Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka-Nipāta
11. Phāsu-Vihāra Vagga

The book of the Fives

Chapter XI: The Abodes of Comfort

Sutta 110

Arañña Suttaṃ

The Forest

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Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One dwelt near Sāvatthī;
and there he addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

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

"Monks, possessed of five things
a monk is fit to follow the ways of the forest-wildernesses,
the outland bed and seat'¹

Of what five?

Herein, monks, a monk is virtuous,
abides restrained by the restraint of the Obligations,
is perfected in conduct and habit,
sees peril in the smallest fault,
accepts the training
and trains himself accordantly;

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and he is learned,
with a retentive and well-stored mind,
and those things
lovely in the beginning,
lovely in the middle,
lovely in the end,
setting forth in spirit and letter
the godly life,
perfect in its entirety,
are learnt by him,
resolved upon,
made familiar by speech,
pondered over in the mind,
fully understood in theory;

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herein, monks, the Ariyan disciple,
abiding in active energy,
puts away all wrong things
and takes to right things;
steadfast and strenuous,
he shirks not the burden of righteousness;²

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and he obtains at will,
without trouble,
without difficulty,
both here and now,
the abodes of ease:
the fourfold musings,
highly mental;

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and enters and abides
in the emancipation of the mind,
in the emancipation of insight,
which is free of the cankers,
realizing this state by his own knowledge
even in this life.

Verily, monks, possessed of these five things
a monk is fit to follow the ways of the wildernesses,
the outland bed and seat.'

¹ See Breath. p. xl. Comy. says a khīṇāsava is referred to.