AN 9 The Book of the Nines – Navakanipāta > AN 9.93 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st)

Numbered Discourses 9.93 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 9

10. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed – 10. Rāgapeyyāla

AN 9.93 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) – ~

1.1

“For insight into greed, nine things should be developed.

“Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya nava dhammā bhāvetabbā.

1.2

What nine?

Katame 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

For insight into greed, these nine things should be developed.”

rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime nava dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.