Aṅguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
XVI. Acelaka Vagga

III. The Book of the Threes

XVI. The Unclothed

Sutta 163

Rāga Peyyālaṃ

Lust (repetition series)

For a fully rolled out version of this Peyyālaṃ see the M. Olds translation.

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THUS HAVE I HEARD

Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks!"

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, for a full insight into lust three conditions must be cultivated.

What three?

Concentration on the void,
the signless,
on no more hankering.¹

For the full comprehension,
destruction,
abandoning,
wearing out,
disgust with,
ceasing from,
giving up
and getting rid of lust,
these three conditions must be cultivated.

For a full insight into resentment,
infatuation,
wrath,
enmity,
hypocrisy,
delusion,
treachery,
stubbornness,
impetuosity,
pride,
overbearing arrogance,
intoxication of mind,
and negligence^ed1
three conditions must be cultivated.

What three?

Concentration on the void,
the signless,
on no more hankering.

For the full comprehension,
destruction,
abandoning,
wearing out,
disgust with,
ceasing from,
giving up
and getting rid of resentment,
infatuation,
wrath,
enmity,
hypocrisy,
delusion,
treachery,
stubbornness,
impetuosity,
pride,
overbearing arrogance,
intoxication of mind,
and negligence
these three conditions must be cultivated."

Thus spake the Exalted One, and those monks, delighted, approved of the Exalted One's words.

^ed1 Woodward has left out two terms and it is not at all clear which two. I have therefore left the sequence as published only running the terms together to make the whole more coherent.