Aṅguttara Nikāya
Chakka-Nipāta
IV: Devatā-Vagga

The Book of the Sixes

Chapter IV: The Devas

Sutta 35

Vijjā-Bhāgiya Suttaṃ

Parts of Wisdom

 

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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, these six things are parts of wisdom.

What six?

The¹ idea of impermanence,
the idea of the Ill in impermanence,
the idea of not-self in Ill,
the idea of renunciation,
of dispassion,
of ending.

Monks, these six things are parts of wisdom.'

 

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¹ D. iii, 283; A. iv, 24; on vijja-bhāgiyā see DhS. trsl. 338 n.