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Numbered Discourses 9.72 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.72
7. Mindfulness Meditation – 7. Satipaṭṭhānavagga
AN 9.72 Emotional Shackles – Cetasovinibandhasutta
1.1
“Bhikkhū, there are these five emotional shackles.
“Pañcime, bhikkhave, cetasovinibandhā.
1.2
What five?
Katame pañca?
1.3
Firstly, a bhikkhu isn’t free of greed, desire, fondness, thirst, passion, and craving for sensual pleasures.
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāmesu avītarāgo hoti avigatacchando avigatapemo avigatapipāso avigatapariḷāho avigatataṇho.
1.4
This being so, their mind doesn’t incline toward keenness, commitment, persistence, and striving.
Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāmesu avītarāgo hoti avigatacchando avigatapemo avigatapipāso avigatapariḷāho avigatataṇho, tassa cittaṁ na namati ātappāya anuyogāya sātaccāya padhānāya.
1.5
This is the first emotional shackle.
Yassa cittaṁ na namati ātappāya anuyogāya sātaccāya padhānāya, ayaṁ paṭhamo cetasovinibandho.
2.1
Furthermore, a bhikkhu isn’t free of greed for the body …
Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāye avītarāgo hoti …pe…
2.2
They’re not free of greed for form …
rūpe avītarāgo hoti …
2.3
They eat as much as they like until their belly is full, then indulge in the pleasures of sleeping, lying down, and drowsing …
yāvadatthaṁ udarāvadehakaṁ bhuñjitvā seyyasukhaṁ passasukhaṁ middhasukhaṁ anuyutto viharati …
2.4
They lead the spiritual life wishing to be reborn in one of the orders of gods: ‘By this precept or observance or mortification or spiritual life, may I become one of the gods!’
aññataraṁ devanikāyaṁ paṇidhāya brahmacariyaṁ carati: ‘imināhaṁ sīlena vā vatena vā tapena vā brahmacariyena vā devo vā bhavissāmi devaññataro vā’ti.
2.5
This being so, their mind doesn’t incline toward keenness, commitment, persistence, and striving.
Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu aññataraṁ devanikāyaṁ paṇidhāya brahmacariyaṁ carati: ‘imināhaṁ sīlena vā vatena vā tapena vā brahmacariyena vā devo vā bhavissāmi devaññataro vā’ti, tassa cittaṁ na namati ātappāya anuyogāya sātaccāya padhānāya.
2.6
This is the fifth emotional shackle.
Yassa cittaṁ na namati ātappāya anuyogāya sātaccāya padhānāya, ayaṁ pañcamo cetasovinibandho.
2.7
These are the five emotional shackles.
Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañca cetasovinibandhā.
3.1
To give up these five emotional shackles you should develop the four kinds of mindfulness meditation.
Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ cetasovinibandhānaṁ pahānāya cattāro satipaṭṭhānā bhāvetabbā.
3.2
What four?
Katame cattāro?
3.3
It’s when a bhikkhu meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of desire and aversion for the world.
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāye kāyānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ;
3.4
They meditate observing an aspect of feelings …
vedanāsu …pe…
3.5
They meditate observing an aspect of the mind …
citte …
3.6
They meditate observing an aspect of dhamma—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of desire and aversion for the world.
dhammesu dhammānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ.
3.7
To give up these five emotional shackles you should develop these four kinds of mindfulness meditation.”
Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ cetasovinibandhānaṁ pahānāya ime cattāro satipaṭṭhānā bhāvetabbā”ti.
3.8
Dasamaṁ.
3.9
Satipaṭṭhānavaggo dutiyo.
4.0
Tassuddānaṁ
4.1
Sikkhā nīvaraṇākāmā,
4.2
Khandhā ca orambhāgiyā gati;
4.3
Maccheraṁ uddhambhāgiyā aṭṭhamaṁ,
4.4
Cetokhilā vinibandhāti.