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Numbered Discourses 9.16 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.16

2. The Lion’s Roar – 2. Sīhanādavagga

AN 9.16 Perceptions – Saññāsutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, these nine perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are very fruitful and beneficial. They culminate in the deathless and end with the deathless.

“Navayimā, bhikkhave, saññā bhāvitā bahulīkatā mahapphalā honti mahānisaṁsā amatogadhā amatapariyosānā.

1.2

What nine?

Katamā nava?

1.3

The perceptions of ugliness, death, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, anicca, suffering in anicca, not-self in suffering, giving up, and fading away.

Asubhasaññā, maraṇasaññā, āhāre paṭikūlasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā, aniccasaññā, anicce dukkhasaññā, dukkhe anattasaññā, pahānasaññā, virāgasaññā—

1.4

These nine perceptions, when developed and cultivated, are very fruitful and beneficial. They culminate in the deathless and end with the deathless.”

imā kho, bhikkhave, nava saññā, bhāvitā bahulīkatā mahapphalā honti mahānisaṁsā amatogadhā amatapariyosānā”ti.

1.5

 

Chaṭṭhaṁ.