Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

7: The Book of the Sevens

645–1124.

1"Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge … for full understanding … for the utter destruction … for the abandoning … for the destruction … for the vanishing … for the fading away … for the cessation … for the giving up … for the relinquishment of hatred … of delusion … of anger … of hostility … of denigration … of insolence … of envy … of miserliness … of deceitfulness … of craftiness … of obstinacy … of vehemence … of conceit … of arrogance … of intoxication … of heedlessness … these seven things are to be developed."

2This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, those bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One's statement.

The Book of the Sevens is finished.

1"Dosassa … pe … mohassa … kodhassa … upanāhassa … makkhassa … paḷāsassa … issāya … macchariyassa … māyāya … sāṭheyyassa … thambhassa … sārambhassa … mānassa … atimānassa … madassa … pamādassa abhiññāya … pe … pariññāya … parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya … pe … ime satta dhammā bhāvetabbā"ti.

2Idamavoca bhagavā. Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandunti.


Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

Sattakanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.

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