Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

6: The Book of the Sixes

88. One Wishes to Listen

0 Source: Savatthi.

1 Endowed with six dhammas, O bhikkhus, one is incapable of entering upon the fixed course of rightness in wholesome dhammas even while listening to the true dhamma. Which six?

2 When the Dhamma and Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata are being taught, one does not wish to listen. One does not lend an ear attentively. One does not apply one's mind to understand it. One grasps the meaning wrongly. One neglects the meaning. One is endowed with a preferred view that is not in conformity [with the view of the noble ones].

3 Endowed with these six dhammas, O bhikkhus, one is incapable of entering upon the fixed course of rightness in wholesome dhammas even while listening to the true dhamma.

4 Endowed with six dhammas, O bhikkhus, one is incapable of entering upon the fixed course of rightness in wholesome dhammas even while listening to the true dhamma. Which six?

5 When the Dhamma and Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata are being taught, one wishes to listen. One lends an ear attentively. One applies one's mind to understand it. One grasps the meaning. One does not neglect the meaning. One is endowed with a preferred view that is in conformity [with the view of the noble ones].

6 Endowed with these six dhammas, O bhikkhus, one is capable of entering upon the fixed course of rightness in wholesome dhammas even while listening to the true dhamma.

0 sāvatthinidānaṃ

1 chahi bhikkhave dhammehi samannāgato suṇantopi saddhammaṃ abhabbo niyāmaṃ okkamituṃ kusalesu dhammesu sammattaṃ. katamehi chahi

2 tathāgatappavedite dhammavinaye desiyamāne na sūssūsati, na sotaṃ odahati, na aññā cittaṃ \footnotes{upaṭṭhāpeti - machasaṃ}, anatthaṃ gaṇhāti, atthaṃ riñcati, ananulomikāya khantiyā samannāgato hoti.

3 imehi kho bhikkhave chahi dhammehi samannāgato suṇantopi saddhammaṃ abhabbo niyāmaṃ okkamituṃ kusalesu dhammesu sammattaṃ.

4 chahi bhikkhave dhammehi samannāgato suṇantopi saddhammaṃ bhabbo niyāmaṃ okkamituṃ kusalesu dhammesu sammattaṃ. katamehi chahi:

5 tathāgatappavedite dhammavinaye desiyamāne sūssūsati, sotaṃ odahati, aññā cittaṃ upaṭṭhapeti, atthaṃ gaṇhāti, anatthaṃ riñcati, anulomikāya khantiyā samannāgato hoti.

6 imehi kho bhikkhave chahi dhammehi samannāgato suṇantopi saddhammaṃ bhabbo niyāmaṃ okkamituṃ kusalesu dhammesu sammattanti.