AN 6 The Book of the Sixes – Chakkanipāta > AN 6.73 First Absorption (1st)

Numbered Discourses 6.73 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.73

7. A God – 7. Devatāvagga

AN 6.73 First Absorption (1st) – Paṭhamatajjhānasutta

1.1

“Bhikkhū, without giving up these six qualities you can’t enter and remain in the first absorption.

“Cha, bhikkhave, dhamme appahāya abhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.

1.2

What six?

Katame cha?

1.3

Desire for sensual pleasures, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

Kāmacchandaṁ, byāpādaṁ, thinamiddhaṁ, uddhaccakukkuccaṁ, vicikicchaṁ.

1.4

And the drawbacks of sensual pleasures haven’t been truly seen clearly with right wisdom.

Kāmesu kho panassa ādīnavo na yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya sudiṭṭho hoti.

1.5

Without giving up these six qualities you can’t enter and remain in the first absorption.

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cha dhamme appahāya abhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.

2.1

But after giving up these six qualities you can enter and remain in the first absorption.

Cha, bhikkhave, dhamme pahāya bhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.

2.2

What six?

Katame cha?

2.3

Desire for sensual pleasures, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

Kāmacchandaṁ, byāpādaṁ, thinamiddhaṁ, uddhaccakukkuccaṁ, vicikicchaṁ,

2.4

And the drawbacks of sensual pleasures have been truly seen clearly with right wisdom.

kāmesu kho panassa ādīnavo na yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya sudiṭṭho hoti.

2.5

After giving up these six qualities you can enter and remain in the first absorption.”

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cha dhamme pahāya bhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharitun”ti.

2.6

Navamaṁ.