<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Navigation:  AN 6 The Book of the Sixes – Chakkanipāta > AN 6.117 Observing the Body – Kāyānupassīsutta

Numbered Discourses 6.117 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.117

12. The Ascetic Life – 12. Sāmaññavagga

AN 6.117 Observing the Body – Kāyānupassīsutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, without giving up these six qualities you can’t meditate observing an aspect of the body.

“Cha, bhikkhave, dhamme appahāya abhabbo kāye kāyānupassī viharituṁ.

1.2

What six?

Katame cha?

1.3

Relishing work, talk, sleep, and company, not guarding the sense doors, and eating too much.

Kammārāmataṁ, bhassārāmataṁ, niddārāmataṁ, saṅgaṇikārāmataṁ, indriyesu aguttadvārataṁ, bhojane amattaññutaṁ.

1.4

Without giving up these six qualities you can’t meditate observing an aspect of the body.

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cha dhamme appahāya abhabbo kāye kāyānupassī viharituṁ.

2.1

But after giving up these six qualities you can meditate observing an aspect of the body.

Cha, bhikkhave, dhamme pahāya bhabbo kāye kāyānupassī viharituṁ.

2.2

What six?

Katame cha?

2.3

Relishing work, talk, sleep, and company, not guarding the sense doors, and eating too much.

Kammārāmataṁ, bhassārāmataṁ, niddārāmataṁ, saṅgaṇikārāmataṁ, indriyesu aguttadvārataṁ, bhojane amattaññutaṁ.

2.4

After giving up these six qualities you can meditate observing an aspect of the body.”

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cha dhamme pahāya bhabbo kāye kāyānupassī viharitun”ti.

2.5

 

Paṭhamaṁ.