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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Sixes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Chakkanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 19 of 19
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-6/19/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Sixes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Chakkanipāta, section 19. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-6/19/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Sixes · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Chakkanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in sixes: six recollections, six things that are unsurpassable.

> 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. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed · AN 6.140–6.170–649

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-6/19/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-6/19/#p-N

[¶0] AN 6.140 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st)

> Pali: AN 6.140 · ~

[¶1] “For insight into greed, six things should be developed. What six? The unsurpassable seeing, listening, acquisition, training, service, and recollection. For insight into greed, these six things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya cha dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame cha? Dassanānuttariyaṁ, savanānuttariyaṁ, lābhānuttariyaṁ, sikkhānuttariyaṁ, pāricariyānuttariyaṁ, anussatānuttariyaṁ. Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime cha dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶2] AN 6.141 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd)

> Pali: AN 6.141 · ~

[¶3] “For insight into greed, six things should be developed. What six? The recollection of the Buddha, the teaching, the Saṅgha, ethics, generosity, and the deities. For insight into greed, these six things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya cha dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame cha? Buddhānussati, dhammānussati, saṅghānussati, sīlānussati, cāgānussati, devatānussati. Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime cha dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶4] AN 6.142 · Untitled Discourse on Greed (3rd)

> Pali: AN 6.142 · ~

[¶5] “For insight into greed, six things should be developed. What six? The perception of impermanence, the perception of suffering in impermanence, the perception of not-self in suffering, the perception of giving up, the perception of fading away, and the perception of cessation. For insight into greed, these six things should be developed.”

> Pali: “Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya cha dhammā bhāvetabbā. Katame cha? Aniccasaññā, anicce dukkhasaññā, dukkhe anattasaññā, pahānasaññā, virāgasaññā, nirodhasaññā. Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime cha dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶6] AN 6.143–169 · Untitled Discourses on Greed, Etc.

> Pali: AN 6.143–169 · ~

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

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

[¶8] AN 6.170–649 · Untitled Discourses on Hate, Etc.

> Pali: AN 6.170–649 · ~

[¶9] “For insight into hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity …

> Pali: “Dosassa …pe… mohassa … kodhassa … upanāhassa … makkhassa … paḷāsassa … issāya … macchariyassa … māyāya … sāṭheyyassa … thambhassa … sārambhassa … mānassa … atimānassa … madassa …

[¶10] For insight into negligence … complete understanding … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … For the letting go of negligence these six things should be developed.”

> Pali: pamādassa abhiññāya …pe… pariññāya … parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya …pe… ime cha dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

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

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

[¶12] > Pali: Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

[¶13] The Book of the Sixes is finished.

> Pali: Chakkanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.