Aṅguttara Nikāya
X. Dasaka-Nipāta
VIII: Ākaṅkha-Vagga
X. The Book of the Tens
VIII: On Wishes
Sutta 80
Āghāta-Paṭivinaya Suttaṃ
Ways of Checking Ill-will
[102]
Thus have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these ten ways of checking ill-will.
What ten?
[1] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so has done me harm.
But how can that be?1
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[2] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so is doing me harm.
But how can that be?
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[3] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so will do me harm.
But how can that be?
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[4] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so has done harm to one dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[5] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so is doing harm to one dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[6]ed1 One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so will do harm to one dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[7] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so has done good to one not dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[8] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so is doing good to one not dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[9] One checks ill-will at the thought:
So-and-so will do good to one not dear and precious to me.
But how can that be?
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[10] Anded2 one is not groundlessly annoyed.
These are the ten ways of checking ill-will.'
1 Kut'ettha labbhā ( = sakkā). Cf. S. i, 185. Possibly 'it can't be helped.'
ed1 Woodward omits.
ed2 Woodward has "Thus" which would indicate that this was a conclusion based on the previous nine and this would leave us with only nine factors. The Pali reads "and": "aṭṭhāne ca na ~." Bhk. Bodhi footnotes the previous sutta with the explanation that this has to do with getting angry when one stubs one's toe on a rock and such things as are not intentional affliction-inflictions.