Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka-Nipāta
Kakudha vaggo

The Book of the Fives

Chapter X: Kakudha

Sutta 95

Akuppa Suttaṃ

The Immovable

 


[93]

[1 THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park;
and there he addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

'Yes, lord,' they replied;
and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, possessed of five qualities a monk in no long time will penetrate the immovable.1

Of what five?

He is a master of logical analysis;
a master in analysing causal relations;
a master of grammatical analysis;
a master in analysing things knowable;2
and he reflects on the mind as freed.3

Monks, possessed of these five qualities a monk in no long time will penetrate the immovable.'

 


1 Akuppa, lit. unshaking. Comy. arahattaṃ.

2 Above, § 86.

3 Above, § 89.