Aṇguttara Nikāya
Chakka Nipāta
IX. Sīti Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sixes
Chapter IX: The Cool
Sutta 93
Dutiya Abhabba-ṭ-Ṭhāna Suttaṃ
Any Phenomenon
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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[1] Thus have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these six occasions which cannot become.
What six?
One who has achieved right view
cannot become one who will accept any phenomenon as permanent,
■
one who has achieved right view
cannot accept any phenomenon as happiness,
■
one who has achieved right view
cannot accept any thing as self,
■
one who has achieved right view
cannot do an unpardonable act,
■
one who has achieved right view
cannot fall back on curious ceremonies[1] for purification,
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Hare's translation of the last item is misleading. In several places persons who have become streamwinners are urged to continue to give gifts to other teachers as previously, and we are told that even scraping the dinner scraps into the sewer with the idea of feeding the creatures living there will result in good kamma. The idea is 'to honor by way of a gift'. Elsewhere [see AN 6.94] this is rendered as being incapable of honoring by placing faith in some other teacher than the Buddha.
— p.p.
one who has achieved right view
cannot seek outside (the Order) for a gift-worthy.'
Verily, monks, these are the six occasions which cannot become.'
