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Numbered Discourses 5.52 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.52

6. Hindrances – 6. Nīvaraṇavagga

AN 5.52 A Heap of the Unskillful – Akusalarāsisutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, rightly speaking, you’d call the five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.

“Akusalarāsīti, bhikkhave, vadamāno pañca nīvaraṇe sammā vadamāno vadeyya.

1.2

For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.

Kevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, akusalarāsi yadidaṁ pañca nīvaraṇā.

1.3

What five?

Katame pañca?

1.4

The hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

Kāmacchandanīvaraṇaṁ, byāpādanīvaraṇaṁ, thinamiddhanīvaraṇaṁ, uddhaccakukkuccanīvaraṇaṁ, vicikicchānīvaraṇaṁ.

1.5

Rightly speaking, you’d call these five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.

Akusalarāsīti, bhikkhave, vadamāno ime pañca nīvaraṇe sammā vadamāno vadeyya.

1.6

For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.”

Kevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, akusalarāsi yadidaṁ pañca nīvaraṇā”ti.

1.7

 

Dutiyaṁ.