Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

6: The Book of the Sixes

107. Lust

1"Bhikkhus, there are these three things. What three? (1) Lust, (2) hatred, and (3) delusion. These are three things. Three other things are to be developed for abandoning these three things. What three? (4) The unattractive is to be developed for abandoning lust. (5) Loving-kindness is to be developed for abandoning hatred. (6) Wisdom is to be developed for abandoning delusion. These three things are to be developed for abandoning the former three things."

1"Tayome, bhikkhave, dhammā. Katame tayo? Rāgo, doso, moho. Ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo dhammā. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tiṇṇaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame tayo? Rāgassa pahānāya asubhā bhāvetabbā, dosassa pahānāya mettā bhāvetabbā, mohassa pahānāya paññā bhāvetabbā. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tiṇṇaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya ime tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā"ti.


Paṭhamaṁ.

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