Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

7: The Book of the Sevens

27. Non-Decline (5)

  • A Saddhamma Study Group translation from the Pāḷi text (coming sooner or later).

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1 "Satta vo, bhikkhave, aparihāniye dhamme desessāmi. Taṃ suṇātha, sādhukaṃ manasi karotha … pe … . Katame ca, bhikkhave, satta aparihāniyā dhammā? Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhū aniccasaññaṃ bhāvessanti; vuddhiyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhūnaṃ pāṭikankhā, no parihāni.

2 Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhū anattasaññaṃ bhāvessanti … pe … asubhasaññaṃ bhāvessanti … ādīnavasaññaṃ bhāvessanti … pahānasaññaṃ bhāvessanti … virāgasaññaṃ bhāvessanti … nirodhasaññaṃ bhāvessanti; vuddhiyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhūnaṃ pāṭikankhā, no parihāni.

3 Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, ime satta aparihāniyā dhammā bhikkhūsu ṭhassanti, imesu ca sattasu aparihāniyesu dhammesu, bhikkhū sandississanti; vuddhiyeva, bhikkhave, bhikkhūnaṃ pāṭikankhā, no parihānī"ti.

Sattamaṃ.