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Numbered Discourses · AN 7.9

  • Numbered Discourses 7.9Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.9
  • 1. Wealth1. Dhanavagga

Giving UpPahānasutta

“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven fetters.“Sattannaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁyojanānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. What seven?Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ? The fetters of attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.Anunayasaṁyojanassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paṭighasaṁyojanassa …pe… The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven fetters.Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. When a mendicant has given up the fetters of attraction, 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 anunayasaṁyojanaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti ucchinnamūlaṁ tālāvatthukataṁ anabhāvaṅkataṁ āyatiṁ anuppādadhammaṁ. 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.

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  1. AN 7.12 Underlying Tendencies (2nd) 0.61near 0.1Numbered Discourses 7.12 2. Tendencies Underlying Tendencies (2nd) “Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies. What seven? The underlying tendencies of sensual desir…
  2. AN 5.255 Giving Up Stinginess 0.58near 0.1Numbered Discourses 5.255 26. Ordination Giving Up Stinginess “Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these five kinds of stinginess. What five? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material thing…
  3. SN 35.54 Giving Up Fetters 0.57near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.54 6. Ignorance Giving Up Fetters “Sir, how does one know and see so that the fetters are given up?” “Mendicant, knowing and seeing the eye as impermanent, the fetters are given up …”…
  4. AN 7.8 Fetters 0.55near 0.1Numbered Discourses 7.8 1. Wealth Fetters “Mendicants, there are these seven fetters. What seven? The fetters of attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire for continued existence, and ignorance. These are the s…
  5. SN 54.17 Giving Up the Fetters 0.53near 0.1Linked Discourses 54.17 Chapter Two Giving Up the Fetters “Mendicants, when immersion due to mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated it leads to giving up the fetters …”…