AN 9 The Book of the Nines – Navakanipāta > AN 9.94 Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd)

Numbered Discourses 9.94 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 9

10. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed – 10. Rāgapeyyāla

AN 9.94 Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd) – ~

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 first absorption, the second absorption, the third absorption, the fourth absorption, the dimension of infinite space, the dimension of infinite consciousness, the dimension of nothingness, the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, and the cessation of perception and feeling.

Paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ, dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ, tatiyaṁ jhānaṁ, catutthaṁ jhānaṁ, ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ, viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ, ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ, saññāvedayitanirodho—

1.4

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

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