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Numbered Discourses 10.56 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.56

6. Your Own Mind – 6. Sacittavagga

AN 10.56 Perceptions (1st) – Paṭhamasaññāsutta

 

1.1

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

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

1.2

What ten?

Katamā dasa?

1.3

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

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

1.4

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

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

1.5

 

Chaṭṭhaṁ.