Aṅguttara Nikāya
Sattaka Nipāta
Mahāyañña-Vagga

The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sevens
Chapter V: The Great Sacrifice

Sutta 45

Satta-Saññā Suttaɱ

Thoughts

Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.

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[1][olds] 'Monks, these seven thoughts,^[1]
when made become,
made an increase in,
are very fruitful,
of great advantage,
plumbing the deathless,
having the deathless as their goal.

What seven?

The thought of the unattractive,
of death,
of the cloying of food,
of all-world discontent,
of impermanence,
of ill therein,
of no self in ill.

Verily, monks, these seven thoughts,
when made become,
made an increase in,
are very fruitful,
of great advantage,
plumbing the deathless,
having the deathless as their goal.'

 

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^[1] D. iii, 289; A. i, 41; S. v, 132; below, pp. 258 and 305.