Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

6: The Book of the Sixes

110. Perceptions

1"Bhikkhus, there are these three things. What three? (1) Sensual perception, (2) perception of ill will, and (3) perception of harming. These are three things. Three other things are to be developed for abandoning these three things. What three? (4) The perception of renunciation is to be developed for abandoning sensual perception. (5) The perception of good will is to be developed for abandoning the perception of ill will. (6) The perception of harmlessness is to be developed for abandoning the perception of harming. These three things are to be developed for abandoning the former three things."

1"Tayome, bhikkhave, dhammā. Katame tayo? Kāmasaññā, byāpādasaññā, vihiṁsāsaññā. Ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo dhammā. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tiṇṇaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame tayo? Kāmasaññāya pahānāya nekkhammasaññā bhāvetabbā, byāpādasaññāya pahānāya abyāpādasaññā bhāvetabbā, vihiṁsāsaññāya pahānāya avihiṁsāsaññā bhāvetabbā. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tiṇṇaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya ime tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā"ti.


Catutthaṁ.

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