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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: 8 of 19
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/8/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Twos · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Dukanipāta, section 8. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/8/"
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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.

## 8. The Chapter with a Basis · AN 2.77–2.86

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/8/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-2/8/#p-N

[¶0] AN 2.77

> Pali: AN 2.77

[¶1] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a basis, not without a basis. By giving up that basis, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sanimittā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no animittā. Tasseva nimittassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶2] AN 2.78

> Pali: AN 2.78

[¶3] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a source, not without a source. By giving up that source, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sanidānā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no anidānā. Tasseva nidānassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶4] AN 2.79

> Pali: AN 2.79

[¶5] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a cause, not without a cause. By giving up that cause, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sahetukā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no ahetukā. Tasseva hetussa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶6] AN 2.80

> Pali: AN 2.80

[¶7] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with conditions, not without conditions. By giving up those conditions, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sasaṅkhārā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no asaṅkhārā. Tesaṁyeva saṅkhārānaṁ pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶8] AN 2.81

> Pali: AN 2.81

[¶9] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a reason, not without a reason. By giving up that reason, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sappaccayā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no appaccayā. Tasseva paccayassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶10] AN 2.82

> Pali: AN 2.82

[¶11] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with form, not without form. By giving up that form, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sarūpā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no arūpā. Tasseva rūpassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶12] AN 2.83

> Pali: AN 2.83

[¶13] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with feeling, not without feeling. By giving up that feeling, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Savedanā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no avedanā. Tassāyeva vedanāya pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶14] AN 2.84

> Pali: AN 2.84

[¶15] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with perception, not without perception. By giving up that perception, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Sasaññā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no asaññā. Tassāyeva saññāya pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶16] AN 2.85

> Pali: AN 2.85

[¶17] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with consciousness, not without consciousness. By giving up that consciousness, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Saviññāṇā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no aviññāṇā. Tasseva viññāṇassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶18] AN 2.86

> Pali: AN 2.86

[¶19] “Bad, unskillful qualities, mendicants, arise with a conditioned basis, not without a conditioned basis. By giving up that conditioned basis, those bad, unskillful qualities do not occur.”

> Pali: “Saṅkhatārammaṇā, bhikkhave, uppajjanti pāpakā akusalā dhammā, no asaṅkhatārammaṇā. Tasseva saṅkhatassa pahānā evaṁ te pāpakā akusalā dhammā na hontī”ti.

[¶20] > Pali: Sanimittavaggo tatiyo.