- Numbered Discourses 7.12Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.12
- 2. Tendencies2. Anusayavagga
Underlying Tendencies (2nd)Dutiyaanusayasutta
“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies.“Sattannaṁ, bhikkhave, anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. What seven?Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ? The underlying tendencies of sensual desire, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.Kāmarāgānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paṭighānusayassa …pe… The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies.Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.
When a mendicant has given up the underlying tendencies of sensual desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance—cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them, so they are unable to arise in the future—Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmarāgānusayo pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo. they’re called a mendicant who has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.”Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā”ti.