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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 11 of 31
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/11/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta, section 11. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/11/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in ones: one thing that obsesses the mind, one thing that leads to great harm, the one person born for the welfare of the world.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 11. The Chapter on Not the Teaching · AN 1.140–1.142–149

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/11/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/11/#p-N

[¶0] AN 1.140

> Pali: AN 1.140

[¶1] “Mendicants, those mendicants who explain what is not the teaching as not the teaching are acting for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans. They brim with much merit and make the true teaching continue.”

> Pali: “Ye te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū adhammaṁ adhammoti dīpenti te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū bahujanahitāya paṭipannā bahujanasukhāya, bahuno janassa atthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanussānaṁ. Bahuñca te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū puññaṁ pasavanti, te cimaṁ saddhammaṁ ṭhapentī”ti.

[¶2] > Pali: Paṭhamaṁ.

[¶3] AN 1.141

> Pali: AN 1.141

[¶4] “Mendicants, those mendicants who explain what is the teaching as the teaching are acting for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans. They brim with much merit and make the true teaching continue.”

> Pali: “Ye te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū dhammaṁ dhammoti dīpenti te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū bahujanahitāya paṭipannā bahujanasukhāya, bahuno janassa atthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanussānaṁ. Bahuñca te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū puññaṁ pasavanti, te cimaṁ saddhammaṁ ṭhapentī”ti.

[¶5] > Pali: Dutiyaṁ.

[¶6] AN 1.142–149 · 142–149

> Pali: AN 1.142–149 · 142–149

[¶7] “Those mendicants who explain what is not found in the monastic law as not found in the monastic law … what is found in the monastic law as found in the monastic law … what was not spoken and stated by the Realized One as not spoken and stated by the Realized One … what was spoken and stated by the Realized One as spoken and stated by the Realized One … what was not practiced by the Realized One as not practiced by the Realized One … what was practiced by the Realized One as practiced by the Realized One … what was not prescribed by the Realized One as not prescribed by the Realized One … what was prescribed by the Realized One as prescribed by the Realized One … are acting for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans. They brim with much merit and make the true teaching continue.”

> Pali: “Ye te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū avinayaṁ avinayoti dīpenti …pe… vinayaṁ vinayoti dīpenti …pe… abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatena abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti …pe… bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatena bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti …pe… anāciṇṇaṁ tathāgatena anāciṇṇaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti …pe… āciṇṇaṁ tathāgatena āciṇṇaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti …pe… apaññattaṁ tathāgatena apaññattaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti …pe… paññattaṁ tathāgatena paññattaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpenti; te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū bahujanahitāya paṭipannā bahujanasukhāya, bahuno janassa atthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanussānaṁ. Bahuñca te, bhikkhave, bhikkhū puññaṁ pasavanti, te cimaṁ saddhammaṁ ṭhapentī”ti.

[¶8] > Pali: Dasamaṁ.

[¶9] > Pali: Adhammavaggo ekādasamo.