Aṅguttara Nikāya
X. Dasaka-Nipāta
XIV: Sādhu-Vagga

X. The Book of the Tens

XIV: The Seemly (a)¹

Sutta 134

Sādhu Suttaṃ

Right and Wrong

 

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THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

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

"Monks, I will teach you the seemly and the unseemly.

Do ye listen to it.

Pay attention carefully and I will speak."

"We will, sir," replied those monks to the Exalted One,
who said this:

"And what, monks, is the unseemly?

Wrong view,
wrong thinking,
wrong speech,
wrong action,
wrong living,
wrong effort,
wrong mindfulness,
wrong concentration,
wrong knowledge,
wrong release.

This is called 'the unseemly.'

 

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And what, monks, is the seemly?

Right view,
right thinking,
right speech,
right action,
right living,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration,
right knowledge,
right release.

This is called 'the seemly.'"

 

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¹ Sādhu. This chapter has no uddāna.