The Book of the Sixes

Chapter X: Advantages

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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, if a monk perceive six advantages,
it is enough to establish,
without reserve,
the thought of not-self anent all things.

What six?

Then in any world I shall become no part of it;¹

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all that makes for the "I" in me shall be checked;

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all that makes for the "mine" shall be checked;

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mine shall be the knowledge that cannot be imparted;

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and by me cause shall be rightly discerned
and the causal origin of things."²

Verily, monks, if a monk perceive these six advantages,
it is enough to establish,
without reserve,
the thought of not-self anent all things.'

¹ Sabbaloke ca atammayo (not made of that) bhavissāmi; see G.S. i, 133 n.

² Buddh. Psych. 99.