Aṅguttara Nikāya
VIII. Navaka Nipāta
III. Satt'Āvāsa Vagga

VIII. The Book of the Nines

Chapter III: Spheres of Beings

Sutta 25

Paññā-Paricita Suttaṃ

Wisdom¹

 

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[270]

Thus have I heard:

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

There he addressed the monks, saying: "Monks."

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

"Monks, when the mind of a monk is well heaped around with wisdom,
it is proper for that monk to say:

'I know that birth is destroyed,
the godly life lived,
done is what was to be done
and there is no more life in these conditions.'²

 

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And how, monks, is the mind of a monk
well heaped around with wisdom?

'Passion-free is my mind' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;

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'hatred-free is my mind,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;^ed1

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'delusion-free is my mind,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;

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'free of any passionate condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;

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'free of any hateful condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;

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'free of any delusive condition,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom;

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'my mind is free of any condition
of return [271] for becoming
in (the worlds of) sense, form and no form,' -
(knowing this) is his mind well heaped around with wisdom.

Verily, monks, when the mind of a monk
is well heaped around with wisdom,
it is proper for that monk to say:

'I know that birth is destroyed,
the godly life lived,
done is what was to be done
and there is no more life in these conditions.'"

 

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¹ The Uddāna reads: saññā, with v.l. paññā.

² This is, of course, the affirmation of arahantship.

 

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^ed1 Hare abridges this list.