Pali Canon Search

Numbered Discourses · AN 5.6

  • Numbered Discourses 5.6Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.6
  • 1. Powers of a Trainee1. Sekhabalavagga

BecomingSamāpattisutta

“Mendicants, you don’t become unskillful as long as faith is established in skillful qualities.“Na tāva, bhikkhave, akusalassa samāpatti hoti yāva saddhā paccupaṭṭhitā hoti kusalesu dhammesu. But when faith vanishes and faithlessness takes over,Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, saddhā antarahitā hoti, assaddhiyaṁ pariyuṭṭhāya tiṭṭhati; you become unskillful.atha akusalassa samāpatti hoti.

You don’t become unskillful as long as conscience … prudence … energy … wisdom is established in skillful qualities.Na tāva, bhikkhave, akusalassa samāpatti hoti yāva hirī paccupaṭṭhitā hoti kusalesu dhammesu. But when wisdom vanishes and witlessness takes over,Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, paññā antarahitā hoti, duppaññā pariyuṭṭhāya tiṭṭhati; you become unskillful.”atha akusalassa samāpatti hotī”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

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

  1. MN 78 With Uggāhamāna Samaṇamaṇḍikāputta 0.53near 0.1so that unskillful qualities are given up … so that skillful qualities arise … so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed. Someone practicing like this…
  2. AN 1.61–70 The Chapter on Arousing Energy 0.52near 0.1When you apply the mind irrationally, unskillful qualities arise and skillful qualities decline.” 67 “Mendicants, I do not see a single thing that gives rise to skillful qualities, or makes unskillful qualities decline l…
  3. AN 1.51–60 The Chapter on a Finger-Snap 0.50near 0.1How much more so those who make much of it!” 56 “Mendicants, intention shapes all phenomena whatsoever that are unskillful, part of the unskillful, on the side of the unskillful. Intention is the first of those phenomena…