appicchatā. Mp: "Whereas the expression (‘fewness of desires’) might be taken to mean that there could be a residue (of desire), the meaning is that there is no residue. For one is not called ‘of few desires’ if one still has slight desire; it is through the absence of desire, through persistent greedlessness, that one is said to be of few desires." For one with few desires, unarisen wholesome qualities arise and arisen unwholesome qualities decline."

1"Nāhaṁ, bhikkhave, aññaṁ ekadhammampi samanupassāmi yena anuppannā vā kusalā dhammā uppajjanti uppannā vā akusalā dhammā parihāyanti yathayidaṁ, bhikkhave, appicchatā. Appicchassa, bhikkhave, anuppannā ceva kusalā dhammā uppajjanti uppannā ca akusalā dhammā parihāyantī"ti.


Tatiyaṁ.

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