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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Twos · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dukanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 19 of 19
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/19/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Twos · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dukanipāta, section 19. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/19/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Twos · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dukanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in twos: two kinds of happiness, two debts that can never be repaid, the bright and the dark.

> 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.

## 19. The Chapter of Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed · AN 2.310–319–2.320–479

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/19/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/19/#p-N

[¶0] AN 2.310–319 · 310–319

> Pali: AN 2.310–319 · 310–319

[¶1] “For insight into greed, two things should be developed. What two? Serenity and discernment. For insight into greed, these two things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya dve dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame dve? Samatho ca vipassanā ca. Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime dve dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶2] “For the complete understanding … finishing … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of greed, two things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, pariññāya … parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya dve dhammā bhāvetabbā …pe…

[¶3] AN 2.320–479 · 320–479

> Pali: AN 2.320–479 · 320–479

[¶4] “Of hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceit … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … negligence … for insight … complete understanding … finishing … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go … two things should be developed. What two? Serenity and discernment. For the letting go of negligence, these two things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Dosassa …pe… mohassa … kodhassa … upanāhassa … makkhassa … paḷāsassa … issāya … macchariyassa … māyāya … sāṭheyyassa … thambhassa … sārambhassa … mānassa … atimānassa … madassa … pamādassa … abhiññāya … pariññāya … parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya dve dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame dve? Samatho ca vipassanā ca. Pamādassa, bhikkhave, paṭinissaggāya ime dve dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶5] That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.

> Pali: Idamavoca bhagavā. Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandunti.

[¶6] > Pali: Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

[¶7] The Book of the Twos is finished.

> Pali: Dukanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.