Aṅguttara Nikāya
Chakka-Nipāta
I: Āhuneyya-Vagga

The Book of the Sixes

Chapter I: The Worthy

Sutta 9

Anussatiṭṭhāna Suttaṃ

Ever Minding¹

 

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Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, there are these six states of ever minding.

What-six?

The ever minding of the Buddha;
the ever minding of Dhamma;
the ever minding of the Order;
the ever minding of virtue;
the ever minding of liberality;
the ever minding of the devas.

Monks, these are the six states of ever minding.'

 

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¹ Anu-s-sati, Vism. Ch. vii, 'Recollections'; below, § 25; D. iii, 250; A. i, 207 (G.S. i, 187ff.); A. v, 329 ff.