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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Tens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dasakanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 35 of 35
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-10/35/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Tens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dasakanipāta, section 35. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-10/35/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Tens · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dasakanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in tens: ten perceptions, ten wholesome ways of action, the ten powers of the Realized One.

> 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.

## 35. Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed · AN 10.237–10.267–746

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-10/35/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-10/35/#p-N

[¶0] AN 10.237 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st)

> Pali: AN 10.237 · ~

[¶1] “For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? The perceptions of ugliness, death, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, impermanence, suffering in impermanence, and not-self in suffering, giving up, fading away, and cessation. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame dasa? Asubhasaññā, maraṇasaññā, āhāre paṭikūlasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā, aniccasaññā, anicce dukkhasaññā, dukkhe anattasaññā, pahānasaññā, virāgasaññā, nirodhasaññā— rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶2] AN 10.238 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd)

> Pali: AN 10.238 · ~

[¶3] “For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? The perceptions of impermanence, not-self, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the whole world, a skeleton, a worm-infested corpse, a livid corpse, a festering corpse, a split open corpse, and a bloated corpse. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame dasa? Aniccasaññā, anattasaññā, āhāre paṭikūlasaññā, sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā, aṭṭhikasaññā, puḷavakasaññā, vinīlakasaññā, vipubbakasaññā, vicchiddakasaññā, uddhumātakasaññā— rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶4] AN 10.239 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (3rd)

> Pali: AN 10.239 · ~

[¶5] “For insight into greed, ten things should be developed. What ten? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. For insight into greed, these ten things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame dasa? Sammādiṭṭhi, sammāsaṅkappo, sammāvācā, sammākammanto, sammāājīvo, sammāvāyāmo, sammāsati, sammāsamādhi, sammāñāṇaṁ, sammāvimutti— rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶6] AN 10.240–266 · Untitled Discourses on Greed

> Pali: AN 10.240–266 · ~

[¶7] “For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go … these ten things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, pariññāya …pe… parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … (…) cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya …pe… ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”.

[¶8] AN 10.267–746 · Untitled Discourses on Hate, Etc.

> Pali: AN 10.267–746 · ~

[¶9] “Of hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … for the complete understanding of negligence … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of negligence … these ten things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Dosassa …pe… mohassa … kodhassa … upanāhassa … makkhassa … paḷāsassa … issāya … macchariyassa … māyāya … sāṭheyyassa … thambhassa … sārambhassa … mānassa … atimānassa … madassa … pamādassa pariññāya …pe… parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … (…) cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya …pe… ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶10] > Pali: Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

[¶11] > Pali: Pañcamo paṇṇāsako samatto.

[¶12] The Book of the Tens is finished.

> Pali: Dasakanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.