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Numbered Discourses · AN 11.982

  • Numbered Discourses 11.982Aṅguttara Nikāya 11
  • The First FiftyPaṭhamapaṇṇāsaka
  • Abbreviated Texts Beginning with GreedRāgapeyyāla

Untitled Discourse on Greed~

“For insight into greed, eleven things should be developed.“Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ekādasa dhammā bhāvetabbā. What eleven?Katame ekādasa? The first, second, third, and fourth absorptions; the heart’s releases by love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity; the dimensions of infinite space, infinite consciousness, and nothingness.Paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ, dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ, tatiyaṁ jhānaṁ, catutthaṁ jhānaṁ, mettācetovimutti, karuṇācetovimutti, muditācetovimutti, upekkhācetovimutti, ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ, viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ, ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ— For insight into greed, these eleven things should be developed.”rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime ekādasa dhammā bhāvetabbā”.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. AN 6.140 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) 0.88near 0.1Numbered Discourses 6.140 13. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) “For insight into greed, six things should be developed. What six? The unsurpassable seeing, listening, acquisition,…
  2. AN 9.94 Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd) 0.86near 0.1Numbered Discourses 9.94 10. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed Untitled Discourse on Greed (2nd) “For insight into greed, nine things should be developed. What nine? The first absorption, the second absorption, the…
  3. AN 8.118 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) 0.85near 0.1Numbered Discourses 8.118 11. Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) “For insight into greed, eight things should be developed. What eight? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right…
  4. AN 11.983–991 Untitled Discourses on Greed 0.84near 0.1Numbered Discourses 11.983–991 The First Fifty Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed Untitled Discourses on Greed “For the complete understanding of greed … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away…
  5. AN 5.303 Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) 0.83near 0.1Numbered Discourses 5.303 29. Abbreviated Texts Beginning With Greed Untitled Discourse on Greed (1st) “For insight into greed, five things should be developed. What five? The perceptions of ugliness, death, drawbacks, r…