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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Threes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Tikanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 28 of 28
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-3/28/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Threes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Tikanipāta, section 28. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-3/28/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Threes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Tikanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in threes: the Kālāma discourse on what to believe, the three fires, the messengers of the gods.

> 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.

## 28. The Chapter on Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed · AN 3.183–352

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-3/28/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-3/28/#p-N

[¶0] AN 3.183–352 · Untitled Discourses on Greed, Etc.

> Pali: AN 3.183–352 · ~

[¶1] “For insight into greed, three things should be developed. What three? Emptiness immersion; signless immersion; and undirected immersion. For insight into greed, these three things should be developed.

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame tayo? Suññato samādhi, animitto samādhi, appaṇihito samādhi— rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā. (…)

[¶2] For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go …

> Pali: Rāgassa, bhikkhave, pariññāya …pe… parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya ime tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā.

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

> Pali: Dosassa … 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 ime tayo dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

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

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

[¶5] > Pali: Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

[¶6] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶7] > Pali: Rāgaṁ dosañca mohañca,
kodhūpanāhapañcamaṁ;
Makkhapaḷāsaissā ca,
maccharimāyāsāṭheyyā.

[¶8] > Pali: Thambhasārambhamānañca,
atimānamadassa ca;
Pamādā sattarasa vuttā,
rāgapeyyālanissitā.

[¶9] > Pali: Ete opammayuttena,
āpādena abhiññāya;
Pariññāya parikkhayā,
pahānakkhayabbayena;
Virāganirodhacāgaṁ,
paṭinissagge ime dasa.

[¶10] > Pali: Suññato animitto ca,
appaṇihito ca tayo;
Samādhimūlakā peyyā—
lesupi vavatthitā cāti.

[¶11] > Pali: Tatiyo paṇṇāsako niṭṭhito.

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

> Pali: Tikanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.