Saṁyutta Nikāya,
V: Mahā-Vagga
46. Bojjhanga Saṁyutta
II. Gilāna-Vaggo

V: The Great Chapter
46: Kindred Sayings on the Limbs of Wisdom
II. The Sick Man

Sutta 19

Ariya Suttaṁ

Ariyan

 

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THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"These seven limbs of wisdom, monks,
if cultivated and made much of,
are the Ariyan profitable things.¹

For him that acts in accordance therewith
they conduce to the utter destruction of ill.

What seven?

The limb of wisdom that is mindfulness,
the limb of wisdom that is Norm investigation,
the limb of wisdom that is energy,
the limb of wisdom that is zest,
the limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
the limb of wisdom that is concentration,
the limb of wisdom that is equanimity."

"These seven limbs of wisdom, monks,
if cultivated and made much of,
are the Ariyan profitable things.

For him that acts in accordance therewith
they conduce to the utter destruction of ill.

 

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¹ Niyyānikā (leading to salvation); cf. infra, text 255 (of the Four Bases of Psychic Power.